† royalme Obs.
Forms: α. 4–7 roialme (5 -elme); 4–6 royalme (5–6 -aulme). β. 4 roiame, 5 -aume; 4–5 royam(m)e, 5 -aume. γ. 5 royme.
[a. OF. roialme, roiaume, roiame (mod.F. royaume), var. of reialme, etc. realm. Cf. also rialm.]
A kingdom, realm.
| α c 1350 R. Brunne's Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14321 Al þe roialme was in speyr. Ibid. 14763 Þe seueþe roialme. 1389 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 23 Þe Roialme and holy chirche and here owen soules..to reulen and kepen. 1422 tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 135 That he be..obeyaunte to the laue of god, and al his roielme. 1489 Caxton Faytes of A. iii. xix. 211 Noon ought to come within the roialme without a gode saufconduyte. 1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 9 Preamble, Henry the vij{supt}{suph} late King of this Roialme of Englond. 1556 Robinson tr. More's Utopia (Arb.) 39 The whole royalme is fylled..with hiered souldiours. 1606 Holland Sueton. 5 The Alexandrianes had driven their King out of his Roialme. |
| β c 1350 R. Brunne's Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1954 Als þe þre royames lys. Ibid. 14325 Constantyn..tok hym þe roiame in kepyng. 1475 Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 7 To destroie Roiaumes and countreis by roialle gret power. 1493 Hen. VII in Four C. Eng. Lett. (1880) 9 To the subversion of this our royaume. |
| γ 1474 in Coventry Leet Bk. 413 Concernyng the well of vs, oure Royme, and subgettes of the same. 1482 in Rymer Fœdera (1711) XII. 166/1 Gevyng to theym..Auctorite to go and adresse theymself unto the Royme of Scotlond. |
b. The kingdom
of heaven or paradise.
| 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 192/2 The royame of heuen is nyghe to them that doo penaunce. 1502 Ord. Crysten Men (1506) i. iii, The chirche of the royalme of paradyse. |