Dictionary entry

King (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

King (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Kinged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Kinging).] To supply with a king; to make a king of; to raise to royalty. Shak.

Those traitorous captains of Israel who kinged themselves by slaying their masters and reigning in their stead. South.