crowned
Etymology
verb
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simple past and past participle of crown
adj
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Wearing a crown. -
(often in combinations) Having a particular crown (top part of the head) -
(obsolete) Great, supreme; completed; excessive. After having cloy'd his puny stomach, he sneaks away privily, in a Stage-Coach, to his house in the Country; there he murders the Vertuous Womb of his Dear Lady, and darts into the Royal Arch, his contagious, loathsome Sperm, which is innocently receiv'd, and hugg'd in the crown'd Act of Conception. 1699, Robert Barret, A Companion for Midwives, Child-Bearing Women, and Nurses., London, Sect. III, p. 96Their crowned truths 1836, Emmeline Stuart-Wortley, Visionary: Canto III, v. cclxxxii.That the crownèd truth advances. 1895, Ellen Maria Huntington Gates, The Treasures of Kurium
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