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Definition of Regal
1. Adjective. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler. "The royal carriage of a stag's head"
Definition of Regal
1. a. Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as, regal authority, pomp, or sway.
2. n. A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Definition of Regal
1. Adjective. Of or having to do with royalty. ¹
2. Adjective. Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete musici) A small, portable organ ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Regal
1. of or befitting a king [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Regal
Literary usage of Regal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Rome by Robert Fowler Leighton (1878)
"The chief authorities for the history of the regal period! are Livy and Dionysius of
... For the time after the regal period they no doubt made use of ..."
2. The Life and Times of Henry Clay by Calvin Colton (1846)
"Democratic and regal Power of the Constitution.—Influence of Names in Politics.—The
Government of the United States a Democracy.—Who are the True Democrats. ..."
3. The Life and Times of Henry Clay by Calvin Colton (1846)
"Mr. Clay a Jeffersonian Democrat Democratic and regal Power of the Constitution.
... regal Power rose with General Jackson.—Mr. Clay's Great Struggles ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"The name 'bible regal' is the title of another variety, the peculiarity of ...
The instrument has been long since extinct, but the name 'regal' is still ..."
5. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"The Roman senate consisted, as alleged, in the regal period, of three hundred
... In the regal period its power was pro- "8 bably less, considering that the ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1820)
"HI* regal From his establishment at Medina, Mahomet A.8!*.1^. assumed the exercise
of the regal and sacerdo- 682> tal office; arid it was impious to appeal ..."
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