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, sir John ! But why come you in arms -To help King Edward in his time of storm, As every loyal subject ought to do. Shak.

A person who adheres to his sovereign or to the lawful authority; especially, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince or government, and defends his cause in times of revolt or revolution.

In a loyal manner; faithfully.

Loyalty. [R.] Stow.

The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc. He had such loyalty to the king as the law required. Clarendon. Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons his love still craved, To his one love his loyalty he saved. Spenser.

Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife. Without a thought disloyal. Mrs. Browning.

In a disloyal manner.

Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.

before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.

Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.

Loyal. Shak.

onsciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart. He has a loyal breast. Shak.

Comradeship and loyalty.

A song or canto [Obs.] Write loyal cantons of contemned love. Shak.

; to blame; to express disapprobation of. I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty. Shak.

f guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience. He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expressions of great compunction. Clarendon.

To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend. I can conduct you, lady, to a low But loyal cottage, where you may be safe. Milton.

; a combination. [Obs.] In one consort there sat Cruel revenge and rancorious despite, Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate. Spenser. Lord, place me in thy consort. Herbert.

use of, or charge with, a crime. To criminate, with the heavy and ungrounded charge of disloyalty and disaffection, an uncorrupt, independent, and reforming parliament. Burke.

To discover; to show. [Poetic] I 'll deliver Myself your loyal servant. Shak.