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1844 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 2) iv. 134 Electricity..for a time, reigned as the vital principle, by which ‘the decrees of the understanding, and the dictates of the will were conveyed from the organs of the brain to the obedient member of the body’.

1878 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 468 It was the exception there to meet with an independent employer; the ‘corporation’ reigned everywhere.

1896 Harper's Weekly 18 Jan. 66 The ‘Continental breakfast’ should be banished from a hemisphere where the Monroe doctrine and the pie should reign supreme.

1903 Brochure Series of Archit. Illustr. Aug. 173/2 One form of molding or cornice—the reed-bundle molding and caretto cornice—reigned in Egyptian architecture for thousands of years.

1943 J. Laver Fashion & Fashion Plates 1800–1900 16 The poke-bonnet still reigned... In the late 'fifties it began to slip backwards and to become even smaller.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 July 26/5 But in a season dominated by pitchers, the hurlers once again reigned supreme.

1990 Technol. & Culture 31 112 By 1915, large corporations reigned supreme in the United States.

2002 Nat. Home Nov.–Dec. 59 For decades, vinyl reigned as the wallcovering king. In every category—tearability, scrubability..and aging—the stuff couldn't be beat.