Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or having to do with an archduke or an archduchy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to an archduke or an archduchy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an archduke or archduchy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an
archduke orarchduchy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective belonging to or befitting an archduke or his archduchy
Etymologies
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Examples
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These various cries of the assailants, contradicting each other, showed their irresolution; while Richard, his foot still on the archducal banner, glared round him with an eye that seemed to seek an enemy, and from which the angry nobles shrunk appalled, as from the threatened grasp of a lion.
The Talisman 2008
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There were unpleasant scenes in the baroque antechambers of Vienna; archducal potentates lost their tempers; and Maximilian, after a hot exchange with Archduke Rainer, the President of the Council ofMinisters, quitted the city in disgust.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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There were unpleasant scenes in the baroque antechambers of Vienna; archducal potentates lost their tempers; and Maximilian, after a hot exchange with Archduke Rainer, the President of the Council ofMinisters, quitted the city in disgust.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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There were unpleasant scenes in the baroque antechambers of Vienna; archducal potentates lost their tempers; and Maximilian, after a hot exchange with Archduke Rainer, the President of the Council ofMinisters, quitted the city in disgust.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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There were unpleasant scenes in the baroque antechambers of Vienna; archducal potentates lost their tempers; and Maximilian, after a hot exchange with Archduke Rainer, the President of the Council ofMinisters, quitted the city in disgust.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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There were unpleasant scenes in the baroque antechambers of Vienna; archducal potentates lost their tempers; and Maximilian, after a hot exchange with Archduke Rainer, the President of the Council ofMinisters, quitted the city in disgust.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The asking of it diminished somewhat from that ducal, grand-ducal, quasi-archducal, almost Godlike superiority which he had assumed, and showed the curiosity of a mere man.
The Duke's Children 2004
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The archducal court, however, failed to follow imperial orders.
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The archducal court did not wish to enforce the agreement because they used the Uskoks as a defense system for their Croatian territories and for the purpose of curbing Venetian demands on land and sea.
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This would be the signal for the withdrawal of the archducal protection from the pirates, who then, exposed to the vengeance of all whom they had plundered, must inevitably succumb in the unequal conflict that would ensue.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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