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enthrone
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  • Thus enthroned, Uga accepted the adoration of his fans.†  (source)
  • The kings and shepherds could not possibly move slowly enough, following the "pillar of light" in front of the altar toward the arrangement of animals and Mary and Joseph surrounding the commanding presence of the Christ Child enthroned on his mountain of hay; no matter how slowly they moved, they arrived at the touching scene in the stable before the end of the fifth verse of "We Three Kings of Orient Are."†  (source)
  • Enthroned there under his hat, he observed our household through his un-glasses and swished the animal-tail fly swatter that denoted his station in life.†  (source)
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  • Xaro had warned her that the Enthroned would never listen to a Dothraki, so she had taken care to go before them in flowing green samite with one breast bared, silvered sandals on her feet, with a belt of black-and-white pearls about her waist.†  (source)
  • I don't sit, but take my place, kneeling, near the chair with the footstool where Serena Joy will shortly enthrone herself, leaning on her cane while she lowers herself down.†  (source)
  • Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, Counselled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth, Not peace; and after him thus Mammon spake:— "Either to disenthrone the King of Heaven We war, if war be best, or to regain Our own right lost.†  (source)
    disenthrone = remove from the throne so no longer ruling
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disenthrone reverses the meaning of enthrone. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • About her feel in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating, so that she seemed to be enthroned in the midst of a pool.†  (source)
  • Phaedrus' mind races on and on and then on further, seeing now at last a kind of evil thing, an evil deeply entrenched in himself, which pretends to try to understand love and beauty and truth and wisdom but whose real purpose is never to understand them, whose real purpose is always to usurp them and enthrone itself.†  (source)
  • But weak as was his material frame, his mind was still enthroned.†  (source)
  • You want to enthrone good taste again.†  (source)
  • She might make an excellent queen, Eragon admitted to himself,but she's so devious, it's impossible to know whether she would support the Varden once she was enthroned.†  (source)
  • If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure back to their birth-right, the merry May-day gods of old; and livingly enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; in the now unhaunted hill; then be sure, exalted to Jove's high seat, the great Sperm Whale shall lord it.†  (source)
  • —a blind old man enthroned in his livingroom, speaking with neighbors of balanced trade and income taxes and the troubles in Asia?†  (source)
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