The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vice-regal \Vice`-re"gal\, a.
Of or pertaining to a viceroy or viceroyalty.
--Macaulay.
Usage examples of "vice-regal".
Many saw, seated above his vice-regal throne, a supreme Providence, who directed his shafts, and guided his progress, and they bowed their heads in resignation, or at least in obedience.
In the upholstered luxury of the Presidential coach, the King, Prince and their two oil ministers gazed around them with a carefully controlled degree of regal and vice-regal appreciation, for although there was a marked absence of Golden Gate Bridges in their dusty homelands -and, indeed, no need for them-it would not have done to admit that there were some things better done in the West than in the Middle East Nor did they enthuse overmuch about the scenery, for although a million square miles of drifting sands might not be without its attractions for a homesick Bedouin, it could hardly be said to compare with the lush and fertile greenery of the farm land and forest land mat stretched ahead of them across the Golden Gate.
I am Captain-General of the Black Ship this year, therefore Governor of Macao this year, with vice-regal powers over these waters this year, and if I want to eliminate him, or Toranaga or whomever, I will.