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Royal

adjective

Of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch. "The royal crest" , "By royal decree" , "A royal visit"

Established or chartered or authorized by royalty.

Being of the rank of a monarch. "Princes of the blood royal"

Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler. Synonyms: imperial, majestic, purple, regal. "Purple tyrant" , "Regal attire" , "Treated with royal acclaim" , "The royal carriage of a stag's head"

Invested with royal power as symbolized by a crown.

noun

A sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast.

Stag with antlers of 12 or more branches. Synonym: royal stag.

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— Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life • Orison Swett Marden

... are drowned sometimes," said Maude. "How about Admiral Kempenfelt and the Royal George? See Fourth Class Reader for ...

— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin

... fair wife, and her husband is rich, and favored by the king, and has got himself made governor of Acadia in your stead. She sits in her own hall at Port Royal: but poor Madame D'Aulnay! ...

— The Lady of Fort St. John • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... the 1930s, and the Morristown factory was no longer working even close to capacity. The domestic order book for 1941 shows sales of the Indian Root Pills, in quantities of one gross or more, of only 316 gross. The Royal Drug Co. of Chicago gave one single order for 44 gross, and Myers Bros. Drug Co. of St. Louis bought 25 gross in one shot, but otherwise orders in excess of five gross were rare, and those for one gross alone—or for one half gross, one fourth gross, or one sixth gross—were ...

— History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills • Robert B. Shaw

... of making public the valour of the Troops of this town under the command of Major Matthews of the Royal Downshire Regiment, against the Rebels, I send you a plain narrative of facts ...

— An Impartial Narrative of the Most Important Engagements Which Took Place Between His Majesty's Forces and the Rebels, During the Irish Rebellion, 1798. • John Jones

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