| 单词 |
discrown |
| 释义 |
discrown, v.|dɪsˈkraʊn|
[f. dis- 6 + crown v. or dis- 7 + crown n.: cf. OF. descoroner (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.); also decrown.]
trans. To deprive of a crown, take the crown from; spec. to deprive of royal dignity, to depose; transf. and fig. to deprive of supremacy, dignity, or adornment.
1586Warner Alb. Eng. iii. xvi. (R.) The one restored..The other..Dis-crowned. 1612–5Bp. Hall Contempl., N.T. iv. xxxi, He discrownes not the body, who crowns the soule. 1803W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XIV. 54 On the shorn hair discrown'd of bridal flow'rs, Weeping lies scorn'd and trampled Liberty. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. xiv. 301 To crown or discrown its Monarchs. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 13 Discrowning sovereign reason, to be the serving drudge of superstition or social usage.
Hence disˈcrowned ppl. a., deprived of the crown; disˈcrowning vbl. n.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1871) III. iv. vii. 167 A worn discrowned Widow. 1866Pall Mall G. No. 510. 966/1 The successive contemporary discrownings. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 353 The discrowned queen of the seas. |
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