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Webster 1913 Edition
Imperious
1.
Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic.
[Obs.]
“A vast and imperious mind.” Tilloison.
Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness,
Imperious
. Shakespeare
2.
Haughly; arrogant; overbearing;
as, an
imperious
tyrant; an imperious
manner.This
From princes into pages.
imperious
man will work us allFrom princes into pages.
Shakespeare
His bold, contemptuous, and
imperious
spirit soon made him conspicuous. Macaulay.
3.
Imperative; urgent; compelling.
Syn. – Dictatorial; haughty; domineering; overbearing; lordly; tyrannical; despotic; arrogant; imperative; authoritative; commanding; pressing.
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Imperious
, Lordly
, Domineering
. One who is imperious exercises his authority in a manner highly offensive for its spirit and tone; one who is lordly assumes a lofty air in order to display his importance; one who is domineering gives orders in a way to make others feel their inferiority. Webster 1828 Edition
Imperious
IMPE'RIOUS
,Adj.
1.
Commanding; dictatorial; haughty; arrogant; overbearing; domineering; as an imperious tyrant; an imperious dictator; an imperious man; an imperious temper.2.
Commanding; indicating an imperious temper; authoritative; as imperious words.3.
Powerful; overbearing; not to be opposed by obstacles; as a man of a vast and imperious mind.4.
Commanding; urgent; pressing; as imperious love; imperious circumstances; imperious appetite.5.
Authoritative; commanding with rightful authority. The commandment high and imperious in its claims.