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Definition of Deposed
1. depose [v] - See also: depose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deposed
Literary usage of Deposed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1829)
"Of the sixteen kings of Lahore, ten were deposed. Second dynasty. ... Five kings,
four deposed. Dynasty of the kings of the Deccan, eighteen—six deposed. ..."
2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"As soon as he is deposed or has abdicated, he is no longer a sovereign. Therefore in
1870 and 1872 the French courts permitted, because she was deposed, ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1826)
"He deposed, that he knows the contents thereof to be true, from having been an
... He deposed, that he is ignorant with regard thereto. To the 13th. ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The deposed ecclesiastics of Reims who knew about this extraordinary forgery and
undoubtedly had lent their hand to its compilation were encouraged by the ..."
5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"John Thorpe,,a coachman, deposed to several of the ... Johnson and Samuel Dickin-
m, deposed to the occurrences at the meeting, which they described as com« ..."
6. Dictionary of Historical Allusions by Harbottle, Thomas Benfield, d. 1904 (1904)
"The schism continued, each Pope having a successor appointed at his death, till
at the Council of Pisa, in 1409, both were deposed, and a Franciscan monk ..."
7. The History of British India by James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)
"... the more eminent among them found the means of escape.1 CHAPTER X. The Nabob
of Swat deposed.— The Raja of Tanjore deposed.— The Nabob of Arcot deposed. ..."
8. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"To the people at large the tyranny simply became more BC 514. pressive. oppressive,
and Hippias, after his brother's death living deposed in great fear, ..."
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