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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Octroi :: Octroi (n.) A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession..
Kaiser :: Kaiser (n.) The ancient title of emperors of Germany assumed by King William of Prussia when crowned sovereign of the new German empire in 1871.
Millenarian :: Millenarian (n.) One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.
Autocracy :: Autocracy (n.) Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
Homage :: Homage (n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign..
Peregrine :: Peregrine (a.) Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic.
Favorite :: Favorite (n.) Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II.
Prorogue :: Prorogue (v. t.) To end the session of a parliament by an order of the sovereign, thus deferring its business..
Sovereign :: Sovereign (a.) Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion..
Maharajah :: Maharajah (n.) A sovereign prince in India; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.
Minister :: Minister (n.) One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs..
Privateer :: Privateer (n.) An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque..
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..
Purity :: Purity (n.) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals..
Patent :: Patent (a.) A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party..
Merchant :: Merchant (n.) One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader..
Fee :: Fee (n.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner..
Duke :: Duke (n.) In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king..
Adulteration :: Adulteration (n.) The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture..
Barbaic :: Barbaic (a.) Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of east..
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