different between unseat vs depose

English

Etymology

un- +? seat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?si?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Verb

unseat (third-person singular simple present unseats, present participle unseating, simple past and past participle unseated)

1. To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.

2. To deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election, or simply by defeating them in an election.

References

• “unseat”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Austen, Autens, Natsue, nasute, sun tea, uneats

English

Etymology

Recorded since c.1300, from Middle English, from Old French deposer, from de- (“down”) + poser (“to put, place”). Deposition (1494 in the legal sense) belongs to deposit, but that related word and depose became thoroughly confused.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p??z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /di?po?z/, /d??po?z/
• Rhymes: -??z

Verb

depose (third-person singular simple present deposes, present participle deposing, simple past and past participle deposed)

1. (literally, transitive) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
   • 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, especially Minerals, &c

     additional mud deposed upon it

2. (transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.

   A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.

   • 1643, William Prynne, The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes

     a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed

3. (law, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
4. (law, transitive) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.

   After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.
5. (intransitive) To take or swear an oath.
6. To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
   • c. 1598, Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations

     to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands

Synonyms

• declare

Antonyms

• restore

Derived terms

• deposable
• deposal

Related terms

• deponent
• deposit
• deposition
• depositio de bene esse

Translations

Anagrams

• Speedo, epodes, speedo

Ido

Etymology

From depos (“since, afterward”) +? -e (“adverb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.?po.se/, /d?.?p?.s?/

Adverb

depose

1. since, from that time, thence, thenceforth

Related terms

• depos ke (“since”)

Italian

Verb

depose

1. third-person singular past historic of deporre