crown

«crown» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: crown; top, highest point — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

crown; top, highest point

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A ring of gold or jewels worn on the head by a king or queen; in the Sefer Yetzirah sentence it means the highest point of a list. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it means a king's or queen's ornament. In the Sefer Yetzirah sentence "the highest Crown" means the top of a series of spiritual levels.

examples

• And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about. (Torah EXO.37.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• "But hadn't my great-great-however-much-it-is-grandfather a crown?" (The Book of Dragons) tree →
• The highest Crown is Kether, the First Sephira, the first emanation from the Ain Suph Aur, the Limit- less LightC (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →

primary record

crown

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 346 (Torah 17, tales 305, Sefer Yetzirah 24); EWT 0; ratio 39.2 (Torah alone 39.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
• And thou shalt set the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
• And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
• And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about.
• The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «crown» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.