bethroned

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

bethroned (comparative more bethroned, superlative most bethroned)

(rare, archaic) Having or seated upon a throne; enthroned. [from 19th c.]
- 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:
  […] The city cast
  Her people out upon her; and Antony,
  Bethroned in the market-place, did sit alone,
  Whistling to the air; […]
- 2010, Mark Twain, Ms. Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 1, page 126:
  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.
- 2011, S. L. Gilman, A Jaggedy New World, page 57:
  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.
- 2012, Martin Symington, Sacred Britain, page 32:
  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.
- 2017, Laura Severin, Poetry Off the Page:
  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.