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regnant, ppl. a.|ˈrɛgnənt|
[ad. L. regnant-, pres. pple. of regnāre to reign. Cf. F. régnant.]
1. a. Of sovereigns or other persons: Reigning, ruling.
1600W. Watson Decacordon Pref. (1602) A iv b, Queene Elizabeth our Soueraigne now regnant. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. iii. 205 Giving Orders that he should be treated like a Nephew of the regnant Pope. 1718D'Urfey Grecian Heroine ii. Operas, etc. (1721) 112 A marbled Cæsar pinnion'd to a Throne, The People regnant, and the Monarch Stone. 1856C. R. Kennedy tr. Demosthenes' Leptines App. iv, Some time afterwards the power of government passed from the regnant house into the hands of the Eupatridæ. 1884Browning Ferishtah, Shah Abbas 49 Our liege, the Shah Happily regnant, hath become assured [etc.].
transf. or fig.1600J. Hamilton in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 222 Thair saules regnant now in gloire with..Christ Iesus. 1642Jer. Taylor Episc. 253 The Church of Martyrs,..now regnant in heaven. 1862B. Taylor Poet's Jrnl. ii, Serfs of the regnant moon. 1875M. Collins Sweet & Twenty i. iv, A full moon was regnant over breadths of lawn.
b. Placed after the n., esp. queen regnant.
1632H. Seile Augustus 212 With th' one [face] looking on the King Regnant; with th' other, on the Prince successive. a1639Wotton in Reliq. (1685) 168 There may be reasonably supposed in Queens Regnant, a little proportion of tenderness that way, more than in Kings. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. iv. 212 The queen regent, regnant, or sovereign, is she who holds the crown in her own right. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 144 Neither the king, nor a queen regnant, can convey in this manner, nor can a corporation. 1859Wraxall tr. R. Houdin xix. 284 Each of my performances was honoured by the presence of one or more of the princes regnant of the Germanic Confederation.
2. a. Of things, qualities, etc.: Ruling, exercising sway or influence, predominant, dominating.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 32 This humour being Regnant in you, bred those Inuectiues of lazie Ignorance. 1687Waller Divine Love 65 The Law was regnant, and confined his thought. 1799R. Sickelmore Agnes & Leonora II. 30 Her passion for controversy and reproach was so regnant, that the most poignant misery would hardly subdue it. 1847Emerson Poems, Musketaquid, And by the order in the field disclose The order regnant in the yeoman's brain. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche Apr. vii, Their fames..Do battle with the regnant names of eld, To win their seats.
b. Prevalent, wide-spread.
1625Chas. I Sp. Wks. 1662 I. 360, I must mind you of the Mortality now regnant in this City. 1676Worlidge Cyder Pref., Drunkenness..is not now so regnant in this isle. 1757H. I. (title) The Players Scourge, or a Detection of the ranting prophanity and regnant impiety of stage plays. 1877M. Arnold Last Ess. 25 The belief in witchcraft and diabolical contracts which was regnant in his day.
c. regnant process (Psychol.): in the theory of personality, a hypothesis that dominant brain processes exist which determine behaviour (see quot. 1938).
1938H. A. Murray Explor. Personality ii. 45 It may prove convenient to refer to the mutually dependent processes that constitute dominant configurations in the brain as regnant processes; and, further, to designate the totality of such processes occurring during a single moment..as a regnancy. 1974W. B. Arndt Theories of Personality xii. 237 We must infer the characteristics of regnant processes from the behavior of organisms. |