regnaladj.

1612 A. Hopton Concordancy of Yeares Ded. sig. A iij I obserued the inconueniences..occasioned..by the participation of euery one Regnall yeare with two Ecclesian yeares.

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. Ded. sig. A3^v The true originall grounds of Regall, Regnall, Popular, or Parliamentary Jurisdictions.

1683 Case Earl of Argyle 17 He gave David to be King, to whom he made promise, that of the fruit of his loynes should ane sit for ever upon his regnall seat.

1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. Index 686/2 Regnal table, from the Conquest.

1869 G. Rawlinson Man. Anc. Hist. 32 An intentional duplication of the regnal and other periods mentioned by Herodotus.

1918 K. S. Latourette Devel. Japan viii. 116 Meiji is his regnal name. His personal name..was Mutsuhito.

1948 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 67 21 From the chronological references in the prophets it is to be inferred that Uzziah was the regnal name and Azariah the personal name.

1990 Jrnl. Semitic Stud. 35 336 Ms Fierro organizes her material by regnal periods, and within each reign by individual incident or movement.

1685 Chron. Jurid. Pref., in Nicolas Chronol. Hist. (1833) 272 Thirdly, there is what we call the year regnal; and that beginneth on the day, and at the immediate moment, of the decease of each last preceding king.

1714 J. Brightland Useful Compan. sig. Gg^v The Regnal Year begins with the King or Queens Reign.

1833 Nicolas Chronol. Hist. 272 The exact day from which the regnal year is calculated.

1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. vi. 453 He dated his public acts by the regnal years of the King.

1893 Stud. in Hist., Econ., & Public Law III. App. D. 296 Although Charles II did not ascend the throne until May 29th, 1660, his regnal years were computed from the death of Charles I, January 30th, 1649. The year of the restoration of Charles II is therefore styled the twelfth year of his reign.

1904 Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 152 In regard to the dating we find originally a separation, the year going into the protocol, the month and regnal year into the eschatocol.

1936 Times 21 Nov. 13/3 The Kiswa or Holy Carpet which covers the Kaaba..will be embroidered with an inscription..giving the regnal year of King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud.

2000 N. L. Collins Libr. in Alexandria & Bible in Greek ii. 19 Egyptian civil and regnal years were reckoned from the first day in the month of Thoth to the same day in the following year.

1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ I. iv. 55 On the regnal day of Herod, in the year b.c. 14, the unfinished structure was consecrated.

1969 C. R. Whitaker in Herodian I. iii. 5.7, 287 (note) Tribunician dates for S. are very insecure and in the early part of his reign the regnal day [Greek διὰ ταῡτα ο̆ Ἀλβινος] is sometimes..reckoned from 9th April.