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Dynastic

Dynastic \Dy*nas"tic\, a. [Gr. ? of a dynast, fr. ?: cf. F. dunastique.] Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings.
--Motley.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dynastic

1800; see dynasty + -ic.

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dynastic

a. Pertaining to a dynasty.

WordNet
dynastic

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of a dynasty

Usage examples of "dynastic".

Prince Edmund will want to inform his people of the honor that awaits him in being presented to His Dynastic Majesty.

Those who were merely court hangers-on, who spent as much time near His Dynastic Majesty as possible, hoping for notice from the royal eye, yawned, stretched, and proposed to each other games of rune-bone to ease them through another boring day.

His respect for and his fear of His Dynastic Majesty were both deep and well founded.

Kleitus, currying his favor, hoping for even a glance from the dynastic eye, lay dead on the floor.

Interwoven product of Africa and Asia, dynastic Egypt was almost always in contact with neighbors to the south.

One may guess at the pressures that made them move: Assyrian and Persian raiding and conquest in the valley of the lower Nile, the eclipse and fall of Kush, the miseries of dynastic strife, the search for wealth.

Wainwright has shown how priestly breastplates, from Yorubaland in southern Nigeria of the medieval period, recall similar models dedicated to Amun in dynastic Egypt.

Darfur, when it can at last be written, will therefore reproduce the same varying process of steady unification, institutional stability, and dynastic warfare that appears elsewhere across the Sudan from the Nile to the Atlantic.

They reached India, as it happened, during a time of dynastic rivalry and religious war, so that their conquest of the coastal cities was made easy for them.

Over on the other side of the southern continent, inland from Sofala, much the same dynastic strife was reported to the king of Portugal as early as 1506.

They pushed into the interior and used their firearms on this side or on that of dynastic wars and rivalries, so as to weaken the whole and deliver the power of government into their ultimate control.

To break from a circle of retribution, he plans a dynastic marriage with Simoda Tal, daughter of King Sayren Stund of Oldorando.

Nought recked you Of throne-succession or dynastic lines When gloriously engaged in Italy!

The unexpected, lurid death of Lannes-- Rigid as iron, reaped down like a straw-- Tiptoed Assassination haunting round In unthought thoroughfares, the near success Of Staps the madman, argue to forbid The riskful blood of my previsioned line And potence for dynastic empery To linger vialled in my veins alone.

Never shall She go through this strain again To lay down a dynastic line for me.