Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a king; royal.
- adjective an incumbent of a professorship founded by royal bounty, as in an English university.
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- adjective Of or relating to a
king ;royal .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Elton continued both the collecting and the family academic tradition, becoming professor of physics and then of higher education at Surrey, while his brother Geoffrey became regius professor of history at Cambridge.
Picasso, Cocteau and Chagall paintings to be exhibited at Lightbox in Woking 2012
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Prof John Gerald Patrick Sissons, regius prof of physic, Univ of Camb, for serv research and educ in clinical medicine.
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Professor Stephen Blackmore, regius keeper, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, for serv plant conservation.
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He was made regius professor of modern history at Oxford at 43.
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman Stefan Collini 2010
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Reptiles occurring in the river include Geochelone sulcta, Trionys triungis, Varanus niloticus, Python sebae, Python regius, Bitis arietus and Nile crocodile Crocodylus niloticus (V).
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Notable species are the bamboo warbler Bradypterus alfredi and Shelley's crimson-wing Cryptospiza shelleyi (T) the endemic Ruwenzori turaco Musophage johnstoni, and two sunbirds, the regal Cynnyris regius and the larger scarlet-tufted malachite Nectorinia johnstonii dartmouthi.
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His move back to Cambridge in 1979, to the other regius chair of divinity, which he occupied until 1983, was clearly a relief.
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This man, a regius professor of medicine, was our beloved servant, Helkiah Crooke.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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This man, a regius professor of medicine, was our beloved servant, Helkiah Crooke.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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At a relatively young age he moved from Cambridge to take up the regius chair of divinity at Oxford in 1959, which he occupied with distinction for 10 years.
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