coronation

noun

1. 1

   An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.

   [A]nd if vvee be Spouſes of this Bridegroom [Jesus], vvee cannot but (as vvee are exhorted) rejoyce in that the marriage of the Lambe is come, and the day of our ovvn coronation vvith an incorruptible Crovvn of glory.

2. 2

   An act of investing with a crown; a crowning. An act or the ceremony of formally investing a sovereign or the sovereign's consort with a crown and other insignia of royalty, on or shortly after their accession to the sovereignty.

   King Charles III’s coronation is to be much less elaborate compared to his mother’s.

   Some reaſons of this double Corronation / I haue poſſeſſt you vvith, and thinke them ſtrong.

   [John] Fal[staff]. VVhat diſeaſe haſt thou? / [Peter] Bul[lcalf]. A horſon cold ſir, a cough ſir, vvhich I cought vvith ringing in the Kings affaires vpon his coronation day ſir.

   [T]he Lady Anne, / VVhom the King hath in ſecrecie long married, / This day vvas vievv'd in open, as his Queene, / Going to Chappell; and the voyce is novv / Onely about her Corronation.

3. 3

   figurativeA completion or culmination of something.

4. 4

   figurativeA success in the face of little or no opposition.

5. 5

   rareIn the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward.

   Here, the huffing of Miss Bella and the loss of three of her men at a swoop, aggravated by the coronation of an opponent, led to that young lady's jerking the draught-board and pieces off the table: which her sister went down on her knees to pick up.

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coronations