Crowned

ppl. a. [f. CROWN v.¹ and sb. + -ED.]

  1.  Invested with a crown or with royal dignity.

c. 1230.  Hali Meid., 7. To beo cwen icrunet.

c. 1325.  Song Deo Gratias, 41, in E. E. P. (1862), 129. Almyhti corteis crouned kyng.

1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. IV. 257. Were ech a kyng ycoroned.

c. 1430.  Lydg., Bochas, II. i. (1554), 41 b. The rudenes of a crowned asse.

1611.  Shaks., Wint. T., V. iii. 5. You … With your Crown’d Brother.

1661.  Boyle, Style of Script. (1675), 211. Crowned vice.

1695.  Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), III. 426. As if she were a crowned head.

1756–7.  trans. Keysler’s Trav. (1760), II. 163. Crowned heads, and even popes themselves have stood in awe of it.

18[?].  Campbell, Men of Engl., vii. We’re the sons of sires who baffled Crowned and mitred tyranny.

  2.  Surmounted by a crown or the figure of one.

1565.  Act 8 Eliz., c. 12 § 2. The Queen’s Highness Seal of Lead, having the Portcullis crowned engraved on the one Side.

1633.  T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., iv. (1821), 265. The Harpe Crowned, being the Armes of … Ireland.

1836.  J. M. Gaskell, in Ho. Comm., 30 June. To make the Constitution what Mr. Canning called a crowned republic.

1871.  R. Ellis, Catullus, lxiv. 345. Troy’s crown’d city.

  † 3.  Consummate, perfect; sovereign. Obs.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Sqr’s T., 518. Al Innocent of his corouned malice.

1621–51.  Burton, Anat. Mel., II. v. II. iii. 386. ’Tis a crowned medicine which must be kept in secret.

  4.  Brimming, brim-full, abundant, bounteous.

1605.  Chapman, All Fools, in Dodsley, O. Pl. (1780), IV. 186. He shall … carouze one crowned cup To all these ladies health.

1631.  Shirley, Traitor, III. ii. And in your crowned tables, And hospitality, will you murder him?

  5.  Having a crown or top; usually qualified, as high-, low-crowned.

1665.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 376. An antick sort of hat which is high crown’d.

1778.  Wesley, Lett., in Tyerman, Life (1871), III. 277. Any woman, who wears either ruffles or a high crowned cap.

1861.  W. F. Collier, Hist. Eng. Lit., 176–7. A broad-leafed low-crowned hat of Flemish beaver.

  6.  Having a crown-like excrescence, tuft, etc., on the head or top; crested. Often a specific designation in Nat. Hist., e.g., Crowned or Crown-pigeon, Goura coronata.

1698.  T. Froger, Relat. Voy., 65. Another sort of Fruit, which … seems to have the crown’d Head of a Clove.

1776.  Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 285. Bupleurum … fruit egg-shaped, bulging, small, not crowned.

1779.  Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 95. One of my crowned pigeons escaped.

1802.  Bingley, Anim. Biog. (1813), II. 224. The wings of the Crowned Pigeons are armed with an horny excrescence.

1828.  Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., I. 54. C[ebus] cirrifer.… The Crowned Sapajou.

  7.  Having a crown: in various senses of the sb. Crowned work (Fort.) = CROWNWORK q.v.

1884.  Jefferies, Red Deer, iv. 70. Crowned heads and forked heads, however, are still spoken of when the antler forks, or when the points draw together in the outline of a crown.