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▪ I. regal, a. and n.1|ˈriːgəl|
Also 4–5 regalle, (5 -ale), 5–7 regall.
[a. OF. regal, -ale, or L. rēgālis, f. rēg-, rex king: see -al1.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of or belonging to a king; royal.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. pr. iv. 9 (Camb. MS.), The iustice Regal [L. regia] hadde whilom demed hem bothe to gon in to exil. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 323 In the regalle cite of Saba. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. vii. xlii, That sheweth his dygnyte to be regall. c1510Gesta Rom. Add. Stor. v. (1879) 438 [They] brought hym with grete reuerence and worshyp vnto his regal sete. 1591Spenser M. Hubberd 1111 The Ape thus seized of the Regall throne [etc.]. 1667Milton P.L. v. 739 When they see all Regal Power Giv'n me to quell thir pride. 1735Bolingbroke On Parties 8 They, who could never brook a Regal, will have the Merit of saving their Country from the Danger of a Ministerial Tyranny. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. liii. V. 505 The regal title was assumed by the most ambitious chiefs. 1825Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 36 Our legislation, under the regal government, had many very vicious points. 1876Humphreys Coin-coll. Man. xxvi. 403 The Macedonian series includes the earliest regal coin known.
†b. regal fishes: (see quots.). Obs. rare.
1562–3Act 5 Eliz. c. 5 §5 Such fyshes as be knowen and vsed to be called Regal fyshes, whereunto her maiestie..shal haue right. 1670Blount Law Dict. (1691) Regal Fishes..Are Whales, and Sturgeons; some add Porpusses.
†2.
a. regal water: (see quot.). Obs. rare—1.
Cf. F. eau régale, a mixture of hydrochloric and azotic acid, used for dissolving gold and platinum (Littré).
1576Baker Jewell of Health 102 This then is named the regall water, or water of a kyng, which separateth Golde.
b. Ruling, governing. Obs. rare.
1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 240 The brain and heart are the two regal and principal parts of man. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 198/1 Thus Plato in Philebo avers by Jove is understood a Regal Soul, meaning the principal part of the World which Governs the other.
3. Befitting, or resembling, a king; kingly; hence, splendid, magnificent, stately, etc.
1799Wordsw. Danish Boy iii, A regal vest of fur he wears, In colour like a raven's wing. 1816Shelley Alastor 619 A rare and regal prey He hath prepared, prowling around the world. 1858Lytton What will He do i. xiv, Then they emerged into the noble garden, with its regal trees. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. xv. 290 Every one of them was like a prince; and not the least regal was the sole survivor Gideon.
transf.1825Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Convalescent, If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick bed. 1859Smiles Self-Help xii. 319 Beethoven's admiration for Cherubini was regal.
4. regal lily = regale n.1 4; regal pelargonium, a house plant belonging to a group of varieties of Pelargonium × domesticum, flowering in spring and early summer.
1925E. H. Wilson Lilies E. Asia 38 The bulbs of the Regal Lily are often part yellow-brown or orange-coloured. 1939D. T. Macfie Lilies vii. 102 It is difficult to be moderate in the choice of words when talking of the regal lily. 1980Observer 4 May 44/7 Charles Lyte..discovered in his research the extraordinary exploits of the men who introduced delights like the..Regal Lily into Britain.
1903T. W. Sanders Amateur's Greenhouse 311 Pelargonium..Decorative and Regal Kinds. These are grown in great quantities for Covent Garden Market. 1951J. E. Cross Bk. Geranium xii. 104 The plant which still bears the name Pelargonium in commerce is Pelargonium domesticum, known in England generally as Show or Regal Pelargonium. 1955Times 26 May 12/3 At Chelsea this year are several large groups of pelargoniums, both the zonal forms for outdoor bedding and the regal types for the greenhouse. 1962R. Page Educ. Gardener ix. 260 Pots of palest pink regal pelargoniums..line the steps. 1966Rochford & Gorer Rochford Bk. Flowering Pot Plants viii. 116 The Regal Pelargoniums..are generally known simply as Pelargoniums.
5. regal (walnut) moth, a large brown and yellow moth, Citheronia regalis, found in the eastern United States.
1854E. Emmons Agric. N.Y. V. 238 Regal Walnut⁓moth..feeds on the walnut. 1887S. W. Denton Pages from Naturalist's Diary (1949) 121, I have..caught eight sphinx moths, and many others, one like the regal walnut moth. 1912Country Life in Amer. 1 Aug. 38 The blue horned hickory devil..turns into the Regal moth. 1972Swan & Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xix. 270 Regal moth..Also known as hickory horned moth and royal walnut moth.
B. n.
†1.
a. Royalty, sovereignty, royal authority.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 71 Nien monethes beforn kept Harald þe regalle. c1350Will. Palerne 282 Al þe regal of rome to riȝtleche y weld. 1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 300/2 The drede wheryn here tofore they have been..of youre myghty regale and of your said lond. 1460Pol. Poems in Archaeologia (1842) XXIX. 338 To remeve his heuynesse Whiche to his regalle is no þyng conservyng.
†b. Sc. A regality. Obs. rare.
1440Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 33/1 Lordis of Regaliteis within thare Regalis. Ande alsua the kingis balȝeis of his Regalis. [Hence in Skene Reg. Maj. (1609) 163.]
c. A royal right or privilege. Cf. regale n.1 2. Obs.
a1540Barnes Wks. (1573) 201/2 But how commeth S. Peter by these regalles..? All the worlde knoweth, that regalia belongeth to kinges. 1641Prynne Antip. 116 marg., Peter was acquainted with his nets but not with Regals. 1797W. Johnston Beckmann's Invent. II. 324 When and where originated the term jus grutiæ, under which this regal is known by jurists?
†2. A prince, ruler. Obs. rare.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 2128 Ariadne, We be duchessis bothe I & ȝe And sekerede to the regalys of Athenys And bothe hereafter likly to ben quenys. c1395Plowman's Tale i. 202 ‘All-holyest’ they clepen hir heed, That of hir rule is regall.
3. a. the regal of France: (see quots.). Obs. exc. Hist.
a1400Morte Arth. 4208 With rynges and relikkes, and þe regale of ffraunce, That was ffowndene one syr ffrolle, whene he was feye levyde. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 160 Thomas of Canturbury..was shryned in siluer, and hanged rounde about with costly Jewelles of Gold and precious stones... And amonges others, there was one riche Jewell, called the Regal of Fraunce. 1656Blount Glossogr. s.v., A Jewel or Ring of great value, which a King of France offered at St. Thomas shrine at Canterbury, called the Regal of France, which Henry the Eighth, upon the dissolution, took thence, and wore on his own finger. 1905R. H. Benson King's Achievement iii. xi. 482 He noticed for a moment a wonderful red stone on the thumb, and recognized it. It was the Regal of France that he had seen years before at his visit to St. Thomas's shrine at Canterbury.
transf.1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Traveller 92 Styling..Paris the regall of France; Venice the eye of Italy.
†b. the regal of Scotland, the Coronation Chair.
c1470Harding Chron. clxii. vi, The regall there of Scotlande then he brought, And sent it forth to Westmynster for ay.
†c. (See quot.; perh. = 3 a.) Obs.
1485Rutland Papers (Camden) 18 [Coronation of Henry VII.] The said Cardinall shall blesse the ring with a ruby, called the regall, for the King, to be sett on the iiijth fynger of the right hand.
†d. The chalice used for the communion at the coronation of British sovereigns. Obs.
1603Cerem. Coron. Jas. I (1685) 3, 1. The Regal. 2. The Paten. 1626in Chr. Wordsw. Coron. Chas. I, Introd. (1892) p. lii, Regale, the chalice of Saphire and gold carried by the Bishop of London. 1662Sir E. Walker Acc. Coron. Chas. II (1820) 92 The Bishop of London (haueing in the interim placed the Regall vpon the Altar).
†4. Some kind of precious stone. Obs.—1
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 223 Wythe stones and perles ryally pyghte, Regalles, rubies, saffyres blewe.
†5. pl. = regalia1 2. Obs.
c1485in Wickham Legg Coron. Rec. (1901) 237 The said chamberlayn shall take for the king all the Regalls aforesaid, and peace by peace deliuer them to the Abbot of westminster. 1533Coron. Q. Anne in Arb. Garner II. 50 The Abbot of Westminster with his rygals came into the Hall in pontificalibus. 1556Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden) 4 Thys yere kynge Edward toke..the cheffe regalles in Scotlond, his crowne and hys cepter, and browte it to Westmyster. 1603–4in A. Taylor Glory of Regality (1820) 311 The orbe, the scepter, the armill, And suche other regalls as hee hath in his custodye.
▪ II. regal, n.2|ˈriːgəl|
Also 6 reygalle, reyggal, regol, 6–7 rigoll, -ole, 7 rigalle, 6–9 regall, (6 -alle).
[a. F. régale (16th c., in Rabelais regualle), of obscure origin, perh. f. régal regal a.: cf. It. regale (Florio).]
1. Chiefly pl. A small portable organ formerly in use, having one, or sometimes two, sets of reed-pipes played with keys by the right hand, while a small bellows was worked by the left hand. Now chiefly Hist. (common c 1550–1625).
c1550L. Wager Life Marie Magd. 735 Infid. Can ye not play on the virginals? Mary. Yes..that I can, and also on the regals. 1556in Rimbault Hist. Organ (1855) 39 Payd to James Hewet for playing of his regols in the payggeant, viij d. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. i. (Arb.) 79 Vocall Musike, or that of melodious instruments, as Lutes, Harpes, Regals, Records and such like. 1598Florio, Regali, a musicall instrument called rigoles. 1626Bacon Sylva §172 In Regals (where they have a pipe they call the Nightingale pipe which containeth water). 1767in Rimbault Hist. Organ (1855) 39 note, [Bernard Gates received a salary of {pstlg}56, as] tuner of the regalls [in the Royal Chapel. The same gentleman, in 1770, is styled ‘tuner of the organs’]. 1776Hawkins Hist. Music IV. iv. viii. 503 note, Raphael has painted her singing, with a regal in her hands. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iii. v. 201 Assisted by the music of the regals and the bagpipes. 1899De Morgan in Mackail W. Morris I. 223, I recollect his playing on a regal.
Comb.1770in Archaeologia (1775) III. 32 Our kings had a regall-maker amongst their musical establishment.
2. One of certain reed-stops (esp. the vox humana) in organs.
1799Young in Phil. Trans. XC. 141 His reasoning has fully shown the analogy between the voice and the voix humaine and regal organ-pipes. 1944W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. 633/2 The reed stops of the later organs are frequently called ‘regal’. 1976Gramophone Nov. 837/2 This is instanced by his almost spooky use of the 16-foot regal from the top manual coupled to the pedals.
▪ III. ˈregal, n.3 Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 5 regyll, 6–7 regal(l, 7 reigle, 9 dial. riggle.
[ad. F. rigole: cf. raggle n.]
A groove, a slot.
1458Church-w. Acc., Yatton (Som. Rec. Soc.) 101 It. to make a regyll abowte the batylmente xvd. 1577Harrison England ii. xi. (1877) i. 227 The engine..dooth ride vp and downe in a slot, rabet, or regall. 1602Carew Cornwall 104 b, In one of the corners next the sea standeth a flood⁓gate to bee drawne vp and let downe through reigles in the side postes. 1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 605 In the sides of the boord shal be two regals or incisians wherby they shal one be ioyned to another. 1886Elworthy W. Som. Word-bk., Riggle, a groove cut round some article... The groove on a pulley is a riggle. |