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A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.

o bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents. Go to the feast, revel and domineer. Shak. His wishes tend abroad to roam, And hers to domineer at home. Prior.

Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag.

To bully. [Obs.] She shan't think to bullock and domineer over me. Foote.

en; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges. As soon as denizened, they domineer. Dryden.

A clergyman. See Domine, 1. [Scot. & Colloq. U. S.]

Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant. "A paltry, insolent fellow." Shak. Insolent is he that despiseth in his judgment all other folks as in regard of his value, of his cunning, of his spea…

A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs. [Cant, Eng.]

To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb. The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss. Spenser. I see them lording it in London streets. Shak. And lorded over them whom now they serve. Milton.…

Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious; arbitrary. Dryden.

Imperious; domineering; arbitrary.

of a few persons; also, those who form the ruling few. All oligarchies, wherein a few men domineer, do what they list. Burton.

To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.

Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. --O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.

To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To domineer over by virtue of office. [Obs.] Shak.

A king. To play rex, to play the king; to domineer. [Obs.]

To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. Swift.

or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord.