单词 | empiredom |
释义 | empiredomn. = empire n. 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 a1626 J. Horsey Relacion Trav. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 158 He..assumed to himself two severall crowns and empirdoms. 1657 J. Rogers Epist. Perambulation in J. Canne Time of End sig. a2 The Roman Empiredom was wont to send men like Kings (but not Kings) into their Provinces. 1858 Bristol Mag. Mar. 419 Make the kingdom or empiredom a vast recipient exhausted of freedom and thought, echoing with hosannahs of decrepitude. 1897 in Rec. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Sept. 261 Mr. Furlow said that there were many living, tangible attestations of Georgia's right to the claim of empiredom. 1941 E. R. Eddison Fish Dinner viii. 133 We are part of Her empiredom. 2007 R. Jabari Chron. Hot Stepper (2008) (back cover) Their vision for empiredom is thwarted when their coalition is marked for death. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1626 |
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