Crossword clues for dynasties
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dynasty \Dy"nas*ty\ (d[imac]"nas*t[y^] or d[i^]n"as*t[y^]; 277), n.; pl. Dynasties (-t[i^]z). [Gr. dynastei`a lordship, fr. dynastey`ein to hold power or lordship, fr. dyna`sths: cf. F. dynastie dynasty. See Dynast.]
Sovereignty; lordship; dominion.
--Johnson.A race or succession of kings, of the same line or family; the continued lordship of a race of rulers.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of dynasty English)
Wikipedia
Dynasties is an Australian factual television show that looks at Australia's most famous and influential families. This observational documentary series began on the ABC in 2002.
Usage examples of "dynasties".
In the moving picture of the dynasties of the East, a hundred fortunate usurpers have arisen from a baser origin, surmounted more formidable obstacles, and filled a larger scope of empire and conquest.
The successors of Theophilus, of the Basilian and Comnenian dynasties, were not less ambitious of leaving some memorial of their residence.
Under the two first dynasties, the principal town was still a movable camp.
But in the intervals of the Byzantine dynasties, the succession is rapid and broken, and the name of a successful candidate is speedily erased by a more fortunate competitor.
The temporal power of the clergy was cherished and exalted by the superstition or policy of the Carlovingian and Saxon dynasties, who blindly depended on their moderation and fidelity.
Since the Dynasties of Abulpharagius ^116 have been given to the world in a Latin version, the tale has been repeatedly transcribed.
The three younger dynasties were those of Kerman, of Syria, and of Roum: the first of these commanded an extensive, though obscure, ^47 dominion on the shores of the Indian Ocean: ^48 the second expelled the Arabian princes of Aleppo and Damascus.
Their tyrants, the Seljukian sultans, had followed the common law of the Asiatic dynasties, the unceasing round of valor, greatness, discord, degeneracy, and decay.
To these we may add, the article of Salaheddin in the Bibliotheque Orientale, and all that may be gleaned from the Dynasties of Abulpharagius.
The most illustrious sultans of the Baharite and Borgite dynasties ^102 were themselves promoted from the Tartar and Circassian bands.
With some breathing intervals of peace and order, the two dynasties are marked as a period of rapine and bloodshed: ^104 but their throne, however shaken, reposed on the two pillars of discipline and valor: their sway extended over Egypt, Nubia, Arabia, and Syria: their Mamalukes were multiplied from eight hundred to twenty-five thousand horse.
I shall not pursue the obscure and various dynasties, that rose and fell on the continent or in the isles.
Before the invasion of Zingis, China was divided into two empires or dynasties of the North and South.
Sir John Marsham's contracted scale of the Egyptian dynasties would fix them about 2000 years before Christ, (Canon.
Their tyrants, the Seljukian sultans, had followed the common law of the Asiatic dynasties, the unceasing round of valor, greatness, discord, degeneracy, and decay.