[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To place on or as on a throne; esp. as symbolic of accession to sovereignty: = ENTHRONE.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. I. 131. Þer treuthe is in Trinitee and troneth [A. I. 122. corouneþ; v.r. tronen] hem alle.
1387–8. T. Usk, Test. Love, I. ii. (Skeat), l. 94. I lefte it for no tene, till he was troned in my blisse for his seruice.
a. 1400. Pistill of Susan, 90. Turtils troned on trene.
1508. Kennedie, Flyting w. Dunbar, 400. I sall … with tresone trone the on the treis.
1549. Latimer, 2nd Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (Arb.), 58. Thus was Salomon throned, by the aduise and wyl of hys father.
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., Induct. Why, throne your selfe in state on the stage.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., II. iv. 22. The seate Where loue is thron’d.
1624. F. White, Repl. Fisher, 56. He trode vpon the necke of kings, throning and dethroning, crowning and decrowning them.
1673. Milton, True Relig., 10. The Pope … Thrones and Unthrones Kings.
1715–20. Pope, Iliad, VIII. 551. Th’ eternal thunderer sat thron’d in gold.
1792. Anecd. W. Pitt, III. xliii. 154. Mercy can do no harm, it will seat the King where he ought to be, throned on the hearts of his people.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xi. Mrs. Mac-Candlish, throned in a comfortable easy chair … was regaling herself … with a cup of genuine tea.
1864. R. S. Hawker, Quest Sangraal, 16. Foremost sad Lancelot, throned upon his Steed.
1866. Conington, Virg. Æneid, VII. 686. To throne him in the seat of power.
1884. Tennyson, Becket, I. iii. 70. That the King Would throne me in the great Archbishoprick.
2. intr. To be enthroned; to sit on or as on a throne; to sit in state. Often to throne it.
1607. Shaks., Cor., V. iv. 26. He wants nothing of a God but Eternity, and a Heauen to Throne in.
1848. Blackw. Mag., LXIII. 768. He throned it always like a tragedy king.
1903. Ld. R. Gower, Rec. & Remin., 358. After seeing my Shakespeare [group statue] throning it in the centre of the Palais d’ Industrie [Paris].
1904. R. J. Farrer, Garden of Asia, 139. The abbot of imperial blood no longer thrones among the pines of Uyeno.
1905. Westm. Gaz., 20 March, 2/2. The sofa on which she had throned.
Hence Throning vbl. sb., enthronement.
c. 1400. Maundev. (1839), xvi. 175. The dedicacioun of the chirche, & the thronynge [Roxb. tronyng] of the ydole.
