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Coronations
- noun - the ceremony of installing a new monarch
Corrections
- noun - a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases; "market runups are invariably followed by a correction"
- a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- a rebuke for making a mistake
- something substituted for an error
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- the act of punishing; "the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received"
- the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders; "for a career in corrections turn to the web site of the New Jersey Department of Corrections"
- the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole
- treatment of a specific defect; "the correction of his vision with eye glasses"
Corruptions
- noun - decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
- in a state of progressive putrefaction
- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"
- lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
Corticiform
- - Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.
Coryphodont
- - Pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Coryphodon.
Cosignatory
- adjective - one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration)
- signing jointly with others
Cosmetology
- noun - the practice of beautifying the face and hair and skin
Costiferous
- - Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebr
Costusroots
- noun - annual herb of the eastern Himalayas (Kashmir) having purple florets and a fragrant root that yields a volatile oil used in perfumery and for preserving furs
Coterminous
- adjective - being of equal extent or scope or duration