Word Meanings - REGNANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Exercising regal authority; reigning; as, a queen regnant. 2. Having the chief power; ruling; predominant; prevalent. "A traitor to the vices regnant." Swift.

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• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• PREVALENTLY
  In a prevalent manner. Prior.
• PREDOMINANT
  Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence. Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind. Bacon. Foul subordination is predominant. Shak.
• TRAITOR
  L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to 1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers
• REGALIAN
  Pertaining to regalia; pertaining to the royal insignia or prerogatives. Hallam.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• TRAITORY
  Treachery. Chaucer.
• REGNANT
  1. Exercising regal authority; reigning; as, a queen regnant. 2. Having the chief power; ruling; predominant; prevalent. "A traitor to the vices regnant." Swift.
• REGALIA
  1. That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: The rights and prerogatives of a king. Royal estates and revenues. Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty. 2. Hence, decorations or insignia of an office or order, as of Freemasons, Odd
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• CHIEFEST
  First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.
• QUEENDOM
  The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. Mrs. Browning.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• QUEEN-POST
  One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
• UNQUEEN
  To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.
• OVERRULING
  Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
• FERULIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida ; as, ferulic acid.
• CHONDRULE
  A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
• PREIGNITION
  Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.
• MEDREGAL
  See 3
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
• PURULENCE; PURULENCY
  The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself. Arbuthnot.
• TORULA
  A chain of special bacteria. A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.
• SERRULATION
  1. The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw. Wright. 2. One of the teeth in a serrulate margin.
• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by