Cathedra: alternatives and connections

To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity;…

The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sov…

accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept their power and authority; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the…

The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches.

Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop.

A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural di…

An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bi…

An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored C…

Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right…

To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office.

To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.

The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.

To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity.

The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.

To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop.

The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel.

To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president f…

greater than normal in quantity or amount; "a high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his career"; "high risks"; "has hi…