unking

1. (archaic) To remove (a king) from power.Examples: "God save King Harry, unking’d Richard says, And send him many years of sunshine days!"; "[…] the Scots were a free Nation, made King whom they freely chose, and with the same freedome un-Kingd him if they saw cause, by right of ancient laws and Ceremonies yet remaining,"; "1754, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s-Inn Journal, No. 66, 19 January, 1754, in Volume 2, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 85, The jesting of his Fool wholly turns upon his unkinging himself and retaining nothing, which Lear minutely attends to,"Synonyms: depose, dethrone, discrown, disenthrone, uncrown, unthronearchaic

2. (archaic) To deprive (a king) of his royal qualities.Examples: "But if a Prince shall deign to be familiar and to converse with those upon whom he might trample, shall His condescension therefore Unking Him? And His familiarity rob Him of His Royalty?"; "1677, Charles Davenant, Circe, London: Richard Tonson, Act III, Scene 6, p. 31, My swelling rage, in privacy I’le shrowd, And not un-King my self before the Crowd."; "The soul is indifferent what garment she wears, or of what color and texture; the true king is not unkinged by being discrowned."archaic

3. (archaic, figuratively) To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance.Examples: "—Oh ’tis well y’are come, there was within me fresh Rebellion, and reason was almost unking’d agen."archaicfiguratively