regal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English regal, from Old French regal (“regal, royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“royal, kingly”), from rex (“king”); also regere (“to rule”). Doublet of royal (“belonging to a monarch”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real, Italian reale, Catalan reial.
Inflected forms:
form: more regal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most regal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: regall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: regals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: regall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: rigole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
pos: adj
examples: regal authority
the regal title
He made a scorn of his regal oath.
gloss: Befitting a monarch.
pos: adj
examples: The [Washington] Posts proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal' Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
Terrific movement from The Queen here. Gets behind the defender, goes one way then cuts back inside. Regal attacking play.
Kwarteng said he had urged Truss to “slow down” over reforms, but a cabinet minister told the FT that she felt “invincible, almost regal”.
gloss: Befitting a monarch.
pos: adj
examples: The children to whom I acted as cicerone almost screamed with glee as they saw the four-and-twenty blackbirds emerging from the pie-crust in front of the astonished King; and when the climax of the inconsequential story was reached, by way of the regal counting house and the “reginal” parlour, and a blackbird (presumably one of the four-and-twenty that had been temporarily immured in the pie) was seen about to revenge himself on the innocent nose of the guiltless laundry-maid, a veritable climax of enthusiasm was reached.
The crown seals, a regal crown and a reginal crown are unengraved, but from the motif I judge they symbolize King William III of England and Queen Mary, (see 1688, English History) who formerly ruled Holland as Prince William, Consort, and Queen Mary — The House of Orange.
In any case, the discrepancy might be explained by the fact that the 9th pylon has not yet disgorged all it blocks; it is in the talatat from this pylon that the masonry of the essentially regal (as opposed to reginal) temples Tni-mnw and Rwd-mnw predominate.
gloss: A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the 16th and 17th centuries, and has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
pos: noun
gloss: An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the 16th and 17th centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.
pos: noun
Related words: regime
regimen
regular
kingly
royal
splendid
stately
Derived words: interregal
regal fritillary
regal geranium
regal horned lizard
regalism
regalist
regality
regally
regal moth
regalness
regal purple
regal sea goddess
superregal
unregal
viceregal
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