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coronach Sc. and Irish.|ˈkɒrənax|
Forms: 6 corrynogh, corre-, corri-, corynoch, 7 corronach, corinoch, coranough, 8 cronach, coranich, 9 coranoch, 8– coronach.
[a. Irish coranach, Gaelic corranach outcry, funeral cry, dirge, f. comh- together + rànach roaring, outcry.]
†1. gen. The Celtic word for a shouting of many, an outcry. Obs.
1500–20Dunbar Dance Sevin Deidly Synnis 112 Be he the Correnoch [Maitl. MS. corynoche] had done schout, Erschemen so gadderit him abowt. 15..Duncan Laider in Warton Hist. E.P. (1774) II. 278 The loud Corrinoch then did me exile. 1680C. Maitland in Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. cxix. 197 The hilan men maid a bussill, after which, some people cuming in, his lo[rdship] went away with a great Corinoch.
2. spec. A funeral song or lamentation in the Highlands of Scotland and in Ireland; a dirge.
1530Lyndesay Test. Papyngo 702 Cryand for ȝow the cairfull corrynogh. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 1092 A sad and sorrowful song, an Irish Coranough. 1774Pennant Tour Scot. in 1772, (1790) 113 The Coranich, or singing at funerals is still in use in some places. 1783W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. II. 413 The Highland funerals were generally preceded by bagpipes which played certain dirges, called coronachs. 1814Scott Wav. xv, Their wives and daughters came, clapping their hands, and crying the coronach, and shrieking. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 340 The passionate oriental coronach with which ‘the Persians’ concludes. 1884W. C. Smith Kildrostan i. i. 236 Eachan Macrimmon is playing a coronach as it were for a chief.
†b. The company crying the coronach. Obs.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. III. 3 Sept., Attended by the coronach, composed of a multitude of old hags, who tore their hair. |