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
His absence o'er thy visible empery Throws a dim pall.
From Antinous: A Poem by Pessoa, Fernando António Nogueira
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
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 Marlowe, Christopher
Nay, choose," she wearily said; "the woman offers life and empery and wealth, and it may be, even a greater love than I am capable of giving you.
From Chivalry by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green
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