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† ˈregaly Obs.
Forms: 4–5 regalye, 4–6 -ly, -lie; 5 regall(i)e, 5–6 regally, (5 -ye, 6 -ey), 6 rigalie.
[a. AF. regaly, regalie = It. and Sp. regalía: see regal a. and -y1.]
1. Royalty, royal prerogative, kingship; kingdom. (Very common c 1380–1500.)
c1368Chaucer Compl. Pite 65 Your contraire, Crueltee, Allyed is ageynst your regalye. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 88 Here Crist shewide his regaly, and tauȝte how lordis shulde chastise symonye. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 399 Too egles..that signifiede ij. regalies, of Asia and of Europe. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. cli. 138 After he had..depryuyd Sygebert, theyr Kynge, from his auctorite, & regally. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 407 Ercombert .xxx. yere reynynge in his regaly Had a noble progeny. 1558G. Cavendish Poems (1825) II. 46 Farewell the pieussant prynce, flower of all regally.
b. = regality1 3 b.
1467–8Rolls Parlt. V. 633 In Regalie, and Court of the Archbishop of York in Hexhamshire. 1515in Hinds Hist. Northumb. (1896) III. 47 Th' enhabitauntes of yor regalie of Hexham. c1530in Raine Priory Hexham (Surtees) I. p. cviii, The rigalie of Hexham, belonging my lord archebusshop his grace of York.
2. pl. = regalia1 2.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 128 Erthely princes, reigneng in theyr glorye, Withe theyre sceptres and theyr regalyes. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 399 The castell, in the whiche were founde y⊇ regalies of Scotlande; that is to meane y⊇ crowne wt the sceptre & cloth of astate. |