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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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... could give him precise information of the details of the Directoire and of the Empire, an instruction begun by the commere Gay. Thus the Duchesse d'Abrantes was to exercise over him, though in a less degree, the same influence for the comprehension of the Imperial world that Madame de Berry did for the Royalist world, just as the Duchesse de Castries later was to initiate him into the society of ...
— Women in the Life of Balzac • Juanita Helm Floyd
... announced that he was "August Schwartzmuller, of the Imperial galleries, Munchen, Zumpe & Schwartzmuller, proprietors. Restorations a specialty." There was much more, but I did not have time to read all of it. Moreover, the card was a trifle soiled, as if it had been used before. There ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... further a series of victories that had lasted two years and a half, found themselves on the defensive far back of their own borders, awaiting the attack of a triumphant and advancing foe. It had been a terrible trial for them and for the nation at their back. Almost in one night, dreams of imperial expansion, cherished with an enthusiasm that gave them an air of virtual reality, faded into a remoteness beyond reckoning. The war that had been from the first gloriously offensive, was suddenly transformed ...
— World's War Events, Volume III • Various
... polygyny were unknown in the old Roman period. But the absolute patriarchal control of wife and children made the man selfish and arbitrary and weakened the bond of affection and mutual interests, while Roman political conquest strengthened the pride and power of the imperial masters. Religion lost its prestige and the family bond loosened, until from being one of the purest of social institutions in the early days of the republic, the Roman family became one of the most degenerate. ...
— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe
... the deputation had returned, the proclamation was read; "Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to call to His mercy our late Sovereign Lord, King William the Fourth, of blessed and glorious memory, by whose decease the imperial Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is solely and rightfully come to the high and mighty Princess Alexandrina Victoria, saving the rights of any issue of his late majesty, King William ...
— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen V.1. • Sarah Tytler


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