The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imperial \Im*pe"ri*al\, a. [OE. emperial, OF. emperial, F. imp['e]rial, fr. L. imperialis, fr. imperium command, sovereignty, empire. See Empire.]
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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.
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Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme. ``The imperial democracy of Athens.''
--Mitford.Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an imperial voice.
--Shak.To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.
--Dryden.He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle.
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Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper; imperial tea, etc.
Imperial bushel, 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. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Wikipedia
Imperial City may refer to Rome and:
Usage examples of "imperial city".
But the imperial city has endeavored to impose on subject nations not only her yoke, but her language, as a bond of peace, so that interpreters, far from being scarce, are numberless.
Among other things, it would get you away from Imperial City's biddies—.
He'd been shot at by inner city gangs, stabbed doing a shoot in Imperial City, and nearly died that time his team got lost in the desert.
Years later, upon glimpsing McGarr in the Imperial city, Ambassador Pilru had recognized her from confidential Ixian arrest notices.
Because if the ceremony is there, in the Hall of Ceremonies in the Imperial City, with your Lord Elgin and the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, face to face .
She'd arrived on Coruscant just in time to see Shada leaving the Imperial City, and had tracked her to an apartment owned by High Councilor Leia Organa Solo and her husband near the Manarai Mountains.
But the ship, like the station, was on Standard Time, eight hours out of sync with Imperial City.
The Alien Protection Zone, an area of Coruscant's Imperial City is set aside for the habitation of non-human labor during the New Order.
They had not recovered from their fear of turbolifts since the last time they had ridden one all the way down to the decaying bottom levels of Imperial City.
I don't think he ever saw the Imperial City as people and lights&mdash.