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Definition of Enthrone
1. Verb. Provide with power and authority. "They vested the council with special rights"
Generic synonyms: Instal, Install
Specialized synonyms: Consecrate, Ordain, Order, Ordinate, Coronate, Crown, Throne, Ordain
Derivative terms: Enthronement, Investiture
Antonyms: Divest
2. Verb. Put a monarch on the throne. "The Queen was enthroned more than 50 years ago"
Generic synonyms: Invest, Vest
Antonyms: Dethrone
Derivative terms: Enthronement, Enthronisation, Enthronization, Throne, Throne
Definition of Enthrone
1. v. t. To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity.
Definition of Enthrone
1. Verb. (transitive) To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called ''enthronement'', equivalent to (and often combined with) coronation and/or other ceremonies of investiture ¹
2. Verb. (transitive figuratively) To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does), or by extension in any other major organisation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enthrone
1. to place on a throne [v -THRONED, -THRONING, -THRONES]
Medical Definition of Enthrone
1. 1. To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity. "Beneath a sculptured arch he sits enthroned." (Pope) "It [mercy] is enthroned in the hearts of kings." (Shak) 2. To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see. Origin: Pref. En- + throne: cf. OF. Enthroner. Cf. Inthronize. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Enthrone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The National Preacher by Austin Dickinson (1853)
"It is the nature of love to enthrone its object The requests of those whom we love
... If love even to our fellow-creatures has a power to enthrone them, ..."
2. Record of Christian Work edited by Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt (1905)
"enthrone How shall I enthrone God? "The m of heaven is at hand. ... You must
change your mind and, dethroning all others, enthrone Him, and so find that you ..."
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