Crossword clues for reigned
reigned
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reign \Reign\ (r?n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reigned (r?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reigning.] [OE. regnen, reinen, OF. regner, F. r['e]gner, fr. L. regnare, fr. regnum. See Reign, n.]
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To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule.
--Chaucer.We will not have this man to reign over us.
--Luke xix. 14.Shall Banquo's issue ever Reign in this kingdom?
--Shak. Hence, to be predominant; to prevail. ``Pestilent diseases which commonly reign in summer.''
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To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body.
--Rom. vi. 12.Syn: To rule; govern; direct; control; prevail.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: reign)
Usage examples of "reigned".
Had Michael in an age of peace ascended an hereditary throne, he might have reigned and died the father of his people: but his mild virtues were adapted to the shade of private life, nor was he capable of controlling the ambition of his equals, or of resisting the arms of the victorious Bulgarians.
The emulation, and sometimes the discord, which reigned between two professions of opposite interests and incompatible manners, was productive of beneficial and of pernicious consequences.
The first of the Ommiades who reigned in Spain solicited the support of the Christians.
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools.
Elagabalus reigned three years nine months and four days, from his victory over Macrinus, and was killed March 10, 222.
The bishops of Gaul and Spain, of Thrace and Pontus, reigned over an ample territory, and delegated their rural suffragans to execute the subordinate duties of the pastoral office.
Sauromaces, who reigned in that country by the permission of the emperors, was expelled by a superior force.
Chosroes, the Persian vassal, reigned over the Eastern and most extensive portion of the country.
Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, who reigned in Italy, had labored to maintain the tranquillity of Gaul.
He reigned, not as the monarch, but as the minister of a ferocious people, whose spirit was unbroken by slavery, and impatient of real or imaginary insults.
At the time of this embassy, Justinian had reigned above thirty, he had lived above seventy-five years: his mind, as well as his body, was feeble and languid.
The compliance of the Armenian was rewarded with the empire, and he reigned seven years and a half under the name of Leo the Fifth.
John of Jerusalem, the cradle of the monastic and military order, which has since reigned in the isles of Rhodes and of Malta.
Two Greeks still reigned in Aetolia, Epirus, and Thessaly, with the appellation of despots: they had yielded to the sovereign of Constantinople, but they rejected the chains of the Roman pontiff, and supported their refusal by successful arms.
After his father's captivity, Isa ^73 reigned for some time in the neighborhood of Angora, Sinope, and the Black Sea.