regentn.
/ˈriːdʒ(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈridʒ(ə)nt/ 1. † b. In extended use: that which rules, governs, or has supremacy; a ruling power or principle. Chiefly literary. Obsolete.
a. A person or god who rules or governs. Now rare.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun]
waldendeOE
prince?c1225
ordainerc1300
tyranta1340
prefecta1382
rulera1382
wieldera1382
corner of the people1382
lordshipperc1384
governora1393
moderatora1398
wieldinga1400
leader of lawsc1400
regent1415
governailc1440
dominatorc1450
reignera1464
regnanta1500
gubernator1522
despot1562
shepherd1577
swayer1598
Sophy1599
most mastera1616
Govr.1620
Gov.1630
archon1735
1415 T. Hoccleve Addr. to Sir John Oldcastle l. 231 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 15 Thow [sc. Constantine] were a noble & a worthy Regent! Wel was byset on thee thy diadeeme!
c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) 982 (MED) O Alisaundre, grettest of dignite, Of al this world monark and Regent.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccl. 169 The duchesse hauyng full power of hir lord as Regent and lady of his londes.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. iii. iii. 252 Valerius publicola on þe thrid day eftir þat he was made regent, was chosin consul.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 147 Elizabeth regent of the great Brittaine Ile, Honour of all regents and of Queenes.
1639 J. Ford Ladies Triall v. sig. K2v Spinella, regent of my affections, thou hast conquerd, I finde thy vertues as I left them, perfect.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xviii. 167 As farr as Reason, Honour, Conscience, and the Queen who was his Regent in all these, would give him leave.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. iii. 84 This Penetentiary has a Prelat under him, that is call'd the Regent of the Penitentiary office.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 42 Assist him, Jove! thou regent of the skies!
1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 85 We might establish a Doge, a Lord Archon, a Regent.
1793 Asiatick Researches 3 408 Serapis, I believe, is the same with Yama or Pluto... Yama, the regent of hell, has two dogs, according to the Puránas.
1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline i. ii. 37 Regent of flocks was he when the shepherd slept.
1870 E. J. Eitel Handbk. for Student of Chinese Buddhism i. 173/1 Yama..originally the Aryan god of the dead, living in a heaven above the world, the regent of the South; but Brahminism transferred his abode to hell.
1995 J. D. Barrow Artful Universe iv. 155 The god controlling the first hour of the day also had the added distinction of being named the controlling ‘regent’ of that day.
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society > authority > power > influence > [noun] > one who or that which influences > controlling or prevailing
rulera1398
regenta1450
hegemonicon1583
gianta1631
a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 3827 (MED) Whan resoun is regent Of man, þan regneþ no delicacie.
?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners Fii This comelynesse is kept / and good order of mynde Whan clere reason ruleth / as regent souerayne.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Aiv Lyberte may somtyme be to large But yf reason be regent and ruler of your barge.
1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 266 The moone..beeing as the regent [1618: regient] of the seas and waters.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 371 First in his East the glorious Lamp was seen, Regent of Day. View more context for this quotation
1739 R. Glover London 5 Soon as the paly regent of the night Nine times her monthly progress had renew'd Through heav'n's illumin'd vault.
1772 Falconer's Shipwreck (ed. 4) i. 646 Thou moon, fair regent of the night!
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 724 Flowers by that name promiscuously we call, But one, the rose, the regent of them all.
1805 J. Foster Essays II. iv. v. 197 If Christianity ought really..to be the supreme regent of all moral feelings.
1882 A. T. de Vere Foray of Queen Meave 312 She had never loved: Self-love, sole regent of the unloving heart, Till then had barred it.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xvi. 264 My idea is that there's a certain quality of beauty in the past, which the ordinary historical novelist completely ruins by his absurd conventions. The moon becomes the Regent of the Skies..and so on.
2. A person invested with royal authority by, or on behalf of, another; esp. a person appointed to administer the affairs of a country or state during the minority, absence, or incapacity of the monarch.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > regent > [noun]
wardena1400
regentc1425
defensor1426
protector1426
interking1533
interrex1579
interregent1600
regency1643
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 3392 (MED) He is made regent of þilke lond durynge his fader lyf.
c1450 (c1430) Brut (Galba) (1908) 431 Henry his ffadir comyttid..the kepynge of Fraunce and Normandie to Iohn the Duke of Bedford, to ben regent and gouernoure.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 6 I..constytute the[e] Regent and gouernour of my Royaume.
1521 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. xxxv Alexander Erll of Huntlie, regent and luftennand to our souerane lord, of the northt of Scotland.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cj The Lady Mary..came into Flaunders, whom the Emperour made Regent of all the base countreis.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 i. i. 63 Cosin of Yorke, We here discharge your grace from being Regent in the parts of France.
1610 A. Willet Hexapla in Danielem 211 Alexanders 4. captaines were at the first regents under Alexander.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 193 When Madame Louise the Regent had declared [etc.].
1677 J. Evelyn tr. F. de Chassepol Hist. Grand Visiers i. 62 Publickly proclaimed Emperor of the Turks, and his Mother Zaime, Regent, during his minority.
1723 A. Hill King Henry V v. i. 60 Stand in my Place; Be Regent over France, Ev'n while my Father lives.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. vi, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 440 A king, they told him, had often reason to fear, seldom to love, a regent.
1783 W. Thomson in R. Watson & W. Thomson Hist. Reign Philip III v. 322 Mary de Medicis sole regent of France during the minority of her son.
1811 Edinb. Rev. 18 76 It has been said, that the name and office of Regent are unknown to our Law and Constitution.
1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 77 The throne was occupied by a minor, whose mother..governed as regent for him.
1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. xviii. 89 He accepted Henry as his son-in-law, regent and heir of France.
1921 L. Strachey Queen Victoria iv. 117 Before the birth of the Princess Royal, the Prince, without any opposition in Parliament, was appointed Regent in case of the death of the Queen.
1941 C. Headlam Diary 27 Mar. in S. Ball Parl. & Politics in Age Churchill & Attlee (1999) vi. 246 Yugoslavia ‘had found her soul’—a coup d'état , the young King installed, the Regent sent packing.
1989 B. Head Tales Tenderness & Power (1990) 82 Moruakgomo was the son of a regent, Tshosa, who had ruled the tribe when Motswasele was as yet too young to rule.
3.
a. At Oxford and Cambridge Universities: a master of arts ruling over disputations in the Schools, a duty originally held for one year, and later for five years, after graduation. Also in later use: a master of arts of not more than five years standing. Now historical.
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society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > examiner > at universities
regentc1447
moderator1573
moderatrix1577
tripos1660
tripus1670
praeses1761
senate-house examiner1855
opposer1891
c1447 in H. Anstey Epistolae Academicae Oxon. (1898) I. 262 Ȝowr special oratours, Chancellar, proctours, regentes, & non-regentes of the Universite of Oxon.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. 213 (MED) Þis legate..suspende the universite of Oxonforde untille thabbot and chanons of Oseney with regentes [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. maistres regentes; L. magistris..regentibus] of the universite, goynge unschoede..unto his ynne, cowthe unnethe have forȝifnesse.
1504 Will of John Archer (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/14) f. 125v To euery Regente et non Regente being at my burying vjd & jd.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxiv The Regentis & Masters of that Unyuersytie were lastly compellyd..to aske of hym forgyuenes.
1574 M. Stokys in G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. (1841) App. A. p. xi The Father..shall dispute with the old Bachilour, and after hym two Regents.
1604 W. Tooker Of Fabrique of Church 120 Congregations of the Masters or convocation of Regents, and not Regents, is a needlesse thing.
1681 London Gaz. No. 1656/2 When their Majesties were come into the Schools, they found the Regent-walk crouded on both sides with Regents, non-Regents, and Batchelors of Divinity.
1714 J. Ayliffe Antient & Present State Univ. Oxf. II. iii. i. 141 All publick Professors and Lecturers, Royal as well as others, are accounted Regents ad placitum; so are all Resident Doctors, [etc.].
1797 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 147 The Senate is divided into two bodies or houses, 1st. Those who have not been A.M. five years, and are called Regents.
1841 G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. 15 (note) The house of regents was composed of those masters or doctors who were actually regent, or engaged in teaching or reading lectures in the university, without reference to standing.
1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages II. 791 Probably by an oversight on the part of the framers of the Act of 1854, the ancient Congregation of Regents [at Oxford] was left in existence for certain purposes.
1984 M. B. Hackett in J. I. Catto et al. Hist. Univ. Oxf. I. ii. 40 John Grim, himself a regent in theology.
b. At certain Scottish universities: a teacher in a college responsible for the tuition of a certain number of students for the duration of their course (now historical); (now also) a tutor having a general advisory role to assigned students.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > university or college teacher > [noun] > Scottish
regent1509
rector1535
1414 Acta Facult. Artium (St. Andrews) 25 Mar. Quod determinantes admitterentur per decanum Facultatis et regentes qui habeant considerare eorum sufficientiam.]
1509 in J. Robertson & C. Innes Munimenta Univ. Glasguensis (1854) I. 47 Our maist noble progenitouris..has..exempit all continuale regentis and studentis and dayly officiaris being in oure Vniversite of Glasgw fra all taxt.
1522 King James V Let. in Rep. Univ. Comm., St. Andrews (1837) 180 The Universite of Sanctandrois, the rector, doctouris, regentes,..makand residence therin.
?1566–7 G. Buchanan Opinion Reformation Univ. St. Andros in Vernacular Writings (1892) 8 The regent sal writ thayme in hys rol, and assigne thayme place in hys classe diuidit in decuriis.
1628 in A. Morgan Univ. Edinb. Charters (1937) 111 The regent instructes theme in the Rethorick of Cassander or any uther commoun rethorick.
1641 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 581/2 Þe principall professoures regentes and remanent maisteres and memberes of the samen colledge.
a1662 T. Craufurd Hist. Univ. Edinb. (1808) 91 250 merks..for their stipends in these faculties, beside 250 merks as ordinary Regents.
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) ii. iii. x. 469 In Philosophy there are Four Regents or Professors; they teach Philosophy and Greek. Every Regent has his Class, which Classes are divided according to the Years that the Students have been entred in the University.
1723 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 29 In a very little time after his graduation, he was advanced to be a Regent or Professor of Philosophy in that University.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 16 The students are..taught, in public schools or classes, each science by its particular professor or regent.
1867 D. Masson Edinb. Sketches 40 The four general or circulating professors were the essential complement of the Arts Faculty. They were called ‘regents’, by way of distinction.
1956 Edinb. Univ. Cal. p. xxxviii The Regents of Philosophy taught in rotation the four classes in the Curriculum of Arts, the ‘Bajans’, the ‘Semi-Bajans’, the ‘Bachelors’, and the ‘Magistrands’, as the first, second, third, and fourth year were respectively styled.
1965 St. Andrews Univ. Cal. 1965–6 157 There is a system of Regents whereby Professors and Lecturers in all the Colleges are available to give friendly advice and assistance to students placed in their charge.
c. At French universities: a teacher in arts or science, esp. in the more elementary classes (see quot. 1728). Now historical.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > university or college teacher > [noun] > continental
repetitor1595
regent1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Regent,..a Regent, Reader, Teacher, Moderator of a forme in a Colledge.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. v. 29 It was told him by one of his Teachers (there called Regents,) that the paine of the eyes was the most hurtful thing of any to the sight.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Regent is generally restrain'd to the lower Classes, as Regent of Rhetoric, Regent of Logic, &c. those of Philosophy are rather call'd Professors.
1734 tr. C. Rollin Method teaching & studying Belles Lettres IV. 377 Besides these publick and common instructions the regent may still be very serviceable to the scholars by his watchfulness over their conduct.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 130 What shall be said of those infamous punishments, which produce a disgraceful effect, at once, on the morals of both scholars and regents, and of which a thousand examples might be adduced?
1863 J. W. Draper Intell. Devel. Europe (1864) II. xviii. 126 In Montpellier, he was for long one of the regents of the faculty of medicine.
1875 M. Pattison I. Casaubon iii. 89 The regents in medicine and law had a salary secured by patent.
1992 J. Verger in W. Rüegg Hist. University in Europe I. v. 150 Priests and monks who taught canon law or theology had more openings available to them, in that, after a few years as regent, they could opt for a strictly ecclesiastical career.
d. North American. A member of the governing board of a college or university, esp. a state one; also spec. a governor of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington. Also: a member of a supervisory body for certain state schools and other special educational institutions.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > governing body > member(s) of
fellow1584
curator1612
overseer1643
senior1645
Senior Fellow1651
regent1790
1790 N.-Y. Mag. May 256/1 An act passed constituting 21 gentlemen (of whom the governor and lieutenant governor, for the time being, are members, ex officiis) a body corporate and politic, by the name and stile of ‘The regents of the university of the state of New-York’.
1813 Niles' Reg. 5 79/2 The regents of the university, expressly endeavored to effect this important object.
1848 J. Bouvier Law Dict. U.S.A. (ed. 3) II. 424/1 Regent, in New York..the board who have the superintendence of all the colleges, academies and schools, are called the regents of the University of the state of New York.
1877 (title) A Memorial to the Regents of the University of the State of Iowa.
1925 W. Cather Professor's House i. iii. 55 St. Peter openly criticized these lax methods, both to the faculty and to the regents.
1969 Morning Star 13 Oct. 5/3 The Director of Afro-American Studies declares her sacking raises grave doubts about the Regents' desire to encourage black participation.
1976 New Yorker 26 Apr. 32/2 One of the Smithsonian's regents..is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
1995 Goderich (Ont.) Signal-Star 27 Dec. b20/4 IODE regent Lynn Edward said the group agreed to cover the cost of the Saturday night icetime.
e. U.S. At Harvard University: an officer responsible for overseeing the conduct and welfare of students. Now historical.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > other disciplinary officials
hebdomadar1700
regent1814
promotor1854
1814 Harvard Laws 7 The Regent and proctors, shall reside in the College.
1888 A. P. Peabody Harvard Reminisc. 199 The students who were not present at evening prayers were obliged..to register their names with the regent.
1902 J. Corbin Amer. at Oxf. 275 A Regent has among other duties a general charge of the rooms the fellows live in, and usually makes each room and its occupant a yearly visit.
2005 W. Wright Harvard's Secret Court xv. 189 Three Harvard deans, one Harvard regent, and the director of Harvard's Department of Hygiene, gravely sitting in a darkened room in earnest discussion about erotic play between two five-year-old boys.
4. A member or the leader of a municipal governing body; spec. a member of the governing body of certain cities in Europe (now historical); (also) the governor of a district or other administrative area in parts of South East Asia and Africa.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > member of local government council > town-councillor > collectively
commons1384
regent1579
city father1834
society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > Malayan or Javan
panglima1792
regent1795
1579 G. Gilpin tr. P. van Marnix van Sant Aldegonde Bee Hiue of Romishe Church vi. iii. f. 292 The shameles whore Theodora, Regent & Gouernesse of the citie of Rome.
1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 346 The conflict was so sharpe, that the regent of the citie, not able to redresse it nor appease it, was faine to forsake the place.
1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples i. 17 The..Regent of the City..ordered the forenamed Anaclerio the Elect of the peeple, that he shold apply himself to remedy that commotion.
1694 tr. E. Benoist Hist. Famous Edict of Nantes II. ix. 434 Two Regents of that place coming to kiss his hands in the body of the Town, as their Lord, he took from 'em their Hoods, which is the mark of their Dignity.
1707 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 1706 67 The Regents of the Canton of Berne insisted peremptorily upon their Right of Protection.
1724 London Gaz. No. 6291/1 A Vessel which the Regents of Berne have caused to be built.
1795 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. (ed. 2) II. 309 The Regent in the island of Madura is stiled..a free prince or regent.
1817 T. S. Raffles Hist. Java I. ii. 79 Governors of provinces, called by the Dutch Regents,..are ranked among the chief nobility of the country.
1998 Daily Graphic (Acera) 22 Aug. 16/5 In a welcoming address, Togbe Sakyi II, Regent of Dzolo Traditional Area appealed to international donors..for assistance.
2003 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 36 188 Nieuwentijt was a physician and regent at Purmerend, a small town about fifteen kilometres from Amsterdam.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > head teacher
rector1434
provost1442
headmaster1576
regent1583
gymnasiarch1682
headmistress1730
headteacher1758
principal1827
archididascalus1844
head1889
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. D3v Except one be able to giue the regent or prouost of the house, a peece of mony..he comes not there I warant him.
a1652 R. Brome New Acad. iv. ii. 79 in Five New Playes (1659) By your leave, sir, Are you the Regent of this Academy?
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 99 Over this College there is a Regent, without whose leave no Student may lodge out of the House one night.
1694 tr. E. Benoist Hist. Famous Edict of Nantes II. xi. 438 The Reformed had Schools at Couhè, which were Govern'd by two Regents, Guillamet, otherwise call'd Torsat, and Champeraut.
1718 J. Addison Evid. Christian Relig. v. viii Origen was appointed Regent of the Catachetic school in Alexandria.
1772 S. O'Halloran Introd. Study Hist. Ireland ii. vii. 189 The wife, regent of the school of Clonard, and a writer of the Life of St. Patrick.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Ptilinorhynchidae (bower-bird) > sericlus melinus (regent bird)
regent1813
regent bird1825
regent oriole1837
1813 T. Skottowe Select Specimens Birds & Animals New S. Wales 31 Regent... I am I believe the first possessor of any of its kind, and having procur'd the specimen on the same day that I receiv'd in this distant part of the World the news of the Regency Restrictions on His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, having been taken off, as a small tribute from the Esteem I bear that exalted Character, I have named it as above.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales I. 325 The regent and rifle-bird outvie all I have seen from any part of the world, in the chaste splendour of their plumage.
1887 H. Gullet Trop. New S. Wales 12 There is..the regent, brilliant in black and orange yellow.
1919 Auk 36 152 A very large percentage of the forms are of wonderfully varied and brilliant plumage, especially among the Kingfishers, Rollers, Cockatoos, Parrots, Chats, Regents, Honey-eaters, Diamond Birds, and many others.
7. A variety of potato having yellowish skin and pale flesh, widely grown in the late 19th cent. Now rare.In full Prince Regent.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato > types of
baker1651
Irish potato1664
sprout1771
London lady1780
ox-noble1794
pink-eye1795
kidney1796
Suriname1796
round1800
yam potato1801
bluenose1803
yam1805
bead-potato1808
Murphy1811
lumper1840
blue1845
salmon1845
merino1846
regent1846
pink1850
redskin potato1851
fluke1868
snowflake1882
magnum1889
ware1894
snowdrop1900
King Edward1902
Majestic1917
red1926
fingerling1930
Pentland1959
chipper1961
Maris Peer1963
Maris Piper1963
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > types of potato
potato1629
Rough Red1771
sprout1771
London lady1780
russet1780
ox-noble1794
pink-eye1795
kidney1796
Suriname1796
silver-skin1797
yam potato1801
bluenose1803
yam1805
bead-potato1808
lumper1840
blue1845
merino1846
regent1846
pink1850
redskin potato1851
fluke1868
mangel-wurzel potato1875
snowflake1882
snowdrop1900
pomato1905
Idaho1911
Majestic1917
red1926
Pentland1959
1843 Brit. Farmer's Mag. Jan. 598 I planted the whole with potatoes—the kinds being American natives, Prince Regents, and short-topped reds.]
1846 Times 13 Feb. 5/2 Regents..kidneys, earlies, Scotch reds.
1868 M. Jewry Warne's Model Cookery 14 Potatoes.—We think the best are..the regents for winter use.
1888 Ladies' Treasury 1 Mar. 186/1 It is a pity that the Regent potatoes have not proved ‘a survival of the fittest’, for they were excellent.
1905 T. W. Sanders Bk. of Potato 86 The old Regent, one of the best potatoes..has almost gone out of cultivation, its constitution having become enfeebled by age.
1927 T. P. McIntosh Potato ii. 20 Not much appears to be known about Regent, which was a later introduction [sc. after 1836].
1949 R. N. Salaman Hist. Social Infl. Potato x. 165 The ‘Prince Regent’, which was being grown a few years prior to 1841, became extremely popular; it was known generally as the ‘Regent’.
8. In the United States: the head of a branch of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a patriotic society founded in 1890 whose aims include encouraging education and the study of American history (see Daughters of the American Revolution n. at daughter n. Phrases 4b).
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society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > one who presides > over an institution or society > specific
corrector1553
guider1578
Dean of Faculty1664
grand1747
regent1890
1890 Constitution & Bye-Laws, Daughters Amer. Revolution 4 When twelve or more members of the Society shall be living in one locality they may organize a Chapter. They may elect a presiding officer whose title will be Regent.
1928 Harper's Mag. Oct. 529/2 The Daughters upheld Mrs Brousseau and the contention of the Massachusetts State Regent.
1946 Nat. Historical Mag. Mar. 144/2 Please read over the foregoing statement again, Madam Regent.
1974 Marlboro Herald-Advocate (Bennettsville, S. Carolina) 18 Apr. 4/2 Mrs. Walter Hughes, local regent, also attended the Congress.
2000 Heritage in Quilts (Tennessee Soc. Daughters Amer. Revol.) Intro. 3/1 In 1983, eight DAR Regents of the Knox County Regents Council presented a handmade quilt to Mrs. James O. Harrison, State Regent.
Compounds
C1. † regent oriole n. Obsolete = regent bowerbird n.
regent bird n. Australian = regent bowerbird n.mock regent bird: see mock adj., adv., and n.6 Compounds 3.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Ptilinorhynchidae (bower-bird) > sericlus melinus (regent bird)
regent1813
regent bird1825
regent oriole1837
1825 in B. Field Geogr. Mem. New S. Wales App. 503 Regent bird or King honey-sucker, Sericulus chrysocephalus.
1873 ‘Lady in Austral.’ Memories Past 20 There are also some other very rare birds to be found in that region [sc. Port Macquarie, N.S.W.]; the ‘regent bird’, and the ‘rifleman’.
1959 Meanjin 135 He..follows the flight of a black-and-orange regent-bird.
2005 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 28 Feb. 9 Gilbert found and described crimson-winged and blue mountain parrots, a regent bird and other interesting bird species.
regent bowerbird n. a bowerbird, Sericulus chrysocephalus, of dense forests in eastern Australia, the male of which is black with a bright golden-yellow cap and mantle and chiefly yellow wing primaries.
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1897 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Aug. 573/1 A nest containing a pair of fresh eggs of the Regent Bower-bird (Sericulus melinus).
1956 Evolution 10 107/1 Adult males of the Regent Bower Bird (Sericulus chrysocephalus) have..a tail which averages 15 mm shorter than that of immature males.
2010 P. Olsen Upside Down World xxxi. 186/1 The first Australian bowerbird encountered by Europeans, the regent bowerbird, was not thought to be a bird of paradise but a honeyeater.
regent honeyeater n. a honeyeater, Xanthomyza phrygia (family Meliphagidae), having black plumage with yellow bars and spots and found in the eucalyptus forests of south-east Australia (also called mock regent bird).
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mock regent bird1848
regent honeyeater1913
flying coachman1918
1913 G. M. Mathews List Birds Austral. 270 Zanthomiza phrygia phrygia. Regent Honey-eater.
1967 A. Rutgers Birds Austral. 262 Regent Honey-eaters make a lot of noise and have a loud laughing call.
2002 Australian 1 Jan. (Brisbane ed.) 13/4 Welcome. Barraba Shire. A habitat of the regent honeyeater.
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regent bird1825
regent oriole1837
1837 W. Swainson On Nat. Hist. & Classif. Birds II. iii. iv. 22 To this division [sc. orioles] belongs the magnificent Sericulus chrysocephalus, Sw., or regent oriole, of New South Wales.
1878 S. B. J. Skertchly Physical Geogr. 211 The perchers include the singular bower-birds.., the thick-heads, the regent oriole.
1919 Encycl. Americana XXIII. 320/2 It is sometimes, but erroneously called the Regent-oriole.
regent parrot n. a parrot, Polytelis anthopeplus, of southern Australia, the male of which is yellow with a green back and mainly blue-black wings and tail.
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1931 N. W. Cayley What Bird is That? 137 Regent Parrot Polytelis anthopeplus... Also called Black-tailed Parrot, Rock Pebbler, Smoker, Marlock Parakeet, and Mountain Parrot.
1962 B. W. Leake Eastern Wheatbelt Wildlife 85 The regent parrot or smoker is different in many ways to the twenty eight.
1997 Q. Rev. Biol. 72 285/2 Olroyd et al..studied competition for nesting sites between the endangered regent parrot (Polytelis anthopeplus) and honey bees in Victoria.
C2. † Regent congregation n. Obsolete an assembly of the Regent House of Cambridge University (see Regent House n.).
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1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages II. xii. 365 (note) Even in the Fifteenth Century Register..we find that in a Regent Congregation the graces are ‘pronounced’..by a Proctor.
Regent House n. the governing body and principal electoral constituency of Cambridge University, originally the upper of the two houses into which the university Senate was divided; the building in which this body meets; (later also) the common room used by members of this body.
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1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 18 I have not yit bene so courst and galled in our own House as I am like hereafter to be pincht and nipt in the Regent Hous.
1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. iv. 62 in Church-hist. Brit. The Arch-bishop personally visited the collective Body of the Vniversity, in the Congregation, or Regent-House.
1788 J. Beverley Acct. Ceremonies Univ. Cambr. 21 The Heads of College or (in their Absence) the Presidents, meet in the Regent House, to nominate and prick two Persons; one of whom is to be elected Vicechancellor by the Senate.
1894 Dict. National Biogr. XXXVIII. 58/1 On the accession of Queen Mary he organized a curious attack in the regent house on Dr. Sandys.
1996 Notes for Praelectors (Univ. Cambr.) 4 Each year there are seven Congregations of the Regent House at which degrees are conferred.
Regent walk n. now historical at Cambridge University: any of certain walks or alleys in Christ's and Queens' Colleges and in the Schools.
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1614 in J. E. Foster Churchwardens' Accts. St. Mary the Great, Cambr. (1905) 333 For bringinge stones oute of the Regent walke into the Church yeards. ij s.
1681 London Gaz. No. 1656/2 When their Majesties were come into the Schools, they found the Regent-walk crouded on both sides with Regents, non-Regents, and Batchelors of Divinity.
1719 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 213 At dinner and supper in Summer they met upon ye Regent Walk, and there waited till they knew what Seniors would come down.
1886 Willis & Clark Cambridge II. 54 The gate-house and the central alley [at Queens' College], called ‘Regent-walk’, were flagged.
1998 D. McKitterick Hist. Cambr. Univ. Press II. x. 206 The Regent Walk was demolished in order to make way for the new Senate House.
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regentadj.
/ˈriːdʒ(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈridʒ(ə)nt/ 1.
a. Of a master or doctor in a university: holding the position of a regent. Frequently used postpositively.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1882) VIII. 213 Þe abbot and þe chanouns of Osenay and maisters regentes [?a1475 anon. tr. regentes; L. magistris..regentibus] of Oxenforde.
c1454 in H. Anstey Epistolae Academicae Oxon. (1898) I. 324 (MED) Chaunceler of Oxonford and the hole semeble of maystres regens yn the same.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxcix The Rector of the Uniuersitie called to counsell all the Doctors regentes..to shew their myndes on this question.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1384/1 Angry with the vnmanerly multitude that would giue no rowme vnto the Doctours, Bachelers, Maisters & other graduates and regent masters.
1643 J. Bramhall Serpent Salve 100 The meanest Freshmen are concerned in the Statutes and Orders of the University; yet are none admitted to debate them but the Visiters, Heads, and at the lowest the Regent Masters.
1682 London Gaz. No. 1720/8 First, One of the Esquire Beadles, then the Regent-Masters, afterwards the Non-Regents, and Officers.
1714 J. Ayliffe Antient & Present State Univ. Oxf. II. iii. i. 139 Degrees are proposed and granted in the Congregation of Regent Masters.
1732 R. Newton Grounds Complaint of Principal of Hart-Hall iv. 15 The Rule he seems generally to have Observed, was, to prefer the Person in Possession, having behaved himself well, to one not in Possession; a Regent Master before a Non-Regent; a Master of Arts before a Bachelor of Arts.
1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor II. ii. 18 I delivered my letters: one was from the tutor, and the other from a regent master, who was one of the caput.
1841 G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. 15 (note) The house of regents was composed of those masters or doctors who were actually regent, or engaged in teaching or reading lectures in the university, without reference to standing.
1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages II. xii. 364 The ‘Decree and Statute’ is issued ‘by the authority of the Chancellor and Masters Regent.’
1910 Encycl. Brit. V. 928/1 The ‘Ancient House of Congregation’, in whom lies the granting and conferring of degrees, consisting of the vice-chancellor, proctors and ‘regent masters’.
1936 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 7 327/1 The frequent assertion that during the proctor's walk a tradesman may ‘pluck’ a student is untrue, because only a regent master can ‘pluck’ the proctor's gown.
1997 N. Tyacke Hist. Univ. Oxf. IV. v. 184 It [sc. a petition] had not been proposed to convocation, the assembly of regent and non-regent masters, and at least three heads were rumoured to dissent from it.
2003 T. Williams Cambr. Compan. Duns Scotus i. 12 It was part of the duty of a regent master to conduct quodlibetal disputations.
b. Acting as or holding the position of regent of a country. Also: †ruling as sovereign (obsolete). Usually used postpositively.Prince, Princess, Queen Regent: see the first element.
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society > authority > rule or government > sole rule > [adjective] > ruling as regent
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society > authority > rule or government > sole rule > [adjective] > ruling as monarch
regnantc1475
monarchial1548
monarchal1586
monarchizing1592
monarchicala1618
sovereignizing1621
monarchic1632
regent1690
reigning1705
c1450 (c1430) Brut (Galba) (1908) 429 (MED) The Kynge..ordeynyd..the Duke of Beedford..to byn there Regent Gouernoure of Fraunce and of Normandie.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 186 I..shall calle unto me my counceyle of my moste trusty knyghtes and deukes and regeaunte kynges and erlys and barowns.
1538 King Henry VIII Let. to T. Wyatt 16 Oct. in T. Wyatt Wks. (1816) II. 498 He will..send to my Lady Regent..full and unreserved power..to..conclude the same upon reasonable conditions.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 215 The lady Regente moother vnto the frenche kynge.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 10 Than schaw ȝow him how queine regent Reft frome the Duik the authoritie.
1618 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 129 The Queen Regent had erected the Country of Poictou to a Conty, and made Earle there of Alphonso her Sonne.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xvii. 33 She was made Queen Regent of France during the Kings Minority.
1690 London Gaz. No. 2533/1 Next the Princes who are not Regents or Soveraigns, the Princes Regents, the Heralds.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4161/2 His Imperial Majesty..intends..to receive the Homage of the States of Austria, as being the Regent Arch-Duke.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) In France, the Queen Mother has the Regency of the Kingdom, under the Title of Queen Regent, while the King is a Minor.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. iv. 212 The queen regent, regnant, or sovereign, is she who holds the crown in her own right.
1841 Q. Rev. 67 316 Though himself a Protestant, he had in early life warmly defended Mary of Guise, the Queen Regent.
1886 Dict. National Biogr. VIII. 315/1 The queen regent proceeded to restore the popish services and to garrison the city with Scotch soldiers in the pay of France.
1926 P. Guedalla Palmerston ii. ii. 70 In a formal reference to the Prince Regent the indignant soldier appealed to Caesar.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 513 The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George was founded 27 Apr. 1818 by the prince regent.
2004 Times (Nexis) 22 Mar. (Features section) 24 Juliana's accession in 1948 came after a period when she had already acted as Princess Regent during her mother's ill health.
2. Ruling, governing, holding supremacy. Chiefly poetic. Now rare.
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regnantc1475
governing1534
ladylike1534
lording1548
ruling1561
signorizing1588
regent1613
swaying1625
regal1653
reigning1705
1613 M. Ridley Short Treat. Magneticall Bodies 1 The great regent Globes of Saturne, Mars, Jupiter, the Sunne and the Earth.
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 95 When the light of reason is under a Bushel of passion; and impuissance is regent in the soul.
1680 R. Baxter Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet 8 I entreat you to tell me more plainly, which is the constitutive Regent part of a National Church?
1733 S. Bowden Poet. Ess. I. 110 As o'er Creation's wondrous Works we find The Stamp of Wisdom, and a regent Mind, So Signatures of Art impress the whole, Bright thro' the Ruins, and point out a Soul.
1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) ii. 56 The regent-helm her motion still commands.
1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile in Poems I. 93 This regent and sublime Humanity, Though fallen, exceeds you!
1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems iii. 191 The regent moon, with even Pace, unveils her majesty.
a1894 R. F. Murray Scarlet Gown (1909) 64 We'd grind and grub together In every kind of weather, When Winter's snows were regent, Or when the Spring began.
1900 F. Thompson in Academy 29 Dec. 648/1 The while, unprescient, in her regent school She shapes the ample days and things to be.
1966 R. Pitter Still by Choice 22 The sun Has set for ever, regent in those places.
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regentv.
/ˈriːdʒ(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈridʒ(ə)nt/ 1. † a. intransitive. To act as a university regent. Obsolete.
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a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 40 From paris he past to Poicteors, whar he regented in the College of St. Marcean thrie years.
a1662 T. Craufurd Hist. Univ. Edinb. (1808) 119 Mr. William King, (after he had regented in the Colledge 23 years), was called to the ministry at Cramond.
1753 J. Man Censure & Exam. Ruddiman's Philol. Notes v. 377 Turnebe, Buchanan and Muret regented at the same time in the college of cardinal le Moine.
1846 Life J. Guthrie 142 He regented in the University of St. Andrews and there taught as Professor of Philosophy.
1861 C. Innes Sketches Early Sc. Hist. ii. 281 Thomas Dempster, a man of proved learning and ability, but whose adventures in love and arms, while actually ‘regenting’ at Paris,..were as romantic as those of the Admirable Crichton.
1882 F. Michel Crit. Inq. Sc. Lang. viii. 144 The office of professor was called regency, and to discharge the office of a professor was to regent.
b. transitive. To supervise in (a college), teach (students), as a university regent. Now historical.
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1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood ii. xiii. 248 All these Vniuersities are Regented by Professors of singular Pietie, and exquisite Learning.
1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ Pref. 36 The Colleges..are regented by the Secular Clergy.
1882 M. Pattison in Jrnl. Educ. Mar. 70 Graduates engaged in instructing or regenting the boys.
1998 L. B. McCullough John Gregory's Writings on Med. Ethics & Philos. Med. 9 Gregory returned to King's College and took up regenting students.
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a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1822) I. 85 Even the Black Prince's widow..was passed over, and her son regented by his uncles.
1852 A. Houssaye Philosophers & Actresses II. 388 Go, madame, go and be regented ; as for me, I will have no other mistress but philosophy.
1891 F. Nightingale 21 Apr. in Coll. Wks. (2003) V. 545 He may be able to work and to rule every hour of that life, without being regented by his son.
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