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domination|dɒmɪˈneɪʃən|
[a. F. domination (12th c.), f. L. dominātiōn-em, n. of action f. dominārī to dominate.]
1. The action of dominating; the exercise of ruling power; lordly rule, sway, or control; ascendancy.
†b. A lordship or sovereignty (obs.).
c1386Chaucer Pard. Prol. & T. 232 In whom þat drynke hath dominacion, He kan no conseil kepe. 1483Caxton Cato A viij b, The kynges and prynces haue domynacions and lordshippes. 1490― Eneydos i. 13 Pryam was subdued and putte vnder the sharpe domynacyon of the grekes. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. ix. 43 Gave unto him..the Lordship and domination over thys yle. 1654tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. 86 The people found themselves happy under his domination. 1880G. Duff in 19th Cent. No. 38. 666 To keep up the horrible Turkish domination in Armenia.
†c. Predominance, prevalence. Obs.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 3 A myxture of syluer and golde..wherin y⊇ syluer hath dominacion. 1563W. Fulke Meteors (1640) 63 Upon the mixtion of these colours, or chiefe domination of them, all things have their colour.
†2. The territory under rule; a dominion. Obs.
c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. iv. 265 In what parti he dwelled of his domynacyon. 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 26. §1 His subiectes of his saide dominacion of Wales. 1654tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. 68 The Romans advanced not their names, nor inlarged their Dominations but by Conquests.
3. pl. The fourth of the nine orders of angels in the Dionysian hierachy; a conventional representation of these in art. Cf. dominion 4, and see note s.v. cherub.
[1388Wyclif Eph. i. 21 Ech principat, and potestat, and vertu, and domynacioun [so Tindale, Geneva, Rhem.]. ]1398Trevisa Barth De P.R. ii. xii. (1495) 38 The fourth ordre is Domynacyones. 1500–20Dunbar Poems x. 9 Archangellis, angellis, and dompnationis, Tronis, potestatis, and marteiris seir. 1667Milton P.L. v. 601 Hear all ye Angels..Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers. 1847Ld. Lindsay Chr. Art I. 134 A ‘throne’, for instance, is seated on a throne; a ‘domination’ holds the balance. |