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Throne   /θroʊn/   Listen
Throne

noun
1.
The chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc..
2.
A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination.  Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, toilet.
3.
The position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions.
verb
(past & past part. throned; pres. part. throning)
1.
Sit on the throne as a ruler.
2.
Put a monarch on the throne.  Synonym: enthrone.



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"Throne" Quotes from Famous Books



... a fair of beauty and gallantry those days. I saw it all. I have spent many years in the capital and I tell you the girls of that time had manners and knew how to wear their clothes, but again the magic of old memories kept my lady on her throne. There was one of them—just one of those others who, I sometimes thought, was almost as graceful and charming and noble-hearted as Sally, and she liked me I know, but the ideal of my youth glowed ...
— The Light in the Clearing • Irving Bacheller
... purse. He made the nobles and his wealthier subjects sign blank cheques for him to fill up at his pleasure.(727) These cheques, or "charters" as they were called, were afterwards burnt by order of his successor on the throne. ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe
... any virtue in this can be shown, By peasant, by lawyer, or king on the throne; We freely will forfeit whatever we've said, And call it a virtue to waste meat ...
— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... veneration the Greeks had for Homer, that they erected temples and altars to him, and worshiped him as a god. They held festivals in his honor, and made medals bearing the figure of the poet sitting on a throne and holding in his hands the Iliad and Odyssey. One of the kings of Eʹgypt built in that country a magnificent temple, in which was set up a statue of Homer, surrounded with a beautiful representation of ...
— The Story of Troy • Michael Clarke
... his eyes. The place resembled a stadium, and was so vast that he felt dwarfed to nothingness. The domed roof soared far above in misty bluish light. On the floor, exactly beneath the center of the great dome, was a raised platform, and on it a dais resembling a very wide throne. Around the dais a score or more of octopi—officials, ...
— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various


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