Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Being a specified year of a monarch's reign calculated from the date of accession: in her 12th regnal year.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the reign of a monarch.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to the reign of a monarch (or pope)
- adj. Describing the year of a monarch's reign starting from the date of accession
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the reign of a monarch.
Etymologies
- Medieval Latin rēgnālis, royal, from Latin rēgnum, reign; see reign. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In the 1960s Parliament typically would pass sixty or seventy Acts of Parliament in every regnal year.”
“May 14, 2010, 6: 37 pm reader says: counted from “the Independence of the United States of America” (perhaps an echo of the British legal practice of using regnal years?)”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Error in Many Versions of the United States Constitution
“The Date Clause of Article VII mentions the date the Constitution was signed, and also gives the year as counted from “the Independence of the United States of America” (perhaps an echo of the British legal practice of using regnal years?).”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Error in Many Versions of the United States Constitution
“I have followed scholarly convention and used a modern dating system starting the year on January 1, rather than using the regnal year, which contemporaries employed in official documents.”
“The Date Clause of Article VII mentions the date the Constitution was signed, and also gives the year as counted from “the Independence of the United States of America” perhaps an echo of the British legal practice of using regnal years?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Error in Many Versions of the United States Constitution
“The regnal formula of Asa, king of Judah from 908 to 867 b.c.e., claims that his mother is Maacah the daughter of Abishalom (1 Kgs 15: 10).”
“A system of reckoning time by regnal years requires keeping records of kings and their reign lengths.”
“Lori Coulson @64: Maryland was not named for any of the British Queens whose regnal name was "Mary.”
Making Light: The Colorful Holiday Customs Of Our European Friends
“Maryland was not named for any of the British Queens whose regnal name was "Mary.”
Making Light: The Colorful Holiday Customs Of Our European Friends
“And to illustrate the point, I decided to compile a list of all the Monarchs of Canada with their regnal dates as far as I could find them.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘regnal’.
-
phrontistery-r
from phrontistery.info
raad, rabanna, rabbet, rabble, Rabelaisian, rabic, racemation, raceme, racemiferous, rach, rachidian, rachiometer and 514 more...
-
Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
-
Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
-
Words with that horrible 'gn' sound
pregnant, interregnum, impregnable, signal, signature, prognosis, ignorant, ignominious, magnum, diagnosis, designation, incognito and 37 more...
-
logos's list
A poor pathetic thing, but mine own.
invidious, lugubriousness, vilify, noisome, synastry, front and center, declension, conjugation, regnal, diphthong, circumlocution, bishopric and 141 more...
-
Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for regnal.
super-logos This is a truly regal word. Aug 8, 2008