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Imperial   /ɪmpˈɪriəl/   Listen
adjective
Imperial  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict. "The last That wore the imperial diadem of Rome."
2.
Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme. "The imperial democracy of Athens." "Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an imperial voice." "To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts, and worthy thee." "He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle."
3.
Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper; imperial tea, etc.
Imperial bushel, Imperial gallon, etc. See Bushel, Gallon, etc.
Imperial chamber, the, the sovereign court of the old German empire.
Imperial city, under the first German empire, a city having no head but the emperor.
Imperial diet, an assembly of all the states of the German empire.
Imperial drill. (Manuf.) See under 8th Drill.
Imperial eagle. (Zool.) See Eagle.
Imperial green. See Paris green, under Green.
Imperial guard, the royal guard instituted by Napoleon I.
Imperial weights and measures, the standards legalized by the British Parliament.


noun
Imperial  n.  
1.
The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; so called from the style of beard of Napoleon III.
2.
An outside seat on a diligence.
3.
A luggage case on the top of a coach.
4.
Anything of unusual size or excellence, as a large decanter, a kind of large photograph, a large sheet of drawing, printing, or writing paper, etc.
5.
A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight dollars.
6.
A kind of fine cloth brought into England from Greece. or other Eastern countries, in the Middle Ages.
7.
A game at cards differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump; also, any one of several combinations of cards which score in this game.





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... shining, to and by which the individual exists and must order his conduct, is something special to himself and not common to the race. His joys delight, his sorrows wound him, according as THIS is interested or indifferent in the affair; according as they arise in an imperial war or in a broil conducted by the tributary chieftains of the mind. He may lose all, and THIS not suffer; he may lose what is materially a trifle, and THIS leap in his bosom with a cruel pang. I do not speak of it to hardened theorists: ...
— Lay Morals • Robert Louis Stevenson
... sits expectation in the air, And hides a sword, from hilt unto the point, With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets, Promised to Harry and ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various
... slain? why Margarita, Why wife, sure some new device they have a foot again, 225] Some trick upon my credit, I shall meet it, I had rather guide a ship Imperial Alone, and in a storm, ...
— Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife - Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... one else is to the fore, shall be to me responsible for the whole, the author, the 'Crier'. Nor can you call this merely my severity or vehemence; for this is the procedure established among almost all nations by right and laws of equity. I will adduce, as universally accepted, the Imperial Civil Law. Read Institut. Justiniani l. IV. De Injuriis, Tit. 4: 'If any one shall write, compose, or publish, or with evil design cause the writing, composing, or publishing, of a book or poem (or story) for the defamation of any one,' &c. ...
— The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 • David Masson
... incident or some outstanding impression. The landscape is doubtless magnificent, but the people one sees on the way are infinitely more interesting. No one, I am sure, can fail to observe the well-groomed, fresh, and imperial aspect of the pier policemen. The general polish of their boots and belts, the self-satisfied, Parnassian smile that never comes off, the spotless gloves, the muscular frame, combine to make up a splendid type of impressive ...
— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes


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