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Royal; regal; kingly. [Obs.] "The blood real of Thebes." Chaucer.

Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.

An opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).

One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.

Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

In the realistic manner.

The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact. A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning. Addison.

Capable of being realized.

The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project. We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth. Glanvill.

One who realizes. Coleridge.

Serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality; as, a realizing view of the danger incurred. -- Re"al*i`zing*ly, adv.

To allege again. Cotgrave.

A renewed alliance.

In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth. Whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. Swift.

domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom. The absolute master of realms on which the sun perpetually alone. Motley.

Destitute of a realm. Keats.

The quality or condition of being real; reality.

Realty. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic.