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ing to a crown; ferming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland. "Coronary thorns." Bp. Pearson. The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in Theophrastus. Sir T. Browne.

To join in wedlock; to marry. [Colloq.] A parson who couples all our beggars. Swift.

te; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman.

Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

A decrease. [Obs.] Pearson.

A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.

act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson.

ct; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building. If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony. Blackstone.

from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation. Appropriations of the several parsonages . . . would heave been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated. Blackstone.

The act of carrying up or away; exaltation. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Serving to explain; expository. Bp. Pearson.

h; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job. Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. Carlyle.

prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up). Fleet parson, a clergyman of low character, in, or in the vicinity of, the Fleet prison, who was ready to unite persons in marriage (called Fleet marriage) at any hour, without public notice, witnesses, or consent of parents.…

d. Pennant. A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson. Macaulay.

Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances. Bp. Pearson.

mperial authority; the spirit of empire. Roman imperialism had divided the world. C. H. Pearson.

The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson.

ng or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.

Want of distance o [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.