emperor-likeadj.adv.

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 509/2 It is an Emperour-like gouernance [Fr. vne superintendance imperiale].

1601 W. Watson Important Considerations (1675) 54 Thus these great Emperour-like Jesuits do speak to her Majesty.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 280 This Head of the Roman Hierarchy with his purple Cardinals are so Emperour-like and of such a Senatorious splendour.

1812 Tradesman Dec. 454 It was a wise and an emperor-like determination.

1833 Metrop. Mag. Oct. 389/2 The emperor-like elephant, the hungry lion, and the royal tiger.

1944 Art Bull. 26 231/1 Emperor-like receptions had been granted to him [sc. the pope] long before.

2012 Daily Monitor (Kampala) (Nexis) 21 Feb. Mao Zedong's emperor-like rule actually dragged the country back many decades.

?1614 W. Drummond Song: Phoebus arise in Poems And Empreour-like decore With Diademe of Perle thy Temples faire.

1660 A. Moore Compend. Hist. Turks 157 Niphon..meeting the young Emperour..asked, How they would deal with his Grand-father? Who answering Emperour-like, was by him inflamed.

1850 M. Barnett Tempest as Lyrical Drama 18 The Moyen age wizard,..who carried in his brain the magic formulary engraved upon the signet of Solomon, and emperor-like lorded it over the fays and genies of Persia and Cathay.

1912 Sat. Evening Post 8 June 5/3 I shall whisper faintly that you attacked me because I was in this compartment and you wished to be alone, emperorlike.

2005 M. de la Cruz Skinny-dipping 47 She was fully conscious that Philippe had sprawled, emperorlike, on the single bed and was staring at her expectantly.