Word Meanings - DITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dominion; rule. Evelyn.

Related words: (words related to DITION)

• DOMINION
  A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3. Milton. By him were all things created . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Col. i. 16. Syn. -- Sovereignty; control; rule; authority;
• DOMINION DAY
  In Canada, a legal holiday, July lst, being the anniversary of the proclamation of the formation of the Dominion in 1867.
• OLD DOMINION
  Virginia; -- a name of uncertain origin, perh. from the old designation of the colony as "the Colony and Dominion of Virginia."