imperial-royal

English

Alternative forms

• imperial royal

Etymology

Calque of German kaiserlich-königlich, from kaiserlich und königlich, referring to the monarch’s titles, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary.

Adjective

imperial-royal (not comparable)

1. (historical) Pertaining to the central government of Austria-Hungary.
   • 1868, “Introduction”, in Austrian Red-Book: Diplomatic Correspondence of the Imperial-Royal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, from November 1866 to 31st December 1867, page 33:

     […] Emperor Napoleon had given the assurance, in consequence of the emphatic representations of the Imperial-Royal Ambassador, that the last obstacles to a conclusion, in so far as they depended upon France, should speedily be removed.

   • 2006, Paul Hanebrink, In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944, →ISBN, page 12:

     For example, Hungarians still had to serve in a joint imperial-royal army. They also had to accept financial decisions made by imperial-royal banks in Vienna.

   • 2018, Benno Gammerl, translated by Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser, Subjects, Citizens, and Others: Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867–1918, →ISBN, page 62:

     This administration was headed by the Imperial-Royal government in Vienna and the Austrian emperor.