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Webster 1913 Edition

(kroun′?t)

Noun.

[See

A coronet.

[R.]

P. Whitehead.

The ultimate end and result of an undertaking; a chief end.

[Obs.]

O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm . . . .
Whose bosom was my

crownet

, my chief end.

Shakespeare

Noun.

A coronet, which see. Shakspeare has used it for chief end or last purpose; but this sense is singular.

crownet ‎(plural crownets)

(obsolete) A coronet.
- P. Whitehead
  Himself with garland freshe, and crownet greene of oliue bandes, / Aduancing stood in ship.