enthrone
to place on or as on a throne.
to invest with sovereign or episcopal authority.
to exalt.
Origin of enthrone
1- Also inthrone.
Other words from enthrone
- re·en·throne, verb (used with object), re·en·throned, re·en·thron·ing.
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How to use enthrone in a sentence
It envisions a Supreme Court standing (or rather enthroned) at the apex of government.
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In the whites of its very small grey eyes wickedness sat enthroned.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands | R.M. BallantyneAnd Nerto is taken to the Pope, whom she finds sadly enthroned in all his splendor, and brings him the news of a means of escape.
Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred DownerThe Past is never past; immortal as the Gods, it lives enthroned in the Present, and sets its limits and lays its commands.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona Caird
Marion was enthroned upon the picnic-basket, with much pomp, and her guitar placed in her hand by Claude Moreton.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona CairdHis father—that iron gentleman—had long ago enthroned himself on the heights of the Disruption Principles.
Tales and Fantasies | Robert Louis Stevenson
British Dictionary definitions for enthrone
/ (ɛnˈθrəʊn) /
to place on a throne
to honour or exalt
to assign authority to
Derived forms of enthrone
- enthronement, noun
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