Lisa Lutz

Sometimes a single item can wrap up, in a nutshell, who a person is. In my grandparents' home, a clear plastic container was enthroned on top of the mahogany bar for at least a decade. Painted on the lid in pink, yellow and light blue was 'Have a Nosh With Mort & Ethel'.

American Author

Edmund White

America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

American Novelist

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.

American Lawyer

James Lane Allen

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

Theodore Roosevelt

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

American President

Used for official traditional ceremonies involving royalty or similar figures.

Royal Ceremonies

Sometimes used metaphorically to mean 'giving supreme importance'.

Metaphorical Use

Can figuratively indicate giving power or authority to a person or idea.

Figurative Power

May symbolize dominance in a specific field or sector.

Symbolic Dominance

Not used for literal seating but positioning someone/something in power.

Not Always Literal

Implies elevating the status of someone or something above others.

Elevating Status

 sitting or standing on his mother's lap and wonder why she's so large? Paintings like Cimabue's enthroned Madonna with angels or Duccio's Maesta also appear out of proportion. If Mary were to stand up, it seems, the angels in the picture would be as tall as her shin bone, and her torso would be disproportionately small when compared to her legs.

Distorting Madonna in...

 Now, surrounding Commune are his advisors. Justice is enthroned. She's looking up at the figure of wisdom, who actually supports her scales of justice.

Enthrone