hegemonicaladj.
/ˌhɛɡᵻˈmɒnᵻkl/, /ˌhɛdʒᵻˈmɒnᵻkl/, /ˌhiːɡᵻˈmɒnᵻkl/, /ˌhiːdʒᵻˈmɒnᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌhɛɡəˈmɑnək(ə)l/, /ˌhɛdʒəˈmɑnək(ə)l/, /ˌhiɡəˈmɑnək(ə)l/, /ˌhidʒəˈmɑnək(ə)l/ = hegemonic adj.
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society > authority > power > influence > [adjective] > of controlling or predominating influence
regitive?a1425
reigninga1500
reignative1532
overruling1586
predominating1595
hegemonicala1602
regnant1604
dominating1611
ruling1652
presiding1653
hegemonic1656
over-ruly1657
regulant1677
in the ascendanta1698
overriding1830
octopean1896
hegemoniac1959
a1602 W. Perkins Comm. Epist. Gal. (1604) 653 By minde, meaning the hegemonicall part or vnderstanding: by cogitation, the inward senses.
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. xi. §5. 120 The most Prince-like and Hegemonical part of his soule.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 859 Mind..hath a Natural Imperium and Dominion over all; it being the most Hegemonical thing.
1714 D. Humphreys tr. Diogenes Laërtius in tr. Athenagoras Apologeticks 155 The whole World, being a living and rational Animal, hath its Hegemonical, or principal Part.
1848 T. K. Arnold tr. E. F. Bojesen Man. Grecian Antiq. (rev. ed.) 198 What state for a time claimed hegemonical authority?
1874 Standard 27 June 5/4 For 600 years Austria was the hegemonical land of Germany.
1910 I. Lowenberg Nation's Crime xxi. 185 Stephen, whom his grandmother had regarded as an oracle of wisdom and the hegemonical spirit of the entire family.
1979 Dædalus Winter 88 The United States exercised its new hegemonical role in Europe by dragging Western European nations into a system of economic cooperation.
1990 R. Webster Studying Literary Theory (1992) iv. 62 Literature is clearly a potential area for hegemonical debate and struggle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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