1. Royalty; sovereignty; sovereign jurisdiction.
[Passion] robs reason of her due regalitie.
Spenser.
He came partly in by the sword, and had high courage in all points of regality.
Bacon. 2. An ensign or badge of royalty. [Obs.]
Regally
(Re"gal*ly) adv. In a regal or royal manner.
Regard
(Re*gard") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Regarding.] [F. regarder; pref. re-
re + garder to guard, heed, keep. See Guard, and cf. Reward.]
1. To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.
Your niece regards me with an eye of favor.
Shak. 2. Hence, to look or front toward; to face. [Obs.]
It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland.
Sandys.
That exceedingly beatiful seat, on the assent of a hill, flanked with wood and regarding the river.
Evelyn. 3. To look closely at; to observe attentively; to pay attention to; to notice or remark particularly.
If much you note him,
You offened him; . . . feed, and regard him not.
Shak. 4. To look upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence
from wine as a duty; to regard another as a friend or enemy.
5. To consider and treat; to have a certain feeling toward; as, to regard one with favor or dislike.
His associates seem to have regarded him with kindness.
Macaulay. 6. To pay respect to; to treat as something of peculiar value, sanctity, or the like; to care for; to esteem.
He that regardeth thae day, regardeth it into the LOrd.
Rom. xiv. 6.
Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king.
Shak. 7. To take into consideration; to take account of, as a fact or condition. "Nether regarding that she is my
child, nor fearing me as if II were her father." Shak.
8. To have relation to, as bearing upon; to respect; to relate to; to touch; as, an argument does not regard
the question; — often used impersonally; as, I agree with you as regards this or that.
Syn. — To consider; observe; remark; heed; mind; respect; esteem; estimate; value. See Attend.
Regard
(Re*gard") v. i. To look attentively; to consider; to notice. [Obs.] Shak.
Regard
(Re*gard"), n. [F. regard See Regard, v. t.]
1. A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze.
But her, with stern regard, he thus repelled.
Milton.
