OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 55185

lord it over

Meanings (ES + gloss)
señorear
To behave as if one is in control of; to make a display of having an advantage over or superiority to.
Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, deprived of their situations, were gradually reduced to great indigence and misery, and finally became paupers in that very same workhouse in which they had on…
They were in a manner absolute despots in their little domains, lording it, if so disposed, over both law and gospel, and accountable to none but the mother-country.
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