Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign; as the coronation of a prince; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty. 2. (n.) The pomp or assembly at a coronation. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia CORONATION kor-o-na'-shun (protoklisia): Occurs in 2 Maccabees 4:21 (the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "enthronement") where Apollonius was sent into Egypt for the coronation of Ptolemy Philometor as king. The Greek word protoklisia occurs nowhere else, and its meaning is uncertain. The reading in Swete is protoklesia, and this means "the first call."