Crossword clues for reign
reign
- Wield power
- King's term
- Hold royal office
- Time in power
- Rule the roost
- Be king
- Take to the throne
- Period on the throne
- Period in power
- Occupy a throne
- Monarch's term
- Dominating power
- Who "Love, ___ o'er Me"
- The Who "Love, ___ O'er Me"
- Live like a king?
- Do a queen's job
- Be in power
- Victoria's lasted longer than that of any other British monarch
- Tut's tenure
- Time at the top
- The Who's "Love, ___ O'er Me"
- Sit on a throne
- Rulers do it
- Ruler's term
- Ruler's span
- Rule over all
- Rule over a country
- Rule of a king or queen
- Rule from the throne
- Rule (of monarch)
- Royal supremacy
- Queen's term
- Queen's tenure
- Queen's rule
- President's tenure
- Period for a king or queen
- Niger (anag)
- Monarch's tenure
- Monarch's stint
- Monarch's period
- King's dominion
- Hamlet's lasted mere minutes
- Era, perhaps
- Era of a dynasty
- Emperor's tenure
- Elizabeth’s has begun
- Dynastic duration
- Call all the shots
- Be predominant
- Be in control, say
- 72 years, for Louis XIV
- "___ in Blood" (landmark Slayer album)
- French Revolution period
- Bloody period of the French Revolution
- Be lordly
- Rule the kingdom
- Hold sway
- Time on the throne
- Monarch's rule
- Wear the crown
- Be in charge
- Stretch on the throne
- King's time on the throne
- Have the throne
- Cover many subjects?
- Hold the scepter
- Royal authority
- The dominion of a monarch
- A period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
- Own the throne
- Predominate
- ___ of Terror (French Revolution period)
- Dominion
- Sovereignty
- King's tenure
- Royal sway
- Prevail
- Be supreme
- What kings do all day
- Government's in control, as a rule
- Government in control in time in power
- Monarch's time in the job
- Monarch’s control, say, good if kept in check
- Exercise authority, transforming Niger
- Engaged in ceasefire, ignoring command
- What 4s do badly in Germany? Not a lot
- King replacing fellow in fake government
- For the auditor, check rule
- Leave job sacrificing second period in charge
- Rule, which comes from above, they say
- Royal rule
- Republicans want it done away with - an audible torrent?
- Power shower audible?
- Period of rule
- Be on the throne
- Time as ruler – it's good to be in control
- Term for being "in control"
- Term of office
- Run the show
- Occupy the throne
- Hold power, as a monarch
- Ruling period
- Despot's duration
- Sit on the throne
- Hold the throne
- Be the king
- Run the country
- Rule over a kingdom
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reign \Reign\ (r?n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reigned (r?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reigning.] [OE. regnen, reinen, OF. regner, F. r['e]gner, fr. L. regnare, fr. regnum. See Reign, n.]
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To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule.
--Chaucer.We will not have this man to reign over us.
--Luke xix. 14.Shall Banquo's issue ever Reign in this kingdom?
--Shak. Hence, to be predominant; to prevail. ``Pestilent diseases which commonly reign in summer.''
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To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body.
--Rom. vi. 12.Syn: To rule; govern; direct; control; prevail.
Reign \Reign\ (r[=a]n), n. [OE. regne, OF. reigne, regne, F. r[`e]gne, fr. L. regnum, fr. rex, regis, a king, fr. regere to guide, rule. See Regal, Regimen.]
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Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.
He who like a father held his reign.
--Pope.Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean, and deep hell beneath.
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The territory or sphere which is reigned over; kingdom; empire; realm; dominion. [Obs.]
--Spenser.[God] him bereft the regne that he had.
--Chaucer. The time during which a king, queen, or emperor possesses the supreme authority; as, it happened in the reign of Elizabeth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., "kingdom," from Old French reigne "kingdom, land, country" (Modern French règne), from Latin regnum "kingship, dominion, rule, realm," related to regere (see regal). Meaning "period of rule" first recorded mid-14c.
"to hold or exercise sovereign power," late 13c., from Old French regner "rule, reign" (12c.), from Latin regnare "have royal power, be king, rule, reign," from regnum (see reign (n.)). Related: Reigned; reigning; regnal.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The exercise of sovereign power. 2 The period during which a monarch rules. 3 The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled. vb. (context intransitive English) To exercise sovereign power, or to rule as a monarch
WordNet
n. a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful; "he was helpless under the reign of his egotism"
the period during which a monarch is sovereign; "during the reign of Henry VIII"
royal authority; the dominion of a monarch [syn: sovereignty]
v. have sovereign power; "Henry VIII reigned for a long time"
be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood" [syn: predominate, dominate, rule, prevail]
Wikipedia
A reign is the period of a person's or dynasty's occupation of the office of monarch of a nation (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Belgium, Andorra), of a people (e.g., the Franks, the Zulus) or of a spiritual community (e.g., Roman Catholicism, Tibetan Buddhism, Nizari Ismailism). In most hereditary monarchies and some elective monarchies (e.g., Holy Roman Empire) there have been no limits on the duration of a sovereign's reign or incumbency, nor is there a term of office. Thus, a reign usually lasts until the monarch dies, unless the monarchy itself is abolished or the monarch abdicates or is deposed.
In elective monarchies, there may be a fixed period of time for the duration of the monarch's tenure in office (e.g., Malaysia).
The term of a reign can be indicated with the abbreviation "r." after a sovereign's name, such as the following:
George VI, King of the United Kingdom (r. 1936–1952)Reign is a free browser-based multiplayer online game hosted online at reign.ws. It was initially designed and developed by Ty Kauffman from April 5 to April 9, 2004. Since then, Ty, Mark Caudill and David DiBattiste have built on to the game by adding new features and improving the code. Reign was, and still is, developed using a simple text editor and Photoshop exclusively. It is a PHP / Javascript web-based strategy game that a MySQL database for data storage.
A reign is the period of time a monarch rules.
Reign may also refer to:
Reign is an American historical fantasy romance television series following the early exploits of Mary, Queen of Scots. The series, created by Stephanie SenGupta and Laurie McCarthy, airs on The CW and premiered as part of the 2013–14 American television season. The leading roles are played by a combination of Australian, Canadian, English, and New Zealand actors. On March 11, 2016, The CW renewed the series for a fourth season.
Usage examples of "reign".
The immortal productions of Virgil, Cicero, and Livy, which were accessible to the Christian Barbarians, maintained a silent intercourse between the reign of Augustus and the times of Clovis and Charlemagne.
Under the reign of Justinian, they acknowledged the god and the emperor of the Romans, and seven fortresses were built in the most accessible passages, to exclude the ambition of the Persian monarch.
Although Sapor was in the thirtieth year of his long reign, he was still in the vigor of youth, as the date of his accession, by a very strange fatality, had preceded that of his birth.
He justly observes, that in the recent changes, both religions had been alternately disgraced by the seeming acquisition of worthless proselytes, of those votaries of the reigning purple, who could pass, without a reason, and without a blush, from the church to the temple, and from the altars of Jupiter to the sacred table of the Christians.
Ever since the rash but successful enterprise of the Franks under the reign of Probus, their daring countrymen had constructed squadrons of light brigantines, in which they incessantly ravaged the provinces adjacent to the ocean.
With a similar design, to admonish kings that they are strong only in the strength of their subjects, the same Indians invented the game of chess, which was likewise introduced into Persia under the reign of Nushirvan.
I was seated, with Joscelin, at their own table, albeit far from the center where they reigned.
An ample share of their wisdom and virtue is due to a Persian vizier, who ruled the empire under the reigns of Alp Arslan and his son.
The unfinished Hassan Tower at Rabat having at one time become a place of evil resort, the reigning ameer ordered the way up to be destroyed, but it was found so hard that only the first round was cut away, and the door bricked up.
It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well--seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism.
The evil fruits of his reign - evil, that is to say, from the point of view of his order, which was swept away as so much anachronistic rubbish - did not come until a hundred years later.
The second Lokman, also called the Sage, was a slave and Abyssinian negro, sold by the Israelites during the reign of David or Solomon, and who left a volume of proverbs and exempla, not fables or apologues, some of which still dwell in the public memory.
It was more agreeable to his temper, as well as to his policy, to reign under the venerable names of ancient magistracy, and artfully to collect, in his own person, all the scattered rays of civil jurisdiction.
The marriage was celebrated in all imaginable pomp, and Avenant and the Fair One with Golden Locks lived and reigned happily together all their days.
I confessed my sin with tears, and when she threatened punishment, pleaded that the offence had avenged itself heavily already,--for what worse punishment than exile from the sunlight of her presence, into the outer darkness which reigns where she is not?