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enthrone

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++en·throne /ɪnˈθrəʊn $ -ˈθroʊn/ verb [transitive]  PGOif a king or queen is enthroned, there is a ceremony to show that they are starting to rule 举行登基仪式enthronement noun [countable, uncountable]→ See Verb table
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enthroneAnd the Stone of Inauguration, upon which the Kings of Alba were enthroned.And, I suppose, if I've been dethroned I must at some stage have been enthroned!Yet not even Leopold was merely the Enlightenment enthroned.Twenty-five years ago he was enthroned as the guru of the avant-garde; today he is isolated, some would say megalomaniac.They enthroned Bao Dai as a sovereign emperor but continued to run his regime.He was enthroned in Exeter Cathedral on 14 April.That these people would one day be enthroned in the citadel of power could not have seemed conceivable to him.
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enthrone
enthrone /ɪnˈθrəʊn $ -ˈθroʊn/ verb [transitive]
if a king or queen is enthroned, there is a ceremony to show that they are starting to rule
—enthronement noun [uncountable and countable]


en·throneBrE /ɪnˈθrəʊn/ 🔊NAmE /ɪnˈθroʊn/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they enthrone BrE /ɪnˈθrəʊn/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪnˈθroʊn/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it enthrones BrE /ɪnˈθrəʊnz/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪnˈθroʊnz/ 🔊past simple enthroned BrE /ɪnˈθrəʊnd/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪnˈθroʊnd/ 🔊past participle enthroned BrE /ɪnˈθrəʊnd/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪnˈθroʊnd/ 🔊 -ing form enthroning BrE /ɪnˈθrəʊnɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪnˈθroʊnɪŋ/ 🔊 [usually passive] ~ sb when a king, queen or important member of a Church is enthroned, they sit on a throne (= a special chair) in a ceremony to mark the beginning of their rule 使登基;使即位 en·throne·ment BrE /ɪnˈθrəʊnmənt/ 🔊NAmE /ɪnˈθroʊnmənt/ 🔊 noun [uncountable, countable]