empery
Americannoun
plural
emperiesnoun
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
Example Sentences
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Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Up feral fell! up, hie with him, see rage his footsteps urge, See that his fury smite him till he seek the forest verge, 80He who with over-freedom fain would fly mine empery.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
And often, when woman was nigh to winning to the empery of my mind over me, I sought Laulani's shin-bone.
From On the Makaloa Mat by London, Jack
It groups them for the struggle against the growing empery of mechanism and militarism in all the manifestations of life....
From The Forerunners by Rolland, Romain
Love is simple, Love is sly; Love is pale, of ruddy dye: Love is all things, low and high: Love is serviceable, Constant and unstable: Love obeys Art's empery.
From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by Symonds, John Addington
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