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Imperial

Imperial Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Imperial?
[n] a piece of luggage carried on top of a coach
[n] a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III [adj] belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head" [adj] befitting or belonging to an emperor or empress; "imperial palace" [adj] relating to or associated with an empire; "imperial colony"; "the imperial gallon was standardized legally throughout the British Empire" Synonyms | Synonyms for Imperial: Imperial beard | majestic | noble | purple | regal | royal Related Terms | Find terms related to Imperial: absolute | absolutist | absolutistic | arbitrary | aristocratic | arrogant | august | authoritarian | authoritative | autocratic | beard | beaver | bossy | bristles | crown | despotic | dictatorial | domineering | down | duodecimo | dynastic | eighteenmo | exalted | excellent | feudal | folio | goatee | grand | grinding | high-handed | imperative | imperatorial | imperatorious | imperious | imposing | kinglike | kingly | lofty | lordly | magisterial | magistral | magnificent | majestic | masterful | medium | monarchal | monarchial | monarchic | monocratic | noble | octavo | octodecimo | oppressive | overbearing | overruling | peach fuzz | peremptory | princelike | princely | purple | quarto | queenlike | queenly | regal | repressive | royal | severe | sextodecimo | side whiskers | sixteenmo | sovereign | splendid | strict | stubble | super | superior | suppressive | supreme | tuft | twelvemo | tyrannical | tyrannous | Vandyke | whiskers See Also | baggage | beard | face fungus | luggage | whiskers Imperial In Webster's Dictionary \Im*pe"ri*al\, a. [OE. emperial, OF. emperial, F.
imp['e]rial, fr. L. imperialis, fr. imperium command,
sovereignty, empire. See {Empire}.]
1. Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an
imperial government; imperial authority or edict.
The last That wore the imperial diadem of Rome.
--Shak.
2. Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one
who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme. ``The imperial
democracy of Athens.'' --Mitford.
Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an
imperial voice. --Shak.
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These
are imperial arts, and worthy thee. --Dryden.
He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line
of battle. --E. Everett.
3. Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial
paper; imperial tea, etc.
{Imperial bushel}, {gallon}, etc. See {Bushel}, {Gallon},
etc.
{Imperial chamber}, the, the sovereign court of the old
German empire.
{Imperial city}, under the first German empire, a city having
no head but the emperor.
{Imperial diet}, an assembly of all the states of the German
empire.
{Imperial drill}. (Manuf.) See under 8th {Drill}.
{Imperial eagle}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Eagle}.
{Imperial green}. See {Paris green}, under {Green}.
{Imperial guard}, the royal guard instituted by Napoleon I.
{Imperial weights and measures}, the standards legalized by
the British Parliament.
\Im*pe"ri*al\, n. [F. imp['e]riale: cf. Sp. imperial.] 1. The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; -- so called from the style of beard of Napoleon III. 2. An outside seat on a diligence. --T. Hughes. 3. A luggage case on the top of a coach. --Simmonds. 4. Anything of unusual size or excellence, as a large decanter, a kind of large photograph, a large sheet of drowing, printing, or writing paper, etc. 5. A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight dollars. --McElrath. 6. A kind of fine cloth brought into England from Greece. or other Eastern countries, in the Middle Ages. \Im*pe"ri*al\, n. A game at cards differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump; also, any one of several combinations of cards which score in this game. |
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