crowned, ppl. a.
(kraʊnd)
[f. crown v.1 and n. + -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 Shakes. 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 tr. 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-crowned, low-crowned.
| 1665 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 376 An antick sort of hat which is high crown'd. 1778 Wesley Let. in Tyerman Life (1871) III. 277 Any woman, who wears either ruffles or a high crowned cap. 1801 W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 177 A..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 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 Cebus cirrifer..The Crowned Sapajou. |
7. Having a crown: in various senses of the n. crowned work (Fort.) = crownwork q.v.
| 1884 Jefferies Red Deer iv. 70 Crowned heads and forked heads are still spoken of when the antler forks, or when the points draw together in the outline of a crown. |