kingdomn.
/ˈkɪŋdəm/, U.S. /ˈkɪŋdəm/ I. Literal senses.† 1. Kingly authority, power, or function; sovereignty, supreme rule. Also: the position or rank of a king, kingship.
a. Without article or other determiner. Obsolete.
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society > authority > [noun] > royal or princely authority
richeeOE
kingdomOE
richdomOE
crownc1175
principalityc1350
realtya1375
regala1375
majestyc1375
thronea1382
sceptre1382
principatec1384
sovereignty1387
regalya1393
diadema1400
regalty?a1400
rialtyc1400
royaltya1425
rialc1425
regalityc1450
rialnessc1450
sovereignityc1560
throneship1599
principatie1677
thronedom?1790
sceptredom1878
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > king > [noun] > position of
kingdomOE
kinghooda1375
kingheada1393
kingshipa1400
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > royalty > [noun] > royal person(s) > king > kingly state
kingdomOE
kinghooda1375
kingheada1393
kingshipa1400
kinglihood1653
OE Daniel 567 Se [metod] ðec aceorfeð of cyningdome.
OE Daniel 679 Ða wæs endedæg ðæs ðe Caldeas cyningdom ahton.
c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 141 Þei þou haue kyngdam and Empyre.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 3747 (MED) Kyng Pelleus..His heritage first he gan resigne, Septre & crovne & kengdam at þe leste.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. iii. 21 Avarice and desire of kingdome.
?1637 T. Hobbes tr. Aristotle Briefe Art Rhetorique 29 Monarchy..which Government, if hee limit it by Law, is called Kingdome; if by his own will, Tyranny.
1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino ix. 17 Beau-Clerk, that never dreamt of Kingdom yet..seizes the Gaudy Trifle call'd the Crown.
b. With possessive pronoun or the. Obsolete.Passing into sense 2a or 3.
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c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 141 (MED) And þe ten hornes þat þou seiȝ ben ten kynges þat ne hane nouȝth ȝut resceyued her kyngdomes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7613 He dred his kingdom [Fairf. kingedome] to lese.
a1475 (?a1350) Seege Troye (Harl.) (1927) l. 1690 (MED) He preyeth þat ye..wedde Dame pollexne..And take þe kyngdom with her.
a1525 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Trin. Dublin) (1896) 28 Sume of hys eldre to-fore hym hadden somtyme the kynge-dome of all Irland.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xiv. 47 Whan Saul had conquered the kyngdome ouer Israel.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. ii. 63 Else my kingdome stands on brittle glasse. View more context for this quotation
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 767 Sigebert..resigned vp his kingdome.
2.
a. The territory or country ruled over by a king or queen; the area over which a monarch's rule extends; a realm. Also: the people or inhabitants of such a territory.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of king or royal ruler
richeeOE
worldricheeOE
kindomeOE
kinrikeOE
kingriklOE
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kine-landc1275
kine-thedec1275
reigna1300
kine-earthc1300
realmc1300
kingdoma1325
kinglanda1325
regionc1330
ligeancec1380
regneec1380
realtya1387
royalme1389
kingheada1393
regalty?a1400
rialmec1400
monarchy?a1425
rialtya1425
regaly?a1439
regality1486
richdom?1505
state1539
kingdomshipa1549
sceptre-rule1611
royalty1638
kingship1700
raj1781
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1260 A ku[n]griche his name bar; And of duma his sexte sune A kugdom dirima.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 5567 Þenne commaundide kyng pharao..Ouer al his kyngdome euery where [etc.].
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 198 Naverne, and þe kyngdom of Spayn.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 174 (MED) The shippe drowe to Spayne in the kyngdom of Lupie. And that tyme there was in Spayne a queene namyd Lupie after it.
1585 R. Lane Let. 12 Aug. in Trans. & Coll. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. (1860) 4 9 Thys her majesty's newe kingdom of Virginia.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. vii. 10 A true-deuoted Pilgrime is not weary To measure Kingdomes with his feeble steps. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 361 The utmost border of his Kingdom . View more context for this quotation
1741 J. Swift Some Free Thoughts upon Present State Affairs 7 in Lett. The Queen finding herself and the Majority of her Kingdom grown weary of the Avarice and Insolence..of her former Ministers.
1794 E. Burke Let. 30 Dec. in Corr. (1969) VIII. 105 I wish he may be able to find his kingdom in the map of the British territories.
1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 145/2 Manchester alone has manufactured joint-stock banks for half the kingdom.
1882 Garden 11 Feb. 89/1 The Spotted Palmate Orchis is found, I believe, in every part of the Kingdom.
1909 J. Curtin Journey in S. Siberia 258 Then he rode farther, rode beyond the boundary of the kingdom.
1980 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 11 Jan. 4 The general air of internal unease in the kingdom.
2015 Independent (Nexis) 2 May 6 A scattering of broken-down trains, signalling problems and, tragically, suicide caused delays the length and breadth of the kingdom.
b. In full the Kingdom of Fife. The Scottish local government area or (until 1975) county of Fife, generally held to have been one of seven Pictish kingdoms.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Scotland > [noun] > Fife
kingdom1678
1678 J. Cunningham Ess. Inscription Macduff's Crosse 16 As this was one of, if not the oldest Regality in this Countrey, so by the Priviledges hereby granted..we have that common Phrase, The Kingdom of Fife, (an Epithet given to no other Shire).
1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross i. i. 3 It was from the large Extent of Fife of old, that the Vulgar are wont to call it, The Kingdom of Fife.
1778 J. Murray Trav. of Imagination iii. 34 One of those ladies was married in the kingdom of Fife.
1800 J. Thomson Gen. View Agric. in Fife 390 An accumulation of the general stock and revenue of the kingdom, which will furnish large resources for supplying the exigences of the State.
1852 R. W. Billings Baronial Antiq. Scotl., Dysart II. 1 A ramble among the grey old towns which skirt the ancient ‘Kingdom’ of Fife.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 21 Jan. 1/3 (heading) Kodaks from the Kingdom.
1911 J. H. Short Chosen Days in Scotl. viii. 145 The Kingdom of Fife has had its share of history and romance. Abernethy, in the north, was the capital of the old southern Pictish Kingdom.
1978 New Scientist 28 Sept. 963/2 The row over a plan by Shell Expro to build a £400 million plant at Moss Moron in the Kingdom of Fife.
2011 Evening News (Edinburgh) (Nexis) 31 Mar. 20 We still talk about the Kingdom of Fife, a kingdom when Edinburgh was down the league somewhat.
3. A monarchical state or government; a political entity with a king or queen as its head.Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, Old Kingdom, United Kingdom: see the first element.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > a monarchical state
realmc1300
kingdomc1330
seec1425
monarchyc1475
monarch1483
regality1486
c1330 Sir Orfeo (Auch.) (1966) l. 206 (MED) Ich ordainy min heiȝe steward To wite mi kingdom.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 31 Somtyme þere were foure principal kyngdoms [L. regna]... Þe firste kyngdom [L. regimen] was vnder oure fore fadres from Adam to Moyses.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2127 Þe mast cite..And mani riche kingdon [Gött. mani a noþer riche kingdame].
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 111 (MED) A nother kyngdome is a lordshippe roiall and politike, and the prince therof rulith hit bi a lawe callid Jus polliticum et regale.
1536 R. Morison Remedy for Sedition sig. F.iiiv Englande hath a kynge, whiche may be a rule vnto all princis, that hereafter shall gouerne any comune welthe. Good lorde this this in dede is a kyngedome.
1589 J. Thorie tr. B. Filippe Counseller 136 Brutus..cast the kings out of Rome, and brought in the gouernment of the Consuls, changing the kingdome into a Consulshippe.
1650 J. Cardell Morbus Epidemicus 24 Every outward Government (what Name soever ye put upon it, whether ye call it a Monarchy, or an Aristocracy, a Kingdom, or a Commonwealth).
1680 W. Temple Ess. Orig. & Nature Govt. in Wks. (1731) I. 102 If..a Nation extended it self over vast Tracts of Land and Numbers of People, it thereby arrived in time at the ancient Name of Kingdom, or modern of Empire.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 19 There is ground enough for the opinion that all the kingdoms of Europe were, at a remote period, elective. View more context for this quotation
1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 477/1 If England and France had but pronounced a veto in 1774, Poland might, with a reformed constitution, and an improved administration, still be an independent kingdom.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 15 Oct. 4/2 His invitation having been..only the second to a foreigner, by the Kingdom of the Chrysanthemum [sc. Japan].
1949 F. Maclean Eastern Approaches iii. iii. 334 The independent State of Croatia..was a kingdom, but its King, the Italian Duke of Spoleto, had wisely omitted to take up his appointment.
1956 Life 1 Oct. 79/1 With the union of these domains Egypt became a confederation, known as the Kingdom of the Two Lands.
2009 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 20 Aug. 3 He believes he is the rightful monarch of the former Soviet state [sc. Lithuania], which has been a constitutional kingdom since 1993.
II. Figurative and extended uses.
4.
a. Theology. The eternal spiritual sovereignty of God or Christ, or the sphere over which this extends, in heaven or on earth; the spiritual state of which God is the head. Also: this state as the final abode of the redeemed after their life on earth. Also in phrases as the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God.This concept and the different phrases used to refer to it occur frequently in the first three gospels of the Bible. In Matthew the usual form is the kingdom of heaven, or simply the kingdom. In Mark and Luke, and in the epistles of St Paul, the form is the kingdom of God. Uses of kingdom in this sense also occur elsewhere in the Bible, as in Psalm 145:11–13 and Daniel 2:44.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > sovereignty or rule
kingdomc1250
sovereignty1754
theonomy1890
c1250 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 127 (MED) Samin cume þi kingdom.
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 126 (MED) Ihesus..to Bethanye out com, And byleuede þer and tauȝte ham of godes kyngdom.
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 285 Þe kyngdom of heuene to a man ylich is.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xviii. 36 Jhesu answeride, My kyngdom [L. regnum] is not of this world.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. Prol. l. 105 Þere crist is in kyngdome..to opne it to hem and heuene blisse shewe.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 1408 Þe way of lyfe..Þat ledes us til our contre-warde Þat es þe kyngdom of heven bright.
a1500 Gesta Romanorum (Gloucester) (1971) 736 (MED) Ihesu criste..hatz..proclamade a generalle feste..The blysse of þe kyngdome of heven.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Mattyns f. i Oure father whiche arte in heauen, hallowed be thy name. Thy kyngdom come.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 116 The gloriousnes of thy kingdome [they] teiche.
1610 J. Robinson Justif. Separation from Church of Eng. 229 For the kingdome of the Lord Iesus is as glorious, as his preisthood, or propheticall office.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 199 What concerns it thee when I begin My everlasting Kingdom ? View more context for this quotation
1738 J. Wesley Serm. Salvation by Faith 21 To hear them speak..might incline one to think, they were not far from the Kingdom of God.
1787 J. Ledyard Let. 19 Mar. in Journey through Russia (1966) 122 No man esteems him more than I do, believing verily that of such as him consisteth the Kingdom of heaven.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I iii, in Wks. (1870) II. 391 Until Heaven's kingdom shall descend on earth.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xix. 25 ‘Augustine, sometimes I think you are not far from the kingdom’, said Miss Ophelia.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. i. iv. 65 The enormous error that man..can win by quantitative goodness his entrance into the kingdom of God.
1914 Rotarian Jan. 52/2 ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within you’... What is this Kingdom if it is not all the noble, the true, the positive, the constructive qualities of which all normal persons are endowed.
1941 B. Robertson I saw Eng. i. 18 My God Almighty, we may be blasted into the Kingdom, but we'll be in our proper places.
2001 C. Freeland But is it Art? ii. 40 (caption) Everything in Chartres Cathedral, from its maze to its lofty vaulted nave and wondrous stained glass, alluded to heaven and drew believers to God's kingdom.
b. The spiritual realm of evil or infernal powers; the rule of such powers. Frequently in the kingdom of darkness, the devil's kingdom, etc.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > rule by
kingdomc1384
demonarchy1643
diabolarchy1799
diabolocracy1815
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xii. 26 And ȝif Sathanas castith out Sathanas, he is departid aȝeins hym self; therfore hou shal his kyngdam [L. regnum] stonde?
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18245 Nu es all vr kingdom for-dune, O man-kind mon we gett ful fune.
c1440 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 262 (MED) Þan praye we god þat he destruye þe deuelles kyngdome and his folke.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xvi. §14. 58 Thi hand..toke my saule to werray with the kyngdome of wickidnes, and to depart goed men fra ill.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. ii. 30 I am Reuenge sent from th'infernall Kingdome . View more context for this quotation
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 144 Hie thee to hell..Thou Cacodemon, there thy kingdome is. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xviii, in Poems 9 Th' old Dragon..wrath to see his Kingdom fail.
1652 T. Manton Pract. Comm. James (ed. 2) 616 Such men are devilized, Factors for Hell, and Agents for the Kingdom of Darkness.
1786 S. Johnson Everlasting Punishment Ungodly ii. 38 The final destruction of the devil's kingdom; when he himself and his wicked adherents shall be consigned to an eternal punishment.
1836 T. Carr Serm. 5 The Scriptures speak of Satan as ‘the Prince of Darkness’, and of his kingdom as the Kingdom of Darkness.
1861 London Q. Rev. Jan. 31/1 The council is held in order to devise measures for the farther extension of the kingdom of Lucifer.
1914 Lutheran Q. Oct. 511 The very idea of the kingdom of Satan is anarchy, blind rage and hate.
1973 R. Slotkin Regeneration through Violence 88 The implication is that..the New World, has in fact been part of the devil's kingdom and..remains Satan's.
2010 J. Agbi Living in God's Kingdom ii. 42 We will look into the origin of the kingdom of darkness, see why Satan fell and later connect it to the fall of man.
5. A realm, region, or sphere in which some condition or quality prevails or is supreme. Frequently with of and complement.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > realm or kingdom > sphere or domain of
landc825
kingdomc1390
universe1607
regiona1661
realma1771
c1390 (?c1350) St. Ambrose l. 755 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 20 To þe kyngdom of blis, Þat euer schal laste.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. ii. l. 65 Wiþ þe kingdom of Couetise I Croune hem to-gedere.
c1400 tr. Aelred of Rievaulx De Institutione Inclusarum (Vernon) (1984) 58 Þanne schal þilke glorious kyng regne in hem, and þey in hym, vndurfonggyngge to here heritage þilke real kyngdom of blisse.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iv. 47 Who past me thought the melancholy floud..Vnto the kingdome of perpetuall night.
1645 J. Milton Lycidas (rev. ed.) in Poems 82 In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love.
a1761 W. Law Comfort Weary Pilgrim (1809) 75 The short is this: the kingdom of self is the fall of man.
1821 P. Egan Life in London i. v. 73 In the Kingdom of Sans Souci he proved himself a brilliant of the first order.
1872 J. Ruskin Eagle's Nest §33 The elastic and vaporous kingdom of folly.
1946 S. T. Felstead Stars who made Halls vii. 65 Towards the end of the 'eighties, the music-hall had come into its kingdom.
1982 J. Updike Bech is Back 29 ‘Why did they come?’ Bech asked, in his role as ambassador from the kingdom of stupid questions.
2012 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 4 June (Guide) 2 The Eurovision world is a veritable kingdom of kitsch, a realm of schmaltzy songs.
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a. A sphere, area, or place in which a person has authority or power. to come (in) to one's kingdom: to acquire authority, power, attractiveness, etc. (with allusion to Luke 23:42, ‘Lord, remember me when thou commest into thy kingdome' (King James Bible)).
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society > authority > [noun] > sphere of
kingdoma1393
obeisance1419
obedience1595
society > authority > office > accession or entering upon office or authority > accede to office [verb (intransitive)]
mount1613
accede1737
to take one's seat1789
to come (in) to one's kingdom1892
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 2112 (MED) Every man..A kingdom hath to justefie, That is to sein his oghne dom; If he misreule that kingdom, He lest himself.
c1600 E. Dyer Poems (Grosart) 21 My mynde to me a Kyngdome is.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 406 His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.
1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 12 Hers [sc. the soul's] is the..throne, An intellectual kingdom all her own. View more context for this quotation
1825 W. Scott Talisman vii, in Tales Crusaders III. 177 The sick chamber of the patient is the kingdom of the physician.
1892 R. Kipling & W. Balestier Naulahka xviii. 211 Now we are come to our Kingdom..Little it profits us.
1969 N.Y. Amsterdam News 15 Feb. 22 Dickie Habersham may walk his bride down the middle-aisle of the Coronet [jazz club]. It's his kingdom.
1985 A. Brookner Family & Friends i. 11 With Alfred's help..she will once again come into her Kingdom.
2008 Vanity Fair June 170/2 Oprah should kick..[his] bony, lying, nonfiction butt out of the kingdom of Oprah.
b. Something likened to a territory or country ruled by a king; a realm, a domain.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > realm or kingdom
realmc1300
ream1589
kingdom1600
territory1640
terrain1860
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 105 Al the rest of this little kingdom man. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 247 The body of this fleshly Land, This kingdome, this Confine of blood, and breathe. View more context for this quotation
a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I ii, in Wks. (1870) II. 388 To dispeople your unquiet kingdom of man.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art lviii, in Poems (new ed.) 85 The airy hand..divided quite The kingdom of her thought.
1878 L. M. Alcott Under Lilacs xi. 138 A little kingdom I possess, Where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find Of governing it well.
1952 School Libr. Rev. & Educ. Rec. Nov. 40/1 As a child learns to love poetry, he stands at the edge of an undiscovered kingdom filled with music and wonder.
2001 G. Kumar Indian Eng. Lit. xv. 118 Tagore's mind itself is a kingdom, where diverse streams crossed, flowed and merged into the land.
7. Originally: each of three great divisions of the natural world, comprising animals, vegetables (plants), and minerals, respectively; the members of such a division collectively. In later use also: (Biology) each of several high-ranking and broadly inclusive taxa comprising living organisms grouped according to their basic system of cellular and genetic organization, and subdivided into a number of phyla (of animals, fungi, and protoctists) or divisions (of plants and bacteria).In modern taxonomic systems, the number of kingdoms is taken to be at least five (animals, plants, fungi, protoctists, and bacteria), and sometimes as many as eight. Some systems also include a taxon (the domain or superkingdom) higher than the kingdom.animal kingdom, mineral kingdom, plant kingdom, vegetable kingdom: see the first element.
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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [noun] > kingdom or sub-kingdom
kingdom1624
family1651
race1697
reign1744
subkingdom1825
province1866
urkingdom1977
domain1990
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > the material world or nature > division of natural world
kingdom1624
world1660
race1697
reign1744
1624 ‘E. Orandus’ in tr. N. Flamel Expos. Hieroglyphicall Figures St. Innocent's Church-yard sig. A3v If you will bee but pleased, by this occasion, to cast your eyes vpon that triumphant Chariot, wherein Nature rideth through her Minerall and vnder-earth kingdome.
1650 J. French tr. M. Sędziwój New Light of Alchymie 114 By the due separation, and conjunction of these, Nature produceth..in the Vegetable Kingdome [L. in regno..vegetabili] Trees, Herbs, and all such things.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. vi. 213 The Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms, are so nearly join'd.
1729 Eccho (Edinb.) 28 May 2/1 Naturalists have observed that the vegetable Kingdom receive a Kind of new Life in the Spring.
1757 J. Dove Diss. Supposed Existence Moral Law of Nature 34 All the mighty effects in the vast expanse, on the earth and under the earth, and in the three natural kingdoms, are brought about by the instrumentality of this amazing triune fluid.
1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. Introd. p. xxiii Men usually consider the productions of Nature as forming three distinct parts, called the Animal, the Vegetable and the Fossil or Mineral Kingdom.
1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 468/2 Because any matter is found in one or more individuals of any kingdom, we most not therefore conclude that it belongs to the kingdom of such individuals.
1802 Crit. Rev. Feb. 121 But as mineralogy is a far more difficult science than zoölogy or botany, it was to be expected that it should be the last in the progression of the three natural kingdoms.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 411 No kingdom of nature was left unexplored.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iv. 101 Both in the vegetable and animal kingdoms, an occasional intercross with a distinct individual is a law of nature.
1879 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 171 Unisexuals in animals correspond to Diœcia in plants. In both kingdoms unisexuality is derived from bisexuality.
1907 Jrnl. N.Y. Bot. Garden 8 146 In both kingdoms respiration is accompanied by an evolution of heat.
1955 R. M. Pearl How to know Minerals & Rocks 139 Its crystals are some of the loveliest in the mineral kingdom..resembling wafers of butterscotch candy.
1980 S. J. Gould Panda's Thumb (1982) xxi. 222 Most popular these days is a system of five kingdoms: plants, animals, fungi, protists (single-celled eukaryotes, including amoebas and paramecia..), and the prokaryotic monerans.
1990 C. R. Woese et al. in Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 87 4576/1 We propose that a formal system of organisms be established in which above the level of kingdom there exists a new taxon called a ‘domain’.
2014 W. Arthur Evolving Animals i. 4 The number of kingdoms has risen since Linnaeus's time.
Compounds
C1. General attributive, objective, and instrumental, as kingdom-making, kingdom wearied, etc.
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a1450 ( in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 11 (MED) What is a kyngdom tresory?..Riche comouns and wyse clergy.
1645 Sc. Dove sent Out 778 I cannot but wonder, that any man (except as are thieves and robbers) can be drawne to side with these Kingdome-destroyers.
1650 A. Coppe Fiery Flying Roll 10 O the abominable perfidiousnesse, falseheartednesse; self-seeking, self-inriching, and Kingdome-depopulating, and devastating, &c.
1847 Christian Examiner & Relig. Misc. May 349 The ambitious and kingdom-loving Charles.
1856 E. FitzGerald tr. Jámi Salámán & Absál viii. 25 Kings in Blood, Kings too in the Kingdom-troubling Tribe of Beauty.
1872 A. T. de Vere Disbelief Milcho in Legends St. Patrick 161 Exile, or kingdom-wearied king.
1882 Times 18 Mar. 4/2 The Russian intrigue which they say pushed on the kingdom-making.
1917 E. A. Robinson Merlin vii. 156 Some quiet place where..cowherds may have more respondent ears Than kings and kingdom-builders.
2007 L. A. Smith Chaos: Very Short Introd. i. 6 Its rapid amplification to kingdom-shattering proportions.
C2. † kingdom-quake n. [after earthquake n.] Obsolete a major disturbance or upheaval in a kingdom or other state; cf. statequake n. at state n. Compounds 3a.
Kingdom Hall n. a meeting-place used by Jehovah's Witnesses for worship and instruction, esp. relating to the kingdom of God.
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1939 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 28 Jan. 5/8 Watch Tower Study on Salvation. Kingdom hall at A and Main.
1987 J. McPhee Atchafalaya in Control of Nature (1989) 8 This was a countryside of corn and soybeans,..of feed stores and Kingdom Halls in crossroad towns.
2013 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 20 Nov. a2/1 Her love was her volunteer work in Bible teaching and helping build Kingdom Halls.
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1654 W. Jenkyn Expos. Jude: 2nd Pt. 249 God is offended with a people, when their alterations, Conspiracies, and Kingdome-quakes are frequent.
a1711 T. Ken Urania in Wks. (1721) IV. 463 In Kingdom-quakes the wise Feel no disquieting surprise.
1856 H. Mayhew Rhine II. ix. 335 The Rhine castles [are] signs of the violent social convulsions—those kingdom-quakes, as it were, which ensued when nations threw off their slavery.
Derivatives
ˈkingdomful n. rare as much or as many as a kingdom can hold.
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1869 Temple Bar July 221 He would sue for Juliet's fair hand, if a whole kingdomful of Capulets and a whole monarchy of Montagues were opposed to the match.
1992 J. Knapp Empire Nowhere v. 204 A barrelful of earth yet a kingdomful of ore.
ˈkingdomless adj. having no kingdom.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [adjective] > of or relating to realm > without a kingdom
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1605 M. Drayton Poems sig. Ee7 Since his state no better could afford,..Rather himselfe chose kingdomlesse to leaue.
1818 H. H. Milman Samor xi. 322 The Crown'd are crownless, kingdomless the Kings.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 319 Provincial governors..here characterised as kings yet kingdomless.
2009 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Oct. 21 Charles had retreated to live abroad, the royal—but kingdomless—guest of any foreign court that would take him in.
ˈkingdomship n. a kingdom; (also) the state or position of having or ruling a kingdom.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of king or royal ruler
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a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (?1555) Index The thyrd chapter treateth of..the kyngdomeshyp of Irland.
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) ii. 132 Irland is a Kingdomship longing to the Kyng of England.
1653 N. Homes Αποκαλυψις Αναστασεως iii. iv. 388 There Christ layes downe all his Kingdomship, Kingship, or reigning.
1875 G. L. M. Strauss Men who have made New German Empire I. 34 Deeply imbued with strange mediaeval notions of ‘Christian kingdomship’ and of the absolute supremacy of the grace-of-God monarchic principle.
1900 Missionary Rev. of World Dec. 917 We believe that He lives and rules, and that we are but working under His present kingdomship and control.
2015 Daily Disp. (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 12 May [He] used a wrong statute when stripping them [sc. the members of a royal house] of their kingdomship. The commission found that as a people they were not eligible for kingdomship.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† kingdomv.
Obsolete. rare.
1. transitive with it. To assume the status of a kingdom.Apparently an isolated use.
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1599 J. Sylvester tr. J. Du Nesme Miracle Peace in Fraunce 50 When Colledges through armes are reft of Art: When euery Countie kingdomes-it apart.
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a. transitive. To make (a country) into a kingdom; to provide (a person) with a kingdom. Only in passive.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [verb (transitive)] > furnish with a kingdom
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1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xiii. 201 England, which he makes to be Kingdomed by Brute, as King Iames since him has done.
a1891 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Poppy (1892) xi. 480 King henceforth Thou art, and bravely kingdom'd.
b. transitive. To take possession of, as a kingdom.
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the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > as a kingdom
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1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid 270 I was..Haunted for ever by a fleeting face..whose lips So often as I slept, would kingdom mine.
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