regal

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

//ˈɹiːɡəl//

Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.

adjective

1
Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
regal authority
the regal title
He made a scorn of his regal oath.
2
Befitting a monarch.
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”.
3
Befitting a monarch. Befitting a king or emperor.
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.

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.

noun

1
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.
2
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.

Etymology

From Middle English regal, from Middle French régale, possibly from Old French regol (“a gutter, channel”). Doublet of rail, regula, rigol, and rule.

Forms

plural: regals
comparative: more regal
superlative: most regal

reg · A regular.Reg · A diminutive of the male given name Reginald.regain · To get back; to recover possession of.

regal · Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.

Regan · A surname from Irish from Irish Ó Riagáin, variant of Reagan.regard · A steady look, a gaze.regarded · Filter-avoidance spelling of retarded.

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