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‖ imperium|ɪmˈpɪərɪəm|
[L., = command, supreme authority or power, sovereignty, dominion.]
Command; absolute power; supreme or imperial power; empire.
1651T. Goodwin Wks. (1862) IV. 144 All the operations of all the powers in it are immediately and entirely at the arbitrary imperium and dominion of the soul. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iii. §17. 163 We have no voluntary imperium at all upon the systole and diastole of the heart. 1838–42Arnold Hist. Rome III. xlvii. 431 The consul's imperium, his absolute power of life and death. 1870E. Mulford Nation x. 166 (Stanf.) The sovereignty of the nation involves the right which is described in its formal phrase, as the imperium or eminent domain.
b. Lat. phr. imperium in imperio, an empire within an empire, an independent or supreme authority exercised or claimed within the jurisdiction of another authority.
1752Chesterfield Lett. to Son 6 Jan., If he will not..admit their imperium in imperio..it becomes meritorious..to depose him. 1790J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 564 Our new government is an attempt to divide a sovereignty; a fresh essay at imperium in imperio. 1886Marquis of Lorne in Contemp. Rev. July 133 No State or Federal Government would willingly constitute an imperium in imperio formed of one race unit. |