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
O blissful pains! now Anthony must die, Which serv'd and lov'd Rome and her empery.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
To her has been given empery of the land, and hand in hand with Darkness will she return.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
Theridamas, Techelles, and Casane Promis'd to meet me on Larissa-plains, With hosts a-piece against this Turkish crew; For I have sworn by sacred Mahomet To make it parcel of my empery.
From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 2 by Christopher Marlowe
The heavens do not advance their majesty Over their marge; beyond his empery The ensigns of the wind are not unfurled, His reign is hooped in by the pale o' the world.
From Poems by Francis Thompson
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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