Adjective: coronary
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more coronary |
| Superlative | most coronary |
Sample Sentences
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The coronary thorns did not only express the scorn of the imposers by that figure into which they were contrived, but did also pierce his tender and sacred temples to a multiplicity of pains, by their numerous acuminations. [1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:]
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The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in Theophrastus. [1684, Thomas Browne, Of Garlands and Coronary Plants:]
Adjectives inflected like coronary
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin corōnārius, from corōna (“crown”).
Verbs referencing "coronary"
Finnish Adjectives
koronaarinen.