单词 | recrown |
释义 | recrownv. transitive. To crown again. ΚΠ 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vi. 460/2 The father speeding into those parts, quencht this flame with a promise to recrowne his sonne, and then his daughter Margaret should be honoured with like ceremonies. 1614 G. Wither Satyr sig. F6v Dying, be in Heauen Re-crown'd againe. 1651 E. Nevill in W. Cartwright Comedies sig. ****v Great Julius with one Laurell-bough Conceal'd his Baldness, and recrown'd his Brow. 1757 T. Smollett Compl. Hist. Eng. I. v. 75 He thought proper to be recrowned at Winchester, the capital of his new-erected kingdom. 1799 Llewellin III. vi. 161 The princely fugitive..for whom Suffolk held the regal diadem, awaiting to recrown him. 1819 R. L. Sheil Evadne v. i. 58 Thy virtue hath re-crowned him—and I kneel His faithful subject here! 1856 F. D. Huntington Serm. for People (ed. 3) 69 To recrown the soul and make it master of the flesh. 1915 J. Rhoades Words by Wayside 135 Once Queen of the west, and once by a King recrowned. 1946 Times 4 June 7/4 Charles II spent a night there on his way to be recrowned at Westminster Abbey. 2007 Mirror (Nexis) 31 Oct. 2 Elvis has been recrowned the King of dead celebrities—after ‘earning’ £24 million last year. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1611 |
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