| regal |
| 1. adj. Of or having to do with royalty. | |
| regal authority; the regal title | |
| 2. adj. Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress. | |
| 3. n. (musical instruments) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the sixteenth and | |
| 4. n. An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these stops took a multitude | |
| authority |
| 1. n. The power to enforce rules or give orders. | |
| I have the authority to penalise the staff in my department, but not the authority to sack them. | |
| She lost all her respect and authority after turning up drunk to the meeting. | |
| Respect my authority! | |
| 2. n. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government. | |
| 3. n. A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject. | |
| the world's foremost authority on orangutans | |
| 4. n. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity. | |
| New York Port Authority | |
