Definitions for regius

regius re·gi·us

Spelling: [ree-jee-uh s, -juh s]
IPA: /ˈri dʒi əs, -dʒəs/

Regius is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in regius (egirsu).

Definitions for regius

adjective

  1. of or belonging to a king.
  2. (of a professor in a British university) holding a chair founded by or dependent on the sovereign.

Origin of regius

Latin rēgius worthy of or belonging to a king, royal, equivalent to rēg- (stem of rēx) king + -ius adj. suffix

Examples for regius

She had been learning Latin not quite a fortnight, but she would have corrected the regius Professor.

Henry also founded regius professorships of Hebrew and Greek.

Electric power is ascribed to a species of cusk (Urophycis regius), but this perhaps needs verification.

regius becoming embarrassed prayed the parents to recall their sons.

The board summoned the regius Professor to attend before them.

A combination known as the regius Company took over Paige's interest, but accomplished nothing.

But "some day, of course, he'll have the regius professorship."

Next year he persuaded the magistracy to issue an order forbidding regius to travel beyond the received doctrine.

In addition they must keep an act, which consists in reading a thesis previously approved by the regius Professor of Physic.

Only three years later he was invited to accept the regius professorship of law at Oxford, which he held from 1870 to 1893.

Word Value for regius
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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