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dynast
(ˈdɪn-, ˈdaɪnæst: see dyna-)
Also 7 di-.
[ad. late L. dynastēs, a. Gr. δυναστής lord, chief, ruler, f. δύνασθαι to be able, powerful. Cf. F. dynaste (16th c.). Milton used the Gr. and L. accus. pl. dynastas in English context.]
One in power; a ruler, lord, chief, potentate, esp. a hereditary ruler; a member or founder of a dynasty.
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 652 The ancient stemme of Des Ewes, Dynasts or Lords of the Dition of Kessell in the Dutchie of Gelderland. 1632Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. iii. (ed. 4) 332 How many great Cæsars, mighty monarches, tetrarches, dynastes, Princes, liued in his daies. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 113 Shaw-Mahomet an Arabian Dinast. 1648Milton Tenure Kings Wks. (1847) 237/1 Therefore did his Mother the Virgin Mary give such praise to God..that he had..cut down dynastas or proud monarchs from the throne. 1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. v. 121 They might probably be Dynasts of that Country. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece iv. 116 Miltiades the elder was a sort of prince or dynast in Attica. |