Definition of enthrones Enthrones
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What does enthrones mean?
Part of speech
🔤- enthrones, verb, present, 3rd person singular of enthrone (infinitive).
WordNet
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| enthrone - put a monarch on the throne; "The Queen was enthroned more than 50 years ago" | ||
| throne | ||
| dethrone remove a monarch from the throne; "If the King does not abdicate, he will have to be dethroned" | ||
| enthrone, invest, vest put a monarch on the throne; "The Queen was enthroned more than 50 years ago" | ||
| enthrone - provide with power and authority; "They vested the council with special rights" | ||
| invest, vest | ||
| disinvest, divest reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment); "The company decided to divest"; "the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property"; "There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa" | ||
| instal, install set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink" | ||
| ordinate, consecrate, ordain, order render holy by means of religious rites | ||
| coronate, crown be the culminating event; "The speech crowned the meeting" | ||
| enthrone, throne put a monarch on the throne; "The Queen was enthroned more than 50 years ago" | ||
| ordain issue an order | ||
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Wiktionary 
- enthrone (Verb)
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. - enthrone (Verb)
To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy as a kingmaker does, or by extension in any other major organisation.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- enthrone (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. - enthrone (v. t.)
To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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enthrone
To place on a throne.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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enthrone
en-thrōn′, v.t. to place on a throne: to exalt to the seat of royalty: to install as a bishop: to exalt.—ns. Enthrone′ment, Enthronisā′tion, the act of enthroning or of being enthroned.—v.t. Enthrō′nise, to enthrone, as a bishop: to exalt
Part of speech
🔤- enthrone, verb, present, 1st person singular of enthrone (infinitive).
- enthrone, verb (infinitive).
