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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to a viceroy or to viceroyalty.

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Examples

  • That project came to naught in 1869, when Bartholdi's small sculptural models were rejected by the Egyptian khedive, Ismael Pasha, already up to his viceroyal ears in debt.

    Liberty as Statue and Symbol 2008

  • Moreover the youth was of the blood royal and A quoi bon être prince? as was said by a boy of viceroyal family in Egypt to his tutor who reproached him for unnecessarily shooting down a poor old man.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • At length this cry became a clamor that shook even the old viceroyal palace in Mexico; while in San Antonio it gave a certain pitch to all conversation, and made men wear their cloaks, and set their beavers, and display their arms, with that demonstrative air of independence they called los Americano.

    Remember the Alamo 1888

  • He knew that I had not approved of Lord Elgin's petulant removal of his viceroyal establishment from Montreal to Toronto, and cunningly resolved to draw me out before witnesses on the matter.

    My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

  • At length this cry became a clamor that shook even the old viceroyal palace in Mexico; while in San Antonio it gave a certain pitch to all conversation, and made men wear their cloaks, and set their beavers, and display their arms, with that demonstrative air of independence they called los Americano.

    Remember the Alamo Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

  • Moreover the youth was of the blood royal and A quoi bon être prince? as was said by a boy of viceroyal family in Egypt to his tutor who reproached him for unnecessarily shooting down a poor old man.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Soon after the revolution which had seated Mir Jaffier on the viceroyal throne, the spirit of the Mogul empire began, as it were, to make one faint struggle before it finally expired.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

  • The viceroyal part takes in all criminal justice and political government.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

  • The government of that country, by the ancient constitution of the Mogul empire, besides the numberless individual checks and counter-checks in the inferior officers [offices?], is divided into the viceroyal part and the subahdarry part.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

  • We negotiated with Mir Jaffier for the viceroyal throne of his master.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

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