REGAL 



many ingredients being sold separ- 

 ately to contractors, or to extract 

 before burning the greases and 

 fertilising substances. See De- 

 structor; Scavenger; consult also 

 Removal and Disposal of Town 

 Refuse, W. H. Maxwell, 1898; 

 Refuse Disposal and Power Pro 

 duction, W. F. Goodrich, 1904. 



Regal. Small portable organ, 

 dating from about 1460, and hav- 

 ing one or more stops of beating- 

 reeds. The origin of the name is un- 

 certain, but it is probably derived 

 from Lat. regula, rule, as the 

 instrument was originally used to 

 regulate or keep in order the sing- 

 ing of the monks. It was sometimes 

 made to fold up, with an exterior 

 resembling a book, hence the term 

 Bible Regal. Amongst the instru- 

 ments possessed by Henry VIII 

 were several pairs of double (or full 

 compass) regals, and of single (or 

 short compass) regals. See Organ. 



Regalia (Lat. regalis, royal). 

 Emblems belonging to the sove- 

 reign as such. The regalia of the 

 sovereign of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land include S. Edward's crown, 

 the imperial crown, S. Edward's 

 staff and sceptre, the royal orb, a 

 pair of bracelets or armillae, a ring, 

 a mantle and other garments, a 

 pair of spurs, the ampulla or 

 golden eagle a receptacle for the 

 anointing oil and a spoon for the 

 oil. Others are the five swords, two 

 of state, one of temporal justice, 

 one of spiritual justice, and the cur- 

 tana. There are also crowns and 

 staves for the queen consort. All 

 are used at a coronation. They are 

 kept in the Tower of London, and 

 most of them were made for the 

 coronation of Charles II. The re- 

 galia of Scotland, crown, sword, 

 and sceptre, are kept in Edinburgh 

 Castle. The word is also used for 

 certain rights belonging to the 

 sovereign as lord of the land, these 

 being relics of feudal times. See 

 Coronation ; Crown, colour plate ; 

 Feudalism ; Tower of London ; 

 consult also The English Regalia, 

 C. J. H. Davenport, 1897. 



Regan. Character in Shake- 

 speare's King Lear. One of the 

 two elder daughters of the king, 

 and the wife of the duke of Corn- 

 wall, she joins her sister Goneril in 

 unfilial conduct to their father, and 

 encourages her husband to put 

 out the eyes of the king's faithful 

 servant, the earl of Gloucester, with 

 whose illegitimate son, Edmund, 

 she falls in love. In the end she dies 

 poisoned by Goneril, her rival for 

 the love of Edmund. See King Lear. 



Regatta (old Ital., contention). 

 Sporting fixture on the water, con- 

 sisting of races between single 

 skiffs, rowing boats, or sailing 

 yachts. The term was introduced 



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from Venice, where it was applied 

 to an annual boat race, in 1775, 

 in which year the first English 

 regatta was held on the Thames. 

 The premier river regatta takes 



glace in July at Henley, while 

 owes at regatta time in August 

 is the Mecca of the yachting world. 

 During the summer months a 

 large number of other regattas of 

 varying importance are held on 

 rivers or round the coast. At the 

 smaller regattas the programme is 

 not confined to " best boats," and 

 may include aquatic sports. In all 

 cases the social element is a prom- 

 inent feature of the entertainment 

 provided for onlookers. See Hen- 

 ley ; Rowing. 



Regelation. Term first used by 

 Faraday for a phenomenon of 

 freezing. When pursuing his 

 investigations in heat at the Royal 

 Institution in 1850 Faraday ob- 

 served that, if two pieces of ice be 



REGENERATION 



cient to make the snow melt, 

 which it must do before it can be 

 formed into a balL But if the 

 temperature be somewhere near 

 the freezing point, such pressure 

 as can be given by the hands will 

 suffice to melt the particles of snow 

 where they are squeezed together, 

 thus forming a little water which, 

 as soon as the pressure is released, 

 freezes and binds the snow into a 

 ball. A demonstration of regela- 

 tion is to take a block of ice and 

 pass over it a loop of wire or cord, 

 attaching a weight below to the 

 cord or wire. The cord or wire will 

 cut its way through the block, but 

 as fast as it does so the block will 

 freeze solid again. Regelation also 

 largely explains the formation of 

 glaciers which begin as snow. See 

 Glacier. 



Regeneration (rebirth). Name 

 given to the Divine act or process 

 by which the life and character of 



Regalia of the British Sovereign. 1. Imperial crown. 2. Orb. 3. S. Edward's 

 crown. 4. Ampulla. 5. Anointing spoon. 6. Spur. 7. Curtana. 8. Sword 

 of state. 9. Queen's sceptre, with dove. 10. Queen consort's sceptre. 11. 

 Imperial sceptre, with cross. 12. King's sceptre, with dove. 13. Sword of 

 offering. 14. Sword of temporal justice. 15. Sword of spiritual justice. 16. 

 Spur. 17. 8. Edward's staff. 18. Maces 



Copyright of B. H. The King 



pressed firmly together and then 

 the pressure removed, the pieces 

 will unite into a solid block. What 

 happened was that the blocks 

 melted slightly where they were 

 in contact under pressure, but as 

 soon as the pressure was released 

 the water thus formed froze again, 

 uniting the pieces together. That 

 ice will melt under simple pressure 

 has since been frequently proved, 

 and serves to explain manv 

 common phenomena. 



Every schoolboy, in countries 

 where snow occurs, knows that it is 

 sometimes easier to make a snow- 

 ball than at others. If the snow be 

 very cold and dry it is not easy to 

 make a firm ball, because the 

 pressure of the hands is not suffi- 



a man are changed when ue be- 

 comes a Christian. Regeneration is 

 the correlative of conversion. Con- 

 version represents the human side, 

 i.e. what the man himself does 

 through repentance and contrition ; 

 regeneration represents the Divine 

 side, i.e. what God does for the 

 man by the gift of grace and the 

 Holy Spirit to make the conversion 

 effective. Many attempts have 

 been made to define and explain 

 the process of regeneration more 

 exactly. 



A number of theologians have 

 maintained that regeneration con- 

 fers upon man a new spiritual fac- 

 ulty, hitherto unpossessed, which 

 enables him to grasp and assimi- 

 late Divine truth. Others hold 



