| 词汇 | coroner |
| 词源 | coroner. Shakespeare called a coroner a crowner, which is nearer to the word’s meaning of a “crown officer” (from the Latin corona, “crown”). Coroners, or crowners, collected the Crown revenues in Saxon days, and did not assume their offi- cial Crown duties of looking over corpses and holding inquests on suspicious deaths until the 18th century. |
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