regal
adjEtymology
From Middle English regal, from Old French regal (“regal, royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“royal, kingly”), from rex (“king”); also regere (“to rule”). Doublet of royal (“belonging to a monarch”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real.
Definitions
Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
- regal authority
- the regal title
- He made a scorn of his regal oath.
Befitting a monarch.
- Terrific movement from The Queen here. Gets behind the defender, goes one way then cuts back inside. Regal attacking play.
- Kwarteng said he had urged Truss to “slow down” over reforms, but a cabinet minister told the FT that she felt “invincible, almost regal”.
A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying…
A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the 16th and 17th centuries, and has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
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An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose…
An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the 16th and 17th centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.
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Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at regal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at regal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at regal
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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