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单词 empery
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emperyn.

Brit. /ˈɛmp(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈɛmp(ə)ri/
Forms:

α. Middle English amperiȝe, Middle English aumperie, Middle English aumperye, Middle English aunperie.

β. Middle English emperrie, Middle English–1600s emperie, Middle English–1600s emperye, 1500s embery, 1500s empry, 1500s emprye, 1500s–1600s emprie, 1500s–1600s empyrie, 1500s–1600s empyry, 1500s–1800s empirie, 1500s– empery, 1600s–1800s empiry.

γ. 1500s emporie, 1500s empory.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: French emperie ; empire n.
Etymology: Partly (i) < Anglo-Norman (rare) emperie, Anglo-Norman and Old French (rare) empirie empire (c1050), dominion, sovereignty (first half of the 12th cent.), office or dignity of emperor (first third of the 13th cent. or earlier; < classical Latin imperium empire n.; compare -y suffix4), and partly (in later use) (ii) an alteration of empire n. after words in -y suffix4 (compare classical Latin imperium imperium n., and also impery n.). Compare Spanish †emperio (a1250), Portuguese †emperio , †empeiro (both 13th cent.), variants of Spanish imperio and Portuguese império empire n. respectively.With the α. forms compare α. forms at emperor n. and β. forms at empire n. and adj. With the γ. forms perhaps compare -ory suffix1.
Now archaic and poetic.
1.
a. The office or position of emperor; the power held by an emperor. Also: the reign of an emperor. Now rare.In quot. ?1776 merging with sense 1b.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > emperor > [noun] > position or dignity of
emperyc1325
empirea1450
emperorship1574
imperiousness1574
empiredoma1626
imperialness1677
Kaisership1855
Kaiserdom1871
Kaiserate1881
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 1897 He þer uorþe com, & wende toward rome to winnie þe aumperie [c1425 Harl. emperie].
a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) l. 5 (MED) Herodes vnder his [sc. Caesar's] emperie.
c1425 Serm. (BL Add.) in G. Cigman Lollard Serm. (1989) 54 First ‘August’, þat is: echinge, for he echede in his tyme moost þe emperrie of Rome.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 11/2 The excellencie of the Romaine Empery did aduaunce the popedom of the Romaine bishop aboue other churches.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 201 Titus thou shalt obtaine & aske the Emperie . View more context for this quotation
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey i. 16 Through the bountie of the soile he acquired much riches: and by his iustice and humanitie, the emperie of the neighbouring Ilands.
?1776 Lives Primitive Martyrs 34/2 The emperors and senate of blind ignorance, not knowing the manner of Christ's kingdom, feared and misdoubted lest the same would subvert their empery.
1856 New Monthly Mag. 107 150 His fourth and fifth volumes comprise the History of the Romans under the empery, or principate, of Augustus.
1890 J. Payne tr. M. Bandello Novels VI. iv. xiii. 297 Cassano, son of Argone Cane, Emperor of the Tartars, succeeded his father in the empery and was much loved and obeyed of his people.
1920 E. Pound tr. A. Daniel in Instigations vii. 312 No empery, though Rome and Palestine were one compact, would lure me from her.
b. In broader sense: supreme or absolute power; dominion, sovereignty; control, sway; (also) an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > [noun] > absolute authority
empery1529
wilful empire1533
empire1579
dictatorship1580
imperiousness1630
incorrigibilitya1631
tyranny1651
despotism1797
1529 J. Frith Pistle Christen Reader f. lxxxiiijv For in Peter he will that he hath receaved the right & authorite of the erthly and hevenly emperye.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. i. f. 21 Ryches, honoure and emperye.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 226 Ruling in large and ample Emperie, Ore France. View more context for this quotation
1630 M. Drayton Moses iii, in Muses Elizium 163 The onely God of Emperie and might.
a1631 J. Donne Iuuenilia (1633) sig. B4 All victories & emperies gayned by warre.
1655 Bp. J. Taylor Guide Devot. (1719) 138 Sets us free From the ungodly Empirie Of Sin.
1703 L. Spooner Looking-glass for Smoakers 18 An Indian Weed [sc. tobacco]..raised now so high, That it doth claim a kind of Empery O'er all the Christian World.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xxv. 169 Coined badge of empery it [sc. the gold] bare.
1831 J. Wilson Unimore vi. 291 Every Passion in its empery Doth laugh Remorse to scorn.
1882 G. Macdonald in Good Words 154 A wider love of empery.
1948 M. Irwin Elizabeth, Captive Princess iii. 46 He had by then won entire empery over King Edward.
1999 S. Heaney tr. Beowulf (2000) Introd. p. xviii Even as he [sc. the dragon] begins to stir, the reader has a premonition that the days of his empery are numbered.
2.
a. The authority with which an officer or magistrate has been lawfully invested. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > delegated authority > [noun]
powerc1300
bailliec1305
commission1344
empery?c1400
authorityc1405
lieutenance1524
subcommission1617
by-authority1622
lieutenancya1631
empowerment1651
attribution1796
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. pr. vi. l. 1363 Þilke dignitee þat men clepiþ þe emperie of consulers [L. consulare imperium].
b. Legitimate government. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > [noun] > legitimate
empery1611
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vi. 458/1 To introduce that free Empery.
1643 W. Bridge Wovnded Conscience Cvred §1. 10 If a Prince should..change the form of the Common-weale from Empery to Tyranny.
3. An empire. Also figurative. Cf. empire n. I. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > aggregate of sovereign states under one rule
empirea1350
emperality1543
impery1549
empery1550
a1450 MS Bodl. 779 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1889) 82 379 (MED) Ic wilde al þis emperie þorw strengþe of kynȝtchipe.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 122 (MED) Than were wel gouernette Emperies and kyngdomes Whan kynges wer Phylosofors.
1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Cviij Constantyne..conquered the whole Empery.
1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 101 Neuer was there any nation vpon the face of the earth, that eniayed a larger emperie then they doe.
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xxx. 57/1 Alfred, or before him, Offa shared the open circuit of their Emperie into Principalities.
1700 J. Fletcher & J. Vanbrugh Pilgrim (rev. ed.) iii. 24 No devouring Fish come nigh, Nor Monster in my Empery Once shew his Head, or terrour bring, But let the weary Sailor sing, Amphitrite.
1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 29 A want Of something more, more than her empery Of joys.
1833 H. Coleridge Poems I. 62 'Tis all thy own, 'tis all thy empery.
1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest (1892) 41 By that sign thou mays't know thyself at last to be Within the borders of his empery.
1920 E. Sitwell Wooden Pegasus 94 Whose painted laughter cracks the gilded sky of this flat empery.
2007 D. H. Quade Nicole Falconveer & Children's Crusade i. 14 I am Vivian, defender of the Holy Roman Empire. I serve the empery and its subjects.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

emperyv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: empery n.
Etymology: < empery n. Compare earlier empire v.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. With upon. To rule as an emperor. Cf. empire v.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > rule or govern [verb (transitive)]
steera900
hold971
wieldOE
warda1000
redeOE
wisc1000
i-weldeOE
rightlecheOE
rightOE
raima1325
governc1325
guyc1330
rulea1387
justicec1390
rekea1400
reigna1413
lorda1450
earlc1450
seignoryc1475
over-govern1485
overrulec1488
emperyc1503
gubern?a1505
signorize1594
sway1613
gubernate1623
overlead1720
belord1858
prime minister1906
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxv/1 Abdalazus Soldan of babilon. ye disposer of equite and of right emperor of the worlde..alsoo emp [e] ryng vpon ful many cristen lordis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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