coroners meaning

• [Medicine]
  Physicians appointed to investigate all cases of sudden or violent death.

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Examples

1. the coroner embodies it in an inquisition.
2. the coroner frequents more public-houses than any man alive.
3. and the coroner proceeded to detail their testimony about their accidental meeting of clyde.
4. in the absence of the active and intelligent beadle, the coroner conversed with mr. tulkinghorn.
5. only those intimately concerned with deaths, such as coroners and registrars of deaths, were able to realise.