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.