Definition of reign

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Reign (n.) To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule..

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War :: War (n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason..
Ramist :: Ramist (n.) A follower of Pierre Rame, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians..
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services..
Home-bred :: Home-bred (a.) Bred at home; domestic; not foreign.
Guinea :: Guinea (n.) A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but not coined since the issue of sovereigns in 1817..
Padishah :: Padishah (n.) Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia..
Solomon :: Solomon (n.) One of the kings of Israel, noted for his superior wisdom and magnificent reign; hence, a very wise man..
Tycoon :: Tycoon (n.) The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners..
Jurisdiction :: Jurisdiction (a.) The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate; the right of making or enforcing laws; the power or right of exercising authority.
Millenarian :: Millenarian (n.) One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.
Xenium :: Xenium (n.) A present given to a guest or stranger, or to a foreign ambassador..
Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One who is strange, foreign, or unknown..
Coronation :: Coronation (n.) The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty..
Sceptre :: Sceptre (n.) Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter..
Throne :: Throne (n.) Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted or dignified personage..
Interpolation :: Interpolation (n.) The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign..
Notary :: Notary (n.) A public officer who attests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary public..
Interpolate :: Interpolate (v. t.) To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author..
Tramontane :: Tramontane (n.) One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger..
Adulterate :: Adulterate (a.) Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious.
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