v. [UN-2 6 b, 4.]
1. trans. Tó deprive of, depose from, the rank or position of queen.
1579. J. Stubbes, Gaping Gulf, D ij. Is it not more then probable … that the next prince … wyl drawe it [sc. England] also … under the law Salique, and so quite vnqueen the desolate sister?
1613. Shaks., Hen. VIII., IV. ii. 171. Embalme me, Then lay me forth (although vnqueen’d) yet like A Queene.
1673. Season. Disc. Maintain. Establ. Relig., 9. Nor was she unqueen’d enough by all this.
1821. To the King, 9. We must un-queen your wife, because she is immoral.
1833. H. Coleridge, Poems, I. 38. Old times unqueen thee, and old loves endear thee.
1873. Athenæum, 22 Feb., 240/2. The divorce which was to unqueen Catherine of Arragon.
2. To remove the queen from (a hive).
1834. Bee-keeping, 23. Unqueen your diseased stock, cutting out all queen-cells ten days after.
Hence Unqueened ppl. a.
1820. Scott, Abbot, xxiii. Go thou … and render the usual service of the meal to this unqueened Queen.
1826. Southey, Vind. Eccl. Angl., 388. The un-queened, un-sexed, un-Lutheranized, Christina.
