OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 17573

regal

/ˈɹiːɡəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
real • regio
Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
regal authority
the regal title
real • regio
Befitting a monarch.
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 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)…