incathedrate

English

Etymology

From Latin incathedrō.

Verb

incathedrate (third-person singular simple present incathedrates, present participle incathedrating, simple past and past participle incathedrated)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To officially invest into a position of authority.
    • 1881, John Stoughton, History of Religion in England, page 156:
      "You,"—addressing himself to both gentlemen—"are in yourselves but fellow members of the same House with us, returned hither (as we also are) to sit on these benches with us, until by our election, and by common suffrage, you are incathedrated.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) to episcopize, appoint as bishop
    • 1735, Henry Care, The History of Popery‎[1], page 14:
      For (ſaid he) St. Peter the Apoſtle firſt of all for ſeven Years Space preſided over the Antiochean Church, and was there regarded with due Honour and Reverence, and illuſtriouſly incathedrated or placed in the Epiſcopal Chair.
    • 1674, Ephraim Pagitt, Christianography, etc, page 77:
      The Patriarch of Antioch and Germanus Patriarch of Constantinople, excommunicated the Pope: affirming that Saint Peter was Bishop of Antioch: and governed that Church many years; that he was there incathedrated, and with great reverence received and esteemed: but going to Rome, hee was there most vilely used and put to a most cruell death with his fellow Apostle Saint Paul.
    • 1993, Gazette des beaux-arts, page 63:
      Shortly after his creation as King of Sicily by the very (anti-)pope Anacletus II who was "incathedrated" in the cathedra in 1130 , Roger II began the construction of his Capella Palatina in Palermo, whose western wall has a large pedimented frame for the royal seat beneath the enthroned Christ ( fig . 5 ) 24 .

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