crowned
adj/kɹaʊnd/
Etymology From Middle English coronede, crouned, crowned, crownyd, equivalent to crown + -ed. Piecewise doublet of coronaed.
1
Wearing a crown.
2
Often, In combinations Having a particular crown (top part of the head)
3
Obsolete Great, supreme; completed; excessive.
- Put case, he saith, all other medicines faile, by the helpe of God this alone will doe it, and tis a crowned medicine which must be kept in secret1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Preparatiues and purgers”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 4, member 1:
- After having cloy'd his puny stomach, he sneaks away privily, in a Stage-Coach, to his house in the Country; there he murders the Vertuous Womb of his Dear Lady, and darts into the Royal Arch, his contagious, loathsome Sperm, which is innocently receiv'd, and hugg'd in the crown'd Act of Conception.1699, Robert Barret, A Companion for Midwives, Child-Bearing Women, and Nurses., London, Sect. III, p. 96:
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- More truly delightful to me the seduction-progress than the crowned act: for that's a vapour, a bubble!1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII. Mr. Lovelace, to John Belford, Esq. Saturday, May 20.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume IV, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:
- Their crowned truths1836, Emmeline Stuart-Wortley, Visionary: Canto III, v. cclxxxii.:
- That the crownèd truth advances.1895, Ellen Maria Huntington Gates, The Treasures of Kurium:
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African crowned eagle, black crowned crane, black-crowned night heron, crowned crane, crowned dens syndrome, crowned eagle, crowned pigeon, crowned republic, crowned seahorse, golden-crowned spadebill, golden-crowned warbler, grey crowned crane, low-crowned seahorse, orange-crowned warbler, purple-crowned fairywren, red-crowned crane, rose-crowned fruit-dove, ruby-crowned kinglet, rufous-crowned bee-eater, rufous-crowned sparrow, uncrowned, white-crowned plover, white-crowned shrike, white-crowned sparrow, yellow-crowned, yellow-crowned bishop