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empire
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Empire \Em"pire\, n. [F., fr. L. imperium a command, sovereignty, dominion, empire, fr. imperare. See Emperor ; cf. Imperial .] Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion. ``The empire of the sea.'' --Shak. Over hell extend His empire, and with ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE colonial ▪ War and cold war had some progressive effects with the colonial empires . ▪ But this was even more striking in the colonial empires . ▪ As noted in chapter 1, much of this interest in modernisation was ...
Usage examples of empire.
Unwilling to risk his new empire by returning to Cross Creek as the war draws closer threatening both his wife and mother, only the Major is there recuperating from a minor wound with an abundance of drink when a marauding band abruptly materializes to shoot him dead after degrading him mercilessly, tormenting the older woman beyond endurance and then in a prolonged scene reveling in its own depiction of cruelty raping the younger one in almost clinical detail.
For nearly 600 years, between the collapse of the Abbasid Empire in the thirteenth century and the waning years of the Ottoman era in the late nineteenth century, government authority was tenuous and tribal Iraq was, in effect, autonomous.
The Safavids, who were the first to declare Shia Islam the official religion of Iran, sought to control Iraq both because of the Shia holy places at An Najaf and Karbala and because Baghdad, the seat of the old Abbasid Empire, had great symbolic value.
These new rulers, who added the Byzantine Empire to Islam, who with Egypt brought Southern and Western Arabia with the Holy Cities also under their authority, and caused all the neighbouring princes, Moslim and Christian alike, to tremble on their thrones, thought it was time to abolish the senseless survival of the Abbasid glory.
He was the last king of the Achaemenids, losing his empire to Alexander the Great.
Troy to beat the Achaian Greeks and go on to establish an empire that would link Asia and Europe.
Spiritual Advisor and anything they can learn about the barbarian war and the intrigues within the Empire.
To take one obvious example, an aelurophobe would be most unsuitable to represent the Empire among a felinoid people.
Similarly, a full assessment of the role of this aetheric magic in the governance of the Old Empire must now be made.
It is now evident that such temples were centres of aetheric learning in the Old Empire.
These are the property of Sierra International, which is part of the powerful mining empire of Afric International, which in turn is a rich capital asset of the British Commonwealth.
Sangiban, king of the Alani, who had promised to betray the city, and to revolt from the service of the empire.
After a long and victorious march, the new Avars arrived at the foot of Mount Caucasus, in the country of the Alani and Circassians, where they first heard of the splendor and weakness of the Roman empire.
Empire against the Alemanni massing on the far side of the Rhine that he had neglected his own base of operations.
But then Captain Alima had come with his Star Destroyer and forced Nadon to reveal the secrets of Ithorian technology to the Empire.