crowned en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /kɹaʊnd/
Etymology
From Middle English coronede, crouned, crowned, crownyd, equivalent to crown + -ed. Piecewise doublet of coronaed.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Wearing a crown.
- (in combinations, not-comparable, often) Having a particular crown (top part of the head)
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Great, supreme; completed; excessive.
Put case, he saith, all other medicines faile, by the helpe of God this alone will doe it, and tis a crowned medicine which must be kept in secret
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Preparatiues and purgers”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 4, member 1:That the crownèd truth advances.
1895, Ellen Maria Huntington Gates, The Treasures of Kurium: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. 96:More truly delightful to me the seduction-progress than the crowned act: for that's a vapour, a bubble!
1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII. Mr. Lovelace, to John Belford, Esq. Saturday, May 20.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume IV, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:Their crowned truths
1836, Emmeline Stuart-Wortley, Visionary: Canto III, v. cclxxxii.:
Deriveds
black crowned crane · crowned crane · crowned dens syndrome · golden-crowned warbler · ruby-crowned kinglet · rufous-crowned bee-eater · rufous-crowned sparrow · yellow-crowned bishop · white-crowned sparrow · grey crowned crane · crowned republic · orange-crowned warbler · crowned seahorse · crowned pigeon · white-crowned plover · red-crowned crane · golden-crowned spadebill · yellow-crowned · low-crowned seahorse · crowned eagle · uncrowned · African crowned eagle · black-crowned night heron · rose-crowned fruit-dove · purple-crowned fairywren · white-crowned shrike
Synonyms
coronate · incoronated · incoronate · coronated
Translations (1)
fi kruunupäinen (wearing a crown)