Definition of "reginal"

The Regal, or perhaps the hypercritical will have it the Reginal Kennel I am acquainted with in by-gone days, even before Bagshot Heath and its environs were enclosed; I can therefore well conceive, that, from its being originally anything but what it ought, it should be pregnant of kennel lameness, and that simply from the nature of the soil on which it is built, and its consequent subsoil—the two great exciting and existing causes of kennel lameness being damp in all its forms (more especially that which is drawn upwards by the accumulated heat of a number of animals from an unprepared or improperly laid flooring; and so true is this, that the greater the number of dogs in such a situation, the greater the certainty of kennel lameness) and confinement.

1838 October 7, “Quartogenarian”, “Suggestions on Kennel Lameness”, in The Sporting Magazine, or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of The Turf, The Chase, and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize and Spirit, volume XVIII, number CIII (November 1838), second series, London, published 1839, page 40

Fidei Defensor they could not, would not, or cared not to understand; but Tabaci Tutelaris Regina—patroness of the great chew-quid, smoke-puff, dust-sniff interest—they could. Hence ‘To the Queen;’ and hence the expected rush to this Nicotine Balmoral. Hence the vision of the fair daughters of Albion, North and South, armed with this reginal exotic, pursuing their household and artistic labours amid puffs, and sniffs, and parotid exudations.

1852 October 1, “Queen Victoria’s Tobacco Pipe”, in The Scottish Temperance Review, the Organ of the Scottish Temperance League, Glasgow: Scottish Temperance League, […]. London: Houlston & Stoneman, page 468, column 2

It is hardly even a gift at all; for in so far as it is possible, her Majesty divests herself of her reginal state.

1862 August 2, “The Duchess of Lancaster”, in Public Opinion, volume II, number 45, page 513, column 2

It is, indeed, unfortunate that the Institute of British Architects should have been all these years basking in regal and reginal patronage, and affiliating to itself Honorary and Corresponding Fellows from every part of the world, and have done so very little for the profession in the way of setting up an intrinsic Court of Honour.

1869 October 1, “A Letter to Sir William Tite, M.P., F.R.S., &c., President of the Institute of British Architects, on the Present State of Architectural Education and Practice”, in The Building News and Engineering Journal, volume the seventeenth, London: Office for Publication and Advertisements, […], page 250, column 2

The ruff was regal, or reginal, and the cord monkish, so a Blue hovers ’twixt palace and monastery (one picture pourtrays the dresses of the various Orders of Friars)

1895, “Trollope’s History of Christ’s Hospital”, in Some More Gleanings: A Selection of Pieces in Prose & Verse from the Pages of “The Blue” 1870—1895, […] Private Circulation, page 185

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

A page standing at the entrance walked toward me and made low obeisance, saying: “Most noble and reginal receptacle of our wisdom, accompany me that I may introduce you to our Sophologos.”

1916, The Flaming Sword, page 257, 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

[…] the guild of furriers would have presented prime pelts of astrakhan, chinchilla, and ermine for her selection, recommending those best suited for providing the necessary protection and comfort of sensitive reginal areas. Elizabeth will give this work of art her regal scrutiny (and, no doubt, a trial run) before granting her imprimatur for the embroidering in gold thread of the royal insigne: er.

c. 1985, The Baker Street Journal, page 165

David suspects that Estella’s eighteenth-century ancestors provided the model for the heraldic lion’s head used for hallmarks. Estella’s regal, or reginal, bearing certainly does nothing to dispel the notion.

1988, Matthew Sturgis, The English Cat at Home, Topsfield, Mass.: Salem House Publishers, published 1989, page 114