No subject

in the cut-and-paste).  So apparently "coronated" is incorrect, but "was
coronate" is OK.

--Perronnelle, further stirring ...


Obs.
[ad. L. cor{o-}n{a-}t-us, pa. pple. of cor{o-}n{a-}-re to crown.]
Crowned.
c1470 HARDING Chron. xlix. i. 3 With croune of golde full royally
coronate. 1513 BRADSHAW St. Werburge II. 1247 William conquerour..Was
coronate at London.


[f. as prec., from CORONA in modern uses.]
Bot. and Zool. Having a corona or crown; = CORONATED.
1846 DANA Zooph. (1848) 201 Cells..described as coronate within. 1866
Treas. Bot., Coronate, furnished with a coronet.


rare.
[f. ppl. stem of L. cornre to CROWN n.]
trans. To crown. (See also CORONATED.)
1623 in COCKERAM II. 1657 TOMLINSON Renou's Disp. Ded., Instead of
Coronating your deserved Worth. 1707 SLOANE Jamaica I. 163 A round
purplish knob..coronated by a long membrane. 1847 Tait's Mag. XIV. 487
It was coronated by an aristocracy dispensing clerical patronage on
religious principles.


[f. as prec. + -ED1.]
1. Of flowers: Arranged in a whorl: cf. CORONE.
1676 GREW Anat. Plants IV. ii. App. (1682) 175 Sometimes, they [Flowers]
are placed round about the Branch, that is, Coronated, as in Pulegium.

2. Bot. and Zool. Furnished with a corona, or something resembling a
crown; spec. in Conchol. applied to spiral shells which have their
whorls surmounted by a row of spines or tubercles.
1698 J. PETIVER in Phil. Trans. XX. 320 A small Coronated Fruit. 1703 G.
J. CAMEL ibid. XXIII. 1427 A small dry berry coronated somewhat like a
clove. 1854 WOODWARD Mollusca (1856) 113 Shell ventricose, coronated.
Ibid. 145 Whirls angular or coronated.

3. = CORONETED. Obs.
1767 Babler II. 110 All the insolence of coronated pride.

4. Made crown-like. (nonce-use.)
1864 LOWELL Fireside Trav. 143 He was..a true  , and the ragged edges of
his old hat seemed to become coronated as I looked at him.


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