dominionn.

/dəʊˈmɪnjən/

Etymology: < obsolete French dominion (in Godefroy), < Latin type *dominiōn-em, derivative of dominium property, ownership < dominus lord.

1. The power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority; lordship, sovereignty; rule, sway; control, influence.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > [noun] > chief authority or dominion

ealdordomeOE

lord-domeOE

lordshipeOE

aldershipOE

danger?c1225

seignioryc1290

demesnec1300

lordheada1325

lordshippingc1384

dominationc1386

subjectiona1393

signory?a1425

dominionc1430

signority1525

seigniority1596

dynasty1613

seigniorage1656

c1430 J. Lydgate Story of Thebes ii. (R.) To haue lordship, or dominioun, In the bounds of this little toun.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. vi. f. vii She gaue ouer y^e rule and domynion to hym.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 29 These Moguls..got the Dominion of these Countries.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 500. ¶2 Nothing is more gratifying to the Mind of Man than Power or Dominion.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 241 French dominion in any shape would soon become hateful.

figurative.a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 41 Fortune..hath grete domynyon & rule in al utward thyngys.1582 Bible (Rheims) Rom. vi. 9 Death shal no more haue dominion [ Wycl. lordschip, Tindale, etc. power] ouer him.1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 184. ⁋7 Exempting them from the dominion of chance.1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 179 For ages physicians have been under the dominion of prejudices.

a. The lands or domains of a feudal lord.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory governed by a ruler or state

demesnea1387

principalitya1398

territory?a1439

dominationc1440

statea1500

dominion1512

dition1542

heretochy1587

domain1601

sovereignty1715

possession1797

daimiote1870

ealdormanry1870

1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 10 The Domynyons Honours Castelles Parkes..that late were to Edwarde Courteney.

b. The territory owned by or subject to a king or ruler, or under a particular government or control. Esp. a country outside England or Great Britain under the sovereignty of or owing allegiance to the English or British crown; spec. †(a) (in plural) the English possessions in America; †(b) the principality of Wales; (c) (Historical) any of the larger self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth; also attributive. Often in plural. Dominion of Canada (colloquial ‘ the Dominion’), the title under which the former colonial provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, etc., in British North America, were united into one government in 1867 (1 July); the title was also given to New Zealand in 1907 (28 September). the Old Dominion (also the Ancient Dominion), a popular name in U.S. for Virginia.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > aggregate of sovereign states under one rule > Commonwealth or former British Empire > dominion or colony of

dominion1548

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxx The whole dominion of Fraunce, betwene the riuers of Soame and Marne.

1606 First Charter Virginia in H. W. Preston Doc. Illustr. Amer. Hist. (1886) 9 The said several Colonies and Plantations,..they being of any Realms, or Dominions under our Obedience.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 167 If..Thy banisht truncke be found in our dominions, The moment is thy death.

1623–4 Act 21 Jac. I c. 3 Within this Realme or the Dominion of Wales.

1682 Acts of Assembly Virginia (1727) I. 142 His Majesty's Subjects, being in this his Majesty's Dominion of Virginia.

1700 Act 11 & 12 Will. III c. 12 §1 Commanders in Chief of Plantations and Colonies within his Majesties Dominions beyond the Seas.

1700 Act 11 & 12 Will. III c. 19 §7 Any Prisons..belonging to any County of this Realm, or the Dominions of Wales.

1705 F. Makemie Plain & Friendly Perswasive Ded. To..Her Majestys Governor of the Ancient Dominion of Virginia.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 22 The King of Spain had allowed the King of France's Subjects a free Trade in his American Dominions.

1778 Cal. Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 311 I should not see the old Dominion this winter.

1789 W. Maclay Jrnl. 29 Apr. (1890) 14 The member from the Ancient Dominion.

1808 Deb. Congr. 7 Apr. (1852) 2024 In 1798, everything went on merrily—no dissentients, except one or two States, the Old Dominion and her eldest daughter.

1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn (1860) 13 I have really reached the Old Dominion.

1843 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive in Crit. & Hist. Ess. III. 119 The wide dominion of the Franks was severed into a thousand pieces.

1850 W. H. Foote Sketches Virginia 393 The Smiths came to Virginia to commence log colleges in the ‘Ancient Dominion’.

1867 Act 30 & 31 Vict. c. 3. §3 The Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick shall form and be One Dominion under the Name of Canada.

1901 London Gaz. 4 Nov. The following addition shall be made to the Style and Titles at present appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies;..after the words ‘of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland’, these words, ‘and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas’.

1907 Times 1 Mar. 10/2 They had found themselves in complete agreement with the Premiers and Ministers of Defence of the King's Dominions across the seas.

1907 Times 22 Apr. 14/2 The Prime Ministers of the self-governing Dominions.

1910 A. H. Forbes (title) History of the British Dominions beyond the Seas (1558–1910).

1912 A. B. Keith Respons. Govt. in Domin. III. 1313 Since the Colonial Conference of 1907 Dominion is a technical term for the self-governing Colonies.

1922 Daily Mail Year Bk. 1923 84/1 The terms..offered to Ireland the full dominion status of Canada.

1930 Daily Tel. May 10 I look forward to the day when Indian liberty will be enlarged in order that she will take her place as a fully self-governing Dominion in the Dominions of the Empire.

1931 Act 22 Geo. V c. 4 §1 In this Act the expression ‘Dominion’ means any of the following Dominions, that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland.

1949 Newsweek 1 Aug. 15/1 This constituted ‘outside interference’ in the affairs of the Old Dominion.

1952 Times 21 Feb. 3/1 The words ‘British Dominions beyond the Seas’ had disappeared from the Proclamations in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand... At the same time Canada had substituted ‘Canada’ for ‘Dominion of Canada’.

1953 Times 8 Dec. 9/2 Her Majesty will visit three of the seven fully sovereign nations—it is significant that their only generic title of ‘Dominion’ is already obsolescent—which make up in the narrower sense the oversea Commonwealth.

1959 Times 18 Apr. 7/3 The Labour Party pamphlet suggested that they should be offered ‘Dominion Status’. That is to say, they should become independent, but should be able by the act of self-determination to re-enter the Commonwealth.

figurative.1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 414 The Dominions of Pen-men are of far larger extent than those of Sword-men.1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. v. 94 Thy spirit lifts its pinions In music's most serene dominions.

a. Law. Ownership, property; right of possession. [= dominium in Roman Law.]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > ownership or proprietorship

owingc1450

ownership1583

proprietary1624

dominion1651

my-ness1662

proprietorship1817

mine-ness1920

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun]

title1357

ownheada1425

ownership1583

dominion1651

titleship1680

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xvi. 81 The Right of possession, is called Dominion.

1682 W. Evats tr. H. Grotius Rights War & Peace 78 We must search into the rise or beginning of propriety, which Lawyers call Dominion.

1738 Hist. View Court of Exchequer vi. 111 The King who had the eminent Dominion.

1774 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 138 Our Saxon ancestors held their lands..in absolute dominion, unencumbered with any superior.

1832 J. Austin Outline in Province Jurispr. p. xxxi Dominion, property, or ownership, is a name liable to objection.

1885 Law Times 28 Mar. 386/1 Negligent dealing with goods by a bailee, which does not amount to the assertion of any dominion over them.

†b. figurative. Power or right. nonce-use. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > right or moral entitlement > a right

rightOE

charter1571

enlargementa1616

rectitude1660

dominiona1797

a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) II. viii. 257 The King, during the whole conversation, seemed to leave open his dominion of saying or unsaying hereafter.

4. = domination n. 3. (Usually in plural.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > order of > dominations

lordshipOE

dominations1398

dominion1667

1539 Bible (Great) Eph. i. 21 Aboue all rule, and power, and might and domynion [ Tinsdale dominacion].

1611 Bible (King James) Coloss. i. 16 All things created..visible and inuisible, whether they be thrones or dominions [L. dominationes, Gk. κυριότητες], or principalities, or powers. ]

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 11 Powers and Dominions, Deities of Heav'n.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 200 Dominions for supream Commands decreed.

Compounds

General attributive, as Dominion act. Dominion day, in the Dominion of Canada, the 1st of July, observed as a general holiday in commemoration of the union of the provinces, etc., under that name in 1867.

ΚΠ

1877 Daily News 3 Nov. 6/6 In violation of the Dominion Act regarding the importation of cattle from prohibited countries.

1892 W. Pike Barren Ground N. Canada 167 The loyal Canadians..were..celebrating the anniversary of Dominion Day, with much rye whisky.

Derivatives

† doˈminion v. Obsolete to exercise dominion, to rule.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > [verb (transitive)] > have authority over

lordshipc1350

maistriec1400

mastera1425

manc1426

overlordshipc1460

domine1481

to carry the sway of1549

overmastera1557

command1575

swinge1593

monarch1600

dominate1611

dominion1647

dominate1870

1647 Polit. Ballads (1860) I. 35 We shall have..But few folks, and poor, to dominion o'er.

doˈminionless adj. having no dominion.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of power > [adjective]

unmightyeOE

weak1423

unmighta1450

unpowerful1611

dominionless1845

1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 57 523 Dominionless over our sympathy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dominion
释义	dominionn. /dəʊˈmɪnjən/ Etymology: < obsolete French dominion (in Godefroy), < Latin type dominiōn-em, derivative of dominium* property, ownership < dominus lord. 1. The power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority; lordship, sovereignty; rule, sway; control, influence. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > chief authority or dominion ealdordomeOE lord-domeOE lordshipeOE aldershipOE danger?c1225 seignioryc1290 demesnec1300 lordheada1325 lordshippingc1384 dominationc1386 subjectiona1393 signory?a1425 dominionc1430 signority1525 seigniority1596 dynasty1613 seigniorage1656 c1430 J. Lydgate Story of Thebes ii. (R.) To haue lordship, or dominioun, In the bounds of this little toun. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. vi. f. vii She gaue ouer y^e rule and domynion to hym. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 29 These Moguls..got the Dominion of these Countries. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 500. ¶2 Nothing is more gratifying to the Mind of Man than Power or Dominion. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 241 French dominion in any shape would soon become hateful. figurative.a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 41 Fortune..hath grete domynyon & rule in al utward thyngys.1582 Bible (Rheims) Rom. vi. 9 Death shal no more haue dominion [ Wycl. lordschip, Tindale, etc. power] ouer him.1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 184. ⁋7 Exempting them from the dominion of chance.1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 179 For ages physicians have been under the dominion of prejudices. 2. a. The lands or domains of a feudal lord. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory governed by a ruler or state demesnea1387 principalitya1398 territory?a1439 dominationc1440 statea1500 dominion1512 dition1542 heretochy1587 domain1601 sovereignty1715 possession1797 daimiote1870 ealdormanry1870 1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 10 The Domynyons Honours Castelles Parkes..that late were to Edwarde Courteney. b. The territory owned by or subject to a king or ruler, or under a particular government or control. Esp. a country outside England or Great Britain under the sovereignty of or owing allegiance to the English or British crown; spec. †(a) (in plural) the English possessions in America; †(b) the principality of Wales; (c) (Historical) any of the larger self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth; also attributive. Often in plural. Dominion of Canada (colloquial ‘ the Dominion’), the title under which the former colonial provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, etc., in British North America, were united into one government in 1867 (1 July); the title was also given to New Zealand in 1907 (28 September). the Old Dominion (also the Ancient Dominion), a popular name in U.S. for Virginia. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > aggregate of sovereign states under one rule > Commonwealth or former British Empire > dominion or colony of dominion1548 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxx The whole dominion of Fraunce, betwene the riuers of Soame and Marne. 1606 First Charter Virginia in H. W. Preston Doc. Illustr. Amer. Hist. (1886) 9 The said several Colonies and Plantations,..they being of any Realms, or Dominions under our Obedience. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 167 If..Thy banisht truncke be found in our dominions, The moment is thy death. View more context for this quotation 1623–4 Act 21 Jac. I c. 3 Within this Realme or the Dominion of Wales. 1682 Acts of Assembly Virginia (1727) I. 142 His Majesty's Subjects, being in this his Majesty's Dominion of Virginia. 1700 Act 11 & 12 Will. III c. 12 §1 Commanders in Chief of Plantations and Colonies within his Majesties Dominions beyond the Seas. 1700 Act 11 & 12 Will. III c. 19 §7 Any Prisons..belonging to any County of this Realm, or the Dominions of Wales. 1705 F. Makemie Plain & Friendly Perswasive Ded. To..Her Majestys Governor of the Ancient Dominion of Virginia. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 22 The King of Spain had allowed the King of France's Subjects a free Trade in his American Dominions. 1778 Cal. Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 311 I should not see the old Dominion this winter. 1789 W. Maclay Jrnl. 29 Apr. (1890) 14 The member from the Ancient Dominion. 1808 Deb. Congr. 7 Apr. (1852) 2024 In 1798, everything went on merrily—no dissentients, except one or two States, the Old Dominion and her eldest daughter. 1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn (1860) 13 I have really reached the Old Dominion. 1843 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive in Crit. & Hist. Ess. III. 119 The wide dominion of the Franks was severed into a thousand pieces. 1850 W. H. Foote Sketches Virginia 393 The Smiths came to Virginia to commence log colleges in the ‘Ancient Dominion’. 1867 Act 30 & 31 Vict. c. 3. §3 The Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick shall form and be One Dominion under the Name of Canada. 1901 London Gaz. 4 Nov. The following addition shall be made to the Style and Titles at present appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies;..after the words ‘of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland’, these words, ‘and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas’. 1907 Times 1 Mar. 10/2 They had found themselves in complete agreement with the Premiers and Ministers of Defence of the King's Dominions across the seas. 1907 Times 22 Apr. 14/2 The Prime Ministers of the self-governing Dominions. 1910 A. H. Forbes (title) History of the British Dominions beyond the Seas (1558–1910). 1912 A. B. Keith Respons. Govt. in Domin. III. 1313 Since the Colonial Conference of 1907 Dominion is a technical term for the self-governing Colonies. 1922 Daily Mail Year Bk. 1923 84/1 The terms..offered to Ireland the full dominion status of Canada. 1930 Daily Tel. May 10 I look forward to the day when Indian liberty will be enlarged in order that she will take her place as a fully self-governing Dominion in the Dominions of the Empire. 1931 Act 22 Geo. V c. 4 §1 In this Act the expression ‘Dominion’ means any of the following Dominions, that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland. 1949 Newsweek 1 Aug. 15/1 This constituted ‘outside interference’ in the affairs of the Old Dominion. 1952 Times 21 Feb. 3/1 The words ‘British Dominions beyond the Seas’ had disappeared from the Proclamations in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand... At the same time Canada had substituted ‘Canada’ for ‘Dominion of Canada’. 1953 Times 8 Dec. 9/2 Her Majesty will visit three of the seven fully sovereign nations—it is significant that their only generic title of ‘Dominion’ is already obsolescent—which make up in the narrower sense the oversea Commonwealth. 1959 Times 18 Apr. 7/3 The Labour Party pamphlet suggested that they should be offered ‘Dominion Status’. That is to say, they should become independent, but should be able by the act of self-determination to re-enter the Commonwealth. figurative.1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 414 The Dominions of Pen-men are of far larger extent than those of Sword-men.1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. v. 94 Thy spirit lifts its pinions In music's most serene dominions. 3. a. Law. Ownership, property; right of possession. [= dominium in Roman Law.] ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > ownership or proprietorship owingc1450 ownership1583 proprietary1624 dominion1651 my-ness1662 proprietorship1817 mine-ness1920 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] title1357 ownheada1425 ownership1583 dominion1651 titleship1680 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xvi. 81 The Right of possession, is called Dominion. 1682 W. Evats tr. H. Grotius Rights War & Peace 78 We must search into the rise or beginning of propriety, which Lawyers call Dominion. 1738 Hist. View Court of Exchequer vi. 111 The King who had the eminent Dominion. 1774 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 138 Our Saxon ancestors held their lands..in absolute dominion, unencumbered with any superior. 1832 J. Austin Outline in Province Jurispr. p. xxxi Dominion, property, or ownership, is a name liable to objection. 1885 Law Times 28 Mar. 386/1 Negligent dealing with goods by a bailee, which does not amount to the assertion of any dominion over them. †b. figurative. Power or right. nonce-use. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > right or moral entitlement > a right rightOE charter1571 enlargementa1616 rectitude1660 dominiona1797 a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) II. viii. 257 The King, during the whole conversation, seemed to leave open his dominion of saying or unsaying hereafter. 4. = domination n. 3. (Usually in plural.) ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > order of > dominations lordshipOE dominations1398 dominion1667 1539 Bible (Great) Eph. i. 21 Aboue all rule, and power, and might and domynion [ Tinsdale dominacion]. 1611 Bible (King James) Coloss. i. 16 All things created..visible and inuisible, whether they be thrones or dominions [L. dominationes, Gk. κυριότητες], or principalities, or powers. View more context for this quotation] 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 11 Powers and Dominions, Deities of Heav'n. View more context for this quotation a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 200 Dominions for supream Commands decreed. Compounds General attributive, as Dominion act. Dominion day, in the Dominion of Canada, the 1st of July, observed as a general holiday in commemoration of the union of the provinces, etc., under that name in 1867. ΚΠ 1877 Daily News 3 Nov. 6/6 In violation of the Dominion Act regarding the importation of cattle from prohibited countries. 1892 W. Pike Barren Ground N. Canada 167 The loyal Canadians..were..celebrating the anniversary of Dominion Day, with much rye whisky. Derivatives † doˈminion v. Obsolete to exercise dominion, to rule. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [verb (transitive)] > have authority over lordshipc1350 maistriec1400 mastera1425 manc1426 overlordshipc1460 domine1481 to carry the sway of1549 overmastera1557 command1575 swinge1593 monarch1600 dominate1611 dominion1647 dominate1870 1647 Polit. Ballads (1860) I. 35 We shall have..But few folks, and poor, to dominion o'er. doˈminionless adj. having no dominion. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of power > [adjective] unmightyeOE weak1423 unmighta1450 unpowerful1611 dominionless1845 1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 57 523 Dominionless over our sympathy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1430
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