Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Commanding.
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- adjective rare Commanding.
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- adjective
commanding
Etymologies
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Examples
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Praescribunt, imperant, in ordinem cogunt, ingenium nostrum prout ipsis vicebitur, astriugunt et relaxant ut papilionem pueri aut bruchum filo demitturit, aut attrahunt, nos a libidine sua pendere aequum censentes.
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Daemones custodes sunt hominum et eorum domini, ut nos animalium; nec hominibus, sed et regionibus imperant, vaticiniis, auguriis, nos regunt.
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Nunc imperant caelibatum, nullos recipiunt, nisi jurent se puram Evangelii doctrinam nolle docere.
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Nunc imperant caelibatum, nullos recipiunt, nisi jurent se puram Evangelii doctrinam nolle docere.
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"You serve me such a imperant trick again, as to bring my ale a quarter of a hour aforehand, that's all!" snarled he.
The Channings Henry Wood 1850
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Now, sir, if you're ever hard set in an argument or the like o 'that, or if any o' the shthudjeents 'ud be throuble-some or imperant, why give them a touch o' this -- a lick of it, do you see; jist this a way.
Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Quare contra officium eorum qui imperant, & legum ferendarum au - toritatem habent, in primis eft, ut plures leges Hnt, quam ad bonum civium & civitatis neceffario condu - cat.
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"Bekase him not de same kind of place, sir, as before -- de niggers grow so d---- imperant."
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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"No, sir," answered Joe, all the soul of his great namesake, Washington, beaming through his eyes; "me no tollumrate imperance; one imperant raskill make me blood cold more dan de winter do.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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