Enthrone Definition

ĕn-thrōn
enthroned, enthrones, enthroning
verb
enthroned, enthrones, enthroning
To place on a throne; make a king or bishop of.
Webster's New World
To accord the highest place to; exalt.
Webster's New World
To invest with sovereign power or with the authority of high office.
American Heritage
To raise to a lofty position.
American Heritage

To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to (often combined with) coronation and/or other ceremonies of investiture.

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Origin of Enthrone

  • From Middle English enthronize, from Old French introniser.

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Enthrone Sentence Examples

  • King Alphonso XIII., whose enthronement took place with all the antique ceremonial on the 17th of May, was himself at Enthrone.

  • It is the privilege of the archdeacon of Canterbury to induct the archbishop and all the bishops of the province of Canterbury into their respective bishoprics, and this he does in the case of a bishop under a mandate from the archbishop of Canterbury, directing him to induct the bishop into the real, actual, and corporal possession of the bishopric, and to install and to enthrone him; and in the case of the archbishop, under an analogous mandate from the dean and chapter of Canterbury, as being guardians of the spiritualities during the vacancy of the archiepiscopal see.

  • By a strange but not infrequent irony of fate the most imperious and despotic spirit of his day laboured to enthrone a power which, had he himself been in authority, he would have utterly detested and despised.

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