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bethroned en · ADJ

Etymology

From be- (“at, on, over, upon”) + throned.

Meanings

1. (archaic, rare) Having or seated upon a throne; enthroned.
   • Dominating the hall from high on the west wall is a round, oak table-top 18ft in diameter, depicting a splendidly robed and bethroned King Arthur, with the names of his knights around the circumference. 2012, Martin Symington, Sacred Britain, page 32:
   • What is disturbing (and distorting) is that these writers should be assembled like so many courtiers or footmen round the bethroned, centre-stage figures of Osbert and Edith Sitwell. 2017, Laura Severin, Poetry Off the Page:
   • And yet, Skinned One, so they say, can frighten the Tlatoani himself, even as His Majesty sits bethroned in the capital—and this with only an angled glance from those opaque eyes. 2011, S. L. Gilman, A Jaggedy New World, page 57:
   • […] The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Bethroned in the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air; […] 1840, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton, “Needlework of the Egyptians” (chapter IV), in The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, page 37:
   • At intervals there was a great platform car, bethroned and grandly canopied, upholstered in silks, carpeted with oriental rugs, and freighted with girls clothed in gala costumes. 2010, Mark Twain, Ms. Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 1, page 126:

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