Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to a king or suzerain; regal; sovereign; belonging to the regalia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to regalia; pertaining to the royal insignia or prerogatives.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to regalia

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Examples

  • Indeed, such a complete application of the feudal rights of the crown to the Church, the development of the so-called regalian rights, was at this date incomplete in Europe as a whole, and according to the evidence which we now have, the Norman in England was a pioneer in that direction.

    The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) George Burton Adams 1888

  • Burgundian lands regained by marriage (1156) with Beatrice, heiress of the county of Burgundy; purchase of lands from the Welfs in Swabia and Italy; exploitation of regalian rights.

    1125-37 2001

  • His experts produced the Usages of Barcelona, a legal code that stressed his regalian rights over justice, the peace, and the coinage.

    3. Barcelona and Catalonia 2001

  • The ministeriales, laymen of servile origin, were used to replace the clergy in many administrative posts; regalian rights were retained and exploited.

    d. Germany 2001

  • The emperors, busy in Germany or preoccupied with the popes, made wide grants of regalian rights over local coinage, tolls, customs dues, police powers, and justice (diplomas of Henry I, Lothair II, and Conrad II); there were also considerable delegations of local episcopal powers.

    2. The Development of Italian Towns 2001

  • The time was nearly ripe for general defection; loyalty was strained to breaking-point when Frederic began to appoint for each city a resident commissioner (_podesta_), empowered to exercise the regalian rights and to collect the revenue accruing from them.

    Medieval Europe 1901

  • Reveillon by St. Gervais) -- I say if any of these comforters of the living anywhere grace the earth, you shall find my master Rabelais giving you the very innermost and animating spirit of all these good things, their utter flavour and their saving power in the quintessential words of his incontestably regalian lips.

    On Nothing and Kindred Subjects Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • -- Hence, during four centuries, they had spun the tissue of "regalian rights," the great net in the meshes of which, since Louis XIV., all lives found themselves caught. [

    The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • First, there emerged an increasingly strict separation between property rights (supposedly open to all without state interference) and ‘regalian’ powers (security, justice and the legitimate use of violence, which became the prerogative of the state).

    Geoff Mann · The Inequality Engine · LRB 4 June 2020 Geoff Mann 2020

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