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The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choirmaster. [Written also kepellmeister.]

istinct from that of the lord chamberlain of the Household, whose functions relate to the royal housekeeping.

is strange face, his strange chant. Macaulay. Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian. Chant royal Etym: [F.], in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. -- each of these six parts ending with a common refrain. -- Gregorian chant. See under Gregorian.…

or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.

One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.

e, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century.

certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain. To circumscribe royal power. Bancroft.

cy. Great clemency and tender zeal toward their subjects. Stowe. They had applied for the royal clemency. Macaulay.

rope by which a clew of one of the smaller square sails, as topsail, topgallant sail, or royal, is run up to its yard. -- Clew-line block (Naut.), The block through which a clew line reeves. See Illust. of Block.

come near it." Sir W. Temple. -- To come of. (a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my mother came." Dryden. (b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by the eye." L'Estrange. -- To come off. (a) To depart or pass off from. (b) To get free; to get away; to escape. (c) To be carried through;…

y conspired against [Joseph] to slay him. Gen. xxxvii. 18. You have conspired against our royal person, Joined with an enemy proclaimed. Shak.

ed extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. Preventing the continuation of the royal line. Macaulay.

or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty.

ar privileges; -- so called a palatio (from the palace), because the owner had originally royal powers, or the same powers, in the administration of justice, as the king had in his palace; but these powers are now abridged. The counties palatine, in England, are Lancaster, Chester, and Durham. -- County rates, rates l…

f a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. Shak.

A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.

Hurtful; pernicious. [R.] That it be not demageable unto your royal majesty. Hakluit.

hich ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace. Buckle.

heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.

ak. Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line Hazlitt.