To cause (something) to be removed or replaced in its role; to displace, to overturn.
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The Michelson-Morley experiment prompted scientists to unseat their belief in the luminiferous aether.
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Printed newspapers are gradually being unseated by digital publications.
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Eleanor sank upon his bosom, and sobbed as if her heart were bursting with its transport; and poor Susan laughed and wept alternately, till Mr. Blandley, who by this time had heard of the occurrence and reached the court-room, was fearful that her reason would be totally unseated.
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1829, William Leggett, Tales and Sketches, New York, N.Y.: J. & J. Harper, page 81:
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[…] I pray thee, ask no more; for, like my poor mother, I feel as if the probing of the wound would half unseat my reason.
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1839, [Frederick] Marryat, chapter II, in The Phantom Ship. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 35:
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"I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. / "God knows I have!—a trouble which is enough to unseat my reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. […]"
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1892 [May], A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. XI.—The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume III (January to June), number [17], London: George Newnes, Limited, […], page 512, column 1:
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Robespierre concluded that Danton and Desmoulins were bent on unseating and putting an end to the Committee. He concluded that he would never be safe as long as these old friends of his were alive.
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1975, Will Durant, The Story of Civilization, Volume 11: The Age of Napoleon, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 76:
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Despite all the various attempts to unseat the keyboard, it has proven remarkably resilient, because computers are still largely vehicles for the written word, and half that battle is writing and editing.
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2010 September 20, Alexis C. Madrigal, “Netbooks Versus the iPad for Work Travel”, in The Atlantic[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-06:
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is trying to put together a national sports network to rival ESPN, a daunting task, but then, the company does have a history of unseating cable rivals.
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2012 March 28, Eric Randall, “Rupert Murdoch Wants to Tackle Cable Sports”, in The Atlantic[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-19:
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It was harrowing to watch him change in these ways, and it completely unseated my view that everyone has a "fixed" personality. My father's behaviour showed, shockingly, that personality is just a function, or malfunction, of neurology.
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2012 August 17, Arifa Akbar, “Dealing with dementia: ‘My dad was treated like lost luggage on a carousel’”, in The Independent[1], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-08:
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If search bots make enough errors, then, rather than increasing trust with their conversational ability, they have the potential to unseat users' perceptions of search engines as impartial arbiters of truth, [Aleksandra] Urman says.
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2023 February 13, Chris Stokel-Walker, “AI chatbots are coming to search engines — can you trust the results?”, in Nature[1], London: Nature Portfolio, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-22: