(v. t.) To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity.
(v. t.) To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.
Example Sentences:
(1) A press conference at Lambeth Palace is taking place to announce that the 56-year-old bishop of Durham will be the 105th man to sit on the throne of Saint Augustine, succeeding Rowan Williams Welby will be enthroned as archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral on 21 March 2013.
(2) Welby, an Eton-educated former oil industry executive who joined the church as a vicar in Warwickshire, will be enthroned at Canterbury cathedral in front of 2,000 guests, including Prince Charles and the prime minister, David Cameron.
(3) Temples may be placed on top of platforms to underline their special sacred character, just as rulers themselves are often enthroned on special seats to emphasise their new semi-divine status.
(4) The proposal, which has echoes of a policy recently espoused by Labour, was contained in an address that marked one of Justin Welby's most significant forays into public policy since be was enthroned last month as the new leader of the Church of England.
(5) Now the AKP is struggling for its survival, despite the fact that they got 40% of all votes in the June elections.” Erdogan’s initial aim was to secure a big enough majority to rewrite the constitution and turn Turkey into a presidential system, enthroning himself at the top.
(6) New Dalai Lama enthroned: from the archive, 23 February 1940 Read more “No matter what the Dalai Lama says or does, the central government’s recognised rights toward reincarnation cannot be denied,” Norbu Dunzhub said.
(7) • Interview with the BBC before his enthronement on Thursday On benefit cuts "As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need.
(8) Welby, who was enthroned as a bishop last November, presented a jocular, relaxed face to the press as he appeared for the first time at Lambeth Palace, surrounded by the portraits of archbishops past.
(9) 21 March 2013 Welby is enthroned as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury.
(10) In a very personal interview, Welby – who will be enthroned as Rowan Williams's successor as the leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans on Thursday – also spoke of his first daughter, Johanna, who died after a car accident when she was seven months old.
(11) The service drew on hundreds of years of ecclesiastical tradition, but the proceedings differed in one key respect: for the first time in the Church of England's history, its head was enthroned by a woman.
(12) At 3pm amid African dancers and to the strains of Punjabi music, Justin Portal Welby was formally enthroned as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans.
(13) In remarks endorsing a letter by 43 Anglican bishops, issued a few weeks before his enthronement, Welby said in March of the benefits up-rating bill: "These changes will mean it is children and families who will pay the price for high inflation, rather than the government."
(14) On Thursday afternoon, in a service attended by David Cameron and the Prince of Wales at Canterbury Cathedral, Welby will be enthroned as the symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
(15) Separately, the Times reported that Welby had emailed Tatchell after the campaigner released an open letter ahead of the enthronement questioning Welby's rejection of gay marriage.
(16) Lespert's film begins shortly after, with Yves enthroned as Dior's crown prince.
(17) Pope Francis was inaugurated on 19 March – two days before Welby was enthroned as leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans.
(18) The enthronement ceremony itself was as eclectic and international as the guest list.
(19) It was that same spirit that led to the abolition of slavery … that drove the battle against tyranny in two World Wars … and that inspired Winston Churchill to promise that the end of the "world struggle" would see the "enthronement of human rights".
(20) In one testimony, Welby, who will have his election as archbishop of Canterbury confirmed at a ceremony in St Paul's Cathedral on 4 February (and be enthroned in Canterbury Cathedral in March), was always "exceptionally relaxed" with the warlords.
Investiture
Definition:
(n.) The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing.
(n.) Livery of seizin.
(n.) That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rajoy’s hope is that Sánchez’s failure in the upcoming investiture vote wreaks havoc inside the PSOE, potentially opening the door to a scenario that might favour him.
(2) Rajoy said he would update the king “after a reasonable period of time” on how meetings with political rivals had gone and let him know whether he had won the support needed to seek investiture before parliament.
(3) In a passionate plea for dialogue and unity, Sánchez spoke for 90 minutes during the first stage of the protracted investiture process that comes a month after the king invited him to try to form a government following December’s inconclusive elections.
(4) In contrast, Willem-Alexander's investiture will take place in the Nieuwe Kerk church in Amsterdam's central Dam square.
(5) On Friday evening, 48 hours after falling six seats short of a majority in the 350-seat congress of deputies, Mariano Rajoy , the leader of the conservative People’s party (PP), lost a second investiture debate by the same margin as the first: 170 votes to 180.
(6) This should in principle allow the other parties to justify their abstention in an investiture vote to facilitate a PP-led administration.” The PSOE came second in Sunday’s election with 85 seats, the leftwing coalition Unidos Podemos third with 71 seats, and Ciudadanos fourth with 32.
(7) It was extremely unfortunate that it was interpreted as a personal criticism.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hilary Mantel during her investiture by the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.
(8) In some ways no one represents this better than the iconoclastic Varoufakis, whose investiture should go down as a textbook case of what happens when radicals come into town.
(9) Just as Francis has shunned the grandeur of the papal apartment in favour of a simple room, so John Paul spoke in the first person, declined to be borne aloft on the papal throne (until he was pressured into it), refused a papal coronation in favour of a more low-key investiture, and sent the clearest of signals that he was a moderniser.
(10) People in morning coats and feathery hats arrive for a late lunch, no doubt straight from an investiture at nearby Buckingham Palace.
(11) Their deaths failed to prevent Prince Charles completing his investiture as Prince of Wales during a ceremony at Caernarvon Castle.
(12) If neither Rajoy nor any other candidate wins an investiture vote in congress within a two-month period, the king will dissolve parliament and call another election.
(13) In his outburst , recorded on a mobile phone, Mellor called the black-cab driver a “sweaty, stupid little shit” during an argument about the route he wanted to travel after picking up Mellor and his partner, Lady Cobham, from her investiture ceremony.
(14) The independence process will continue without the investiture of Mas,” the CUP’s Gabriela Serra told a press conference.
(15) "We are glad you made your nest in Nechin," said Estaimpuis's municipal mayor, Daniel Senesael, at Depardieu's Belgian investiture, prior to a post-ceremony barbecue at the actor's five-bedroom chateau with 200 fellow citizens of the town.
(16) González said that when the two met after the June election, Sánchez had told him that the PSOE would abstain in the second investiture vote, thereby facilitating the PP’s move to office.
(17) Bartholomew attended Francis’s investiture last year, the first ecumenical patriarch to attend such a ceremony in Rome since the two churches split almost 1,000 years ago.
(18) Keith Porteous Wood, the NSS executive director, said: "The country has changed out of all recognition since the last coronation and we should now be devising an investiture ceremony for the next head of state everyone can feel part of.
(19) The outburst by Mellor, who had accompanied his partner, the VisitEngland chairwoman, Lady Cobham, to an investiture ceremony with the Prince of Wales, was heard in a mobile phone recording given to the Sun newspaper.
(20) Other morphological features of the new species included tandem paruterine capsules, allometric growth of segments and the investiture of paruterine capsules by numerous elongate calcareous corpuscles.