masterdom
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːstədəm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmæstɚdəm/
Noun
masterdom (uncountable)
- (now rare) Dominion; rule, supremacy. [from 15th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- With cruell chaufe their courages they whet, / The maysterdome of each by force to gaine […].
References
- “masterdom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
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