unchair
verbEtymology From un- + chair.
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Ambitransitive, Rare To get out of or to remove from a chair.
- He watched till he was quite weary in the leg: and nothing came of it: except that Lankey and Big Abel rambled the wall:—then he unchaired himself and went to bed, making up his mind as well as he could to have to drag the Reservoir in the morning.1862, Edward Bulwer Lytton, A Strange Story, page 14:
- When I stand up, am I unchaired?1994, Donn Reed, The Home School Source Book, page 69:
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- To adjust the back tension required a similar unchairing to get at the knob behind.2007, Henry Petroski, Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design, page 159:
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Figuratively To take away someone's status and authority, especially if that status and authority is represented by a chair such as a throne or an academic chair; unseat.
- For the ſetling of Pope Innocent the 2. whom the Romans had violently unchaired, he marches to Rome, ſoon rights all tha was amiſſe, is Crowned by the reeſtabliſht Pope, which as a tranſcendent accident is pictured on a wall with theſe ſubſcribed verſes.1672, Mathias Prideaux, An Easy and Compendious Introduction for Reading All Sorts of Histories:
- Mary's tact at braiding hair, and Mary's bright gold chain, and Mary's success in making a portrait of Julia, which she has just completed, have blunted thy poisoned arrows, and have fairly unchaired thee. Come down, then, from they icy throne, saucy, viperish old maid!1863, M. A. Wallace, Well! Well!: A Tale, Founded on Fact, page 181:
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- How could she restore the faith of the council, or at the very least keep from being unchaired or made a puppet?2020, Carlana Van Houten, Music of the Soul: Prelude:
- The Court included senior judges and tried to have him unchaired by a High Court action which they lost.2022, Owen Dudley Edwards, Our Nations and Nationalisms: