Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To seat on a throne.
- v. To invest with sovereign power or with the authority of high office.
- v. To raise to a lofty position; exalt.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To place on a throne; exalt to the seat of royalty; invest with sovereign authority; hence, to seat loftily; exalt eminently.
- Eccles., same as enthronize, 2.
Wiktionary
- v. 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
- v. transitive, figuratively To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does), or by extension in any other major organisation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity.
- v. (Eccl.) To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.
WordNet 3.0
- v. provide with power and authority
- v. put a monarch on the throne
Examples
“For it is the collision between the civil interests and the interests which the unlearned heroic ages enthrone, that is coming off here.”
“I can't wait to have it blessed on Divine Mercy Sunday and to "enthrone" it ….”
“A cynic remarked that 'you mustn't enthrone ignorance just because there is so much of it.”
The Huffington Post: Robert J. Elisberg: The War on Education
“How young people that feel powerless today can realize they are in the majority and enthrone a democratic order that works for the majority?”
“The Activist: How young people that feel powerless today can realize they are in the majority and enthrone a democratic order that works for the majority?”
“We have attempted to enthrone any chance majority and make it rule by divine right.”
“Some in Congress are moving to enthrone SEL in educational law.”
The Huffington Post: Katherine Gustafson: Can You Teach Emotional Intelligence?
“Is just that we have got to change our own attitude to be able to enthrone a democractic order that works.”
“The first and most obvious advantage is that you thus induce him to enthrone at the centre of his life a good, solid, resounding lie.”
Screwtape on Democracy | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
“Prohibition, she believed, had become “an attempt to enthrone hypocrisy as the dominant force in this country.””
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