regal – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of regal

Adjective: regal

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore regal
Superlativemost regal

Sample Sentences

  • regal authority
  • the regal title
  • He made a scorn of his regal oath. [1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:]
  • The [Washington] Posts proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal' Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. [2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:]
  • Terrific movement from The Queen here. Gets behind the defender, goes one way then cuts back inside. Regal attacking play. [2018 July 14, Gary Lineker, Twitter, retrieved 15 Jul 2018:]
  • Kwarteng said he had urged Truss to “slow down” over reforms, but a cabinet minister told the FT that she felt “invincible, almost regal”. [2022 December 10, Harry Taylor, “Liz Truss and I ‘got carried away’ writing mini-budget, admits Kwasi Kwarteng”, in The Guardian:]
  • The children to whom I acted as cicerone almost screamed with glee as they saw the four-and-twenty blackbirds emerging from the pie-crust in front of the astonished King; and when the climax of the inconsequential story was reached, by way of the regal counting house and the “reginal” parlour, and a blackbird (presumably one of the four-and-twenty that had been temporarily immured in the pie) was seen about to revenge himself on the innocent nose of the guiltless laundry-maid, a veritable climax of enthusiasm was reached. [c. 1898, Truth, column 2:]
  • The crown seals, a regal crown and a reginal crown are unengraved, but from the motif I judge they symbolize King William III of England and Queen Mary, (see 1688, English History) who formerly ruled Holland as Prince William, Consort, and Queen Mary — The House of Orange. [c. 1947, Hobbies, page 27, column 1:]
  • In any case, the discrepancy might be explained by the fact that the 9th pylon has not yet disgorged all it blocks; it is in the talatat from this pylon that the masonry of the essentially regal (as opposed to reginal) temples Tni-mnw and Rwd-mnw predominate. [1973, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, page 78, column 2:]

Etymology

From Middle English regal, from Old French regal (“regal, royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“royal, kingly”), from rex (“king”); also regere (“to rule”). Doublet of royal (“belonging to a monarch”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real, Italian reale, Catalan reial. See: Latin Adjectives 'rēgālis', Spanish Adjectives 'real', Italian Adjectives 'reale', Catalan Adjectives 'reial'.