Definition of Ducal

1. Adjective. Of or belonging to or suitable for a duke. "Ducal palace"

Derivative terms: Duke, Duke
Partainyms: Duke

Definition of Ducal

1. a. Of or pertaining to a duke.

Definition of Ducal

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold. ¹

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Definition of Ducal

1. pertaining to a duke (a high-ranking nobleman) [adj] : DUCALLY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ducal

dubitative
dubnium
dubniums
duboisia
duboisine
dubonnet
dubonnets
dubplate
dubplates
dubs
dubstep
dubstepper
dubsteppers
dubtronica
dubu
ducal (current term)
ducally
ducana
ducat
ducatoon
ducatoons
ducats
ducdame
duce
duces
duces tecum
duchess
duchesse
duchesse d'angouleme
duchessed

Literary usage of Ducal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Venice: Its Individual Growth from the Earliest Beginnings to the Fall of by Pompeo Molmenti, Horatio Forbes Brown (1907)
"Uno ducal de saia negra fodra de martori. Una ducal de panno paonazzo fodra de ... Una ducal de panno negro de volpe. Una ducal cioe fodra de dossi senza ..."

2. The Stones of Venice: Introductory Chapters and local Indices for the use of by John Ruskin (1906)
"(It is so united with the ducal Palace, that the separation cannot be indicated in ... C. Court of ducal Palace, c. Porta della Carta. pp Ponte della Paglia ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The ducal fiefs. Ill were to consist, first, of Marshals of the Empire, ... Besides these, the Emperor reserved to himself in Italy, certain ducal ..."

4. Memoirs of Libraries: Including a Handbook of Library Economy by Edward Edwards (1859)
"At the beginning of the reign of Frederick III. part of the fund applied to purchases had been diverted for the formation of small Libraries in the ducal ..."

5. Norman Institutions by Charles Homer Haskins (1918)
"shown by the practice,97 which appears as early as Richard II, of granting, sometimes in the very documents which contain the immunity clause, the ducal ..."

6. Venice and Its Story by Thomas Okey (1904)
"SECTION III The ducal Palace To turn from the fair temple of the ... But if he sought to enter the ducal Palace, the servant of a then petty dynasty would ..."

7. The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, and Its Fall 421-1797 by William Carew Hazlitt (1900)
"... rudimentary Palace—Its strictly feudal type—A small city in itself—Special bye-laws for its safety—ducal Notary— Domestic ..."

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