coronachn.
/ˈkɒrənax/, /ˈkɒrənak/, U.S. /ˈkɔrəˌnæk/, /ˈkɔrəˌnæx/, Scottish English /ˈkɔrənax/, Irish English /ˈkɒːrənæx/ Scottish and Irish English.† 1. gen. The Celtic word for a shouting of many, an outcry. Obsolete.
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15.. Duncan Laider in Warton Hist. E.P. (1774) II. 278 The loud Corrinoch then did me exile.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 152 Be he the correnoch had done schout Erschemen so gadderit him abowt.
1680 C. Maitland in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. cxix. 197 The hilan men maid a bussill, after which, some people cuming in, his lo[rdship] went away with a great Corinoch.
2. † b. The company crying the coronach. Obsolete.
a. spec. A funeral song or lamentation in the Highlands of Scotland and in Ireland; a dirge.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > formal or ceremonial mourning > [noun] > formal lamentation > dirge
elegy?1521
coronach1559
dirge1568
requiem1578
threne1593
threnos1601
death song1613
monody1623
threnody1634
throb1635
trental1648
lament1698
myriologue1824
keen1830
threnode1858
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > dirge or lament
threne?a1475
elegy?1521
dumpa1556
coronach1559
dirge1568
requiem1578
threnos1601
planctusa1612
death song1613
monody1623
threnody1634
trental1648
lament1698
myriologue1824
keen1830
planh1843
threnode1858
myrology1892
sorrow song1903
lamento1944
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lament, elegy, or dirge
threne?a1475
elegy?1521
deploration1537
coronach1559
dirge1568
requiem1578
monodia1594
threnos1601
threnody1634
monody1645
lament1698
caoine1707
whillaloo1790
keen1830
tangi1836
threnode1858
commos1879
1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 702 in Wks. (1931) I Cryand for ȝow the cairfull corrynogh.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1092 A sad and sorrowful song, an Irish Coranough.
1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 (1790) 113 The Coranich, or singing at funerals is still in use in some places.
1783 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 2 413 The Highland funerals were generally preceded by bagpipes which played certain dirges, called coronachs.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xv. 225 Their wives and daughters came, clapping their hands, and crying the coronach and shrieking. View more context for this quotation
1850 J. S. Blackie in tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 340 The passionate oriental coronach with which ‘the Persians’ concludes.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan i. i. 236 Eachan Macrimmon is playing a coronach as it were for a chief.
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1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 26 Attended by the coronach, composed of a multitude of old hags, who tore their hair.
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