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imperial

10 definitions found for imperial

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :


  Imperial \Im*pe"ri*al\, a. [OE. emperial, OF. emperial, F.
     imp['e]rial, fr. L. imperialis, fr. imperium command,
     sovereignty, empire. See Empire.]
     1. Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an
        imperial government; imperial authority or edict.
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              The last
              That wore the imperial diadem of Rome. --Shak.
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     2. Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one
        who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme. "The imperial
        democracy of Athens." --Mitford.
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              Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns
              With an imperial voice.               --Shak.
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              To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
              These are imperial arts, and worthy thee. --Dryden.
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              He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line
              of battle.                            --E. Everett.
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     3. Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial
        paper; imperial tea, etc.
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     Imperial bushel, 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :


  Imperial \Im*pe"ri*al\, n. [F. imp['e]riale: cf. Sp. imperial.]
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     1. The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; -- so
        called from the style of beard of Napoleon III.
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     2. An outside seat on a diligence. --T. Hughes.
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     3. A luggage case on the top of a coach. --Simmonds.
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     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.
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     5. A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight
        dollars. --McElrath.
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     6. A kind of fine cloth brought into England from Greece. or
        other Eastern countries, in the Middle Ages.
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     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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :


  imperial
      adj 1: relating to or associated with an empire; "imperial
             colony"; "the imperial gallon was standardized legally
             throughout the British Empire"
      2: of or belonging to the British Imperial System of weights and
         measures
      3: befitting or belonging to an emperor or empress; "imperial
         palace"
      4: belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of
         imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated
         with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head"
         [syn: imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royal]
      n 1: a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III [syn:
           imperial, imperial beard]
      2: a piece of luggage carried on top of a coach

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :


  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "imperial":
     Vandyke, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary,
     aristocratic, arrogant, august, authoritarian, authoritative,
     autocratic, beard, beaver, bossy, bristles, crown, despotic,
     dictatorial, domineering, down, duodecimo, dynastic, eighteenmo,
     exalted, excellent, feudal, folio, goatee, grand, grinding,
     high-handed, imperative, imperatorial, imperatorious, imperious,
     imposing, kinglike, kingly, lofty, lordly, magisterial, magistral,
     magnificent, majestic, masterful, medium, monarchal, monarchial,
     monarchic, monocratic, noble, octavo, octodecimo, oppressive,
     overbearing, overruling, peach fuzz, peremptory, princelike,
     princely, purple, quarto, queenlike, queenly, regal, repressive,
     royal, severe, sextodecimo, side whiskers, sixteenmo, sovereign,
     splendid, strict, stubble, super, superior, suppressive, supreme,
     tuft, twelvemo, tyrannical, tyrannous, whiskers

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) :


  Imperial -- U.S. County in California
     Population (2000):    142361
     Housing Units (2000): 43891
     Land area (2000):     4174.732434 sq. miles (10812.506906 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    306.998053 sq. miles (795.121274 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    4481.730487 sq. miles (11607.628180 sq. km)
     Located within:       California (CA), FIPS 06
     Location:             32.963098 N, 115.487593 W
     Headwords:
      Imperial
      Imperial, CA
      Imperial County
      Imperial County, CA