empery
Americannoun
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emperies
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of empery
1250–1300; Middle English emperie < Anglo-French < Latin imperium mastery, sovereignty, empire, equivalent to imper ( āre ) to rule ( see emperor) + -ium -ium
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Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was in the day of his lust for power and life, when her empery seemed equal in degree to his.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
How shall men doubt His empery over time Whose dwelling is a deep so absolute That we can only find Him in our souls.
From Watchers of the Sky by Alfred Noyes
First Juno promises wealth and empery, and presents a tree hung as with fruit with crowns and diadems, all which shall be the meed of the partial judge.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
Romance survives, of course; but it has lost the undisputed empery of fiction which it held in ancient and in medieval times.
From Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Clayton Meeker Hamilton
In closest touch With European courts and cabinets, The imminence of dire and deadly war Betwixt these east and western emperies Is lipped by special pathways to mine ear.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
She stands endued With supermundane crown, and vestitures Of emperies that include All under-worlds and over-worlds of dream— Kingdoms o'ercast, and eminent heights extreme Where moon-transcending light endures.
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith
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