Word Meanings - ENTHRONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see. (more info) 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

Additional info about word: ENTHRONE

To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see. (more info) 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 is enthroned in the hearts of kings. Shak.

Related words: (words related to ENTHRONE)

• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• THRONE
  1. To place on a royal seat; to enthrone. Shak. 2. To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt. True image of the Father, whether throned In the bosom of bliss, and light of light. Milton.
• SCULPTURESQUE
  After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture.
• BISHOPDOM
  Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.
• SCULPTURE
  1. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials. 2. Carved work
• INVESTIGATIVE
  Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• BISHOPLY
  Bishoplike; episcopal.
• SOVEREIGN
  Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy. Syn. -- King; prince; monarch; potentate; emperor. (more info) 1. The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested;
• EXALTMENT
  Exaltation. Barrow.
• INDUCTORIUM
  An induction coil.
• INVESTIENT
  Covering; clothing. Woodward.
• BISHOP-STOOL
  A bishop's seat or see.
• INDUCTANCE
  Capacity for induction; the coefficient of self-induction. The unit of inductance is the henry.
• BISHOP'S-WEED
  An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. Goutweed .
• INDUCTION
  The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached. Induction is an inference drawn from all the particulars. Sir W. Hamilton.
• INDUCTIVE
  1. Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to. A brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve. Milton. 2. Tending to induce or cause. They may be . . . inductive of credibility. Sir M. Hale. 3. Leading to inferences;
• INDUCTOMETER
  An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the degree or rate of electrical induction.
• INVESTITURE
  Livery of seizin. The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony oinvestiture, or open delivery of possession. Blackstone. 3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross
• BISHOPLIKE
  Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• UNTHRONE
  To remove from, or as from, a throne; to dethrone. Milton.
• DISTHRONE
  To dethrone.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• DETHRONEMENT
  Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.
• DETHRONER
  One who dethrones.
• DETHRONE
  To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity. "The Protector was dethroned." Hume.