regius

American  

[ree-jee-uhs, -juhs] / ˈri dʒi əs, -dʒəs /

adjective

1. of or belonging to a king.

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

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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

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

Sir Richard J Evans, regius professor of history, University of Cambridge, said Serbia, while Dr Heather Jones - associate professor in international history, LSE, named a number of powers - Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2014

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

He was a moralist, pure and simple, and had no more relation with men like Descartes or Berkeley than a rousing revivalist preacher has with a regius professor of Theology.

From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Gosse, Edmund