Ducal

Word DUCAL
Character 5
Hyphenation du cal
Pronunciations /djuːkəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Ducal"

What do we mean by ducal?

Of or relating to a duke or duchy. adjective

Pertaining to a duke: as, a ducal coronet.

In ornithology, a term applied to certain large terns of the subgenus Thalasseus, as Sterna(Thalasseus) cantiaca.

Of or pertaining to a duke. adjective

Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold. adjective

Of or belonging to or suitable for a duke adjective

Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Ducal

The word "ducal" in example sentences

He called the ducal palace that evening and got through to the chief social secretary. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1965)

Opening this, they entered a room which Casanova immediately identified as the ducal chancellery. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

My mother, who was as haughty as Lucifer with her descent from the Stuarts, and her right line from the _old Gordons, not the Seyton Gordons_, as she disdainfully termed the ducal branch, told me the story, always reminding me how superior _her_ Gordons were to the southern ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)

Gordons_, -- _not_ the _Seyton Gordons_, as she disdainfully termed the ducal branch, -- told me the story, always reminding me how superior _her_ ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)

Shang that he received extraordinary rank; just as, in very much later days, the Confucius family was the only non-Manchu to possess "ducal" rank, or, as the Japanese seem to hold in German style, "princely" rank. ❋ Edward Harper Parker (1887)

In his poor lodging, 3 Rivers Street, Bath, and his reception and treatment of me there, I found something which I could call 'ducal' or higher than if he had been a duke, and still palatial. ❋ Unknown (1883)

He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince." ❋ James Hall (2010)

When you've finished contemplating the studiolo, a secret door opens to reveal a balcony overlooking the ducal palace's hilltop command. ❋ David Netto (2012)

Meanwhile, Giovanni Antonio Canal, famed as Canaletto, will feature at the Dickinson gallery in Jermyn Street with a pair of masterful Venetian views of the Piazza San Marco and its ducal palace from circa 1755 price for the pair: €4.5 million. ❋ Margaret Studer (2011)

Works of Piccolomini's in the ducal library include I.V. #479 – 84, and p. CXLIX, n. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As a youth, he was fluent in Greek and could read numerous manuscripts in the ducal library that Federico, who received a basic training in Greek grammar, could not. 17 Notably, Guidobaldo was admired for his "remarkable powers of memory," which, as James Dennistoun relates, "by judicious and habitual exercise were extended with advancing manhood." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Note 144: The catena aurea appears in Plato's Theatetus (153d), translated by Ficino and included in the ducal library as part of the Commentary of Plato's Convivium ... de amore (I.V. #221). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Visiting the courtly town of Wolfenbüttel — with its baroque castle, pink-painted armory and splendid ducal library, all "abandoned by the Dukes of Brunswick in 1742 and since then left substantially just to pickle" — he observes that such places are "simply unimprovable." ❋ Ian Brunskill (2010)

If Alain Ducasse's tranquil, elegant country hotel, a former ducal summer palace from the 16th century, feels more "south of France" than "Maremma," you don't much care: It is exceedingly comfortable in its own crisp, modern fashion. ❋ Richard Nalley (2010)

Note 126: The ducal library possessed several works attributed to Theophrastus (372 – 287 bce): I.V. #211, 231, graec. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In Köthen in Saxony-Anhalt, once the leading town of another "micro-principality," he finds a "bleak, battered, unkempt ducal Schloss [castle], its moat stuffed with dead leaves and even its ducks managing to give their quacks a depressive timbre." ❋ Ian Brunskill (2010)

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