Word Finder - unseated

definition

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

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The frightened horse reared up and unseated its rider.

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

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Having lost her seat to a Tory, she succeeded in unseating him in the next general election.

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Not seated.

It happened so fast that in spite of his warning, she was nearly unseated.

In 1864 he abandoned diplomacy for politics, and in 1865 was elected Liberal member for Windsor, but was unseated on petition.

His sudden leap to the side unseated her, sending her out of the saddle and rolling off the trail.

The rest of his life calls for little notice except that at the time of the July Revolution of 1830, which unseated the elder branch of the Bourbons, he urged Louis Philippe, duke of Orleans, to take the throne offered to him by popular acclaim.

In 1876 he was again returned for Orthez, but was unseated, and then beaten.

He first made himself a name as a soldier at the tournament held at Rennes in 1338 to celebrate the marriage of Charles of Blois with Jeanne de Penthievre, at which he unseated the most famous competitors.

In 1835 he was unseated on petition, an& after standing unsuccessfully for Oldham he took to stumping England in favour of the new Radical doctrines of the day, and the use of physical force for their adoption.

He was unseated, and afterwards returned for Malton, a borough in the interest of Lord Fitzwilliam.

He was defeated, but his successful competitor was unseated on petition, and at the second contest Bright was returned.

He took his seat in the Senate and his election was upheld by the Senate committee on the judiciary, whose report was adopted (26 March 1866) by a vote of 22 to 21, his own vote carrying the motion; but, because of the objection of Charles Sumner, he withdrew his vote on the 27th of March, and was thereupon unseated by a vote of 23 to 21.

If a candidate is unseated a casual vacancy is created which has to be filled by a new election.

The whole history of the country is in fact one gloomy record of internecine wars, barbaric deeds and unstable governments, of adventurers usurping thrones, only to be themselves unseated, and of raids, rapine and pillage.

He was returned to the House of Commons in that year for the Irish borough of Carlow, and became a devoted admirer and adherent of Mr Gladstone; but he was practically a silent member, and his parliamentary career came to an end after the general election of 1865, when, having headed the poll for Bridgnorth, he was unseated on a scrutiny; he contested Bridgnorth again in 1868, but without success.

Mr Walter Long, unseated at Bristol, had made himself very popular among Irish Unionists, and a seat was found him in the constituency of South Dublin.

This cast copper alloy horse ' bit ' fractured during a race and unseated the jockey who sustained severe injuries.