a. [VICE- + REGAL a., after VICEROY sb.] Of or pertaining to, associated with, a viceroy.
1839. Lever, H. Lorrequer, ix. One of my fellow-passengers was a gentleman holding a high official appointment in the viceregal court.
1859. Lang, Wand. India, 325. He found a carriage ready to convey him to the vice-regal dwelling.
1874. Stubbs, Const. Hist., I. xiii. 563. The viceregal character, which the justiciar certainly possessed.
Hence Vice-regalize v. trans., to convert into a viceroyalty; Vice-regally adv., as a viceroy.
1847. Mrs. Gore, Castles in Air, xxviii. in many things, our poor vice-regalized kingdom only too strongly resembles Ireland.
1881. Academy, April, 271. The people whom he had ruled vice-regally.
