enstoolv.
/ɛnˈstuːl/, /ᵻnˈstuːl/, U.S. /ɛnˈstul/, /ᵻnˈstul/, West African English /ɛnˈstul/ transitive. To place (a west African chief) on his ‘stool’.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > appointment to office > appoint a person to an office [verb (transitive)] > admit to office formally or ceremonially > on stool
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1895 Times 16 Nov. 5/4 The King of Kokofu..is one of the three chiefs who, by ancient custom, perform the ceremony of ‘enstooling’ the King of Kumassi as King paramount [of the Ashanti Confederation].
1895 Daily News 25 Nov. 3/5 The enstooling of Prempeh on March 26, 1886.
1925 Public Opinion 11 Oct. 396/1 Should a Chief be enstooled.
Derivatives
enˈstoolment n.
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1959 A. Abbs Ashanti Boy v. 191 We had many people in Dwamanoa..because of the white Queen's enstoolment.
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