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Coronare

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In old records. To give the tonsure, which was done on the crown or in the form of a crown; to make a man a priest. Cowell.

Coronare filium. To make one's son a priest. Homo coronatus was one who had received the first tonsure, as preparatory to superior orders, and the tonsure was in form of a corona, or crown of thorns. Cowell.