1
throne, elevated or ceremonial chair of power:
(
MS: s.xiii1/4
)
E la duzeinne de fusteine u demie. E li trones dunt il peserunt deit estre de .xxij. clous
London Mun Coll 502
(
MS: s.xivm
)
Hiarcham, seaunt en throne d’or
S Jer 1rb
♦
royal throne as a symbol of sovereign power:
(
s.xii2;
MS: s.xiiex
)
e tis
(=David's) trones serrad estables tuz jurs
Liv Reis1 72
♦
eccl.
papal throne as a symbol of papal power:
(
1214;
MS: 1214-16
)
(Gregory) fut enz el trone mis [...] De seinte iglise universale
S Greg 1243
♦
theol.
throne of God as a symbol of divine power:
(
1171-74;
MS: c.1200
)
Li clers est trodnes Deu; Deus deit en li seeir
Becket1 1251
(
s.xiii;
MS: c.1300
)
la hautesce du trosne du saint angre Nostre Seingneur
S Godric 6549
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: s.xiv2
)
li aungele [...] cheirent devant le trone en lur face
Apoc giffard 1375
(
MS: c.1300
)
dé .iiij. ewangelistes ki sustenent le throne, Johan, Luc, Marc, Mathieu
Pop Med 323
(
1360-79;
MS: s.xivex
)
en halt le ciel superiour Devant le throne Dieu maiour
GOWER Mirour 17048
2theol.
(often as a plural) Throne(s), third order of the celestial hierarchy of angels:
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiii2
)
nof ordres d'els
(=angels) trovum. [...] Les trones e les seignurez, Cherubin e seraphin
Mirur1 127vb28
(
c.1285;
MS: c.1297
)
Les treis ordres de la premere ierarchie unt issi a non [...] le terz trones. [...] Thrones valent ceo ke le mot sone, ce sunt li siege en ki Deus seit
Jerarchie 82.13-15
3
astron.
sky, firmament:
trone1 (s.xii1/4)