Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In paleography, a curve, double curve, or flourish, used to mark the end of a paragraph, a section, or a whole book.
- noun Hence The end generally; the conclusion; the summing up.
- noun In Greek grammar, a sign of crasis or contraction (') placed over the contracted vowel or diphthong, as
κα%148ν forκαί α%148ν .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable.
- noun rare The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end.
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- noun A
device ,curved stroke , orflourish formed with apen , coming at theend of abook orchapter ; acolophon . For example:⸎ ,۞ .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Amictum Chlamyde et coronis, quum primum aspexit Cnemonem, ex potestate mentis excidit.
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Tunc domino Cane in suo throno sedente, accedunt Barones cum circulis et coronis in capite, vestiti vario modo, quia aliqui de viridi, scilicet primi, secundi de sanguineo, et tertij de croceo, et tenent in manibus vnam tabulam eburneam de dentibus Elephantum, et cinguntur cingulis aureis vno semisse latis, et stant pedibus silentium tenentes.
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The signs denoting the end of a strophe or antistrophe (_paragraphus_), of an epode (_coronis_), or of an ode (_asterisk_), are often omitted by the scribe, and, when employed, are sometimes placed incorrectly, or employed in an irregular manner.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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"INTRAVIT pinacothecam senex canus, exercitati vultus et qui videretur nescio quid magnum promittere, sed cultu non proinde speciosus, ut facile appareret eum ex hac nota litteratum esse, quos odisse divites solent ... 'ego' inquit 'poeta sum et ut spero, non humillimi spiritus, si modo coronis aliquid credendum est, quas etiam ad immeritos deferre gratia solet.'"
Dedication Thomas Stearns 1920
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The chapter has an "Ordo servandus in tradendis coronis aureis quae donantur a Rmo Capitulo S. Petri de Urbe sacris imaginibus B.M.V." = = apparently in manuscript only.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Filiae Jerusalem, venite et videte martyres cum coronis quibus coronavit eas Dominus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The word is used in the same sense as in Lucretius, v. Tum caput atque humeros planis redimire coronis.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844
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And therefore that love which is the coronis and very sum of it, goes to both.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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