Forms: 6 intronyzacion, -izacion, 6–8 inthronization, 7– enthronisation, -ization. [f. ENTHRONIZE + -ATION.] = ENTHRONEMENT. Also fig. and attrib.
1517. Torkington, Pilgr. (1884), 11. A Riche Cappe which every Duk ys Crowned with at hys ffirst Intrononyzacions.
1550. Bale, Apol., 96 b. The feast of Sathans intronizacyon.
1574. Life 70th Abp. Canterb., A viij. The installinge off Archbisshopps his predecessors (which they commonly call inthronization).
1614. Selden, Titles Hon., 146–7. The Great Sophi hath at his inauguration a kind of miter horn’d put on by his chief Chaliph, at his inthronization.
1656. Trapp, Comm. Acts xiii. 9. 561. The Popes likewise change their names at their inthronization.
1663. Aron-bimn., 3. All Israel shall be invited to wait upon the Solemnity of its [the sacred Ark’s] Inthronization.
1750. Hodges, Elihu (1755), Prel. Disc. 77. In this vision we have a representation of the … inthronization of the Lamb.
1838. Fraser’s Mag., XVII. 628. Unanimous enthronisation of his genius above surrounding and inferior men.
1860. Martha W. Freer, Henry IV., II. III. iii. 318. Opposite, was a chair … for the occupation of the king before his enthronization.
1879. W. Benham, Mem. Tait, 454. Immediately after the enthronisation the Archbishop and his family went to Lambeth.
attrib. 1751. Milles, in Phil. Trans., XLVII. 116, note. The enthronization-feast of archbishop Neville.
