Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to a monarch; royal.
- adj. Belonging to or befitting a monarch: regal attire.
- adj. Magnificent; splendid.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to a king; kingly; royal: as, a regal title; regal authority; regal pomp.
- Synonyms Kingly, etc. See royal.
- Royalty; royal authority.
- n. A small portable organ, much used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, consisting of one or sometimes two sets of reed-pipes played with keys for the player's right hand, with a small bellows for the left hand. Its compass included only a few tones. In many cases the instrument was made to shut up within covers, like a large book: hence the name Bible-organ. If there was but one pipe to each note, the instrument was called a single regal, if two pipes to each note, a double regal. The invention of the regal is often erroneously ascribed to Roll, an organ-builder of Nuremberg, in 1575; the instrument was common in England in the reign of Henry VIII. It is now obsolete, but the name is still applied in Germany to certain reed-stops of the organ. In England a single instrument was usually called a pair of regals.
- n. An old instrument of percussion, composed of sonorous slabs or slips of wood. It was a sort of harmonica, and was played by striking the slips of wood with a stick armed with a ball or knob.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or having to do with royalty.
- adj. Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
- n. obsolete, music A small, portable organ played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal.
- n. (Mus.) A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
Etymologies
- From Middle English regal, from Old French regal ("regal, royal"), from Latin regalis ("royal, kingly"), from Latin rex ("king"); also regere ("to rule"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rēgālis, from rēx, rēg-, king; see reg- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Wonder Woman, often times written very pretentious and regal, is written to show her humorous and compassionate side.”
“Clark im a projectionist in a small theater outside altantic city, nj. i wouldnt go so far as to call it independent but we do play independent movies when the opportunity comes. we've had to cut costs due to fact that its such a small theater and the regal is up the street.”
“Going through my relaxation exercises at night, I would imagine myself astride their considerable girth, soaring through the sky in regal splendour.”
“The couple had been wed in regal splendor, perched atop a pair of jewelled elephants.”
“She thought that John was a king of Scotland, and standing before her in regal attire.”
“At one end of the apartment was a large fresco painting, full size, of Fetteh Ali Shah, in regal array, with a numerous party of his sons standing around him.”
“He came at last in regal state, carriages and outriders at full gallop; himself, staff and suite, in splendid uniform.”
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
“For a moment their flashing orbs vied in regal rivalry; but at length the spirit of the mere animal yielded to the genius of the man.”
“For a moment, their flashing orbs vied in regal rivalry; but at length the spirit of the mere animal yielded to the genius of the man.”
“Once she had been called regal, stately, a goddess made of copper.”
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kmassie From the book White Oleander by Janet Fitch. pg.356
"The Crystalline days of March, that rarest of seasons, came like a benediction, regal and scented with cedar and pine." Oct 31, 2010
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