To act in the supposed manner of a lord; to behave in an arrogant, disdainful, or dissipated manner… intransitive. From the 17th cent. usually with…

to play rex: to act in a lordly or masterly manner; to domineer. Obsolete.

To act in the supposed manner of a lord; to behave in an arrogant, disdainful, or dissipated manner… transitive with it. From the 17th cent. usually…

Similarly to play the rex. Obsolete.

intransitive. To rule or govern arbitrarily or despotically; to act imperiously; to tyrannize. Now usually (coloured by b), To exercise or assert…

intransitive. To assume the position of a senior or superior, to have or exercise dominion, to rule, to lord it.

transitive with it. Of a woman: to act as lady or mistress; to behave in a superior manner. Also in extended use. Cf. lord, v. 4b, queen, v. 1b.

intransitive. With it: To act as a squire; to play the squire; to rule or domineer over as a country squire.

intransitive. To domineer, to act as the leader. Also transitive: to lord it over other people.

intransitive. To domineer over.

intransitive. To act imperially; to act like an emperor or a member of a ruling empire.