regian

See also: regían

English

Etymology

Latin regius (“regal”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɹiːd͡ʒiən/

Noun

regian (plural regians)

  1. (obsolete) An upholder of kingly authority; a royalist.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
      This is alleged and urged by our regians to prove the king's paramount power in ecclesiasticis

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “regian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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