%kingl%

adv. In a manner to balk or frustrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a joking way; sportively.

a. Having no king. F. Lieber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A little king; a weak or insignificant king. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of small singing birds of the genus Regulus and family Sylviidæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The golden-crowned kinglet (Regulus satrapa), and the rubycrowned kinglet (Regulus calendula), are the most common American species. The common English kinglet (Regulus cristatus) is also called golden-crested wren, moonie, and marigold finch. The kinglets are often popularly called wrens, both in America and England.

n. King-liness. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being kingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Kinglet, 1. Churchill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Kinglier superl. Kingliest. ] Belonging to, suitable to, or becoming, a king; characteristic of, or resembling, a king; directed or administered by a king; monarchical; royal; sovereign; regal; august; noble; grand. “Kingly magnificence.” Sir P. Sidney. “A kingly government.” Swift. “The kingly couch.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn. G. Massey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares. Cowper.

Syn. -- Regal; royal; monarchical; imperial; august; sovereign; noble; splendid. -- Kingly, Regal. Kingly is Anglo-Saxon, and refers especially to the character of a king; regal is Latin, and now relates more to his office. The former is chiefly used of dispositions, feelings, and purposes which are kinglike; as, kingly sentiments; kingly condescension; “ a kingly heart for enterprises.” Sir P. Sidney. The latter is oftener applied to external state, pomp, etc.; as, regal state, regal title, etc. This distinction is not observed by our early writers, but is gaining ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a kingly or kinglike manner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Low bowed the rest; he, kingly, did but nod. Pore. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Although this citation, one from Paradise Lost, and one from Shakespeare's ll4th Sonnet are given by lexicographers as examples of adverbial use, it is by no means clear that the word is not an adjective in each instance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Slatternly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Erroneously. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a quaking manner; fearfully. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of rebuke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of revocation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a shrinking manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a skulking manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With smirking; with a smirk. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a squeaking manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell. [ 1913 Webster ]

See high.
See honorable.
See hopeful.
See hostile.
See hurt.
See hhurtful.
See hygienic.
See ideal.
See idle.
See illusory.
See imaginable.
See imaginative.
See immortal.
See implicit.
See important.
See impressible. See >Unimpressible.
See impressionable.
See improvable.
See impugnable.
See incidental.
See increasable.
See indifferent.
See indulgent.
See industrious.
See inflammable.
See influential.
See ingenious.
See ingenuous.
See inhabitable.
See injurious.
See inquisitive.
See instructive.
See intelligent.
See intelligible.
See intentional.
See interesting.
See interpretable.
See inventive.
See investigable.
See jealous.
See joyful.
See joyous.
See justifiable.
See kingly.
See knightly.
See knotty.
See knowable.
See laborious.
See ladylike.
See level.
See libidinous.
See lightsome.
See limber.
See lineal.
See logical.
See lordly.
See losable.
See lovable.
See lucent.
See luminous.
See lustrous.
See lusty.
See maidenly.
See makable.
See malleable.
See manageable.
See manful.
See manlike.
See manly.
See marketable.
See marriable.
See marriageable.
See marvelous.
See masculine.
See matchable.
See matronlike.
See meek.
See meet.
See melodious.
See mendable.
See mentionable.
See mercenary.
See merciable.
See meritable.
See merry.
See metaphorical.
See mighty.
See mild.
See military.
See mindful.
See mingleable.
See miraculous.
See miry.
See mitigable.
See modifiable.
See modish.
See moist.
See monkish.
See motherly.
See muscular.
See musical.
See mysterious.
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See native.
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See needful.
See negotiable.
See niggard.
See noble.
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