Definition of Regius

1. a. Of or pertaining to a king; royal.

Definition of Regius

1. holding a professorship founded by the sovereign [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Regius

registration
registration fire
registration number
registrations
registrative
registrator
registrators
registre
registred
registree
registrees
registres
registries
registring
registry
regius (current term)
regive
regiven
regives
regiving
reglaze
reglazed
reglazes
reglazing
regle
reglement
reglementary
reglet
reglets
reglorified

Literary usage of Regius

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1852)
"The CODEX regius 277., formerly 2 193., was brought from the East into ... The CODEX regius 290., written in 1257, follows the Constantinopolitan recension. ..."

2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1840)
"The CODEX regius 1H2. contains fragments of the Gospels, viz. ... The CODEX regius 281., of the eleventh century, is written in uncial letters : it very ..."

3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1836)
"R HAMPDEN, the present regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, after having obtained as a young man the highest academical distinctions, ..."

4. Statutes Made for the University of Oxford, and for the Colleges and Halls by University of Oxford Commissioners (1882)
"The regius and Margaret Professors of Divinity and the regius Professor of Hebrew. 1. The General Regulations of the Statute concerning the Duties of ..."

5. Statuta Universitatis Oxoniensis by University of Oxford (1898)
"regius Professor of Modern History. Statute made by the Commissioners wholly for the University under ike Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act, 1877. ..."

6. History of Modern Philosophy by Kuno Fischer (1887)
"He was to experience this to the fullest extent in the case of regius, ... In the controversy which regius had carried on with Voetius by means of theses, ..."

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