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Word Meanings - RAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Reign. Spenser.

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  • REIGNER
    One who reigns.
  • SPENSERIAN
    Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene."
  • REIGN
    regnum, fr. rex, regis, a king, fr. regere to guide, rule. See Regal, 1. 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
  • PREIGNITION
    Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.
  • DISPENSER
    One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
  • FOREIGNER
    A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.
  • FOREIGNNESS
    The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
  • SOVEREIGNIZE
    To exercise supreme authority. Sir T. Herbert.
  • SOVEREIGNLY
    In a sovereign manner; in the highest degree; supremely. Chaucer.
  • OUTREIGN
    To go beyond in reigning; to reign through the whole of, or longer than. Spenser.
  • SOVEREIGN
    soverain, suvrain, F. souverain, LL. superanus, fr. L. superus that is above, upper, higher, fr. super above. See Over, Super, and cf. Soprano. The modern spelling is due to a supposed connection with 1. Supreme or highest in power; superior to
  • REREIGN
    To reign again.
  • COSOVEREIGN
    A joint sovereign.
  • SOVEREIGNTY
    The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into
  • FOREIGN
    foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and 1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." Milton. 2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born
  • FOREIGNISM
    Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.
  • INTERREIGN
    An interregnum. Bacon.

 

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