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.
Usage examples of "imperial chamber".
The Rajput had been so preoccupied when he entered the imperial chamber that he had not spotted him.
The air swirled inside the Imperial chamber in front of the Emperor, coalesced, and blossomed into the image of a figure down on one knee.
But at last they stood outside the great door of the imperial chamber.
The freedmen took advantage of the morning headaches which followed the drunken evenings to keep me out of the imperial chamber.