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▪ I. palatial, a.1|pəˈleɪʃəl|
[f. L. palāti-um palace + -al1.]
Of the nature or character of a palace; pertaining to or befitting a palace; splendid, magnificent (as a building).
1754A. Drummond Trav. xiii. 271 A very magnificent structure..built in the palatial stile of those days. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. I. 12 Palatial edifices, which are better for a stranger to look at, than for his own people to pay for. 1884Graphic 9 Aug. 134/1 Some of the most palatial hotels.
Hence palatiˈality |-ʃɪˈælɪtɪ|; paˈlatially adv.
1894Harper's Weekly Mag. 7 Apr. 317 In point of ‘palatiality’ the newly..reconstructed house..leads the list. 1893F. F. Moore Gray Eye or So III. 130 Not palatially,..but still pleasantly.
▪ II. † palatial, a.2, n.
obs. irreg. form for palatal.
1775Ash Suppl., Palatial. 1792Sir W. Jones Orig. & Fam. of Nations Wks. 1799 I. 139 Dentals being changed for dentals, and palatials for palatials. 1828–32Webster, Palatial, pertaining to the palate; as, the palatial retraction of the tongue. Barrow. |