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supremacy


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Supremacy  \Su*prem"a*cy\,  n.  [Cf.  F.  supr['e]matie.  See 
  {Supreme}.] 
  The  state  of  being  supreme,  or  in  the  highest  station  of 
  power;  highest  or  supreme  authority  or  power;  as  the 
  supremacy  of  a  king  or  a  parliament. 
 
  The  usurped  power  of  the  pope  being  destroyed,  the 
  crown  was  restored  to  its  supremacy  over  spiritual  men 
  and  causes.  --Blackstone. 
 
  {Oath  supremacy},  an  oath  which  acknowledges  the  supremacy  of 
  the  sovereign  in  spiritual  affairs,  and  renounced  or 
  abjures  the  supremacy  of  the  pope  in  ecclesiastical  or 
  temporal  affairs.  [Eng.]  --Brande  &  C. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  supremacy 
  n  :  power  to  dominate  or  defeat;  "mastery  of  the  seas"  [syn:  {domination}, 
  {mastery}] 




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