(archaic) decree from an empress, empress dowager or grand empress dowager

to receive / take, interpret (words, gestures)

(literary) beautiful; splendid

empress consort

to lower

delicious / appetizing / clever

principle; aim; purpose / gist; meaning

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend