unchairing
unchairing is the present participle and gerund of unchair.
Meaning of unchair
Verb
unchair (third-person singular simple present unchairs, present participle unchairing, simple past and past participle unchaired)
- 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
- 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
Questions about unchairing
- What is unchairing the present participle and gerund of?
- Unchairing is the present participle and gerund of unchair.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unchairing (page history and authors); unchair (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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