cathedrare

cathedrare 1 to enthrone (lay ruler). s1273 [imperator] coronatus est in civitate Aquensi et ibi in sede Magni Caroli ~atus Leg. Ant. Lond. 162; s1274 Anglia letatur, Edwardus dum cathedratur Flor. Hist. III 44 rub.; 1520 qui censuram in omnes veluti cum imperio et ~atus agas (E. Lee) Ep. Erasm. IV 1061. 2 (eccl.) to enthrone or endow w. a see: a (bishop); b (pope); c (w. ref. to feast of St. Peter’s Chair, 22 Feb.). a dans et adulator et se subdens inhoneste, / ut †sedeant [? l. sedeat] cathedrans, crimine sunt pariles H. Cantor Vers. 226; sedet et cathedrat vir tanti generis / ‥ / cujus imperium ni statim feceris, / prebe pecuniam vel mox dampnaberis Humana Miseria 404; s1457 insurrexit ‥ doctor quidam doctrine perfide ‥ presularis tamen dignitatis ac ~atus in ecclesia Cicestrensi Reg. Whet. I 279.  b s1272 [Gregorius X] in cathedra summi pontificatus solemniter est ~atus Oxnead Chr. 240.  c cedit yems retro cathedrato Simone Petro (Vers.) Bacon VI 28.