v. Obs. [f. L. corona crown + -IZE (perh. in quot. 1592 associated with corānix CORNICE).] trans. To crown, adorn with a coronet or coronal.
1592. R. D., Hypnerotomachia, 63. An arched Eminence, adorned with coronised Lyneaments and grauings.
1596. Fitz-Geffrey, Sir F. Drake (1881), 22. Be DRAKEs worth royalized by your wits, That DRAKEs high name may coronize your writs.
1606. Ford, Fames Memoriall, cxviii. To coronize high-soar’d gentility.
1623. Cockeram, Coronize, to crown.
