regius

[ ree-jee-uhs, -juhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of or belonging to a king.
(of a professor in a British university) holding a chair founded by or dependent on the sovereign.

< Latin rēgius worthy of or belonging to a king, royal, equivalent to rēg- (stem of rēx ) king + -ius adj. suffix

His daughter was the mother of Sbastien Cramoisy, typographus regius, who inherited the establishment of his grandfather.

A combination known as the Regius Company took over Paige's interest, but accomplished nothing.

In 1884 he was appointed regius professor of modern history at Oxford.

The Regius Professor invariably maintained that accuracy, not 'pedantry', was his true offence.

That those who purchase estates shall obtain the consensus regius (royal consent).

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