royal charter
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- noun
- UK
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carta real
- Founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, it was the first institution of higher learning established in the province of Ontario and has since grown into a research university of international stature.
- royal charter granted
Examples
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Under Royal charters, England granted colonies title to both jus publicum and jus privatum lands, as well as the right to regulate such lands under the jus regium.
Academic text (2001) -
What was new was the idea of a publicly traded joint-stock corporation, an entity with rights similar to those of states and individuals, with limited liability and significant autonomy (even in its earliest days, when corporations were formed for defined periods of time by royal charter).
Blog text (32) -
No, the royal charter states specifically that they must be impartial.
Blog text (32) -
As king, he met with the principal men of London, offering them royal charters in exchange for tithes.
Fiction book (1991) -
After all, following the initial group of papal and royal charters, the monograms and most other imaged forms of signatures disappear.
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The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP - it got its royal charter in 1972) argued for years that it wanted the MRCGP exam and Summative Assessment to be different, one a standard of excellence and the other a standard of competence.
Academic text (2010) -
In 1239, Walter de Ralegh and Isabel, his wife (in whose right he was lord of the Manor of Degembris), obtained a royal charter for a yearly fair on St. Francis' day and a weekly market at Meideshol.
Blog text (31) -
Columbia University was founded in 1754 by royal charter granted by King George II of England.
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One of the Middle Colonies, New Jersey, was granted a royal charter in 1702 to formalize its government.
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In 1239, Walter de Ralegh obtained a royal charter for a yearly fair on St. Francis' day.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'royal' (relating to a monarch) combined with 'charter' (a formal document granting rights or powers) yields a charter issued by the monarch. This construction follows regular semantic composition and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Royal charter The noun royal charter comes from old times when a royal, a king or queen, gave an official charter, a written paper that gave rights or powers to a person, company, or town. So today royal charter means 'an official document from a king or queen that gives rights or powers'.