Meanings
- not comparableoftenHaving a particular crown (top part of the head)
- not comparableobsoleteGreat, supreme; completed; excessive.
Their crowned truths
1836, Emmeline Stuart-Wortley, Visionary: Canto III, v. cclxxxii.4 more examples
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 1After 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. 96More 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, […], →OCLCThat the crownèd truth advances.
1895, Ellen Maria Huntington Gates, The Treasures of Kurium
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of crown
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveWearing a crown.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveprovided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination
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Origin
- Middle Englishcoronede, crouned, crowned, crownyd
- Englishcrowned
From Middle English coronede, crouned, crowned, crownyd, equivalent to crown + -ed. Piecewise doublet of coronaed.
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Finnish kruunupäinen
- kruunupäinenwearing a crown
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