Word Meanings - RAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Reign. Spenser.

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• REIGNER
  One who reigns.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• REIGN
  regnum, fr. rex, regis, a king, fr. regere to guide, rule. See Regal, 1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion. He who like a father held his reign. Pope. Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean,, and
• PREIGNITION
  Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• FOREIGNER
  A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.
• FOREIGNNESS
  The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
• SOVEREIGNIZE
  To exercise supreme authority. Sir T. Herbert.
• SOVEREIGNLY
  In a sovereign manner; in the highest degree; supremely. Chaucer.
• OUTREIGN
  To go beyond in reigning; to reign through the whole of, or longer than. Spenser.
• SOVEREIGN
  soverain, suvrain, F. souverain, LL. superanus, fr. L. superus that is above, upper, higher, fr. super above. See Over, Super, and cf. Soprano. The modern spelling is due to a supposed connection with 1. Supreme or highest in power; superior to
• REREIGN
  To reign again.
• COSOVEREIGN
  A joint sovereign.
• SOVEREIGNTY
  The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into
• FOREIGN
  foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and 1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." Milton. 2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born
• FOREIGNISM
  Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.
• INTERREIGN
  An interregnum. Bacon.