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The moment a chair turns one person into a verb everyone else obeys.
means The ceremony in which a monarch, bishop, or other ruler is formally seated on a throne and so installed in their high office.
from Built from 'en-' (to put into or onto) plus 'throne,' which comes through Old French 'trone' from Latin 'thronus' and ultimately Greek 'thronos,' meaning a high seat or chair of state. The verb 'enthrone' put a person literally 'into the throne,' and 'enthronement' is the act of doing so — language taking the old idea that power lives in the chair quite literally.
- Pope's chair
- Papal enthronement uses no crown, just a fisherman's ring
- Stone power
- Scottish kings sat on the Stone of Scone
- Japan's rite
- Emperor's enthronement involves a secret overnight ritual alone
- Word root
- From Greek thronos, simply meaning elevated seat
- Bishops too
- Anglican bishops are enthroned, not merely appointed