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imperium
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Imperium is a 2012 satiric novel by the Swiss writer Christian Kracht . It recounts the story of August Engelhardt , a German who in the early 20th century traveled to German New Guinea , where he founded a religious order based both on nudism and a diet ...
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Imperium \Im*pe"ri*um\, n.; pl. Imperia . [L. See Empire .] Supreme power; absolute dominion; empire. (Law) The right to command, which includes the right to employ the force of the state to enforce the laws. It is one of the principal attributes of the ...
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n. 1 Supreme power; dominion. 2 The right to command the force of the state, sovereignty.
Usage examples of imperium.
Quod si di placabiles et aequi delicta potentium non statim fulminibus persequuntur, quanto aequius est hominem hominibus praepositum miti animo exercere imperium?
Just before communications from the Mother Ship were once again cut off, he had learned that the decision had been made to allow the Bellatorians to transport the Volan slaves to Carcer and begin the seeding of the rest of the Imperium.
Cum prope omnis civitas eo convenisset, docereturque paucis clam convocatis alio loco, alio tempore atque oportuerit fratrem a fratre renuntiatum, cum leges duo ex una familia vivo utroque non solum magistratus creari vetarent, sed etiam in senatu esse prohiberent, Cotum imperium deponere coegit, Convictolitavem, qui per sacerdotes more civitatis intermissis magistratibus esset creatus, potestatem obtinere iussit.
I informed the lictors of the thirty Curiae that for this day I was assuming the special imperium of my grain duties, which did permit me to cross the sacred boundary before I accepted my provinces.
A law passed in the special Assembly of the thirty curiae that endowed a curule magistrate with his imperium.
At the head of the Catholic party - the other imperium in imperio - stood the Duke of Guise.
Celeriter sibi Senones, Parisios, Pictones, Cadurcos, Turonos, Aulercos, Lemovices, Andos reliquosque omnes qui Oceanum attingunt adiungit: omnium consensu ad eum defertur imperium.
There was, for the Mercatoria, little point in having a network of super-fast travel connections scattered throughout the galaxy if your ships were too fat to fit, and so the proportions of war craft - the ultimate levers of power for the Mercatoria, just as they had been for all earlier imperia, semimperia and others who had thought to enforce their peace or impose their will on the galactic community over the aeons - were derived from the width of the channels they would have to negotiate.
Joannis, magni et orthodoxi Imperatoris, qui imperium Africanum nobiliter ampliavit, et multos per annos mundum feliciter rexit.
Non cessit nobis nudum imperium, virtute sua amictum venit, ornamenta sua secum traxit.
Windy did some research and was able to date the outstation a little more precisely than we had, to the end of the Imperium years.
Horum principibus pecunias, civitati autem imperium totius provinciae pollicetur.
Like the imperium of a proconsul, that of a propraetor was lost the moment he stepped inside the sacred boundary of Rome.
The office did not carry imperium, but under normal circumstances a man elected to the quaestorship would, if asked for personally by a governor who ended in staying in his province for more than one year, remain in the province as proquaestor until his superior went home.
The imperium Galliarum established by Postumus in the year I had come to Avalon now included Hispania as well as Gallia and Britannia, and there did not seem to be much that the Emperor Gallienus, plagued by a series of pretenders in the other sectors of his empire, could do to reassert his authority.