单词 | overlordship |
释义 | overlordshipn. The position or office of overlord; the authority of an overlord. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > lord > [noun] > overlord > position of overlordship1400 1400 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 48 [To] joyis thaim frely..that is to say..Caldorwod & Grene hyll wyth the owr lardschip of a quartar of Thorntone. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. ii. 60 Eadward's..overlordship extended over the whole island. 1892 Daily News 15 Mar. 5/1 The overlord puts [into the mine]..nothing but his overlordship, his right of fixing the price of his permission to bring every ton of coal to the surface. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. vii. 169 The human animal..has risen in several million years of evolution from about the humblest rank in the mammalian family to overlordship of the universe. 1937 H. Belloc Crusade ii. 38 The title King meant that he had no overlord. He was the summit in a pyramid of overlordships and underlordships. 1983 M. I. Finley Politics in Anc. World vi. 131 The acceptance by Greek city-states of the overlordship of Hellenistic monarchs and later of Rome. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † overlordshipv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To exercise dominion over, govern. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [verb (transitive)] > have authority over lordshipc1350 maistriec1400 mastera1425 manc1426 overlordshipc1460 domine1481 to carry the sway of1549 overmastera1557 command1575 swinge1593 monarch1600 dominate1611 dominion1647 dominate1870 c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) 340 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 497 Yif a man haue deep impressioun, That ovirlordshipith his imagynatif. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1400v.c1460 |
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