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LORDSHIP |
Supreme power |
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OMNIPOTENT |
Having supreme power |
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EMPIRE |
Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion. |
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TRIUMVIRS |
Group of three sharing supreme power |
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REIGN |
Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion. |
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UPPERMOST |
Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like;
upmost; supreme. |
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PRINCIPALITY |
Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority;
predominance; high, or the highest, station. |
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RULE |
To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority;
-- often followed by over. |
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DIARCHY |
A form of government in which the supreme power is vested
in two persons. |
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SOVEREIGN |
Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others;
chief; as, our sovereign prince. |
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MONARCHY |
A state or government in which the supreme power is
lodged in the hands of a monarch. |
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IMAUM |
A Mohammedan prince who, as a successor of Mohammed, unites
in his person supreme spiritual and temporal power. |
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ANARCHY |
Absence of government; the state of society where there is
no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. |
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DOMINION |
Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing
and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control;
sovereignty; supremacy. |
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DEMOCRACY |
Government by the people; a form of government in which
the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people. |
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OLIGARCHY |
A form of government in which the supreme power is
placed in the hands of a few persons; also, those who form the ruling
few. |
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ARISTOCRACY |
A form a government, in which the supreme power is
vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order;
an oligarchy. |
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SUPREMACY |
The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of
power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a
king or a parliament. |
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ATTORNEY-GENERAL |
The chief law officer of the state, empowered to
act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and
to advise this supreme executive whenever required. |
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PLUTOCRACY |
A form of government in which the supreme power is
lodged in the hands of the wealthy classes; government by the rich;
also, a controlling or influential class of rich men. |
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PETITION |
A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty;
especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the
Supreme Being, or to a... |
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SOVEREIGNTY |
...ing a
sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power;
dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign;
... |
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EMPOWER |
To give authority to; to delegate power to; to
commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the
Supreme Court is empowered to ... |
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SELFISHNESS |
... regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or
self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the
advan... |
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TREATY |
...nly ratified by the
several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement
between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of... |