▪ I. palatial, a.1
(pəˈleɪʃəl)
[f. L. palāti-um palace + -al1.]
Of the nature or character of a palace; pertaining to or befitting a palace; splendid, magnificent (as a building).
| 1754 A. Drummond Trav. xiii. 271 A very magnificent structure..built in the palatial stile of those days. 1858 Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. I. 12 Palatial edifices, which are better for a stranger to look at, than for his own people to pay for. 1884 Graphic 9 Aug. 134/1 Some of the most palatial hotels. |
Hence palatiˈality (-ʃɪˈælɪtɪ); paˈlatially adv.
| 1894 Harper's Weekly Mag. 7 Apr. 317 In point of ‘palatiality’ the newly..reconstructed house..leads the list. 1893 F. F. Moore Gray Eye or So III. 130 Not palatially,..but still pleasantly. |
▪ II. † palatial, a.2, n.
obs. irreg. form for palatal.
| 1775 Ash Suppl., Palatial. 1792 Sir W. Jones Orig. & Fam. of Nations Wks. 1799 I. 139 Dentals being changed for dentals, and palatials for palatials. 1828–32 Webster, Palatial, pertaining to the palate; as, the palatial retraction of the tongue. Barrow. |