Definition of throne

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Throne (n.) A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary..

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Deposal :: Deposal (n.) The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne.
Throne :: Throne (v. t.) To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.
Usurper :: Usurper (n.) One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron..
Dethronization :: Dethronization (n.) Dethronement.
Hautpas :: Hautpas (n.) A raised part of the floor of a large room; a platform for a raised table or throne. See Dais.
Interregnum :: Interregnum (n.) The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor.
Enthrone :: Enthrone (v. t.) To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see..
Dethrone :: Dethrone (v. t.) To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.
Usurp :: Usurp (v. t.) To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him..
Rightful :: Rightful (a.) Having the right or just claim according to established laws; being or holding by right; as, the rightful heir to a throne or an estate; a rightful king..
Depose :: Depose (v. t.) To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office.
Porphyrogenitism :: Porphyrogenitism (n.) The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born..
Cathedral :: Cathedral (n.) The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne..
Cathedra :: Cathedra (n.) The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority..
Throne :: Throne (v. t.) To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
Seizure :: Seizure (n.) The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc..
Vacate :: Vacate (v. t.) To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house..
Succeed :: Succeed (v. i.) Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
Throne :: Throne (n.) A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.
Ascend :: Ascend (v. t.) To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne..
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