1. (En particulier) Placer un évêque sur son siège épiscopal, lorsqu'il prend possession de son église métropolitaine.
Après l'avoir intronisé, on chanta le Te Deum.
2. Placer sur le trône en cérémonie.
À peine le pape fut-il intronisé qu'il voulut bénir la ville de Rome.
On lui fit prêter le serment avant de l'introniser.
Ce prince fut sacré et intronisé.
3. [verb] (transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.
4. [verb] (transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
5. [verb] (transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
6. [verb] (transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.
7. [verb] Set up or found; 'She set up a literacy program'.
8. [verb] Set up or lay the groundwork for; 'establish a new department'.
9. [verb] Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; 'The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound'; 'The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture'.
10. [verb] Institute, enact, or establish; 'make laws'.
11. [verb] Bring about; 'The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth'.
12. [verb] Place; 'Her manager had set her up at the Ritz'.
13. [verb] Build or establish something abstract; 'build a reputation'.
14. [verb] Use as a basis for; found on; 'base a claim on some observation'.
