English

Alternative forms

• enthronize

Verb

inthronize ‎(third-person singular simple present inthronizes, present participle inthronizing, simple past and past participle inthronized)

1. (obsolete) To enthrone.
   • 1618, Harim White, The Ready VVay to Trve Repentance: Or a Godly, and Learned Treatise, of the Repentance of Mary Magdalen: Opened in Diuers Sermons at the First; begun in Little Alhallowes upon the Wall, London, the 21. Day of Septemb. 1616, and Continued in S. Peters Church in Sandwich; Contayning Doctrine of Faith. By Harim White, Bachelor of Diuinity, and Chaplyn to his most Excellent Maiesty. Whereunto also, by Request, are Added Certaine other Sermons, Preached by the Same Author, upon diuers Occasions, in his priuate Cure, London: Printed at London by G. E. for T. B., OCLC 58040235, page 88:

     So then to conclude, though man bee Gods hand, and inſtrument, to inaugure, inthronize, and inueſt, yet is it God alone, that doth originally ordaine, inſtitute, and appoint.

   • 1635, anonymous [David Lindsay], “Instrument anent Patricke Bishop of Aberdene, his Admission to the Sayd Bishopricke”, Funerals of a Right Reverend Father in God Patrick Forbes of Corse, Bishop of Aberdene. Τοῡ ἑν ἁγἰοις reuerendissimi in Christo patris, Patricii Forbesii a Corse, episcopi Abredoniensis, tvmvlvs, Aberdeen: Imprinted by Edward Raban, OCLC 82095480; reprinted in Charles Farquhar Shand, editor, The Funeral Sermons, Orations, Epitaphs, and other Pieces on the Death of the Right Rev. Patrick Forbes Bishop of Aberdeen. From the Original Edition of 1635. With Biographical Memoir and Notes, by Charles Farquhar Shand, Esq. Advocate, Edinburgh: Printed for the Spottiswoode Society, 1845, OCLC 60518156, page 215:

     The which day in presens of us Connotaries publick, and witnesses underwritten, compeared a Reverende Father of God, Patricke Bishop of Aberdene, and presented to us Connotaries underwritten, within the Cathedrall Church of Olde Aberdene, at the pulpit of the same, the act of his Lordship's consecration and admission to the Bishopricke of Aberdene; requyring and commanding the Arch-Deane of the said Cathedrall Church to induce and inthronize the sayd Patrick, by himselfe, or his procurators, sufficientlie appoynted to that effect, in the said Bishopricke, at what tyme it should please his Lordship to requyre the same.

   • 1705, James Howell, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign. Divided into Four Books. Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical, Upon Emergent Occasions, 7th edition, London: Printed for T. G. and sold by S. Crouch at the Corner of Popes-head Alley, and William Davis at the Black Bull, both in Cornhil, OCLC 745160831, page 126:

     [T]hey cry’d out they muſt have a Muſulman Emperor; therefore they broke into a Dungeon, and brought out Muſtapha Oſman’s Unkle, whom he had clapt there at the beginning of the Tumult, and who had bin King before, but was depos’d for his ſimplicity, being a kind of Santon or holy Man, that is, ’twixt an Innocent and an Idiot: This Muſtapha they did re-inthronize and place in the Ottoman Empire.

   • 1725, Ralph Winwood; Edmund Sawyer, Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (Chiefly) from the Original Papers of the Right Honourable Sir Ralph Winwood, Kt. Sometime One of the Principal Secretaries of State. Comprehending likewise the Negotiations of Sir Henry Neville, Sir Charles Cornwallis, Sir Dudley Carleton, Sir Thomas Edmondes, Mr. Trumbull, Mr. Cottington and others, at the Courts of France and Spain, and in Holland, Venice, &c. Wherein the Principal Transactions of those Times are Faithfully Related, and the Policies and Intrigues of those Courts at Large Discover'd. The Whole Digested in an Exact Series of Time. To which are Added Two Tables: One of the Letters, the other of the Principal Matters. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed by W[illiam] B[owyer], for T. Ward, in the Inner-Temple-Lane, OCLC 642456081, page 271:

     I put it off all I can, becauſe I wold avoyde any further Jorney then to Paris, hoping that the King will now be thinking of his return thither to inthronize his new Queen; whereof I wold have been very glad to have underſtood ſome certainty from you, and do yet deſire to know as ſoon as may be, what is the King's purpoſe in it; that at my coming in Paris, I may be able to reſolve what to do.

   • 1825, James Balfour, James Haig, editor, The Historical Works of Sir James Balfour of Denmylne and Kinnaird, Knight and Baronet; Lord Lyon King at Arms to Charles the First, and Charles the Second. Published from the Original Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, volume IV, Edinburgh: Printed by W. Aitchison, page 401:

     After wich [the] King ascendit the stage, attendit by diuers of the pryme officers and nobilitie, the queir singing, "Te Deum laudamus;" wich being endit, the Archbischope did inthronize the King, […]

Synonyms

• enthrone
• inthrone

Antonyms

• dethrone
• dethronize
• disenthrone
• disthrone
• disthronize

Derived terms

• inthronization

Related terms

• enthronization
• inthronizate

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