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Crown, as a sovereign
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coronate
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Word definitions for coronate in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. invest with regal power; enthrone; "The prince was crowned in Westminster Abbey" [syn: crown ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coronate \Cor"o*nate\ (k?r"?-n?t), Coronated \Cor"o*na`ted\ (-n?`t?ed), a. [L. coronatus, p. p. of coronare to crown, fr. corona. See Crown .] Having or wearing a crown. (Zo["o]l.) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having or wearing a crown. 2 (context zoology English) Having a crest or a crownlike appendage. 3 (context zoology English) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished. 4 (context zoology of a spiral shell English) Girt about ...
Usage examples of coronate.
Take Sir Ugo back with you and as soon as Tamhas is dead and this Righ Sean FitzRobert decently coronated, send our young knight up to me in Lagore with the sad news, the glad news… and the Star of Munster.
You seized this bauble prematurely: you see, FitzRobert cannot be legitimately coronated without this Jewel… or very convincing facsimile of it.
Take Sir Ugo back with you, and as soon as Tamhas is dead and this Righ Sean FitzRobert decently coronated, send our young knight up to me in Lagore with the sad news, the glad news .
You seized this bauble prematurely: you see, FitzRobert cannot be legitimately coronated without this Jewel .
All at once, Righ Conan Ruarc Mac Dallain, in the very midst of yet another appeal to the God who had supposedly coronated him to rule Ulaid for the rest of his life or until He signified His Holy displeasure by causing the ring containing the Sacred Jewel of Ulaid to come from off his thumbwhy, had they not seen, time and time again on feast-day gatherings in Oentreib and other places, how neither he nor other men and women, noble and humble and even priestly, had been able to remove from his thumb the ring that God Almighty had ordained to there remain?
You siezed this bauble prematurely: you see, FitzRobert cannot be legitimately coronated without this Jewel .
For a while, some senile lunatic who had been on the royal council, I think, was proclaiming himself Priest-King of Airgialla, coronated and crowned by God Almighty, according to him.
One day later, he had won the crown, and the day after that, he had been coronated King Wulfgar of the Tribe of the Elk.