Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of king.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When one checker is stacked on top of another, the board recognizes the "kinged" checker.
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To be kinged, a checker piece must move to the opposite side of the board.
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Also like in regulation, checker pieces move diagonally and, only if kinged, backwards diagonally.
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In a way it felt like being kinged in checkers-all of a sudden you had more strength, more power than you had before.
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Just as James II had "abdicated" in the Glorious Revolution of 1689, now George un-kinged himself.
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He kinged it in the coffee-house, then the fashionable place at which the wits gathered, as Jonson had in the tavern.
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Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.
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Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.
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Oh! glorious was he in the sight of Heaven, Which kinged him in the room (of Shang).
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"By the symbol from which thou turnest, woman!" exclaimed the earl, giving vent to the fury which the presence of death had before suppressed, "by Him to whom, morning and night, I have knelt in grateful blessing for the virtuous life of this beloved child, I will have such revenge on the recreant whom I kinged, as shall live in the rolls of England till the trump of the Judgment Angel!"
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