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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

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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.

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  • 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.

 

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