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Definition of CROWNING

Crowning
Crown Crown (kroun), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowned (kround); p. pr. & vb. n. Crowning.] [OE. coronen, corunen, crunien, crounien, OF. coroner, F. couronner, fr. L. coronare, fr. corona a crown. See Crown, n.] 1. To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power. Her who fairest does appear, Crown her queen of all the year. --Dryden. Crown him, and say, ``Long live our emperor.' --Shak. 2. To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor. --Ps. viii. 5. 3. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect. Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill. --Byron. One day shall crown the alliance. --Shak. To crown the whole, came a proposition. --Motley. 4. (Mech.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley. 5. (Mil.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach. To crown a knot (Naut.), to lay the ends of the strands over and under each other.

Meaning of CROWNING from wikipedia

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- Crown broadly represents the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies...
- called the crowning, wherein the bride and groom are crowned as "king" and "queen" of their ****ure household. In Gr**** weddings, the crowns are diadems...
- Look up crowned in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crowned may refer to: Senses of "to crown": Having been the object of a coronation Crowning stage of...
- Crowning with Thorns (Titian, Paris) painted in 1542/1543 by Titian The Crowning with Thorns (Titian, Munich) painted in 1576 by Titian The Crowning with...
- The Mystery of Crowning is a ritual component of the sacrament of marriage in Eastern Christianity. Variations of the crowning ceremony exist in multiple...
- Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish is a 2012 Bengali-language film written and directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film premiered on 25 May 2012 at the New York...
- In dentistry, crown refers to the anatomical area of teeth, usually covered by enamel. The crown is usually visible in the mouth after developing below...
- The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and...
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