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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 act of bringing down or humbling. "The abjection of the king and his realm." Joe.

The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

e upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

Though [he] was the youngest brother, yet he was the most ancient in the business of the realm. Berners.

To adorn with gems, or as with gems. Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley.

In hell, or the regions of the dead. What businesss brought him to the realms below. Dryden.

The realm of bores; bores, collectively.

s of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.

A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.

Relating to, or containing, a census. He caused the whole realm to be described in a censual roll. Sir R. Baker.

Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief Justice of the United States, the presiding judge of the Supreme Court, and Highest judicial officer of the republic.

Children, taken collectively. [R.] The well-governed childhood of this realm. Sir. W. Scott.

cloud, to be under suspicion or in disgrace; to be in disfavor. -- In the clouds, in the realm of facy and imagination; beyond reason; visionary.

on became what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. Macaulay.

collective sense. It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. Hallam.

ty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.

An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II. Our gratitude is due . . . to the Long Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange.…

y my last exile, that change of countries cannot change my state. Stirling. Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account Milton.