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throne (iou)



throne noun & verb. Also (earlier) trone. ME.

A. noun.
a. A chair of State for a potentate or dignitary; esp. an ornate, elaborate, and usu. raised chair occupied by a sovereign on State occasions. ME.
D. Jacobson The king's throne, an elaborate ivory-sheathed affair.
b. A chair for a deity, esp. God or Christ. ME.
c. A ceremonial chair for a pope or bishop. LME.
d. A chair provided by portrait-painters for their sitters. M19.
e. A lavatory seat and bowl. colloq. (freq. joc.). E20.
transf. & fig.
a. The position, office, or dignity of a sovereign; sovereign power or authority. ME.
B. Bettelheim The Archduke..became heir to the throne.
b. A position of dominion or supremacy. M16.
Ring Thai junior flyweight champ..barely kept his throne via a split decision. P. Bailey That chair was her throne, from which she ruled over her brood.
c. The occupant of a throne; the sovereign. M18.
In Christian theology, a member of the third order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, ranking directly below the cherubim and above the dominations (usu. in pl.). ME.
Phrases: ascend the throne: see ASCEND 7. power behind the throne: see POWER noun. sit on the throne: see sit on (e) s.v. SIT verb. the Great White Throne the throne of God (with allus. to Revelation 20:11). throne and altar the established civil and ecclesiastical systems in a State. Throne of Grace the place where God is conceived as sitting to answer prayer.
Comb.: throne room a room containing a throne; Throne Speech Canad. = the King's speech, the Queen's speech s.v. SPEECH noun.
b. verb.
verb trans. Place on or as on a throne; enthrone. LME.
Pope Th' eternal thunderer sat thron'd in gold. J. Conington To throne him in the seat of power.
verb intrans. Be enthroned; sit on or as on a throne. E17.
thronedom noun (rare) the dominion or authority of a throne E19.
throneless adjective without a throne; deposed from a throne: E19.