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▪ I. domineer, v.|dɒmɪˈnɪə(r)|
Also 6–7 -eere, 7 -ere, -eir(e, -ier(e.
[app. a. early mod.Du. dominer-en to rule, have domination (1573 in Plantijn), a. F. dominer: see domine v.
The circumstances under which the Du. word was adopted in Eng. do not appear.]
1. intr. To rule or govern arbitrarily or despotically; to act imperiously; to tyrannize. Now usually (coloured by b), To exercise or assert authority in an overbearing manner, to lord it.
1588[see domineering ppl. a. 1]. 1591Sir T. Coningsby in Camden Misc. I. 62 (Stanf.) They commaund the countrie, and domineer and have their parts in any thing passinge. 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. iii. i. (Arb.) 37 Craft and cunning do so dominere. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. ii. (1676) 96 Oligarchies, wherein a few rich men domineer. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. viii. (1869) I. 77 The mercantile company which domineers in the East Indies. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 2 Not..disposed to domineer over his brothers or arrogate to himself a superiority. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. xiv. 354 With a certain conscious despotism he rules, nay domineers, over us.
†b. To assume lordly airs; to swagger, play the master. Obs.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 376 In this fashion he domineer'd a good time, until at last..a stranger..having oftentimes seen both Lions and Asses, knew it for an ass in a Lion's skin. 1678Dryden Kind Kpr. i. i, He rants and domineers, He swaggers and swears. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 193 When he had the money in his Purse, He domineered and vapoured. 1764Foote Mayor of G. i. Wks. 1799 I. 173 She does now and then hector a little; and..domineers like the devil.
†2. To revel, roister, feast riotously. [Du. domineren to feast luxuriously.—Oudemans.] Obs.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 7 b, Hee can neither traffique with the Mercers and Tailers as he was wont, nor dominere in Tauernes as hee ought. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 226 Goe to the feast, reuell and domineere..Be madde and merry. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. ii. i, Let him spend, and spend, and domineere. 1691Shadwell Scourers iv, We intend to..roar and drink bloodily, and domineer in the house.
†3. To dominate, predominate, prevail. Obs.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. v. i, O hunger, how thou dominer'st in my guts! 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 291 Infected places, and where the small pocks domineered. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Sallet, To suit and mingle our Sallet-Ingredients..and to adjust them that nothing may be suffer'd to domineer.
4. To tower (over, above); = dominate 3 b.
1658[see domineering ppl. a. 3]. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 229 Darnel domineers, And shoots its head above the shining Ears. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. 116 Three lofty mountains..which domineer as landmarks over a vast extent of country. 1848Dickens Dombey xxiii.
5. trans.
a. To govern imperiously, tyrannize over, dominate with absolute sway.
1764Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) V. 477 Supposing him domineered by the Metromanie in its utmost force. 1860Emerson Cond. Life i. (1861) 23 All the bloods it shall absorb and domineer. 1885Manch. Exam. 7 Oct. 5/1 The people have refused to be domineered by Committees and wirepullers.
b. To tower over, ‘command’; = dominate 3.
1812Sir R. Wilson Pr. Diary I. 136 The entrenchments..were domineered within pistol shot. 1843Lefevre Life Trav. Phys. III. iii. ii. 98 The cathedral..situated upon a rock and domineering the whole town.
▪ II. domiˈneer, n.
[f. prec. vb.]
A domineering manner or air; imperious swaggering.
a1768Sir W. Wallace ix. in Child Ballads (1889) III. vi. 268/3 The captain..Did answer him in domineer. 1887Baring-Gould Gaverocks I. i. 4 There was..a selfwill in the modelling of the lips, a domineer in the cut of the nose. |