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Definition of Regardant
1. Adjective. Looking backward.
Definition of Regardant
1. a. Looking behind; looking backward watchfully.
Definition of Regardant
1. Adjective. (heraldry of an animal): with the head turned toward the back of the body ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Regardant
1. gardant [adj] - See also: gardant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Regardant
Literary usage of Regardant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1853)
"He is called regardant and to gard and keep the same from all ... hereafter, that
no other thing is said to be [í] 20 E. 3. tit. regardant, but onely a ..."
2. An Universal Etymological English Dictionary ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1756)
"... we call regardant, ie looking bade or behind. TOURN'iNG (with Hunten] a term
ufed of a roe, going to couple or ..."
3. Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances by Thomas Percy (1868)
"There were two classes of villans, 1. regardant, attached to the soil of a manor,
and sold with it like a cowshed or an ox, but seemingly not liable to be ..."
4. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1794)
"Villein regardant gardant, and a ... gardant, and granteth the fame villein
villein in grofle, and not regardant. ... And thereupon he is called regardant, ..."
5. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1853)
"Litt. sec. 202.; 2 Bl. Com. 95, 96. 1 Dyer, 48 b. pi. 2. 3 Dyer 266, pi. 11.
Villeins in gross as well as villeins regardant were considered ..."
6. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1878)
"I. It will not be contended that the words " regardant" and "in ... The villein
regardant might be severed from the manor, with or without land, ..."
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