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Word Meanings - CONQUEROR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who conquers. The Conqueror . William the Norman who invaded England, defeated Harold in the battle of Hastings, and was crowned king, in 1066.

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  • CROWN SIDE
    See OFFICE
  • CROWNED
    1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
  • CROWNER
    A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
  • INVADE
    1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade. Spenser. 2. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter
  • CROWNLAND
    In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
  • CONQUEROR
    One who conquers. The Conqueror . William the Norman who invaded England, defeated Harold in the battle of Hastings, and was crowned king, in 1066.
  • CROWN OFFICE
    The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
  • CROWN-SAW
    A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. Note: The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws. Knight.
  • INVADER
    One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.
  • CROWNLESS
    Without a crown.
  • CROWN COLONY
    A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.
  • CROWNPIECE
    A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle. A coin See Crown, 19.
  • CROWN-POST
    See KING-POST
  • CROWNLET
    A coronet. Sir W. Scott.
  • DEFEATURED
    Changed in features; deformed. Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.
  • BATTLEDOOR
    A child's hornbook. Halliwell. (more info) origin; cf. Sp. batallador a great combatant, he who has fought many battles, Pg. batalhador, Pr. batalhador, warrior, soldier, fr. L. battalia; or cf. Pr. batedor batlet, fr. batre to beat, fr. L. 1.
  • CROWN-IMPERIAL
    A spring-blooming plant of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.
  • BATTLED
    Embattled. Tennyson.
  • BATTLE
    Fertile. See Battel, a.
  • NORMAN
    A native or inhabitant of Normandy; originally, one of the Northmen or Scandinavians who conquered Normandy in the 10th century; afterwards, one of the mixed race which conquered England, under William the Conqueror.
  • EMBATTLEMENT
    1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
  • UNCROWN
    To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone. He hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long. Shak.
  • DISCROWN
    To deprive of a crown. The end had crowned the work; it not unreasonably discrowned the workman. Motley.
  • TRIPLE-CROWNED
    Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.
  • ENBATTLED
    Embattled.
  • BATTELER; BATTLER
    A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.

 

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