Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic transitive English) To behave as if one is in control of; to make a display of having an advantage over or superiority to.
WordNet
v. act like the master of; "He is lording it over the students" [syn: queen it over, put on airs, act superior]
Usage examples of "lord it over".
Here, our old sailors say, in their black seventy-fours great admirals sometimes sit at table, and lord it over rows of captains and lieutenants.
He saw himself wresting Romagna mile by mile from the sway of the ribald Borgia, hunting him to the death as he was wont to hunt the boar in the marshes of Commachio, or driving him into the very Vatican to seek shelter within his father's gates--the last strip of soil that he would leave him to lord it over.
The great tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, It loves and nourishes all things, but does not lord it over them.
They always told me I was good-natured--and that's the truth, and to my hurt too, else there's them in this house that wouldn't be here now to lord it over me in the housekeeper's room.
How she could lord it over the full-professors' wives who wouldn't invite her to tea more than twice a year!
Go home, then, with your ships and comrades to lord it over the Myrmidons.