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ducal, a. (n.)|ˈdjuːkəl| Also 5 ducall, 7 duckal. [a. F. ducal (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) = It. ducale, Sp. ducal, ad. late L. ducāl-is, f. duc-em (dux) leader, duke.] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a duke or dukedom (also, of a doge). In quot. 1626 = Of the party of the Duke (of Buckingham).
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 374 The bezaunde imperiall is worth .l. ducates, and the ducall bezaunde is worth .xx. ducates. 1626Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) I. 106 Some say my Lord of Suffolk having given his proxy to my Lord of Walden, his eldest son, and now, finding him ducal, hath revoked. 1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2099/4 The Crest is a Griffins-head between two Wings, coming out of a Duckal Coronet. 1731Swift On Pulteney 10 Produce at last thy dormant ducal patent. 1765–9Blackstone Comm. (1793) 106 Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Alderney..are governed by their own laws, which are for the most part the ducal customs of Normandy. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 216 The Ducal Gallery of Florence. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) I. i. 17 The Ducal Palace of Venice..is the central building of the world. b. Of the rank or bearing the title of duke.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 138 The offices..are hereditary to the ducal families of Ancaster and Norfolk. c. ducal mantle, (a) the official robe of a duke; (b) Conch. a species of mollusc, Chlamys pallium.
1776Da Costa Conchol. 292 The Ducal Mantle Escallop. 1819in Pantologia. 1823in Crabb Technol. Dict. †B. n. See quot. Obs.
1727–51Chambers Cycl., Ducals, the letters patent granted by the senate of Venice are called ducals. |