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- adjective Obsolete form of
royal .
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Examples
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Being arriued at her maiesties roiall court, and hauing deliuered the Emperors letters with good fauour, and gracious acceptance, he was foorthwith againe commaunded to repasse into Russia, with other letters from her maiestie to the Emperor, and prince Boris
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the way of his trauel he passed through Persepolis, sometime the roiall seate of the Emperors of Persia, but now ruined and defaced, whereof remaine to be seene at this day two gates onely that are distant one from the other the space of 12 miles, and some few pinnacles in the mountains and conueiances for fresh water.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Casbin, bringing his interpreter with him, and standing farre off, the Sophie (sitting in a seat roiall with a great number of his noble men about him) bad him come neere, and that thrise, vntill he came so neere him that he might haue touched him with his hand.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Who, being afterward released were compelled to sweare, that they should not declare the iniuries offred vnto them, either before your roiall maiesty, or your hon.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Vnto the sayd army came in proper person the Queens most roiall Maiestie, representing Tomyris that Scythian warlike princesse, or rather diuine Pallas her selfe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Queens maiestie, sent her highnesse a roiall present of Sables,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The kings children shall not inherite the kingdome after their father, because they hold this opinion, that perchance they were not begotten of the king their father, but of some other man, therfore they accept for their king, one of the sonnes of the kings sisters, or of some other woman of the blood roial, for that they be sure, they are of the blood roiall.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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To be briefe, after that Brute had destroied such as stood against him, and brought such people vnder his subiection as he found in the Ile, and searched the land from the one end to the other: he was desirous to build a citie, that the same might be the seate roiall of his empire or kingdome.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8) Raphael Holinshed
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And his olde age was not so much the occasion of my departure, as the feare which I conceiued (through the frailtie of my youth to be maried vnto him,) to commit a thing that should be contrarie to the lawe of God, and the honour of the bloud roiall of my father.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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The honestie and worthinesse of whome is well able to matche with any great lady, how honorable so euer she be, although per aduenture, the nobilitie of his bloud is not so excellent as that which procedeth from the roiall and Princely stock.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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