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Imperial   /ɪmpˈɪriəl/   Listen
adjective
Imperial  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict. "The last That wore the imperial diadem of Rome."
2.
Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme. "The imperial democracy of Athens." "Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an imperial voice." "To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts, and worthy thee." "He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle."
3.
Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper; imperial tea, etc.
Imperial bushel, Imperial gallon, etc. See Bushel, Gallon, etc.
Imperial chamber, the, the sovereign court of the old German empire.
Imperial city, under the first German empire, a city having no head but the emperor.
Imperial diet, an assembly of all the states of the German empire.
Imperial drill. (Manuf.) See under 8th Drill.
Imperial eagle. (Zool.) See Eagle.
Imperial green. See Paris green, under Green.
Imperial guard, the royal guard instituted by Napoleon I.
Imperial weights and measures, the standards legalized by the British Parliament.


noun
Imperial  n.  
1.
The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; so called from the style of beard of Napoleon III.
2.
An outside seat on a diligence.
3.
A luggage case on the top of a coach.
4.
Anything of unusual size or excellence, as a large decanter, a kind of large photograph, a large sheet of drawing, printing, or writing paper, etc.
5.
A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight dollars.
6.
A kind of fine cloth brought into England from Greece. or other Eastern countries, in the Middle Ages.
7.
A game at cards differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump; also, any one of several combinations of cards which score in this game.





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"Imperial" Quotes from Famous Books



... anti-popes, one of whom, Victor, dies, and a satanic bishop Henry of Liege consecrates another, Pascal, and the dismal schism continues. Then our lord Alexander returns to Rome, and the Emperor slaughters the Romans and beseiges their city and enthrones Pascal. There are big imperial plans afoot, unions of East and West, which end in talk: but Sennacherib Frederick is defeated by a divine and opportune pestilence. Then Pascal dies, and the schism flickers, the Emperor crawls ...
— Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln - A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England • Charles L. Marson
... ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle, concentration of its light, and flower of courtesy, to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference, as to its inner and imperial court; the parliament of love and chivalry. And this is constituted of those persons in whom heroic dispositions are native; with the love of beauty, the delight in society, and the power to embellish the passing day. If the individuals who compose ...
— Essays, Second Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... no man or woman in Europe.' And then she has complimented me, by declaring that I possessed more judicious sentiments on government than any man in St. Petersburg, and that she should consider herself happy, on the first vacancy in the imperial college, to introduce me at court, where she was 'sure the empress would at once discover the value of my talents; but,' she continued, 'in such a case, I will not allow that even her majesty shall rival ...
— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter
... the banner of female beauty. The monarch's fetters cannot curtail our haughty freedom, nor nature's majestic forces confine us to this little lump of clay; we tread the ocean's foam beneath our feet, harness the thunderbolts of imperial Jove to the jaunting car, and even aspire to mount the storm and walk upon the wind; yet the bravest of us tremble like cowards and lie like Cretans when called to account by our wives ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... torrent of revolution into the tranquil river-bed of a calmly flowing stream of humanity": and I could almost believe that this and only this is what he meant to express by means of the symbol of his Imperial march. ...
— Thoughts out of Season (Part One) • Friedrich Nietzsche


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