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regal
/ˈɹiɡəl/
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What does regal mean?
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
- Befitting a monarch.
- Befitting a king or emperor.
More meanings (2)
noun
- 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.
- 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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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹiɡəl/
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To enjoy the regal dignity a few years sooner, he had shackled the free exercise of its prerogatives.
Alack, why am I sent for to a king Before I have shook off the regal thoughts Wherewith I reigned?
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It suited her graceful, regal figure to perfection, composed as it was of shimmering stuff which seemed a mass of rich gold embroidery.
She did you the honors of her mind with a grace far less regal, but was not that faculty of quite as remarkable an adjustment?
Then, as he had promised, he laid down his regal power and proceeded to order a commonwealth, entering upon this great work not without advice from the gods.