enstool means to install formally as chief. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
Why “enstool” is a great word
ENSTOOL — [Verb] To install formally as a chief, especially in West African, particularly Ghanaian, traditional leadership. From the prefix en- (meaning "to put into or onto") + stool (referring to the traditional seat or throne of a chief). First attested in 1895, as recorded in the Times (London). Unlike "enthrone," which elevates a monarch to a global, regal stage, or its direct opposite "destool," which denotes ceremonial removal, to enstool is to root sovereign power in a specific, sacred object of local lineage. It is the careful lowering onto the blackened ancestral stool, the weight of a new name settling on the shoulders, and the palpable transfer of a people's history from one generation to the next—a ritual of continuity that makes a person a vessel for the soul of a community.
Etymology
From en- + stool; compare enthrone.
verb
- To install formally as chief.