Reigning: alternatives and connections

A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like tho…

The sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Hen…

A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III.

An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I.

The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium.

One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.

Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I.

Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV.,…

Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, l…

To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.

Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II.

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

One of a religious sect which arose in Alexandria, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian, and which believed that the body of Christ w…

An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.

The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the…

Formerly, the highest court of common law in England; -- so called because the king used to sit there in person. It consisted of a chi…

The name given later times to the Asmonaeans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV.…