Definition of Coronation

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CORONATION noun

	The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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Regular definition:

CORONATION:
?k?r??ne???n n. the ceremony of crowning a sovereign or a sovereign's consort. [ME f. OF f. med.L coronatio -onis f. coronare to crown f. CORONA(1)]

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