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called, becaufe it crowns the cornice and entablature : 
by the workmen it is called the drip, as ferving by its 
projeblure to fcreen the reft of the building from the rain. 
* GORO'NA /. in optics, a luminous circle, ufually co¬ 
loured round the fun, moon, or largelt planets. See 
}L\L 0 . 
GORO'NA AUSTRALIS, or Meridianaus,/ the 
Sou r hern Crown, a conflellation of the fouthern he- 
-mifphere, whole fbirs in Ptolemy’s catalogue are thir¬ 
teen ; in the Britifh Catalogue, twelve. 
CORG'NA BOREALIS, or Seitentiuonaiis, /. 
the Northern Crown, or Garland, a conflellation 
of the northern hemilphere, being one of the forty-eight 
old ones. It contains eight flars according to the cata¬ 
logue of Ptolemy, Tycho, and Hevelius ; but according 
to the Britannic Catalogue, twenty-one. 
GORO'NA (La), a village of Italy, in the north part 
of the Veronele, near Montebello, where the Auftrians 
were defeated by the French republican army, in Augult 
1796 : fourteen miles north-weft of Verona. 
GORO'NA IMPERIALIS, and REGAINS, f in bo¬ 
tany. See Piu riLLARiA. 
GORO'NA SOLIS,/ in botany. See Bupiithal- 
M'Jm, Helianthus, and Silfhium. 
CORO'NeE, anciently a town of Boeotia, near mount 
Helicon, and the lake Copais, fimated on an eminence : 
famous for the defeat of the Athenians and Boeotians by 
Agefilausa Another Coro me of Theilaly ; having Nar- 
thacium to the ealt, and Lamia, near the Sperchius, to 
the north. Ptolemy. 
CO'RONAL, f. [corona, Lat.] A crown ; a garland : 
Crown ye god Bacchus’ with a coronal, 
And Hymen alfo crown with wreaths of vine. Spenfcr. 
CO'RONAL, ad). Belonging to the top of the head — 
A man of about forty-five years of age came to me, with 
a round tubercle between the fagittal and coronal future. 
Wifanan. 
CORONA'RIA,/. in botany. See Agrostemma. 
CORONA'RIvE, f. in botany, the ninth order in Lin- 
meus’s Fragments of a Natural Method ; and the tenth 
efi his Natural Orders ; .containing part of the liliaceous 
plants; fuch as for their beauty are adapted to the making 
of garlands (coronas.) 
CO'RONARY, adj. [coronarius, Lat.] Relating to a 
crown ; feated on the top of the head like a crown. It 
is applied in anatomy to arteries, which are fancied to 
encompafs the h.eart in tire manner of a garland.—The 
fubltance of the heart itfelf is mod certainly made and nou- 
rilhed by the blood, which is conveyed to it by the coro¬ 
nary arteries. Bentley. — [From coroaa, Lat.] Abounding 
in flowers.— Coronary garden, flower-garden. Evelyn. 
CORONA'TION, / [from corona, Lat-] The abl or 
Iblemnity of crowning a king : 
Willingly I came to Denmark, 
To fnew my duty in your coronation. Shahefpeare. 
The pomp or aflembly prefent at a coronation : 
In penfive thought recal the fancied feene, 
See coronations rife on every green. Pope. 
CORONATO'RE ELIGENDO,/. A writ which lies 
on the death or difeharge of any coroner, directed to the 
Iheriff out of the chancery, to call together the free¬ 
holders of the county for the choice of a new coroner; 
and to certify into the chancery, both the election and 
the name of the party elected. 
CORONATO'RE EXONERANDO,/. A writ for 
the difeharge of a coroner, for negligence or infufficiency 
in the dilchurge ot his duty ; and where coroners are fo 
Gr engaged in any other public bufinefs, that they can¬ 
not attend the office ; or if they are difabled by age or 
difeafe to execute it; or have not fufficient lands, See. 
they may be difeharged by this writ. 2 Hawk. P. C. c. 9. 
But if any fuch writ be giounded on an untrue luggef- 
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tion, tlie coroner may procure a commifiion from the 
chancery to enquire thereof; and, if the fuggellion be 
difproved, the king may make a fuperfedeas to the fheritr, 
that lie do not remove the coroner ; or if lie have re¬ 
moved him, that he fuffer him to execute the office. 
Reg. Orig. 177. As the coroner’s is an office of freehold, 
the court of chancery, with whom the power of grant¬ 
ing this w rit relides, will not fuller it to Blue, unlcfs on 
affidavit, that the defendant lias been ferved with notice 
of the petition for it. 3 Atk. 184. Ar.d on an election 
of a new coroner by a majority of the freeholders, the 
power and authority of the old one is ipj'o J'atto extin- 
guifhed. See Coroner. 
CORON'DA AL REIG, a town of Perfia, in the pro¬ 
vince of Irak : thirty-five miles'north-weft of Iipahun. 
CORO'NE, anciently a town of Meflenia, fituated on 
the fea, giving name to the Sinus Coronieus : now Golfo 
di Coron. Paufanius takes it to be the Aepea of Homer; 
but Strabo, Thuria; and Pliny, Pedafus, now Coron, in 
tlie territory of Belvedere, in tiie Morea. 
CORONEL 1 LI (Vincent), a famous geographer, born 
at Venice. His Ikill in the mathematics having brought 
him to the knowledge of the count d’E(trees, he was 
employed in making globes for Louis XIV. With this 
view Coronelli fpent fome time at Paris, v, here he com 
pleted a great number of globes, which are efleemed. 
In 1.6S5, lie was made cofmographer to the republic of 
Venice; and, four years after, public profellor of geo¬ 
graphy. He founded an academy of colmography at Ve¬ 
nice; and died in that city in 1718. He publiihed above 
four hundred geographical charts, an abridgment of col- 
mography, feveral books on geograpliy, and other ufe- 
ful works. 
CO'RONER,/ [coronator, a corona, Lat.] An an¬ 
cient officer at the common law, of whom mention is fit'll 
made in king Athelllan’s charter to Beverley, anno 925- 
He is called coroner, coronator, becatife he hath princi¬ 
pally to do with pleas of the crown, or fuch w herein the 
king is more immediately concerned, 2 In ft .31. and in 
this light the lord chief jultice of the king’s-bench is the 
principal coroner in the kingdom, and may exereife the 
jurifdiction of a coroner in any part of the realm. 4 Rep. 
57. But there are alfo particular coroners for every 
county of England ; ufually four, but fometimes fix ; 
and for cities, and towns being counties of tllemfelves, 
as Southampton, Poole, &c. This office is of equal an¬ 
tiquity with that of fheriff, and was ordained together 
with him to keep the peace, when the earls gave up the 
wardlliip of the county. 
The county-coroner is ftill chofen by all the freeholders 
in the county-court; as, by the policy of our ancient 
laws, the fheriff and confervators of the peace, and all 
other officers were, who were concerned in matters that 
atfebled the liberty of the people. 2 hijl. 538. And as 
verderors of the foreft ftill are, whofe buliuefs it is to 
Hand betw een tlie prerogative and the fubjebl in the. ex¬ 
ecution of tlie foreft laws. For this purpofe there is a 
writ at common law, de coronatore digendo, in which it is 
exprefsly commanded the Iheriit, quod talun e/igi faciat^ 
qui melius etJciat, et vdit, et poffii, officio iili intenderc. And, 
in order to effedl this the more furely, it was enabled by 
Weftm, 1. 3 Edw. I. c. 10. that none but lawful and 
difereet knights Ihould be choleit; and there was an in¬ 
stance in the 5 Edw. III. of a man being removed from 
this office becaufe he was only a merchant. But it is 
now fufficient if a man hath lands enough to be made a 
knight; (which, by the Jlatutum de militibus, 1 Edw. II. 
were lands to the amount of twenty pounds per annum;) 
whether he bt» reaily knighted or not; for the coroner 
ought to have an eflate fufficient to maintain the dignity 
of his office, and anfwer any fines that may be fet upon 
him for his mi (behaviour. And if he hath not enough 
to anfwer, his fine (hall be levied on the county, as the 
punifhment for electing an infufficient officer. 2 Inff 175. 
By 28 Edw. III. c, 6, it is enabled, “ That all coroners 
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