a. [UN-1 7.]
1. Unbefitting or inappropriate to a king or queen.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, II. ix. He … sent them with unroyall reproches to Musidorus.
a. 1680. Charrock, Attrib. God (1834), I. 71. A Roman king, who counted it the most unroyal thing to be religious.
1780. W. Beckford, Italy (1834), I. 62. I scolded in an unroyal style.
1842. Fr. A. Kemble, Rec. Later Life (1882), II. 239. The unroyal indignity of being waited upon after her guests.
1880. F. G. Lee, Ch. under Q. Eliz., II. 155. With unroyal discourtesy and unwomanly harshness.
b. Not associated with royal authority.
1867. Bagehot, Eng. Constitution, 99. The unroyal species of cabinet government.
2. Not of royal rank or birth.
a. 1618. J. Davies, Witte’s Pilgr., Wks. (Grosart), II. 35/2. Then, Rimes how ere vnroiall run you on, You may, in time, perhaps come neer that Crowne.
1814. Moore, Mem. (1852), II. 21. A certain un-royal person in Derbyshire.
1861. Trollope, Framley P., III. 230. That none of the blood royal shall raise to royal honours those of the subjects who are by birth un-royal.
Hence Unroyally adv. Also Unroyalist.
1777. Potter, Æschylus, Choephoræ, 345. My royal father, who unroyally Wast murder’d!
1788. Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, 11 Feb. He is so privileged a favourite with all the Royal Family, that he utters all his flights to them almost as easily as to unroyalists.
1829. Moore, Mem. (1854), VI. 38. Not quite liking to refuse him, as being always so unroyally good-humoured and good-natured.
