regnantadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈrɛɡnənt/, U.S.

/ˈrɛɡnənt/

Forms:

α. late Middle English reignant.

β. 1500s– regnant.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Latin regnant-, regnāns, regnāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin regnant-, regnāns, present participle of regnāre reign v., partly after Middle French regnant (French régnant) reigning (c1350), dominant (15th cent.), existing, lasting (1513). Compare Old Occitan regnant royal, supreme, (2nd half of the 13th cent.) Catalan regnant royal, supreme (1425–50), Spanish reinante (a1520 or earlier as reynante), Portuguese reinante (1255 as reynante), Italian regnante (1374). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin regnans ruler (from 12th cent. in British sources).In α. forms after reign v.

A. adj.

1. Esp. of a monarch: reigning, ruling.

a. In predicative use and attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > [adjective] > ruling or governing

regnantc1475

governing1534

ladylike1534

lording1548

ruling1561

signorizing1588

regent1613

swaying1625

regal1653

reigning1705

society > authority > rule or government > sole rule > [adjective] > ruling as monarch

regnantc1475

monarchial1548

monarchal1586

monarchizing1592

monarchicala1618

sovereignizing1621

monarchic1632

regent1690

reigning1705

c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) 417 Thys myghty Kyng ys God omnipotent, In oone godhede reignant in persones thre.

1600 J. Hamilton Facile Traictise Epist. sig. ★5 Thair saules regnant now in gloire with..Christ Iesus.

1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy 253 The Church of Martyrs,..now regnant in heaven.

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. iii. 205 Giving Orders that he should be treated like a Nephew of the regnant Pope.

1721 T. D'Urfey Grecian Heroine ii. i, in New Opera's 112 A marbled Cæsar pinnion'd to a Throne, The People regnant, and the Monarch Stone.

1778 Let. Sir. G. Saville 27 Our Constitution essentially recognizes the legislative Authority of the regnant King.

1856 C. R. Kennedy tr. Demosthenes' Leptines App. iv The power of government passed from the regnant house into the hands of the Eupatridæ.

1884 R. Browning Shah Abbas in Ferishtah's Fancies 49 Our liege, the Shah Happily regnant, hath become assured [etc.].

1941 Jewish Q. Rev. 31 337 Herod himself would ultimately become king and kill all his enemies, including the regnant king who was his patron and protector.

1984 T. Mallon Bk. of One's Own (1985) ii. 65 Like Louis Philippe (by now regnant in France), she is troubled by the enforced retreat of the Indians.

2000 Heritage Feb. 61/1 Mary II..needed new regalia, as the first regnant Queen since Cromwell's Commonwealth.

b. As postmodifier.Esp. in queen regnant.

ΚΠ

1595 W. Allen et al. Conf. Next Succession Crowne of Ingland ii. x. 259 This declaration now if it were made, would be hurtful and dangerous for him that should be declared, for on the one side, it would put the Prince regnant in great ielousie and suspicion of him, and on the other side, would ioyne and arme al the other pretenders and their fauourers agaynst him.

a1624 R. Crakanthorpe Vigilius Dormitans (1631) xiii. 186 In the first, the Pope was but Antichrist nascent; In the second, Antichrist crescent; In the third Antichrist regnant.

1632 P. Heylyn Augustus 212 With th' one [face] looking on the King Regnant; with th' other, on the Prince successive.

a1639 H. Wotton Parallel betweene Earle of Essex & Duke of Buckingham (1641) 5 There may be reasonably supposed in Queenes Regnant, a little proportion of tendernes that way, more then in Kings.

1733 T. Salmon Mod. Hist. XIX. xxxii. 378 The first Queen Regnant that had set upon the Throne of England since the Conquest.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. iv. 212 The queen regent, regnant, or sovereign, is she who holds the crown in her own right.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 144 Neither the king, nor a queen regnant, can convey in this manner, nor can a corporation.

1859 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. J. E. Robert-Houdin Mem. xix. 284 Each of my performances was honoured by the presence of one or more of the princes regnant of the Germanic Confederation.

1921 L. Strachey Queen Victoria iii. 86 A Queen Regnant must accede to the wishes of her Prime Minister as to the personnel of the female part of her Household.

1980 Antiquaries Jrnl. 60 281 No queen could do much about a king's immorality and adultery, unless she were queen regnant.

2006 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 10 June 25 There is no official position within the monarchy for the husband of a Queen Regnant.

a. Of a thing, quality, etc.: ruling, exercising sway or influence; dominating, predominant.In quot. 1875 figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > power > influence > [adjective] > of controlling or predominating influence

regitive?a1425

reigninga1500

reignative1532

overruling1586

predominating1595

hegemonicala1602

regnant1604

dominating1611

ruling1652

presiding1653

hegemonic1656

over-ruly1657

regulant1677

in the ascendanta1698

overriding1830

octopean1896

hegemoniac1959

1604 T. Bell Downefall Poperie vi. 81 Some sinne may be tearmed mortall, and some veniall; which yet may more fitly be called, sinnes regnant, and not regnant.

1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 32 This humour being Regnant in you, bred those Inuectiues of lazie Ignorance.

1687 E. Waller Divine Love 65 The Law was regnant, and confined his thought.

1726 J. Adams Marrow-chicaning Displayed 33 Your insinuating the contrary of him..declared you at once to be a bold intruder into the Province of God, who alone knows Mens Hearts; and to be animated with a regnant Spirit of Slander.

1799 R. Sickelmore Agnes & Leonora II. 30 Her passion for controversy and reproach was so regnant, that the most poignant misery would hardly subdue it.

1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 183 And by the order in the field disclose, The order regnant in the yeoman's brain.

1875 M. Collins Sweet & Twenty i. iv A full moon was regnant over breadths of lawn.

1894 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche (rev. ed.) vii. 18 Their fames..Do battle with the regnant names of eld, To win their seats.

1910 V. de Cleyre Dominant Idea 3 And we meet, also, living souls dominating dying bodies—living ideas regnant over decay and death.

1967 N. Podhoretz Making It ii. v. 163 Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn had crossed the regnant ‘high’ literary language with the ‘low’ frontier vulgate.

2007 C. Hitchens God is not Great xvii. 232 In the early history of mankind, the totalitarian principle was the regnant one.

b. Prevalent, widespread.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > general or prevalent

commona1325

generala1393

usual1396

popular?a1425

riveda1513

vulgarc1550

current1563

afloat1571

widespread1582

penny-rife1606

catholic1607

spacious1610

epidemical1614

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epidemic1617

prevailent1623

regnant1623

fashionablea1627

wide-spreading1655

endemical1658

prevalent1658

endemiala1682

obtaining1682

prevailing1682

endemious1684

sterling1696

running1697

(as) common as dirt (also muck)1737

prevailant1794

exoteric1814

endemic1852

widish1864

prolate1882

going1909

1623 D. Featly in T. Gataker Iust Def. Pref., sig. A3 The sinne too regnant in sports and games now a-daies is..in not obseruing those Rules and Cautions..which are iudiciously and piously set downe by you in your compleat Treatise of Lots.

1655 Charles I's Speech to Parl., 1625 in H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 10 I must minde you of the mortality now regnant in this City.

1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum Pref. sig. B3 Drunkenness..is not now so regnant in this Isle.

?1757 J. Haldane (title) The players scourge: or a detection of the ranting prophanity and regnant impiety of stage plays.

1865 Harper's Mag. Dec. 62/2 Days when the odor of preserves was regnant.

1877 M. Arnold Last Ess. on Church & Relig. 25 The belief in witchcraft and diabolical contracts which was regnant in his day.

1906 J. S. Dennis Christian Missions & Social Progr. III. v. 235 The dominant idea of theistic evolution now so regnant in the philosophy and science of our times.

1998 T. A. Bergren Sixth Ezra 122 There is no other period in the larger time frame in which 6 Ezra could plausibly have been written—namely, between 95 and 313 C.E.—when..the types of social situation that 6 Ezra seems to reflect were so regnant.

2003 R. D. Huerta Giants of Delft ii. 38/2 Van Eyck's ‘special process’ was so regnant it caused a revolution throughout Europe.

†B. n.

A sovereign, a ruler. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun]

waldendeOE

prince?c1225

ordainerc1300

tyranta1340

prefecta1382

rulera1382

wieldera1382

corner of the people1382

lordshipperc1384

governora1393

moderatora1398

wieldinga1400

leader of lawsc1400

regent1415

governailc1440

dominatorc1450

reignera1464

regnanta1500

gubernator1522

despot1562

shepherd1577

swayer1598

Sophy1599

most mastera1616

Govr.1620

Gov.1630

archon1735

a1500 Hymnal in R. S. Loomis Medieval Stud. in Memory G. S. Loomis (1927) 477 (MED) Thow myghty lord, O Ruler and regnant, Sothfast god..hast in gouerance Tymes echone and makyst dyvydent.

Compounds

regnant process n. Psychology (in the theory of personality) any of the various controlling brain processes that are integrated in a single moment.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > [noun] > dominant determiner of

regnant process1937

1937 H. A. Murray in Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. 32 162 It is my role to indicate some of the influences which regnant processes may have upon observable physiological phenomena throughout the body.

1974 W. B. Arndt Theories of Personality xii. 237 We must infer the characteristics of regnant processes from the behavior of organisms.

1984 Jrnl. Mind & Behavior 5 311 The kinetic processes of personality are those (regnant) processes in the brain whose mutual interactions constitute no less than the person's..mental life.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	regnant
释义	regnantadj.n. Brit. /ˈrɛɡnənt/, U.S. /ˈrɛɡnənt/ Forms: α. late Middle English reignant. β. 1500s– regnant. Origin: A borrowing from Latin; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Latin regnant-, regnāns, regnāre. Etymology: < classical Latin regnant-, regnāns, present participle of regnāre reign v., partly after Middle French regnant (French régnant) reigning (c1350), dominant (15th cent.), existing, lasting (1513). Compare Old Occitan regnant royal, supreme, (2nd half of the 13th cent.) Catalan regnant royal, supreme (1425–50), Spanish reinante (a1520 or earlier as reynante), Portuguese reinante (1255 as reynante), Italian regnante (1374). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin regnans ruler (from 12th cent. in British sources).In α. forms after reign v. A. adj. 1. Esp. of a monarch: reigning, ruling. a. In predicative use and attributive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > [adjective] > ruling or governing regnantc1475 governing1534 ladylike1534 lording1548 ruling1561 signorizing1588 regent1613 swaying1625 regal1653 reigning1705 society > authority > rule or government > sole rule > [adjective] > ruling as monarch regnantc1475 monarchial1548 monarchal1586 monarchizing1592 monarchicala1618 sovereignizing1621 monarchic1632 regent1690 reigning1705 c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) 417 Thys myghty Kyng ys God omnipotent, In oone godhede reignant in persones thre. 1600 J. Hamilton Facile Traictise Epist. sig. ★5 Thair saules regnant now in gloire with..Christ Iesus. 1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy 253 The Church of Martyrs,..now regnant in heaven. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. iii. 205 Giving Orders that he should be treated like a Nephew of the regnant Pope. 1721 T. D'Urfey Grecian Heroine ii. i, in New Opera's 112 A marbled Cæsar pinnion'd to a Throne, The People regnant, and the Monarch Stone. 1778 Let. Sir. G. Saville 27 Our Constitution essentially recognizes the legislative Authority of the regnant King. 1856 C. R. Kennedy tr. Demosthenes' Leptines App. iv The power of government passed from the regnant house into the hands of the Eupatridæ. 1884 R. Browning Shah Abbas in Ferishtah's Fancies 49 Our liege, the Shah Happily regnant, hath become assured [etc.]. 1941 Jewish Q. Rev. 31 337 Herod himself would ultimately become king and kill all his enemies, including the regnant king who was his patron and protector. 1984 T. Mallon Bk. of One's Own (1985) ii. 65 Like Louis Philippe (by now regnant in France), she is troubled by the enforced retreat of the Indians. 2000 Heritage Feb. 61/1 Mary II..needed new regalia, as the first regnant Queen since Cromwell's Commonwealth. b. As postmodifier.Esp. in queen regnant. ΚΠ 1595 W. Allen et al. Conf. Next Succession Crowne of Ingland ii. x. 259 This declaration now if it were made, would be hurtful and dangerous for him that should be declared, for on the one side, it would put the Prince regnant in great ielousie and suspicion of him, and on the other side, would ioyne and arme al the other pretenders and their fauourers agaynst him. a1624 R. Crakanthorpe Vigilius Dormitans (1631) xiii. 186 In the first, the Pope was but Antichrist nascent; In the second, Antichrist crescent; In the third Antichrist regnant. 1632 P. Heylyn Augustus 212 With th' one [face] looking on the King Regnant; with th' other, on the Prince successive. a1639 H. Wotton Parallel betweene Earle of Essex & Duke of Buckingham (1641) 5 There may be reasonably supposed in Queenes Regnant, a little proportion of tendernes that way, more then in Kings. 1733 T. Salmon Mod. Hist. XIX. xxxii. 378 The first Queen Regnant that had set upon the Throne of England since the Conquest. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. iv. 212 The queen regent, regnant, or sovereign, is she who holds the crown in her own right. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 144 Neither the king, nor a queen regnant, can convey in this manner, nor can a corporation. 1859 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. J. E. Robert-Houdin Mem. xix. 284 Each of my performances was honoured by the presence of one or more of the princes regnant of the Germanic Confederation. 1921 L. Strachey Queen Victoria iii. 86 A Queen Regnant must accede to the wishes of her Prime Minister as to the personnel of the female part of her Household. 1980 Antiquaries Jrnl. 60 281 No queen could do much about a king's immorality and adultery, unless she were queen regnant. 2006 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 10 June 25 There is no official position within the monarchy for the husband of a Queen Regnant. 2. a. Of a thing, quality, etc.: ruling, exercising sway or influence; dominating, predominant.In quot. 1875 figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > influence > [adjective] > of controlling or predominating influence regitive?a1425 reigninga1500 reignative1532 overruling1586 predominating1595 hegemonicala1602 regnant1604 dominating1611 ruling1652 presiding1653 hegemonic1656 over-ruly1657 regulant1677 in the ascendanta1698 overriding1830 octopean1896 hegemoniac1959 1604 T. Bell Downefall Poperie vi. 81 Some sinne may be tearmed mortall, and some veniall; which yet may more fitly be called, sinnes regnant, and not regnant. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 32 This humour being Regnant in you, bred those Inuectiues of lazie Ignorance. 1687 E. Waller Divine Love 65 The Law was regnant, and confined his thought. 1726 J. Adams Marrow-chicaning Displayed 33 Your insinuating the contrary of him..declared you at once to be a bold intruder into the Province of God, who alone knows Mens Hearts; and to be animated with a regnant Spirit of Slander. 1799 R. Sickelmore Agnes & Leonora II. 30 Her passion for controversy and reproach was so regnant, that the most poignant misery would hardly subdue it. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 183 And by the order in the field disclose, The order regnant in the yeoman's brain. 1875 M. Collins Sweet & Twenty i. iv A full moon was regnant over breadths of lawn. 1894 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche (rev. ed.) vii. 18 Their fames..Do battle with the regnant names of eld, To win their seats. 1910 V. de Cleyre Dominant Idea 3 And we meet, also, living souls dominating dying bodies—living ideas regnant over decay and death. 1967 N. Podhoretz Making It ii. v. 163 Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn had crossed the regnant ‘high’ literary language with the ‘low’ frontier vulgate. 2007 C. Hitchens God is not Great xvii. 232 In the early history of mankind, the totalitarian principle was the regnant one. b. Prevalent, widespread. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > general or prevalent commona1325 generala1393 usual1396 popular?a1425 riveda1513 vulgarc1550 current1563 afloat1571 widespread1582 penny-rife1606 catholic1607 spacious1610 epidemical1614 epidemial1616 epidemic1617 prevailent1623 regnant1623 fashionablea1627 wide-spreading1655 endemical1658 prevalent1658 endemiala1682 obtaining1682 prevailing1682 endemious1684 sterling1696 running1697 (as) common as dirt (also muck)1737 prevailant1794 exoteric1814 endemic1852 widish1864 prolate1882 going1909 1623 D. Featly in T. Gataker Iust Def. Pref., sig. A3 The sinne too regnant in sports and games now a-daies is..in not obseruing those Rules and Cautions..which are iudiciously and piously set downe by you in your compleat Treatise of Lots. 1655 Charles I's Speech to Parl., 1625 in H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 10 I must minde you of the mortality now regnant in this City. 1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum Pref. sig. B3 Drunkenness..is not now so regnant in this Isle. ?1757 J. Haldane (title) The players scourge: or a detection of the ranting prophanity and regnant impiety of stage plays. 1865 Harper's Mag. Dec. 62/2 Days when the odor of preserves was regnant. 1877 M. Arnold Last Ess. on Church & Relig. 25 The belief in witchcraft and diabolical contracts which was regnant in his day. 1906 J. S. Dennis Christian Missions & Social Progr. III. v. 235 The dominant idea of theistic evolution now so regnant in the philosophy and science of our times. 1998 T. A. Bergren Sixth Ezra 122 There is no other period in the larger time frame in which 6 Ezra could plausibly have been written—namely, between 95 and 313 C.E.—when..the types of social situation that 6 Ezra seems to reflect were so regnant. 2003 R. D. Huerta Giants of Delft ii. 38/2 Van Eyck's ‘special process’ was so regnant it caused a revolution throughout Europe. †B. n. A sovereign, a ruler. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] waldendeOE prince?c1225 ordainerc1300 tyranta1340 prefecta1382 rulera1382 wieldera1382 corner of the people1382 lordshipperc1384 governora1393 moderatora1398 wieldinga1400 leader of lawsc1400 regent1415 governailc1440 dominatorc1450 reignera1464 regnanta1500 gubernator1522 despot1562 shepherd1577 swayer1598 Sophy1599 most mastera1616 Govr.1620 Gov.1630 archon1735 a1500 Hymnal in R. S. Loomis Medieval Stud. in Memory G. S. Loomis (1927) 477 (MED) Thow myghty lord, O Ruler and regnant, Sothfast god..hast in gouerance Tymes echone and makyst dyvydent. Compounds regnant process n. Psychology (in the theory of personality) any of the various controlling brain processes that are integrated in a single moment. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > [noun] > dominant determiner of regnant process1937 1937 H. A. Murray in Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. 32 162 It is my role to indicate some of the influences which regnant processes may have upon observable physiological phenomena throughout the body. 1974 W. B. Arndt Theories of Personality xii. 237 We must infer the characteristics of regnant processes from the behavior of organisms. 1984 Jrnl. Mind & Behavior 5 311 The kinetic processes of personality are those (regnant) processes in the brain whose mutual interactions constitute no less than the person's..mental life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1475
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