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▪ I. crowning, vbl. n.|ˈkraʊnɪŋ|
[f. crown v.]
1. The action of placing a crown on the head; coronation.
a1240Lofsong in Cott. Hom. 207 Ich bide þe..bi þe þornene crununge. c1300Havelok 2948 The feste of his coruning Laste..Fourti dawes. c1400Destr. Troy 5376 To come to the coronyng of þe kyde lord. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 253 With the crownynge [of Christ] and other turmentes. a1667Cowley Elegy Anacreon 52 The Pomp of Kings..At their Crownings. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. x. 513 The walls which beheld their crowning beheld also their burial.
†b. As a date: = Reign.
1258Eng. Proclam. Hen. III, In þe twoandfowertiȝþe ȝeare of vre cruninge. 1297R. Glouc. (1726) 440.
†2. Tonsure. Obs.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. i. 86 Maisters and doctors, Þat han cure vnder cryst and crownynge in tokne.
3. Consummation; completion, fulfilment.
1598Chapman Iliad ii. 304 Let two or three, that by themselves advise, Faint in their crowning. 1857Heavysege Saul (1869) 367 A Power that stands between My purpose and its crowning. 1890Bp. Stubbs Primary Charge 55 They are the very crowning of the sin of schism, the forcible rending of the mystical body of the Lord.
4. Naut. (See quot.)
1769Falconer Dict. Marine, Crowning, the finishing part of a knot made on the end of a rope. It is performed by interweaving the ends of the..strands..so as they may not become..untwisted.
5. A structure that forms the crown of anything.
1704Collect Voy. (Church.) III. 122/1 The..Row of Seats reaches, with its Crowning or Ornaments, to the..Roof.
6. The highest part of an arched or convex surface. crowning in: subsidence of an overarching surface. Cf. crown v. 17.
1888Daily News 4 July 5/2 The ‘crowning in’ or subsidence of the land is a common enough occurrence in the mining districts.
7. attrib.
1829Southey All for Love iv, On the Crowning-day..A gay procession take..their way. 1871Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. viii. 211 He chose Soissons for his crowning-place.
▸ Obstetr. Originally: † the engagement of the baby's head with the dilated cervix during labour (obs.); † the cervix in this situation (obs. rare). Later: the appearance of the head fully in the vaginal opening prior to emerging, when it does not recede between contractions. Cf. crown v.1
1673H. Chamberlen tr. F. Mauriceau Accomplisht Midwife ii. ix. 159 The Midwife must..endeavour to thrust..this crowning of the Womb back over the Head of the Child. 1703tr. P. Dionis Anat. Humane Bodies Improv'd 193 When the Midwives touch this Orifice, they find that it encompasses the head of the Fœtus like a Crown; and this State they call the Crowning. 1873W. Leishman Syst. Midwifery xv. 289 The head is arrested..at the moment when its greatest diameter is encircled by the circumference of the vulva, but it does not now recede. This has been called the stage of 'crowning'. 1930Lancet 26 July 184 Returned shortly before the ‘crowning’ of the head. 1977P. Leech Baby & Child 24 It is for the near-end of her struggle that we should celebrate the ‘crowning’ when that dark-wet hair at last appears at the vaginal opening. 2005Jrnl. Midwifery & Women's Health 50 365 No touching of the perineum until crowning of the infant's head.
▪ II. ˈcrowning, ppl. a.
[f. crown v. + -ing2.]
1. That crowns, or bestows a crown.
1611Bible Isa. xxiii. 8 Who hath taken this counsell against Tyre the crowning citie [1885 R.V. margin, that giveth crowns].
2. That forms the crown or acme; completing, consummating; highest, most perfect.
1651Cromwell Lett. 4 Sept. The dimensions of this mercy are above my thought. It is for aught I know a crowning mercy. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 62 Heaven's last, best, and crowning gift. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. xiv. 270 The crowning event of this period. 1867A. Barry Sir C. Barry ii. 49 The crowning cornice. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 386 This last act, or crowning folly.
3. Rising into a crown or rounded summit; arching.
1761Lond. Mag. XXX. 7 No pavement should be laid crowning. 1886E. S. Morse Jap. Homes i. 28 They are brought to a uniform level, but crowning slightly,—that is, the centre is a little higher than the sides. |