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Vinony

coronate

verb

  1. ritual crowning of a monarch
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒɹənət/ / /ˈkɒɹəˌneɪt/ / /ˈkɔɹənɪt/ / /ˈkɔɹəˌneɪt/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English coronat(e), borrowed from Latin corōnātus (“wearing a crown, crowned”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

  1. Having or wearing a crown, crowned; (as a participle) crowned, coronated.

    “The duke of Normandy / William conquerour […] Was coronate at London / […]”

    “Maryus his ſoonne was then intronizate / And ſette on high in trone of maieſtie / With croune of golde full royally coronate / As worthy was vnto his royalte / Who nouriſhed was at Rome in his inuente / With his mothers kynne the beest of the empire / With Claudius also, that was his oune graũdsir[…]Seuerus thus the worthy senatour / Descẽded downe, right heire to Androge{us} / The eldeſt ſoonne of Lud that with the Emperoure / Out of Britayn that went with Iulius / Whiche Senatoure afore ſayd Seuerus / To Britayn came and was intromizate / And with a crowne of golde was coronate.”

verb

Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin corōnātus (“crowned”), perfect passive participle of corōnō (“to crown”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from corōna (“crown”) + -ō.

  1. To crown (a sovereign or champion).

    “[…] and instead of Coronating your deserved Worth […]”

    “The whole field of literature has freely surrendered its classic gems to coronate him the intellectual king.”