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Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty. There is a power behind the crown greater than the crown itself. Junius.

The dominion of demons. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America.

Dominion; rule. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Jurisdiction or property and jurisdiction, dominion, as in kingdom earldom.

Dominion; empire; authority.

The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway. In such a people, the haugtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom. Burke.

either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.

The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom.

Sovereignty; lordship; dominion. Johnson.

prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.

A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare

Empire; sovereignty; dominion. [Archaic] Shak. Struggling for my woman's empery. Mrs. Browning.

Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion. "The empire of the sea." Shak. Over hell extend His empire, and with iron scepter rule. Milton.

The dominion of an ethnarch; principality and rule. Wright.

Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire. Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall. Pope.

Any bird; esp., any large edible bird. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air. Gen. i. 26. Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not. Matt. vi. 26. Like a flight of fowl Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts. Shak.

rofited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul Matt. xvi. 26. To gain dominion, or to keep it gained. Milton. For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease. Pope.

Dominion or authority in sacred things.

y, j, g; as in dint, dent, beverage, L. bibere; E. kin, AS. cynn; E. thin, AS. ynne; E. dominion, donjon, dungeon. In English I has two principal vowel sounds: the long sound, as in pine, ice; and the short sound, as in pîn. It has also three other sounds: (a) That of e in term, as in thirst. (b) That of e in mete (in…