Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • After the manner of a duke; with a duke or a ducal family: as, ducally connected.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In the manner of a duke; in a way that befits a duke.

Etymologies

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ducal +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Mr. Gross has adopted as a factory mark his family crest, a falcon rising ducally gorged, which is printed on each piece in black.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 Various

  • These have been used as the royal supporters ever since their first adoption, with but one exception, and that is in the seal of the Exchequer, time of Charles I., where the supporters are an antelope and stag, both ducally collared and chained.

    Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850 Various

  • Crest, on a mount vert, a wyvern ppr. ducally gorged, and lined or.

    Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various

  • He had, however, just lunched ducally; and he was in a vainglorious mood, ready to face anything female.

    Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Edgar Jepson 1900

  • The grounds surrounding the American palace are not often large, and not often beautiful, but in the Melbourne case the grounds are often ducally spacious, and the climate and the gardeners together make them as beautiful as a dream.

    Following the Equator, Part 2 Mark Twain 1872

  • The grounds surrounding the American palace are not often large, and not often beautiful, but in the Melbourne case the grounds are often ducally spacious, and the climate and the gardeners together make them as beautiful as a dream.

    Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

  • RICHARD II. to THOMAS MOWBRAY, Earl Marshal, and now borne by the Duke of NORFOLK, is _a lion statant guardant, his tail extended or, and ducally gorged arg. _: the PERCY lion is _statant, his tail extended or_: each lion stands upon a chapeau.

    The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

  • _; Supporters -- _Two lions ramp.guard. arg., ducally gorged or_.

    The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

  • He found one or two other trifles of a similar nature; one was an ill-done miniature set in silver, and bearing at the back sundry half - effaced letters, which Brandon construed at once (though no other eye could) into "Sir John Brandon, 1635, AEtat. 28;" the other was a seal stamped with the noble crest of the house of Brandon, 'A bull's head, ducally crowned and armed, Or. '

    Paul Clifford — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Brandon, 'A bull's head, ducally crowned and armed, Or. '

    Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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