disseat

English

Etymology

Verb

disseat (third-person singular simple present disseats, present participle disseating, simple past and past participle disseated)

(archaic, transitive) To unseat.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  When I behold—Seyton, I say!—This push
  Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now.

References

disseat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

saidest, sestiad

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