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The act of regaling; anything which regales; refreshment; entertainment.

One who regales.

Sumptuous food; delicacies. [Obs.] Cotton. Regalia of a church, the privileges granted to it by kings; sometimes, its patrimony. Brande & C.

Pertaining to regalia; pertaining to the royal insignia or prerogatives. Hallam.

The doctrine of royal prerogative or supremacy. [R.] Cardinal Manning.

Royalty; ssovereignty; sovereign jurisdiction. [Passion] robs reason of her due regalitie. Spenser. He came partly in by the sword, and had high courage in all points of regality. Bacon.

In a regal or royal manner.

One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. [Colloq.] Dickens.

Gum senegal. See under Gum.

See Stannel. [Prov. Eng.]

More than regal; worthy of one greater than a king. Waterland.

A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.

Unequal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to a viceroy or viceroyalty. Macaulay.

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren.…

Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.

steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

To own as genuine; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledgea deed.

A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowled…