regius
Americanadjective
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of or belonging to a king.
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(of a professor in a British university) holding a chair founded by or dependent on the sovereign.
Etymology
Origin of regius
< Latin rēgius worthy of or belonging to a king, royal, equivalent to rēg- (stem of rēx ) king + -ius adj. suffix
Example Sentences
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The only other regius keeper to have received a knighthood since the garden's inception in 1670 was Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
But John Bell, regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford, said the current measures did not go far enough and called for a brief but strict national lockdown - known as a “circuit-breaker”.
From Reuters • Oct. 17, 2020
Prof Chalmers, regius professor of law at the University of Glasgow, says Scotland's early courts used a large variety of terms for guilt and innocence.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2018
His initial misjudgment was exacerbated by doctrinal overreaction against former regius professor Lord Acton's belief that moral judgments in history mattered.
From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2011
Two years later he was licensed to preach; he was ordained minister of Colossie, Fife, in 1742, but returned to Edinburgh and in 1762 was made regius professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres to the university.
From The world's great sermons, Volume 03 Massillon to Mason by Kleiser, Grenville
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