Of or relating to royalty.
Befitting a king, or emperor.
Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
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 seventeenth centuries; today it has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
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 of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called Vox Humana.
Of or pertaining to religious ceremonies and rites; (generally) religious in nature; sacred.
Characterized by or performed with appropriate or great ceremony or formality.
Inspiring serious feelings or thoughts; sombrely impressive.
Deeply serious and sombre; grave.