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  1.  [f. THRONE v. + -ED1.] Seated on or as on a throne; enthroned. Also in comb., as heaven-throned.

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c. 1440.  York Myst., xxvi. 86. Oure tempill is þe toure Of his troned sire.

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1596.  Shaks., Merch. V., IV. i. 189. [Mercy] becomes The throned Monarch better then his Crowne. Ibid. (1606), Ant. & Cl., I. iii. 28. Though you in swearing shake the Throaned Gods.

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1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., XI. (1632), 374. Ioue shunnes the bed Of Sea-thron’s Thetis.

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1760–72.  H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), IV. 14. Adam … had been constituted a throned lord and controller.

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1839.  Bailey, Festus, xi. (1852), 136. Hear Thou, Heaven-throned!

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1906.  Daily Chron., 25 Sept., 3/4. In the song of the minor poet we often recognise the faint echo of a throned master.

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  2.  [? f. THRONE sb.] (a) Having a throne; (b) Made like a throne.

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1801.  S. Turner, Anglo-Sax., III. iii. II. 59. A work which pretends to give to Denmark a throned existence [before Christ].

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1852.  Thackeray, Esmond, II. vi. The old Dean on his throned stall.

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