ENTHRONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enthrone mean? 

• ENTHRONE (verb)
  The verb ENTHRONE has 2 senses:

1. provide with power and authority

2. put a monarch on the throne

  Familiarity information: ENTHRONE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTHRONE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they enthrone    ... he / she / it enthrones   
Past simple: enthroned   
Past participle: enthroned   
-ing form: enthroning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with power and authority

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

enthrone; invest; vest

Context example:

They vested the council with special rights

Hypernyms (to "enthrone" is one way to...):

instal; install (put into an office or a position)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enthrone"):

consecrate; ordain; order; ordinate (appoint to a clerical posts)

coronate; crown (invest with regal power; enthrone)

enthrone; throne (put a monarch on the throne)

ordain (invest with ministerial or priestly authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

enthronement (the ceremony of installing a new monarch)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put a monarch on the throne

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

enthrone; throne

Context example:

The Queen was enthroned more than 50 years ago

Hypernyms (to "enthrone" is one way to...):

enthrone; invest; vest (provide with power and authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

dethrone (remove a monarch from the throne)

Derivation:

enthronement; enthronisation; enthronization (the ceremony of installing a new monarch)

 Context examples 

The younger ruler had sat listlessly upon his stool with the two puppet monarchs enthroned behind him, but of a sudden a dark shadow passed over his face, and he sprang to his feet in one of those gusts of passion which were the single blot upon his noble and generous character.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I haven't given up the hope that I may write a good book yet, but I can wait, and I'm sure it will be all the better for such experiences and illustrations as these, and Jo pointed from the lively lads in the distance to her father, leaning on the Professor's arm, as they walked to and fro in the sunshine, deep in one of the conversations which both enjoyed so much, and then to her mother, sitting enthroned among her daughters, with their children in her lap and at her feet, as if all found help and happiness in the face which never could grow old to them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Aylward, with a fishing lass on either arm, was vowing constancy alternately to her on the right and her on the left, while big John towered in the rear with a little chubby maiden enthroned upon his great shoulder, her soft white arm curled round his shining headpiece.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Going in to exult over a fallen enemy and to praise a strong-minded sister for the banishment of an objectionable lover, it certainly was a shock to behold the aforesaid enemy serenely sitting on the sofa, with the strongminded sister enthroned upon his knee and wearing an expression of the most abject submission.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)