royaltyn.
/ˈrɔɪəlti/, U.S. /ˈrɔɪ(ə)lti/ I. Senses relating to monarchy.† 1. † 6. Irish English. A rath, ring fort. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only found in the writings of W. B. Yeats.
a. Magnificence, pomp, splendour. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > [noun] > magnificence
thrumOE
prideOE
wealc1290
noblessec1330
pompc1330
statec1330
nobletya1387
royaltyc1405
magnificence?1435
gloriousnessc1440
pompousness1447
noblenessc1450
pomperyc1460
triumpha1513
princeliness1545
gorgeousness1549
jollity1549
stateliness1556
proudnessa1586
royalitya1607
splendour1616
grandeur1652
superbiousness1654
splendidnessa1657
lustre1658
superbness1779
pompa1783
splendaciousness1853
magnoliousness1921
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > royalty > [noun]
majestyc1375
royaltyc1405
rialc1440
royalness?1548
purple1610
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 320 Heer may men feste and roialtee biholde And deyntees mo than I kan yow deuyse.
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 54 (MED) He roode tho vppon a fforeste stronde, With grete rowte and roialte.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 98 So they rode freysshly with grete royalte.
1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. zz.iiii Salomon in all his royalty was neuer clad with so fayre a coloure and beaute.
1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 9 in Jewell House Nature, which dooth heere present hir selfe in all hir royaltie.
1642 J. Eaton Honey-combe Free Justific. 465 Who is able to value the royalty of this marriage accordingly?
c1650 (a1500) Eger & Grime (Percy) (1933) 2708 The Emperor or Pope of Rome Might have rung in such royalte.
b. In plural. Royal qualities. Obsolete. rare.
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1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 180 As many as haue written of the praises and roialties of that vertue.
2. † b. Preceded by a possessive: an honorific title given to a monarch. Cf. majesty n. 2. Obsolete.† c. The sovereignty or sovereign rule of state. Obsolete.† d. In plural. Emblems or insignia of sovereignty. Also figurative. Cf. regalia n.1 2a. Obsolete.† e. Authority or warrant to do something. Obsolete. rare.
a. The position or office of a monarch; royal dignity; royal power, sovereignty. Also in extended use.
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society > authority > [noun] > royal or princely authority
richeeOE
kingdomOE
richdomOE
crownc1175
principalityc1350
realtya1375
regala1375
majestyc1375
thronea1382
sceptre1382
principatec1384
sovereignty1387
regalya1393
diadema1400
regalty?a1400
rialtyc1400
royaltya1425
rialc1425
regalityc1450
rialnessc1450
sovereignityc1560
throneship1599
principatie1677
thronedom?1790
sceptredom1878
a1425 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1960) A. xi. l. 228 (MED) Royalte [c1400 Trin. Cambr. Kinghod & kniȝthod..Helpiþ nouȝt to heuene..Ne ricchesse, ne rentis, ne realte of lordis].
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 3549 (MED) Who-so liste..may ful wel beholde..Lordes, princes from her royalte Sodeinly brouȝt in aduersite.
c1450 (c1390) G. Chaucer Fortune (Fairf. 16) (1879) l. 60 Thou pynchest at my mutabilite For I the lent a drope of my rychesse And now me liketh to with-drawe me Why shuldest thow my royaltee oppresse?
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 151 (MED) But of the roialte and riches of goode men comyth goodnys, Ande of the lordshupp of Cursid men comyth many lostis and myschefis.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. GGGiiii Though the kynge were before hym in his robes of golde, he wolde lytell regarde his royalte.
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. iii. 7 Now soouping in side robes of Royalty, That earst did skrub in lowsie brokery.
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 35 Vpon which name of Basilides, deriued from Basileus, signifying a King, hee assured himselfe of royaltie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 129 Heare our English King, For thus his Royaltie doth speake in me. View more context for this quotation
1689 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. i. §149 Every Father of a Family..had as good a claim to Royalty as these.
1704 J. Trapp Abra-Mule ii. i Exert your Royalty, and be your self.
1769 O. Goldsmith Rom. Hist. I. 39 Tarquin..[added] also the ensigns of royalty; in imitation of the Lydian kings.
1792 J. Wolcot Royal Tour in Wks. (1812) III. 324 Of Royalty the Purple Robe so grand They to a Malkin turn, to wipe their shoes.
1813 Ann. Reg., Hist. 16 He might live many years, though incapable of the functions of royalty.
1862 J. Ruskin Unto this Last iii. 79 All true royalty is ruling power.
1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life x. ix. 382 The splendour of a recognized intellectual royalty.
1918 Science 15 Feb. 165/2 The rare Orange Cowry, used by the natives of Fiji and New Caledonia as a badge of royalty.
1960 R. Bolt Man for All Seasons ii. 82 Even for Kings he comes, to whom amidst all their royalty and brute strength he will neither kneel nor make them any reverence.
1994 S. Owen Indonesian Regional Food & Cookery Gloss. 277 By turning boiled rice yellow, the colour of royalty, it creates an air of festivity.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > titles applied to royalty
sire?c1225
His (also Her) Majestya1387
realty1400
rialnessc1450
R1466
royalty1543
Royal Highness1555
M1581
Ma.1584
majestyship1594
serenissimo1665
1543 Chron. J. Hardyng f. ccxxxiiiv Please it also vnto your royaltee The quene maye haue a vereie intellecte Of your eldres of greate antiquitee And of England.
1581 J. Derricke Image Irelande i. sig. Diij Her Maiestie.., whose royaltie not only wisheth them good, but also doth them good.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. F I came to haue your royalties to dine With Frier Bacon heere in Brazennose.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 15 I haue stay'd To tyre your Royaltie . View more context for this quotation
1630 J. Smith True Trav. vii. 11 The Prince his Roialtie, being now beyond all beleefe of men, in possession of the best part of Transilvania, perswaded his troopes, in so honest a cause, to assist the Prince against the Turke.
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society > authority > [noun] > royal or princely authority > over a state or subjects
ligeancec1380
royalty1597
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. iv. 40 His Masters sonne as worshipful he termes it, Shal loose the roialty of Englands throane. View more context for this quotation
1606 No-body & Some-body sig. C4v Which of you will perswade my Elidure To take vpon him Englands royaltie.
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [noun]
regalyc1425
regal?1435
regalities1531
regalia1607
royalties1607
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 122 This iolly Iupiter clothed in his royalties.
1631 T. Drue Life Dutches of Suffolke i. sig. A4 I wish it cloth'd with Hymens royalties: A husband, like an Ammell, would inrich Your golden vertues.
1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 52 He told Capt. Church, these were Philips Royalties which he was wont to adorn himself with when he sat in State.
1769 O. Goldsmith Rom. Hist. I. 39 He assumed a crown of gold..and robes of purple. It was perhaps the splendor of these royalties that first raised the envy of the late king's sons.
1848 A. Marsh-Caldwell Angela II. 182 Sin—clothed in the royalties of gold and purple! Sin—whose outside is enticing as the apple of Sodom, and within all ashes and bitterness!
1863 H. E. Manning Serm. vii. 266 The Vicar of Christ was clothed with his Royalties.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > formal or authoritative permission > a formal or authoritative permission
safe conduct?1404
licence1433
royalty1633
fiat1647
licent1676
liceat1686
privilege1715
sanction1720
smart ticket1734
post warrant1812
sanctionment1818
wine-warrant1857
carnet1926
1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iii. i. sig. F1v Your fiery mettall, or your springall, blaze Of huge renowne, is no sufficient Royalty To print vpon my forehead the scorne Cuckold.
3. † c. In plural. Anecdotes about royal persons. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
a. Chiefly in plural. A royal person; a member of the royal family.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > royalty > [noun] > royal person(s)
royc1440
royaltyc1500
regalya1561
royalitya1607
royal1742
c1500 Lyfe Roberte Deuyll 496 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 238 There lyeth the Duches of Normandye, With many a lorde of her counsell, Of all thys greate lande the royalltye.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 156 To the succeeding Royalty he leaues The healing Benediction. View more context for this quotation
1761 H. Walpole Let. 25 Sept. (1857) III. 441 The late Royalties went to the Haymarket, when it was the fashion to frequent the other opera in Lincoln's-inn-fields.
1813 Lady Burghersh Lett. (1893) 51 They are just like the Windsor Royalties, for they literally know every thing.
1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines xvi. 269 This long line of departed royalties (there were twenty-seven of them).
1902 W. B. Yeats Let. 13 June (1994) III. 207 I will neither mix myself up with English royalties nor ‘English Soldiers & Sailors’ with whom the Princess as you say, ‘is so much interested.’
1910 M. I. Ogilvie Reminisc. 10 in www.ogilviefamilytree.com (O.E.D. Archive 2017) In May 1898 at the laying of the foundation stone of the Victoria and Albert Museum we sat opposite the Royalties.
1952 G. Vidal Judgm. of Paris i. 15 He had felt like a royalty when the man from the Excelsior picked him up.
1998 E. Denby Grand Hotels 213/2 European royalties and statesmen from America were hotel guests at the time of the funeral of Emperor Meiji in 1912.
b.
(a) As a mass noun: royal persons collectively.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 5 As a branch and member of this Royalty, By whom this great assembly is contriu'd. View more context for this quotation
1743 R. Blair Grave 9 Proud Royalty! how alter'd in thy Looks?
1752 W. Mason Let. in Elfrida p. ii Affections rais'd rather from the impulse of common humanity, than the distresses of royalty and the fate of kingdoms.
1830 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 331/1 Living at one time in affluence, and in favour with royalty, and dying in obscurity and indigence.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. iv. 136 Treating him very much, in fact, as English royalty during the last generation treated another Irish bard.
1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 376 Peacocks are..supposed only to be kept by royalty.
1913 W. J. Abbot Women of Hist. 61 And then fate, which often rough-hews the lives of royalty as well as of lesser folk, cast the die.
1950 Amer. Q. 2 167 Kaye began his career in the Borscht Belt and..climbed to a command performance before English royalty.
2002 B. Hoey Her Majesty vi. 91 There are none so snobbish as the servants of royalty and the aristocracy.
(b) In extended use: the elite members of a particular group or participants in a particular sphere of activity. Usually with modifying word.
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1835 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 30 Oct. Open rebellion has burst forth against literary as well as political royalty... Poets and monarchs have been alike dethroned.
1845 Times 5 Sept. 9 The royalty of fashion is, like other dynasties, subject to revolutions; and at length, Brummel..found himself compelled to abdicate his throne.
1855 J. de Marguerittes Ins & Outs of Paris vii. 107 The lower one, to the left, is the imperial box; the one opposite belongs to the royalty of wealth.
1923 Vanity Fair Feb. 43/3 It is incredible that these shabby people are the royalty of the Russian theatre.
1996 Observer 29 Dec. (Life Suppl.) 14/1 When Prince Rainier III of Monaco married Grace Kelly, she was merely Hollywood royalty.
2010 S. H. Teitelbaum Athletes who indulge their Dark Side i. 27 Clemens was accustomed to being catered to, getting things done his way, and being accommodated with special conditions reserved for sports royalty.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > [noun] > type of
royalties1748
bar-anecdotea1754
1748 H. Walpole Let. 26 May (1846) II. 221 I have told you royalties enough!
4. Kinglike or majestic character or quality; lordliness; munificence, generosity.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [noun]
athelc885
highnesseOE
brightnessOE
thrumOE
worshipOE
highship?c1225
nobleyec1300
pridec1330
realtya1375
rialtya1375
greatnessc1384
nobletya1387
magnificencec1390
regalya1393
greatheada1400
hautesse1399
lordliness1440
celsitudec1450
excelsitudec1470
state1488
princeliness1545
kingliness1548
royalty1548
amplitudec1550
grandity1589
grandeur1600
glory1613
majesticalness1613
augusteity1615
grandezza1629
augustness1644
raisedness1645
celsity1656
splendidnessa1657
grandness1663
exaltedness1730
halo1813
queenliness1831
aureole1852
magnateship1916
the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [noun] > liberality
freedomOE
custinessOE
largesse?c1225
freeshipa1250
franchisec1325
largitya1382
largenessa1387
liberalityc1390
bountya1400
honestya1400
freenessc1400
largec1400
liberalnessc1410
munificencec1425
plentyc1425
bounteousnessc1440
magnificencec1450
bountifulness1489
bountines1512
royalty1548
magnificency?c1550
munificency?c1550
free-heartedness1583
profuseness1584
bountihead1590
lavishness1590
frankness1591
ingenuousness1611
fruitfulnessa1616
generosity1634
open-handednessa1640
large-heartedness1640
communicativeness1653
unsparingness1818
free-handedness1860
big-heartedness1872
ungrudgingness1885
two-handedness1891
outgivingness1968
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxiiijv The Frenchemen made bokes, shewyng the triumphant dooynges of the Cardinalles royaltie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 51 In his Royaltie of Nature reignes that Which would be fear'd. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 179 'Tis wonder That an inuisible instinct should frame them To Royalty vnlearn'd. View more context for this quotation
1629 J. Gaule Distractions 102 In a certaine royalty of Speech.
1742 J. Ralph Other Side of Question 145 That * * * Duchess of * * * * had more Magnanimity and Royalty of Spirit than Anne Princess of Denmark.
1769 T. Gray Ode at Installation Duke of Grafton 81 Profane thy inborn royalty of mind.
1836 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens (1837) II. 522 He ascribes her fears to the royalty of her spirit.
1878 R. Simpson School of Shakspere I. 51 A notorious spendthrift, without money of his own, but famous for his royalty to men at arms.
1902 H. Duffield in E. M. Deems Holy-days & Holidays 559/2 Whoever recognizes royalty of character counted himself among her subjects.
1994 J. Creaser in M. Cordner et al. Eng. Comedy 115 The royalty of his spirit triumphs over the letter of his social origins, whatever they may be.
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a. Scottish. A district directly under the monarch, as opposed to a regality (see regality n.1 1a); = rialty n. 2b. Now historical.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction of or areas under specific authorities > [noun] > directly under king
rialty1429
chamber1555
royalty1597
royalitya1607
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Schireff The indwellers within the schireff-dom and royaltie thereof.
c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 282 Gif ane man dwelland in the regalitie be callit be ane uther dwelland in the royaltie befoir the schire.
1656 in J. A. Clyde Hope's Major Practicks (1938) II. 39 The regalities quhilk perteined to the Earle of Gowrie ar suppressed and united to the royaltie.
1686 in J. Hunter Diocese & Presbytery Dunkeld (1918) II. 138 Therby the burgh is brought to miserie, the inhabitants..neither able to mentain their royaltie nor pey his majesties supplie.
1752 Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1913) 397 Convenient access made from the south and north to the High Street, which was absolutely necessary in view of extending the royalty.
1765–8 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. i. iv. §7 Royal palaces, though locally situated in boroughs of regality, were adjudged to be no part of the regality, but of the royalty.
1839 Blackwood's Mag. 46 299 There are within the city of Glasgow, properly so called, technically named ‘the royalty’, one hundred and two thousand inhabitants.
1860 J. Cairns Mem. J. Brown vi. 179 All beyond the bounds of what is called the royalty were exempted.
1904 M. Atkinson Local Govt. Scotl. 176 In Dundee the Dean of Guild Court has not been modernised, and exercises its old powers simply over the ancient area of the burgh—the royalty.
1990 E. Williamson et al. Glasgow 256 Broomielaw Croft was, as late as 1777, an almost undeveloped heathy tongue of Glasgow that stretched along the Clyde to the Royalty boundary.
b. A royal domain; a kingdom, realm; a monarchical state. Also in extended use.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of king or royal ruler
richeeOE
worldricheeOE
kindomeOE
kinrikeOE
kingriklOE
kine-erdc1275
kine-landc1275
kine-thedec1275
reigna1300
kine-earthc1300
realmc1300
kingdoma1325
kinglanda1325
regionc1330
ligeancec1380
regneec1380
realtya1387
royalme1389
kingheada1393
regalty?a1400
rialmec1400
monarchy?a1425
rialtya1425
regaly?a1439
regality1486
richdom?1505
state1539
kingdomshipa1549
sceptre-rule1611
royalty1638
kingship1700
raj1781
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 88 In quondam times her royalties were more spacious, as soveranizing over many Townes of quality a great way removed.
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. ii. 39 This petty Royalty,..rais'd upon the foot of Chance, rather than Blood.
a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 3 All republicks were formed upon the ruin of such little royalties.
1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 6 She raised herself..to an electorate, and at last to a royalty, not only in name but in power.
1812 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 7 72 Each [raven] taking a particular district as their peculiar royalty.
1886 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. viii. 204 The titles of the several royalties which thus came to an end were claimed..by other competitors.
1903 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 777/1 The petty kingdom has such strategic importance... And unless your little royalty means to precipitate a general war, she will take the goods the gods provide.
1991 A. Dasnois tr. C. Meillassoux Anthropol. of Slavery 176 At a given moment in their history, a council was established around the sovereign in all African royalties.
c. Monarchical government.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > monarchical government > [noun]
kingship1577
monarchy1597
royalty1796
1796 T. W. Tone Writings (2009) II. 159 As to the idea of Royalty, there is nobody in Ireland would entertain it for a moment. If there is a revolution there, it most assuredly will never terminate in kingly government.
1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. xviii. §365 The politic royalty of England, distinguished from the government of absolute kingdoms by the fact that it is rooted in the desire and institution of the nation.
1898 J. E. C. Bodley France II. iii. i. 1 While the Chief of the Executive has..been called King or Emperor, there has been no royalty in France.
1906 I. S. Clare Libr. Universal Hist. X. xxxix. iv. 3303 Hamilton proposed a form of government which would have been practically a compromise between royalty and republicanism.
2001 E. Durschmied Blood of Revol. (2002) i. 56 He was a master-juggler of the power politics of six consecutive governments, from royalty to republic, from tyranny to empire and back to royalty.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun] > hill-fort
rath1434
dun1703
hill fort1833
royalty1893
1893 W. B. Yeats Celtic Twilight 104 They came to a royalty (a name for the little circular ditches, commonly called raths or forts, with which Ireland is covered since Pagan times).
1896 W. B. Yeats in New Rev. Apr. 405 In one of these rests he found himself at the edge of a rath, or royalty as he called it.
II. Senses relating to rights and privileges.† 8. A domain, manor, etc., in possession of royal rights or privileges. Cf. sense 5. Obsolete.† 9. Mining. An area over which mining operations extend; the area associated with a particular colliery or mine. Obsolete.
7.
a. Chiefly in plural. A right or privilege belonging to or enjoyed by a monarch. Now rare.
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society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > royal rights
privilegea1393
royal prerogative1404
royaltyc1440
regality1523
regala1540
regaliaa1540
regalty1614
providential right1695
regale1714
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 4005 (MED) I sall neuer..regnne in my royaltez, ne halde my rownde table, Till thi dede, my dere, be dewly reuengede.
1520 Chron. Eng. vii. f. 85v Other royaltees that perteyne unto the crowne.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xv. 260 Forgetting quite the losse of all other royalties whatsoeuer, he maketh mone for nothing, but onely this.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 176 Thou and thine vsurpe The Dominations, Royalties, and rights Of this oppressed boy. View more context for this quotation
a1643 J. Burroughs Sovereignty Brit. Seas (1651) 6 It were strange to thinke that Princes..will relinquish the possession of those Royalties which they and their Ancestors have held beyond all memory.
c1670 T. Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws (1681) 75 The Wages heretofore shall stand, so as the Kings Royalty be saved.
1722 I. Kimber et al. Hist. Eng. I. 280 Robert de Vere..had a Grant of all the Revenues of Ireland, excepting some few Royalties reserved to the Crown, upon paying the annual Sum of five thousand Marks.
1787 Eng. Rev. Sept. 186 The forests should be enclosed, and a share set out in lieu of the various rights and royalties of the crown.
1842 W. H. Mill Observ. Applic. Pantheistic Princ. iii. 163 The heir to the deserted throne and lost royalties of David.
1862 H. Taylor St. Clement's Eve iv. iii. 137 No madman who believes himself a King Is so enamoured of his royalties As this poor King envenomed is against them.
1912 G. L. Beer Old Colonial Syst. I. 293 Although the latter position gave him no additional powers in the enforcement of the laws of the trade, it conferred upon him jurisdiction over the royalties reserved to the Crown.
1987 in P. H. Russell Leading Constit. Decisions (ed. 4) xxv. 240 The respondent submits, with respect to the royalty surcharge, that it is not a tax, but that it is a genuine royalty payable to the Crown, as the owner of mineral rights.
2012 S. Sutcliffe & S. Elliott Mining Law vi. 172 Alberta levies a royalty on certain mining activities that take place on Crown lands, with the rate of such royalties depending upon the type of minerals being extracted and the volume of such extraction.
b. A prerogative or right granted by a monarch to an individual or corporation; spec. (in later use) a right to mine a particular area. Also figurative.
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society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > royal rights > granted to individual or corporation
rialty1484
royalty1576
1576 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 383 The Maior and Burgesses of Oxon do stande so muche..uppon theire right and royaltie of the Thames.
1580 J. Dee 10 Sept. in Private Diary (1842) 8 Sir Humfry Gilbert graunted me my request to him, made by letter, for the royaltyes of discovery all to the North above the parallell of the 50 degree of latitude.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 589 The Kings authority hath..abrogated all those royalties, prerogatiues, and priviledges, which the Lords Marchers enioied.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 51 Mines of Gold and Silver, treasure trove, mulcts for offences, and other priviledges, which being originally in the kings were by them granted, and made Royalties in the hands of subjects.
1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. I*4v The Sufferings of the Laity were become the Royalties of the Clergy.
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) 333 Its Royalty was transmitted to Jedburgh, the Chief Royal Burgh of the Shire.
1768 Ann. Reg. 1767 i. 92 The bill for extending the royalty of the city of Edinburgh over certain adjoining lands.
1796 Monthly Mag. May 282/1 They all belong to one individual, who possesses the royalty for an extent of many mines.
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 45 Royalty, the minerals, with the right of working them... Beneath copyhold land, the royalty is vested in the lord of the manor.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 647 With the property were inseparably connected extensive royalties.
1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 580 Landed proprietors here as elsewhere became anxious to lease their royalties.
1904 Canad. Law Rev. 3 590 All mines, minerals, timber and royalties belonging to the Crown situate, being or arising in the Province of——and all sums due and payable on the first day of January, 1903.
1993 G. Stevenson Ex Uno Plures 294 He argued that the province shared in the prerogatives of the crown, and furthermore that escheated lands were among the ‘royalties’ granted to the provinces.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > manor > type of
manor in gross1607
royalty1652
capital manor1799
reputed manor1839
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 94 For a man to bee forbidden to Fish before my Hous or Royaltie is the common custom, although grounded upon no Law.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 202 An ancient Custom of the Royalty of Ensham.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 169. ⁋5 I have bought that little Hovel which borders upon his Royalty.
1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne vi. 15 This royalty consists entirely of sand covered with heath and fern.
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1815 W. Chapman Hints Newcastle Collieries 11 The local knowledge..has only been acquired by the expenditure of large sums of money, in too many instances to little purpose, from the limited extent of the royalty.
1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 120 The roads which should remain open as thoroughfares for the working of the distant parts of the ‘royalty’ or field of operations.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 207 Royalty, the mineral estate or area of a colliery, or a portion of such property. A field of mining operations.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 517 Overworkings, the excess beyond the quantity of coal fixed as the standard to be annually worked from a royalty.
10.
a. A payment made to a landowner for the privilege of working a mine. Also: a payment made by a producer of minerals, oil, or natural gas to the owner of the site or of the mineral rights over it.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of taking minerals
sand-mail1287
lot-leada1483
lot1630
cope1631
sand-gavel1663
lordship1767
gale1775
tribute1778
royalty1839
groundage1852
seignioragea1859
galeage1881
1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 231/1 This payment, which is denominated ‘dues’ or ‘royalty’,..is..a matter of right, and claimed..whether the mine is profitable to the parties working it or not.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 1 Royalty or rent paid by the lessee for working and disposing of minerals.
1892 Daily News 15 Mar. 6/1 The enormous royalty rents paid..for the right to get coal.
1949 Our Industry (Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.) (ed. 2) i. 8 Oil companies wishing to prospect in a foreign country have first to make an agreement with the Government of that country... This agreement determines the royalties payable.
1977 Time 5 Dec. 59/1 What had really blown was a giant natural-gas well that probably will make Lucy and her husband, Walter Parlange, royalty rich.
1992 H. M. Malchow Gentlemen Capitalists i. 39 When Holland wanted to renew his lease,..she granted him a renewal to 1877 and a small reduction in royalties.
b. A payment made for the use of a patent or a technical process.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > for use of patented invention
royalty1844
1844 Mechanics' Mag. 9 Mar. 162/1 For many years the royalties paid by refiners for licenses to use it amounted to not less than 40,000 l. per annum.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 103 For share of royalties given by a foreign patentee to his agent in England.
1912 Atlantic Monthly June 737/2 The royalties, carefully graded to provide just compensation, would be paid to the inventors.
1990 InfoWorld 29 Oct. 56/3 Hyatt, who has acquired an exceptional amount of patent knowledge during his 20-year battle with the Patent Office, has yet to collect royalties on his invention.
c. In early use: a payment made to an author, editor, or composer based on an agreed division of the profits from a book, piece of music, etc., sold by the publisher; (subsequently) a fixed percentage of the revenue from each copy sold. Also: a payment made for each public performance or broadcast of a work. Now frequently in plural.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > for use or publication of books, music, or play
copy-money1708
lordship1767
royalty1856
1856 W. H. G. Kingston Western Wanderings II. 35 British copyright-works printed in the States should be excluded from entering Canada, but that they should be allowed to print them, paying a royalty to the author.
1875 T. Hardy Let. 4 Nov. (1978) I. 40 Name of book. Copies sold in the half year. Retail price of same. 10 per cent royalty.
1883 Manch. Examiner 22 Nov. 5/3 If people could not sing these songs in private houses,..the publisher would lose his trade and the author his royalty.
1894 Daily News 6 June 2/4 The royalties, that is to say the payments made during the year 1893 for permission to represent the play.
1920 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 28 Nov. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 14 The loony seems to think that a lyricist is responsible for the composer's royalties.
1952 D. Thomas Let. 10 Sept. (1987) 839 Do all you can to let me have my advance royalties on the Collected Poems really quickly.
1974 R. Rendell Face of Trespass iv. 43 He began worrying about his royalty statement.
2002 Yahoo! Internet Life June 6/2 The smaller stations..may be forced to pay royalties far in excess of what their conventional brethren are charged.
d. A payment for the right to use specialist or privileged information as part of a know-how or trade secrets agreement.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > payment for use of know-how
royalty1911
1911 Southwestern Reporter 138 352/2 Evidence held to warrant a finding that a process of manufacturing stick candy adopted by defendant was based on a disclosure made by plaintiff on the faith of a royalty contract.
1962 Conveyancer 26 368 Some sort of lump-sum payment on the signing of the agreement will usually be appropriate, since..the seller runs a risk when he hands over the initial batch of information and documents. Beyond that, it is common to provide for some sort of royalty on turnover.
1973 J. P. Cunningham Competition Law of E.E.C. viii. 172 The know-how agreements between Happich and Gallino and between Happich and Maglum contained provisions requiring the licensees to pay royalties to Happich.
2006 Innovation in Energy Technol. (OECD) v. 157 The most common approach..is via an agreement with industry, which should give royalties to public organisations when using their know-how.
Compounds
a. General attributive and instrumental (in sense 10).
royalty cheque n.
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1891 Salt Lake Tribune 22 Nov. 18/3 Unless he makes a better success of his book than do nine out of every ten writers nowadays, his royalty check will hardly be perceptible.
1922 Manch. Guardian 27 Apr. 5/6 A hundred thousand copies of it were ordered in advance of publication, and the first royalty cheque to the author represented two hundred thousand dollars.
2000 D. Brooks Bobos in Paradise 148 There is a massive class of educated analysts and ‘opinion leaders’ who have made the old bohemian neighborhoods unaffordable for anybody without stock options or large royalty checks.
royalty fee n.
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1845 Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 629 The acquisition is besides free from royalty fees and other charges.
1901 C. G. W. Lock Gold Milling 755 Recovery of a proportion of the gold by amalgamation effects a saving also in royalty fees.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 18 Feb. b2/6 Independent Internet radio services are bickering with record labels over royalty fees.
royalty-free adj.
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1878 Arguments before Comm. Patents Senate & House of Representatives 93 The English manufacturing public could manufacture Bessemer steel royalty free, because the English patent had expired.
1949 Billboard 29 Jan. 18/4 It was decided to abrogate the original royalty-free arrangement and to negotiate payment of a statutory royalty.
2005 C. Stross Accelerando ii. 75 The robot companies are all set to..grant any and every copyright request they receive, royalty-free.
royalty income n.
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1884 Daily Gaz. (Fort Wayne, Indiana) 2 Dec. 6/3 The annual royalty income of the Bell Company is $7,500,000.
1910 Mining World 19 Feb. 424/3 The sale price of coal land must necessarily be less than the gross royalty income that the same land would bring at the prevailing royalties.
2002 W. Pitman Louis Applebaum 492 He had asked them what they thought his royalty income per year might be for public performance of his work.
royalty rate n.
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1872 Rep. Admin. Bengal 1871–1872 ii. 311 The royalty rates were fixed at Rs. 8 for sàl and Rs. 6 for other 1st class trees.
1928 Accounting Rev. 3 162 The value of some natural resources may be approximated from prevailing royalty rates, stock market quotations, and from other..applicable evidences.
2002 Time 13 May 92/3 The U.S. Copyright Office is supposed to decide..whether to approve the new royalty rates that Internet radio broadcasters insist will push them off the Net.
royalty revenue n.
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1890 Leeds Mercury 18 Jan. 10/6 To this amount must be added the royalty revenue on so much of the Podmore Colliery as has hitherto been worked.
1930 Los Angeles Times 27 Jan. 15/3 The large part of the university's oil royalty revenue has come from production in the Big Lake field of Reagan county.
2000 S. Prince New Pot of Gold iii. 103 The burgeoning rental market for videotapes threatened studios with a massive loss of royalty revenue.
b. With first element in plural form.
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1918 R. B. Kester Study in Valuation of Commerc. Balance Sheet 252 The royalties income accrued December 31, 1916, amounted to $5,000.
1940 Syracuse Herald-Jrnl. 19 Mar. 1/5 Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, will receive what a New York publishing house hopes will be a substantial royalties check soon.
1986 D. Milne Tug of War iii. 112 Marginal royalties rates on both old and new oil and natural gas were reduced.
1994 Omaha World Herald (Nexis) 6 Nov. 1 The one-year increase in royalties revenue since Peterson's department has been in full swing was 33 percent.
2004 R. Goddard Play to End (2006) 17 Perhaps a royalties cheque eighteen months from now will quell my resentment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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