Coroner
['kɒr(ə)nə] or ['kɔrənɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes.
Editor: Verna--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred.
Inputed by Bartholomew
Definition
n. an officer whose duty is to hold inquest into the causes of accidental or suspicious deaths.
Edited by Eva
Examples
- It must be either publicly by setting the magistrate and coroner to work, or privately by questioning Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Little Swills is waiting for the coroner and jury on their return. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The coroner's jury found that he took the poison accidentally. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The Coroner: What did you understand by that? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He is understood to be in want of witnesses for the inquest to-morrow who can tell the coroner and jury anything whatever respecting the deceased. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Well, gentlemen, resumes the coroner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Says the coroner, go and fetch him then. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the coroner's jury. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Who is often almost as ignorant as the coroner himself, said Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Says the coroner, is that boy here? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way as to deceive a coroner's jury. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You are aware, I suppose, that it is not the coroner's business to conduct the post-mortem, but only to take the evidence of the medical witness? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Coroner: What do you mean? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Ask Coroners who sit at inquests in large towns if that is true, Lady Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There are a few dirty scraps of newspapers, all referring to coroners' inquests; there is nothing else. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Sweeney