regalianadj.
/rᵻˈɡeɪlɪən/, U.S. /rəˈɡeɪljən/, /rəˈɡeɪliən/ Of or belonging to a monarch. Also: (of authority, a right, etc.) properly belonging to the monarch but conferred upon a powerful subject. Chiefly in regalian right. Cf. regalia n.1 1.
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society > authority > [adjective] > of or relating to regal or princely authority
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1700 R. Burridge Apostate Prince 10 For one short Moment of Regalian Sway, High Heav'n you would, though damn'd for't, Disobey.
1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. viii. 168 He defined the regalian rights, as they were called, in such a manner as to exclude the cities and private proprietors from coining money.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxiii. 599 The revenue of what was then the earldom of Cornwall..was by no means confined to regalian rights in the county.
1900 Dict. National Biogr. LXI. 373/2 The castle and lordship of Pembroke..gave her a sort of claim to the palatine earldom, whose regalian rights she was thus enabled to exercise.
1924 H. Rashdall in Cambr. Med. Hist. (1929) VI. xvii. 597 The opinion regarding regalian rights upon which the Emperor Frederick I acted when he asserted his almost forgotten prerogative against the Lombard cities.
1986 R. M. Sunter Patronage & Politics Scotl. (BNC) 61 Regalian jurisdiction could be extensive, as for example that of the Duke of Montrose.
1994 P. Dalton Conquest, Anarchy, & Lordship (2001) v. 205 David appears to have interpreted the grants made..in the two treaties of Durham as having included the authority to exercise regalian rights throughout the 'border' counties.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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