crownedadj.

Brit.

/kraʊnd/, U.S.

/kraʊnd/

Forms: see crown v.¹ and -ed suffix¹; also Middle English icrunet, Middle English ycoroned, Middle English ycrownyt.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: crown v.¹, -ed suffix¹; crown n., -ed suffix².

Etymology: Partly < crown v.¹ + -ed suffix¹, and partly < crown n. + -ed suffix². Compare Anglo-Norman and Old French coroné , Middle French, French couronné invested with a royal crown, wearing a crown or wreath (both 12th cent.), (in heraldry) wearing a crown or surmounted by a crown (a1400; earlier in sense ‘tonsured’ (c1100 as curunez , plural; compare also Old Occitan coronat , c1000 in a French context)). Compare also classical Latin corōnātus (see coronate adj.¹).

a. Invested with a royal crown or royal dignity, reigning as a monarch; (also) wearing a royal crown. Also figurative.

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society > authority > office > appointment to office > [adjective] > appointing formally or ceremonially > appointed formally or ceremonially > crowned

crownedc1225

coronatec1470

society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [adjective] > relating to a crown or coronation > wearing a crown, crowned

crownedc1225

diademated1727

diademed1790

incoronate1867

incoronated1867

c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 71 (MED) Þet tu naldest changin þet stat þet tu liuest in forte [beo] cwen icrunet.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2580 Crist, crouned king, kepe him fro sorwe!

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. iv. l. 257 Were ich a kyng ycoroned.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 5707 (MED) Whanne þe kyng in open parlement Crowned sat in his regalie [etc.].

1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys i. f. xviii^v And yet yf hys hyghnes haue any crowned kyng[ys] vnder hym, his swerd, power crown & dignyte, ys nothyng defaced nor mynysshed.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 5 You..With your Crown'd Brother.

1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 211 Virtue on a Throne hath not a much lesse Imperious Influence, than Crowned Vice.

1695 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 426 As if she were a crowned head.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 59 Crowned heads, and even popes themselves have stood in awe of it [sc. the order of the Jesuits].

1801 J. Thomson Enq. conc. Liberty & Licentiousness of Press 36 It was said they had drank d—m—n to King George, and all crowned tyrants.

1822 T. Campbell Men of Eng. in Gentleman's Mag. June 630/2 We're the sons of Sires that baffled Crowned and mitred tyranny.

1869 A. Sandham Coins, Tokens & Medals Dominion of Canada 64 Full face bust of Justinian crowned, and wearing Roman toga.

1900 Princeton Alumni Weekly 27 Oct. 255/2 When we place the list of our Country's Chief Magistrates..side by side with the crowned heads of any or all other countries since 1789 [etc.].

1934 R. Graves I, Claudius xix. 274 Germanicus rode, crowned, in his chariot with Agrippina seated beside him.

2003 A. Weir Mary, Queen of Scots (2011) xxvi. 434 Yet Mary was a crowned queen, whose abdication Elizabeth had refused to recognize.

b. Chiefly Heraldry. Surmounted by the figure of a royal crown.imperially, navally crowned: see navally adv.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of articles of clothing > [adjective] > crowned or coroneted

crownedc1405

coronetty1688

honoured1688

imperially crowned1715

navally crowned1816

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 161 Ther on heeng a brooch..On which was first writen a crowned .A. And after, amor vincit omnia.

1448 Acct. in Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæol. Jrnl. (1906) 12 13 The orfray contenyng A & M ycrownyt.

c1500 in J. Harley et al. Rep. MSS R. R. Hastings (1928) I. 419 A crosse chekon crownyd and ther in a lyon Rampyng.

1565 Act 8 Eliz. c. 12 §2 The Queen's Highness Seal of Lead, having the Portcullis crowned engraved on the one Side.

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. iv. 150 The ancient Standard..was..Her Highnesse Armes..on the one side, and on the other..the Harpe Crowned, being the Armes of..Ireland.

1736 J. M'Ure View City of Glasgow iii. 212 This Seat is adorned with the Kings Arms, curiously cut out on the Breast, and a crowned Thisle on the one Hand, and a crowned Rose on the other.

1841 E. Hawkins Silver Coins Eng. 178 Shield oval, crowned, lion's skin garniture.

1900 J. B. Paul Heraldry Sc. Hist. & Art ii. 70 The crowned heart does not appear in the family arms till 1603.

1949 O. Doughty Victorian Romantic: D. G. Rossetti ii. viii. 255 The carving on the seat..shows the Tree of Knowledge encircled by a crowned serpent.

2001 Daily Tel. 2 Oct. 4/4 An ancient Enfield rifle musket,..with the crowned lion of the British empire engraved on it.

c. Having or wearing a crown of victory, martyrdom, virginity, etc.: see crown n. 2.

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a1450 St. Etheldreda (Faust.) l. 1100 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 307 (MED) In þe ioy þat euer shall last among þe coronede maydenus is he.

c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) l. 433 (MED) Virgile which had the Regalye, Callyd in his tyme the singuleer Crownyd man Above al othir, Poete mantvan.

1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. ii. vii. f. 56^v The place of martyrdome of the. 4. hollie crouned Saintes.

1627 G. K. tr. Rom. Martyrologe 370 It was ordeyned, that their yearely festiuity should be celebrated vpon this day, togeather with the former fiue, vnder the Name of the foure Crowned Martyrs.

1705 Hist. Wks. Learned Sept. 556 In Imitation of the Crowned Victors of Games: Laying out the Corps to satisfy the World of the manner of their Death.

1776 C. Seymour New Topogr., Hist., & Commerc. Surv. Kent 205 Bede mentions a Church in this City dedicated to the four crowned Martyrs.

1846 F. W. Fairholt in Early Eng. Poetry, Ballads, & Pop. Lit. of Middle Ages (Percy Soc.) XIX. 34 The Mercers exhibited their crowned Virgin seated with three maids of Honour and six pages.

1891 F. Tennyson Niobe in Poems 346 And all The crowned Gods in their high tabernacles Sigh unawares.

1955 E. W. Tristram & M. Bardswell in E. W. Tristram Eng. Wall Painting 14th Cent. 159/2 A crowned Saint, bearing a book, with the figure of a donor.

2012 A. Ang Witch in Glitz 59 I'm the crowned champion of the world.

2. Unfailingly effective, perfect, total; (also) completed, consummated. Now rare.

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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adjective] > perfect

finea1300

perfecta1398

crownedc1405

absolute?a1425

obsolute1522

quintessential1551

absolentc1560

fashionate1593

omniperfect1678

quadriform1679

exemplary1709

perfick1771

puffick1858

twenty-twenty1875

copybook1908

perfecto1941

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 518 Al Innocent of his crowned malice.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. v. i. iii. 466 Tis a crowned medicine which must be kept in secret.

1699 R. Barret Compan. for Midwives iii. 96 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.

1784 Richardson's Clarissa IV. xxvii, in Novelist's Mag. 14 512 More truly delightful to me the seduction-progress than the crowned act.

1839 E. S. Wortley Visionary iii. v. cclxxxiii. 327 Their crowned truths shall blaze, all lengthening ages through.

1895 E. M. H. Gates Treasures Kurium 17 Show us signs in earth and sky, That the crownèd truth advances, And the roots of evil die.

1918 Eng. Jrnl. 7 422 Every theme he submits should be, not a crowned success, but a genuine attempt to say something.

†3. Tonsured. Obsolete.

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society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > tonsure > [adjective] > tonsured

crowneda1500

shaveling1574

tonsured1706

a1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 273 (MED) Hitt most be a curate, a crownyd wyght.

4. Of (a part of) a plant or animal: having a crown-like structure, crest, tuft, marking, etc. Also (of a bird or other animal): having a head, or the top of the head, of a distinctive colour.See also Compounds 2.Frequently as the second element in compounds, as golden-crowned, rosy-crowned, yellow-crowned, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > plants > appearance of plant > form of plant or that has parts of particular shape > [adjective] > having particular shape or shaped parts

jagged1548

crowned1578

fingered1597

handed1597

hooded1597

unbranched1665

starred1693

bell-like1754

bell-shaped1758

campaniform1758

columniferous1785

gladiate1793

bottlebrush1798

antlereda1806

muscariform1839

sagittiferous1858

crested1861

unseptated1899

unseptate1900

palmiform1962

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a coat > hairy, furry, or woolly > crested or crowned

copped1398

coppled1600

cristate1661

copple-crowned1699

cristated1727

crested1796

crowned1796

coppy1891

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 194 The fruite thereof called Nuchtli, is lyke vnto fygges,..but they are somewhat larger, and crowned [Sp. coronados] lyke vnto a Medler.

1685 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis (new ed.) 59 The Head of the Crowned Crow.

1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 65 Another sort of Fruit, which..seems to have the crown'd Head of a clove.

1796 W. Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 285 Bupleurum..fruit egg-shaped, bulging, small, not crowned.

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 54 Cebus cirrifer..The Crowned Sapajou.

1873 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 676 It [sc. the horned frog] rejoices in the name of the ‘Crowned Tapayaxin’ (Phrynosoma cornutum).

1884 R. Jefferies Red Deer iv. 70 Crowned heads and forked heads are still spoken of when the antler forks, or when the points draw together in the outline of a crown.

1939 Copeia No. 3. 139 An adult crowned-snake, Tantilla coronata (Baird and Girard)..was dropped into the aquarium.

1999 M. A. Mares Encycl. Deserts 487 An unusual growth form is the crowned, or cristate, saguaro.

2010 Independent 24 Aug. (Viewspaper section) 12/1 The eastern crowned warbler..turned up out of the blue in a quarry near South Shields.

5. Of a hat, cap, etc.: having a crown or top. Now only as the second element of compounds, as high-crowned, low-crowned, round-crowned, etc.: see the first element.

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a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. G3^v Ile take but a booke in my hand, a wide sleeued gowne on my backe, and a crowned cap on my head, and see if I can want promotion.

1648 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Descr. Three Princ. xiv. 139 The crowned Hood [or cornered cap] may play merrily behinde the Curtaine of Antichrist; till the Lilly grow, and then the smell of the Lilly will [cause some to] throw away the Hood, [or Cap].

1778 Wesley Let. in Tyerman Life (1871) III. 277 Any woman, who wears either ruffles or a high crowned cap.

1861 W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 177 A..low-crowned hat of Flemish beaver.

1922 W. R. Benét First Person Singular xxii. 194 Having removed a round-crowned panama and applied a coloured silk handkerchief to a beady brow.

6. literary. Full to the brim; (hence) abundant, bounteous. Now rare and historical.Quot. 2008 refers to the lyric in quot. 1656.

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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to the brim

brerd-fullc1000

bret-fullc1200

staff-fulla1400

chock-fullc1440

brimful1530

brink-full1553

top-full1553

brim-charged1582

bankfullc1600

crowned1603

full-brimmed1614

brimmed1624

teemful1673

brimming1697

stock-full1782

throat-fulla1800

jam-full1835

cram-full1837

stodge-full1847

chockc1850

top-filled1860

1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars ii. viii. 27 King Edward..The time in feasts and wantonnesse implies With crowned cups his sorrowes to redresse.

1635 J. Shirley Traytor iii. sig. F2 And in your crowned tables, And Hospitality will you murder him?

1656 T. Stanley in J. Gamble Ayres & Dial. l. 47 Reach me here that full crown'd Cup, and at once I'l drink it up.

1700 P. Danet Compl. Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. At Libationes Deputies..began to wash their hands before their departure, to fill their Crowned Cups with Wine.

1792 N. Douglas Monitory Addr. to Great Brit. iii. 105 The jolly fellow, in his merry mood, May deem a crowned bowl his greatest good.

1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 7 Ere earth Like the libation of a crowned bowl, O'erspilled the depths of the unknown abyss.

1894 Interior 8 Nov. 1431/2 The plutocrat at heart is one who feasts in his dreams. The crowned board has neither flavor nor satisfaction for him.

2008 N. McDowell Poetry & Allegiance in Eng. Civil Wars iii. 134 The reference to King Christmas regaining his ‘Crowne’ puns on the ‘crowned’ glass that is full to the brim.

7. Surmounted or covered by something resembling a crown; (also) rising to a crown in the centre.Frequently as the second element in compounds, as castle-crowned, flower-crowned, steeple-crowned, wood-crowned, etc.; also in figurative use, as fame-crowned, glory-crowned, horror-crowned, etc.: see the first element.

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1610 R. Niccols England's Eliza in Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) 776 That ancient castle-crowned hill.

?1775 J. Heely Descr. Hagley, Envil & Leasowes 118 The view of those lofty crowned hills, those rich lawns, and other objects.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 345 Troy's crown'd city.

1921 H. J. L. J. Massé Pewter Collector xiii. 226 A crowned knot.

2002 J. White Care & Repair of Shop Machines vii. 166/2 A crowned table is better than one that is low in the center.

Compounds

C1.

crowned pulley n. Engineering a pulley having a convex rim, which serves to keep the belt in the centre; cf. slightly earlier crowning pulley n. at crowning adj. Compounds.

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1865 Sci. Amer. 15 July 39/2 Is a crowned pulley or rounded face necessary to make a belt run true?

1916 Tractor Field Bk. (Farm Implement News Company) 139/2 If there is trouble from the belt sliding oft a flat pulley, relief often can be obtained by putting on a new crowned pulley.

2010 U. C. Jindal Machine Design xv. 407 Figure 15-1 shows the location of roller bearings B₁ and B₂, grooved pulley at D, and crowned pulley at B.

crowned republic n. a state under whose constitution the monarch does not have executive power.

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1792 tr. Count Potocki in Polit. State Europe II. 851 Let us remember, Sire, that Poland is a crowned Republic, and neither a monarchy, nor an hereditary state.

1812 G. Canning Speeches during Election in Liverpool 51 I think we have the happiness to live under a limited Monarchy, not under a crowned Republic.

1966 R. J. Hammond Portugal & Afr. 1815–1910 i. 14 This would have made Portugal into a crowned republic.

2013 D. M. Jackson Crown & Canad. Federalism vi. 213 Popular sovereignty is a fact of life in Australia, given the entrenched practice of referenda, to the point that the country has been called a ‘crowned republic’.

crowned work n. Fortification = crownwork n. 2.

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1677 London Gaz. No. 1179/2 The Town..having a large Hornwork with a Halfmoon on each side of it, and a crowned Work before it, all fac'd with Stone and Brick.

1765 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. at Half-Moon A demi-lune is said to be crowned when it is covered by a crowned work.

1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Contre-queue d'hironde The figure or shape which is made by the oblique direction of the wings, or long sides of a horned or crowned work.

2003 G. Satterfield Princes, Posts & Partisans vii. 306 This position was covered by a crowned work that menacingly loomed to the front of the attackers.

C2. In names of birds.

crowned crane n. either of two cranes native to sub-Saharan Africa and having a crest of stiff golden feathers, Balearica pavonina (more fully black crowned crane) and B. regulorum (more fully grey crowned crane).

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1751 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds IV. 192 (heading) The crowned African Crane.]

1771 Encycl. Brit. I. 364/2 The first species is the pavonina, or crowned crane, which has an erect bristly crest.

1836 N. Isaacs Trav. E. Afr. II. xvii. 324 The Crane (Numidion [sic] or Demoiselle), Baleari or Crowned Crane..are common.

1871 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (ed. 2) 482 The Stanley cranes (Anthropoides) are natives of the East Indies, and the Crowned Cranes (Balearica) are African.

1905 W. L. Sclater in W. Flint & J. D. F. Gilchrist Sci. in S. Afr. 143 The Mahem or Crowned Crane (Balearica chrysopelargus).

1993 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 108 174 The central-African black crowned crane is..more than three times as endangered as the southern-African grey crowned crane.

2005 B. Keating & S. Keating Blood Sisters (2006) xxix. 567 Two crowned cranes were standing at the waterhole, looking down at their own reflected beauty.

crowned eagle n. either of two crested eagles: (a) the blackish-grey and very large Stephanoaetus coronatus, of sub-Saharan Africa (also crowned hawk-eagle); (b) the pale grey Harpyhaliaetus coronatus, of open woodland in South America (also crowned solitary eagle). [With sense (a) compare French aigle couronné (1758 in a translation of Barbot's account, which was originally written in English; compare quot. a1712).]

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a1712 J. Barbot Descr. N. & S.-Guinea in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) V. iii. xv. 218/2 The print represents one..which is pretty scarce to be found any where, unless in the province of Acra; and is there call'd the crowned eagle.

1859 S. G. Goodrich Illustr. Nat. Hist. Animal Kingdom II. 36 The crowned Eagle, C. coronatus, is of Brazil, and is said to be the only bird that ventures to feed on skunks.

1922 Times 17 June 11/5 Major H. W. Sidley has presented a nice young crowned hawk-eagle and a white-crested hornbill.

1982 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 23 Aug. 11 Two of Africa's largest birds of prey, the martial eagle and the crowned eagle.

2010 R. Four Eagles After the Cleanse 246 The crowned solitary eagle sped away with his prize; a juvenile squirrel monkey.

crowned pigeon n. any of three very large pigeons of New Guinea having bluish plumage and a fanlike crest, and constituting the genus Goura. Also with distinguishing word.Victoria crowned pigeon: see the first element. [Compare Dutch kroonvogel (1760 or earlier in this sense; also used to denote the crowned crane: see crown bird n. at crown n. Compounds 3b).]

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Goura

crowned pigeon1779

crown pigeon1822

Goura1855

Victoria crowned pigeonc1882

ground-pigeon1885

1764 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. III. cxxviii. 269 (heading) The Great Crowned Indian Pigeon.]

1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 95 One of my crowned pigeons escaped.

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 414 The wings of the Crowned Pigeons are armed with an horny excrecsence [sic].

1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. II. xxxix. 430 The magnificent crowned pigeons, now so well known in our aviaries.

1958 C. A. Naether Bk. of Pigeon (ed. 4) ix. 197 Crowned Pigeons of the family of Gouridae..are the giants of the whole pigeon world... First of all comes the Crowned Pigeon proper—Goura cristata.

2003 Nature 31 July 505/3 The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens during the past week include..a Common Crowned Pigeon (Goura coronata ), a Sclater's Crowned Pigeon (Goura sclateri) from New Guinea, [etc.].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	crowned
释义	crownedadj. Brit. /kraʊnd/, U.S. /kraʊnd/ Forms: see crown v.¹ and -ed suffix¹; also Middle English icrunet, Middle English ycoroned, Middle English ycrownyt. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: crown v.¹, -ed suffix¹; crown n., -ed suffix². Etymology: Partly < crown v.¹ + -ed suffix¹, and partly < crown n. + -ed suffix². Compare Anglo-Norman and Old French coroné , Middle French, French couronné invested with a royal crown, wearing a crown or wreath (both 12th cent.), (in heraldry) wearing a crown or surmounted by a crown (a1400; earlier in sense ‘tonsured’ (c1100 as curunez , plural; compare also Old Occitan coronat , c1000 in a French context)). Compare also classical Latin corōnātus (see coronate adj.¹). 1. a. Invested with a royal crown or royal dignity, reigning as a monarch; (also) wearing a royal crown. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > [adjective] > appointing formally or ceremonially > appointed formally or ceremonially > crowned crownedc1225 coronatec1470 society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [adjective] > relating to a crown or coronation > wearing a crown, crowned crownedc1225 diademated1727 diademed1790 incoronate1867 incoronated1867 c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 71 (MED) Þet tu naldest changin þet stat þet tu liuest in forte [beo] cwen icrunet. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2580 Crist, crouned king, kepe him fro sorwe! c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. iv. l. 257 Were ich a kyng ycoroned. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 5707 (MED) Whanne þe kyng in open parlement Crowned sat in his regalie [etc.]. 1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys i. f. xviii^v And yet yf hys hyghnes haue any crowned kyng[ys] vnder hym, his swerd, power crown & dignyte, ys nothyng defaced nor mynysshed. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 5 You..With your Crown'd Brother. View more context for this quotation 1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 211 Virtue on a Throne hath not a much lesse Imperious Influence, than Crowned Vice. 1695 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 426 As if she were a crowned head. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 59 Crowned heads, and even popes themselves have stood in awe of it [sc. the order of the Jesuits]. 1801 J. Thomson Enq. conc. Liberty & Licentiousness of Press 36 It was said they had drank d—m—n to King George, and all crowned tyrants. 1822 T. Campbell Men of Eng. in Gentleman's Mag. June 630/2 We're the sons of Sires that baffled Crowned and mitred tyranny. 1869 A. Sandham Coins, Tokens & Medals Dominion of Canada 64 Full face bust of Justinian crowned, and wearing Roman toga. 1900 Princeton Alumni Weekly 27 Oct. 255/2 When we place the list of our Country's Chief Magistrates..side by side with the crowned heads of any or all other countries since 1789 [etc.]. 1934 R. Graves I, Claudius xix. 274 Germanicus rode, crowned, in his chariot with Agrippina seated beside him. 2003 A. Weir Mary, Queen of Scots (2011) xxvi. 434 Yet Mary was a crowned queen, whose abdication Elizabeth had refused to recognize. b. Chiefly Heraldry. Surmounted by the figure of a royal crown.imperially, navally crowned: see navally adv. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of articles of clothing > [adjective] > crowned or coroneted crownedc1405 coronetty1688 honoured1688 imperially crowned1715 navally crowned1816 c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 161 Ther on heeng a brooch..On which was first writen a crowned .A. And after, amor vincit omnia. 1448 Acct. in Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæol. Jrnl. (1906) 12 13 The orfray contenyng A & M ycrownyt. c1500 in J. Harley et al. Rep. MSS R. R. Hastings (1928) I. 419 A crosse chekon crownyd and ther in a lyon Rampyng. 1565 Act 8 Eliz. c. 12 §2 The Queen's Highness Seal of Lead, having the Portcullis crowned engraved on the one Side. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. iv. 150 The ancient Standard..was..Her Highnesse Armes..on the one side, and on the other..the Harpe Crowned, being the Armes of..Ireland. 1736 J. M'Ure View City of Glasgow iii. 212 This Seat is adorned with the Kings Arms, curiously cut out on the Breast, and a crowned Thisle on the one Hand, and a crowned Rose on the other. 1841 E. Hawkins Silver Coins Eng. 178 Shield oval, crowned, lion's skin garniture. 1900 J. B. Paul Heraldry Sc. Hist. & Art ii. 70 The crowned heart does not appear in the family arms till 1603. 1949 O. Doughty Victorian Romantic: D. G. Rossetti ii. viii. 255 The carving on the seat..shows the Tree of Knowledge encircled by a crowned serpent. 2001 Daily Tel. 2 Oct. 4/4 An ancient Enfield rifle musket,..with the crowned lion of the British empire engraved on it. c. Having or wearing a crown of victory, martyrdom, virginity, etc.: see crown n. 2. ΚΠ a1450 St. Etheldreda (Faust.) l. 1100 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 307 (MED) In þe ioy þat euer shall last among þe coronede maydenus is he. c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) l. 433 (MED) Virgile which had the Regalye, Callyd in his tyme the singuleer Crownyd man Above al othir, Poete mantvan. 1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. ii. vii. f. 56^v The place of martyrdome of the. 4. hollie crouned Saintes. 1627 G. K. tr. Rom. Martyrologe 370 It was ordeyned, that their yearely festiuity should be celebrated vpon this day, togeather with the former fiue, vnder the Name of the foure Crowned Martyrs. 1705 Hist. Wks. Learned Sept. 556 In Imitation of the Crowned Victors of Games: Laying out the Corps to satisfy the World of the manner of their Death. 1776 C. Seymour New Topogr., Hist., & Commerc. Surv. Kent 205 Bede mentions a Church in this City dedicated to the four crowned Martyrs. 1846 F. W. Fairholt in Early Eng. Poetry, Ballads, & Pop. Lit. of Middle Ages (Percy Soc.) XIX. 34 The Mercers exhibited their crowned Virgin seated with three maids of Honour and six pages. 1891 F. Tennyson Niobe in Poems 346 And all The crowned Gods in their high tabernacles Sigh unawares. 1955 E. W. Tristram & M. Bardswell in E. W. Tristram Eng. Wall Painting 14th Cent. 159/2 A crowned Saint, bearing a book, with the figure of a donor. 2012 A. Ang Witch in Glitz 59 I'm the crowned champion of the world. 2. Unfailingly effective, perfect, total; (also) completed, consummated. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adjective] > perfect finea1300 perfecta1398 crownedc1405 absolute?a1425 obsolute1522 quintessential1551 absolentc1560 fashionate1593 omniperfect1678 quadriform1679 exemplary1709 perfick1771 puffick1858 twenty-twenty1875 copybook1908 perfecto1941 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 518 Al Innocent of his crowned malice. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. v. i. iii. 466 Tis a crowned medicine which must be kept in secret. 1699 R. Barret Compan. for Midwives iii. 96 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. 1784 Richardson's Clarissa IV. xxvii, in Novelist's Mag. 14 512 More truly delightful to me the seduction-progress than the crowned act. 1839 E. S. Wortley Visionary iii. v. cclxxxiii. 327 Their crowned truths shall blaze, all lengthening ages through. 1895 E. M. H. Gates Treasures Kurium 17 Show us signs in earth and sky, That the crownèd truth advances, And the roots of evil die. 1918 Eng. Jrnl. 7 422 Every theme he submits should be, not a crowned success, but a genuine attempt to say something. †3. Tonsured. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > tonsure > [adjective] > tonsured crowneda1500 shaveling1574 tonsured1706 a1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 273 (MED) Hitt most be a curate, a crownyd wyght. 4. Of (a part of) a plant or animal: having a crown-like structure, crest, tuft, marking, etc. Also (of a bird or other animal): having a head, or the top of the head, of a distinctive colour.See also Compounds 2.Frequently as the second element in compounds, as golden-crowned, rosy-crowned, yellow-crowned, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > appearance of plant > form of plant or that has parts of particular shape > [adjective] > having particular shape or shaped parts jagged1548 crowned1578 fingered1597 handed1597 hooded1597 unbranched1665 starred1693 bell-like1754 bell-shaped1758 campaniform1758 columniferous1785 gladiate1793 bottlebrush1798 antlereda1806 muscariform1839 sagittiferous1858 crested1861 unseptated1899 unseptate1900 palmiform1962 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a coat > hairy, furry, or woolly > crested or crowned copped1398 coppled1600 cristate1661 copple-crowned1699 cristated1727 crested1796 crowned1796 coppy1891 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 194 The fruite thereof called Nuchtli, is lyke vnto fygges,..but they are somewhat larger, and crowned [Sp. coronados] lyke vnto a Medler. 1685 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis (new ed.) 59 The Head of the Crowned Crow. 1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 65 Another sort of Fruit, which..seems to have the crown'd Head of a clove. 1796 W. Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 285 Bupleurum..fruit egg-shaped, bulging, small, not crowned. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 54 Cebus cirrifer..The Crowned Sapajou. 1873 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 676 It [sc. the horned frog] rejoices in the name of the ‘Crowned Tapayaxin’ (Phrynosoma cornutum). 1884 R. Jefferies Red Deer iv. 70 Crowned heads and forked heads are still spoken of when the antler forks, or when the points draw together in the outline of a crown. 1939 Copeia No. 3. 139 An adult crowned-snake, Tantilla coronata (Baird and Girard)..was dropped into the aquarium. 1999 M. A. Mares Encycl. Deserts 487 An unusual growth form is the crowned, or cristate, saguaro. 2010 Independent 24 Aug. (Viewspaper section) 12/1 The eastern crowned warbler..turned up out of the blue in a quarry near South Shields. 5. Of a hat, cap, etc.: having a crown or top. Now only as the second element of compounds, as high-crowned, low-crowned, round-crowned, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. G3^v Ile take but a booke in my hand, a wide sleeued gowne on my backe, and a crowned cap on my head, and see if I can want promotion. 1648 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Descr. Three Princ. xiv. 139 The crowned Hood [or cornered cap] may play merrily behinde the Curtaine of Antichrist; till the Lilly grow, and then the smell of the Lilly will [cause some to] throw away the Hood, [or Cap]. 1778 Wesley Let. in Tyerman Life (1871) III. 277 Any woman, who wears either ruffles or a high crowned cap. 1861 W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 177 A..low-crowned hat of Flemish beaver. 1922 W. R. Benét First Person Singular xxii. 194 Having removed a round-crowned panama and applied a coloured silk handkerchief to a beady brow. 6. literary. Full to the brim; (hence) abundant, bounteous. Now rare and historical.Quot. 2008 refers to the lyric in quot. 1656. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to the brim brerd-fullc1000 bret-fullc1200 staff-fulla1400 chock-fullc1440 brimful1530 brink-full1553 top-full1553 brim-charged1582 bankfullc1600 crowned1603 full-brimmed1614 brimmed1624 teemful1673 brimming1697 stock-full1782 throat-fulla1800 jam-full1835 cram-full1837 stodge-full1847 chockc1850 top-filled1860 1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars ii. viii. 27 King Edward..The time in feasts and wantonnesse implies With crowned cups his sorrowes to redresse. 1635 J. Shirley Traytor iii. sig. F2 And in your crowned tables, And Hospitality will you murder him? 1656 T. Stanley in J. Gamble Ayres & Dial. l. 47 Reach me here that full crown'd Cup, and at once I'l drink it up. 1700 P. Danet Compl. Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. At Libationes Deputies..began to wash their hands before their departure, to fill their Crowned Cups with Wine. 1792 N. Douglas Monitory Addr. to Great Brit. iii. 105 The jolly fellow, in his merry mood, May deem a crowned bowl his greatest good. 1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 7 Ere earth Like the libation of a crowned bowl, O'erspilled the depths of the unknown abyss. 1894 Interior 8 Nov. 1431/2 The plutocrat at heart is one who feasts in his dreams. The crowned board has neither flavor nor satisfaction for him. 2008 N. McDowell Poetry & Allegiance in Eng. Civil Wars iii. 134 The reference to King Christmas regaining his ‘Crowne’ puns on the ‘crowned’ glass that is full to the brim. 7. Surmounted or covered by something resembling a crown; (also) rising to a crown in the centre.Frequently as the second element in compounds, as castle-crowned, flower-crowned, steeple-crowned, wood-crowned, etc.; also in figurative use, as fame-crowned, glory-crowned, horror-crowned, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ 1610 R. Niccols England's Eliza in Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) 776 That ancient castle-crowned hill. ?1775 J. Heely Descr. Hagley, Envil & Leasowes 118 The view of those lofty crowned hills, those rich lawns, and other objects. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 345 Troy's crown'd city. 1921 H. J. L. J. Massé Pewter Collector xiii. 226 A crowned knot. 2002 J. White Care & Repair of Shop Machines vii. 166/2 A crowned table is better than one that is low in the center. Compounds C1. crowned pulley n. Engineering a pulley having a convex rim, which serves to keep the belt in the centre; cf. slightly earlier crowning pulley n. at crowning adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1865 Sci. Amer. 15 July 39/2 Is a crowned pulley or rounded face necessary to make a belt run true? 1916 Tractor Field Bk. (Farm Implement News Company) 139/2 If there is trouble from the belt sliding oft a flat pulley, relief often can be obtained by putting on a new crowned pulley. 2010 U. C. Jindal Machine Design xv. 407 Figure 15-1 shows the location of roller bearings B₁ and B₂, grooved pulley at D, and crowned pulley at B. crowned republic n. a state under whose constitution the monarch does not have executive power. ΚΠ 1792 tr. Count Potocki in Polit. State Europe II. 851 Let us remember, Sire, that Poland is a crowned Republic, and neither a monarchy, nor an hereditary state. 1812 G. Canning Speeches during Election in Liverpool 51 I think we have the happiness to live under a limited Monarchy, not under a crowned Republic. 1966 R. J. Hammond Portugal & Afr. 1815–1910 i. 14 This would have made Portugal into a crowned republic. 2013 D. M. Jackson Crown & Canad. Federalism vi. 213 Popular sovereignty is a fact of life in Australia, given the entrenched practice of referenda, to the point that the country has been called a ‘crowned republic’. crowned work n. Fortification = crownwork n. 2. ΚΠ 1677 London Gaz. No. 1179/2 The Town..having a large Hornwork with a Halfmoon on each side of it, and a crowned Work before it, all fac'd with Stone and Brick. 1765 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. at Half-Moon A demi-lune is said to be crowned when it is covered by a crowned work. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Contre-queue d'hironde The figure or shape which is made by the oblique direction of the wings, or long sides of a horned or crowned work. 2003 G. Satterfield Princes, Posts & Partisans vii. 306 This position was covered by a crowned work that menacingly loomed to the front of the attackers. C2. In names of birds. crowned crane n. either of two cranes native to sub-Saharan Africa and having a crest of stiff golden feathers, Balearica pavonina (more fully black crowned crane) and B. regulorum (more fully grey crowned crane). ΚΠ 1751 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds IV. 192 (heading) The crowned African Crane.] 1771 Encycl. Brit. I. 364/2 The first species is the pavonina, or crowned crane, which has an erect bristly crest. 1836 N. Isaacs Trav. E. Afr. II. xvii. 324 The Crane (Numidion [sic] or Demoiselle), Baleari or Crowned Crane..are common. 1871 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (ed. 2) 482 The Stanley cranes (Anthropoides) are natives of the East Indies, and the Crowned Cranes (Balearica) are African. 1905 W. L. Sclater in W. Flint & J. D. F. Gilchrist Sci. in S. Afr. 143 The Mahem or Crowned Crane (Balearica chrysopelargus). 1993 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 108 174 The central-African black crowned crane is..more than three times as endangered as the southern-African grey crowned crane. 2005 B. Keating & S. Keating Blood Sisters (2006) xxix. 567 Two crowned cranes were standing at the waterhole, looking down at their own reflected beauty. crowned eagle n. either of two crested eagles: (a) the blackish-grey and very large Stephanoaetus coronatus, of sub-Saharan Africa (also crowned hawk-eagle); (b) the pale grey Harpyhaliaetus coronatus, of open woodland in South America (also crowned solitary eagle). [With sense (a) compare French aigle couronné (1758 in a translation of Barbot's account, which was originally written in English; compare quot. a1712).] ΚΠ a1712 J. Barbot Descr. N. & S.-Guinea in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) V. iii. xv. 218/2 The print represents one..which is pretty scarce to be found any where, unless in the province of Acra; and is there call'd the crowned eagle. 1859 S. G. Goodrich Illustr. Nat. Hist. Animal Kingdom II. 36 The crowned Eagle, C. coronatus, is of Brazil, and is said to be the only bird that ventures to feed on skunks. 1922 Times 17 June 11/5 Major H. W. Sidley has presented a nice young crowned hawk-eagle and a white-crested hornbill. 1982 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 23 Aug. 11 Two of Africa's largest birds of prey, the martial eagle and the crowned eagle. 2010 R. Four Eagles After the Cleanse 246 The crowned solitary eagle sped away with his prize; a juvenile squirrel monkey. crowned pigeon n. any of three very large pigeons of New Guinea having bluish plumage and a fanlike crest, and constituting the genus Goura. Also with distinguishing word.Victoria crowned pigeon: see the first element. [Compare Dutch kroonvogel (1760 or earlier in this sense; also used to denote the crowned crane: see crown bird n. at crown n. Compounds 3b).] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Goura crowned pigeon1779 crown pigeon1822 Goura1855 Victoria crowned pigeonc1882 ground-pigeon1885 1764 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. III. cxxviii. 269 (heading) The Great Crowned Indian Pigeon.] 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 95 One of my crowned pigeons escaped. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 414 The wings of the Crowned Pigeons are armed with an horny excrecsence [sic]. 1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. II. xxxix. 430 The magnificent crowned pigeons, now so well known in our aviaries. 1958 C. A. Naether Bk. of Pigeon (ed. 4) ix. 197 Crowned Pigeons of the family of Gouridae..are the giants of the whole pigeon world... First of all comes the Crowned Pigeon proper—Goura cristata. 2003 Nature 31 July 505/3 The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens during the past week include..a Common Crowned Pigeon (Goura coronata ), a Sclater's Crowned Pigeon (Goura sclateri) from New Guinea, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.c1225
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