Basileus

[Gr. (Jaai Xe,)^.] King, A title frequently given to the kmg in E:,ngland, in charters before the conquest. In imitation of that assumed by the emperors of the east and west.

1 BL Com. 242. Seldm Tit of Hon. I. 2. 7 Co. 44, [22.] Spence's Chancery, 11.