Crossword clues for coroner
coroner
- Whodunit figure
- One skilled at dead reckoning?
- TV's Quincy, for one
- Official inquiring into deaths not by natural causes
- Jack Klugman TV role
- Investigator of unnatural deaths
- Homicide official
- Giver of a final exam?
- Forensic team member
- Final exam administrator
- Dr. Al Robbins' occupation on "CSI"
- Dead reckoner?
- Busy official in whodunits
- Expert witness at a trial
- One making a medical inquiry
- Final exam giver?
- One doing body work?
- A public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes
- Medical examiner
- Medical official
- Inquest official
- Awkward situation about old official at inquest
- Conservative old individual received by king and queen; he's often in court
- Official conducting inquests
- Inquest conductor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coroner \Cor"o*ner\ (k?r"?-n?r), n. [From OE. coronen to crown, OF. coroner, fr. L. coronare, fr. corona crown. Formed as a translation of LL. coronator coroner, fr. L. corona crown, the coroner having been originally a prosecuting officer of the crown. See Crown.] An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred.
Note: In some of the United States the office of coroner is abolished, that of medical examiner taking its place.
Coroner's inquest. See under Inquest.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 12c., from Anglo-French curuner, from Latin custos placitorum coronae, originally the title of the officer with the duty of protecting the property of the royal family, from Latin corona, literally "crown" (see crown (n.)). The duties of the office gradually narrowed and by 17c. the chief function was to determine the cause of death in cases not obviously natural.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths. 2 (context Canada US English) A medical doctor who performs autopsies and determines time and cause of death from a scientific standpoint. 3 The administrative head of a sheading.
WordNet
n. a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes [syn: medical examiner]
Wikipedia
A coroner is a person whose standard role is to confirm and certify the death of an individual within a jurisdiction. A coroner may also conduct or order an inquest into the manner or cause of death, and investigate or confirm the identity of an unknown person who has been found dead within the coroner's jurisdiction.
In England, where the role originated, a coroner also deals with treasure trove cases. In medieval times, English coroners were Crown officials who held financial powers and conducted some judicial investigations in order to counterbalance to the power of sheriffs.
The word coroner derives from the same source as the word crown, and denotes an officer of The Crown. The Spanish etymological cognate for a crown officer, coronel, designates a colonel.
A coroner is a government official who investigates human deaths and determines cause of death.
Coroner may also refer to:
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Coroner (band), a Swiss thrash metal band
- Coroner (album), by the Swiss band
- "The Coroner", a song by Devil Sold His Soul on their album A Fragile Hope
- The Coroner (TV series)
Coroner is a Swiss thrash metal band from Zürich. They garnered relatively little attention outside of Europe. Formed in 1983, the band broke up in 1996, but reformed 14 years later. The band has performed at multiple live venues and festivals around the world since 2011, and plans to release a new album in 2017. Coroner's music combines elements of thrash, classical music, avant-garde music, progressive rock, jazz, and industrial metal with suitably gruff vocals. With their increasingly complex style of progressive rock-infused thrash, they have been called "the Rush of thrash metal". Coroner's sound then progressed and the production became more refined, resulting in the more progressive No More Color, Mental Vortex and Grin albums.
Coroner is the penultimate release by the Swiss thrash metal band Coroner. It is technically a compilation album, although it features new material as well as selected songs from the band's previous albums. It is also regarded as their final album, even though it was succeeded by a final compilation of unreleased material in 1996, titled The Unknown Unreleased Tracks 1985-95. The band chose to go into the studio for the last time, instead of releasing a "Greatest Hits" compilation, even though they had disbanded officially in 1994 (on some of the tracks, Edelmann and Broder are replaced by session musicians).
Usage examples of "coroner".
She had been badly stung by bees, but the coroner was sure she had died from shock.
The Dearest Departures facility in Tombstone Canyon was transformed, with a modest capital outlay, to house the offices of the newly appointed Cochise County Coroner, Dr.
The first witness was the coroner of Greenfield County, who was called, in accordance with accepted legal procedure, merely to establish the fact that Miss Hannah Starbuck was dead, and that the corpus delicti which would be referred to throughout the trial was that of Miss Hannah Starbuck.
Her fork balanced in a firm hand, Pristine studied the entree, turned it this way and that in the manner of an inquisitive coroner, then, resigned that the chef could come no closer to her ideals, speared, chewed, and reluctantly swallowed.
Coroner and the jury took on a Hogarthian quality, and those witnesses whom she knew resembled brilliantly cruel caricatures of themselves.
Chevy and a hearse driven by funeral-home owner and Kinderhook county coroner Junior Duckworth.
The coroner had determined that the woman had died first, though there was no way of knowing what might have taken place before her very eyes prior to her death.
The Sawtooth country was rather punctilious in its duty toward the law, and it was generally believed that the coroner would want to see the horse that had caused the tragedy.
Juan Morales has been the Filmore County Coroner for twelve years and a friend of Nick Foley for almost as long.
In the absence of the active and intelligent, the coroner converses with Mr. Tulkinghorn.
While the coroner buttons his great-coat, Mr. Tulkinghorn and he give private audience to the rejected witness in a corner.
The few remaining taels went towards hiring the services of a coroner to officiate at the funeral ceremony, and a carpenter.
He went swinging along valleyward again, as if he did not know he had just swindled a coroner by the closest kind of a shave.
Ian Fitzgerald, the coroner, was busy elsewhere, but Victor Callan, owner of Callan's Funeral Home and the assistant coroner, was helping another officer, Jules Timmerman, scour the ground between the ditch and the nearby woods.
If they could get the coroner to admit that the murder could have occurred closer to eleven-thirty, the prosecution would have a harder time proving that Craig had the opportunity to kill Allison.