Careful Words

royal (n.)

royal (adj.)

  To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 497.

  "There is no other royal path which leads to geometry," said Euclid to Ptolemy I.

A royal train, believe me.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 1.