What is "dominion"

Dominion \Do*min"ion\, n. [LL. dominio, equiv. to L. dominium. See Domain, Dungeon.]

1. Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.

   I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion.
   --Dan. iv. 34.

   To choose between dominion or slavery.
   --Jowett (Thucyd. ).

2. Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.

   Objects placed foremost ought . . . have dominion over things confused and transient.
   --Dryden.

3. That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.

4. pl. A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3.
   --Milton.

   By him were all things created . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers.
   --Col. i. 16.

   Syn: Sovereignty; control; rule; authority; jurisdiction; government; territory; district; region.

early 15c., from Old French dominion "dominion, rule, power," from Medieval Latin dominionem (nominative dominio), corresponding to Latin dominium "property, ownership," from dominus (see domination).\n

\nBritish sovereign colonies often were called dominions, hence the Dominion of Canada, the formal title after the 1867 union, and Old Dominion, the popular name for the U.S. state of Virginia, first recorded 1778.

n. 1 Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy. 2 predominance; ascendancy 3 (context sometimes figurative English) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory. 4 (context historical English) One of the dependencies of the British Empire given self-government and eventually independence, such as Canada, Newfoundland, or the Irish Free State. 5 (context Biblical tradition English) An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above angels and below thrones.

1. n. dominance or power through legal authority; "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule of Caesar" [syn: rule]

2. a region marked off for administrative or other purposes [syn: district, territory, territorial dominion]

3. one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth

In the Star Trek universe, the Dominion is an interstellar state and military superpower from the Gamma Quadrant, composed of hundreds of dominated alien species. The Dominion is commanded by the Founders, a race of shapeshifters responsible for both the creation of the Dominion and all strategic decisions undertaken throughout its history. It is administered by the Vorta, clones specifically genetically engineered by the Founders to act as field commanders, administrators, scientists, and diplomats. The Jem'Hadar, also engineered by the Founders, are the military arm of the Dominion and one of the most powerful military forces in the galaxy during the Dominion's height.

The Dominion first appeared in Season 3, episode 1 "The Search" of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and unsuccessfully waged war on the United Federation of Planets after forming an alliance with Cardassia in the Alpha Quadrant.

Dominion Stores was once a national chain of supermarkets in Canada, which was known as the Dominion of Canada at the time of the company's founding. The chain was founded in 1919 in Ontario and was later acquired by the Argus Corporation. It was later sold to The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P), which restricted the chain to the Greater Toronto Area. Stores outside Ontario were converted to the A&P banner or sold to third parties. A&P's Canadian division was later acquired by Metro Inc., which rebranded the remaining Dominion stores to its namesake banner in 2008.

A dominion was a self-governing autonomous state within the British Empire.

Dominion may also refer to:

Dominion is the 2004 mini-album by the New Zealand post-rock band Jakob, consisting of a single song. The title track was originally recorded during the initial (abandoned) Cale:Drew recording session. Originally lasting 50 minutes, it was mixed down by David Holmes to just under half an hour.

The release was limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies, and is available only at the band's concerts and SmokeCDs.

Dominion is the second full-length album released in 1997 by metal band Kamelot. Dominion (along with their debut, Eternity), features rerecording of demos recorded in 1991. It was the last album to feature original vocalist Mark Vanderbilt and founding drummer Richard Warner. The album was re-released through Sanctuary Records in 2007.

Dominion is an original novel written by Nick Walters and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Sam and Fitz.

is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow. Set in the fictional city of Newport, Japan, in a future in which bacteria as well as air pollution have become so severe that people must wear gas masks when outdoors, the series follows a police squadron that uses military-style tanks.

Dominion has been adapted into three original video animation series: the first was released in 1988, the second, in 1993 and the third, in 2006. The 1988 OVA is four volumes long and animated by Agent 21, The 1993 OVA is six volumes long and animated by J.C.Staff while TANK S.W.A.T. is one volume long and animated by DOGA Productions.

The manga was published by Hakusensha, Kodansha and later by Seishinsha. It has been published in English by Dark Horse Comics. The anime has been released in English translation in the United Kingdom and Australia by Manga Entertainment and in the United States by Central Park Media, under their U.S. Manga Corps division. The New Dominion Tank Police series was also distributed in the UK, Australia and United States by Manga Entertainment, but later expired. Maiden Japan licensed the six-episode 1993 New Dominion Tank Police OVA series for distribution in North America in 2013.

Dominion was a British band from Thornhill, Dewsbury, that played a mix of death metal and doom metal genres. It featured a female singer, Michelle Richfield, and two male singers, Mass Firth and Arno Cagna. The band released two albums in the late 1990s on Peaceville Records and then split up. Drummer Bill Law temporarily played in My Dying Bride. Richfield and North later formed the band Sear. Firth now plays in the death metal band Nailed. In 2006 their former record label Peaceville decided to release an 18 track compilation album entitled Threshold A Retrospective. This featured songs from the albums Interface and Blackout, in addition to songs that were earlier released on the Under the Sign of the Sacred Star Peaceville compilation album. A version of the Tears For Fears song " Shout", originally released on the Peaceville X album, has now gone on to be a classic in metal clubs across the UK. This 2006 release got great reviews in the press, and saw Dominion getting a KKKK (out of a possible 5K's) review in Kerrang! magazine, hailing the band as "Brit Metal Pioneers and a criminally overlooked band". Furthermore, the track Release which originally featured on the album Blackout was to appear on a cover mount CD for the magazine Metal Hammer. The band has received significant positive attention in the decade after their demise.

"Dominion" is a song by English rock band The Sisters of Mercy. It was released as the second single from their second studio album, Floodland, in February 1988. The version on Floodland, titled "Dominion/Mother Russia", features "Dominion" as well as an outro piece titled "Mother Russia". It was written by band frontman Andrew Eldritch and produced by Larry Alexander, Eldritch, and Jim Steinman.

The song peaked at number 7 on the Irish Singles Chart, number 13 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 30 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. It was also featured on the fictional Liberty Rock Radio 97.8 radio station in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV.

Dominion is a live album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 1982. It was recorded at a performance at the Dominion Theatre, London.

Dominion is a Swedish technical death metal band formed in 2004.

Dominion is a rock band originally formed in Manila, The Philippines in 1994.

Often credited as a Forerunner in Filipino styled goth music by the Philippine Media. Some of their songs are in Tagalog, a Philippine Language.[ ]

The Dominion is a race held at the Addington Raceway each year in Christchurch, New Zealand for standardbred horses. It was worth $300,000, but in line with the economic conditions, it was cut back to $200,000 in 2010. The race is run in November over a distance of 3200 m on the Friday immediately after the New Zealand Cup, run on Tuesday and forms part of the NZ Cup carnival. It is one of the major harness races for trotters rather than pacers, and is considered to be the trotters equivalent of the New Zealand Trotting Cup. Another similar race is the Rowe Cup held each May in Auckland.

Dominion is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band Benedictum, released through Frontiers Records in 2011.

Dominion is a 2012 alternate history novel by British author C. J. Sansom. It is a political thriller set in the early 1950s against the backdrop of a Britain that has become a satellite state of Nazi Germany. The Point of divergence from actual history is that Lord Halifax, rather than Winston Churchill, succeeded Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister in May 1940.

Dominion is an upcoming American drama film written and directed by Steven Bernstein. The film stars Rhys Ifans, Rodrigo Santoro, John Malkovich, Romola Garai, Zosia Mamet and Tony Hale. The film follows the life of author Dylan Thomas.

Dominion is a deck-building game created by Donald X. Vaccarino and published by Rio Grande Games. Each player uses a separate deck of cards; players draw their hands from their own decks, not others'. Players use their cards to perform actions and buy cards from a common pool of card stacks, including Action, Treasure, and Victory cards. The player with the most victory points wins. The game has a light medieval theme, with card names that reference pre-industrial, monarchical, and feudal social structures.

Some have drawn parallels with collectible card games such as Magic: The Gathering. Vaccarino, however, denies that Magic was the inspiration). Unlike Magic: The Gathering, Dominion players build their decks ad hoc as the game proceeds. Dominion is the first game of its kind and has spawned a genre of similar card-based games dubbed "deck-building games".

The game was released at Spiel 2008 in multiple languages and voted best game of the fair by the Fairplay polls with a rating of 1.75 from 147 votes. In 2009, it won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres and Deutscher Spiele Preis awards. It was one of five winning games in American Mensa's 2009 MindGame competition. By 2016, more than 2.5 million copies of it and its expansions had been sold worldwide.

Dominions were semi-independent polities that were under the British Crown, constituting the British Empire, beginning with Canadian Confederation in 1867. They included Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, South Africa, and the Irish Free State, and then from the late 1940s also India, Pakistan, and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The Balfour Declaration of 1926 recognised the Dominions as "autonomous Communities within the British Empire". In 1931 the Statute of Westminster recognized the Dominions as sovereign from the United Kingdom (but not the Empire), with which they shared a common allegiance to the Crown, common citizenship and coherent foreign and defence and (in lesser extent) economic and fiscal policy.

Between 1945 to 1953, with de facto dissolution of political union between United Kingdom and the Dominions, creation of separate citizenships and conversion of the Commonwealth of Nations into a largely non-political organization, the Dominions became fully independent and became known after the year 1953 as Commonwealth realms.

Earlier usage of dominion to refer to a particular territory dates to the 16th century and was sometimes used to describe Wales from 1535 to around 1800.

Dominion is an American apocalyptic supernatural action television series created by Vaun Wilmott. It is loosely based on the 2010 film Legion, written by Peter Schink and Scott Stewart. In December 2013, Syfy ordered a pilot episode and the series premiered on the American cable television network Syfy on June 19, 2014. The show was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa. Stewart served as series executive producer, as well as director of the pilot episode, written by Wilmott.

It was renewed for a 13 episode second season on September 25, 2014, which premiered on July 9, 2015 and concluded on October 1, 2015. On October 13, 2015, Syfy canceled Dominion after two seasons.

The first season of the American television drama series Dominion premiered on June 19, 2014, and concluded on August 7, 2014, and consisted of eight episodes. Syfy broadcast the first season on Thursday at 10:00 pm in the United States.

Dominion is a 1938 poem by the New Zealand writer A. R. D. Fairburn. It covers New Zealand and its national identity, in relation to its colonial history, political and economical realities, spirituality and nature. The tone alternates between satirical, tender and hopeful. It is divided into five major parts—"Utopia", "Album Leaves", "Elements", "Dialogue" and "Struggle in a Mirror"—with several further subsections.

It was published separately in 1938 and republished in 1952 in Three Poems, together with "The Voyage" and "To a Friend in the Wilderness".