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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lord  \Lord\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Lorded};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Lording}.] 
  To  play  the  lord;  to  domineer;  to  rule  with  arbitrary  or 
  despotic  sway;  --  sometimes  with  over  and  sometimes  with  it 
  in  the  manner  of  a  transitive  verb 
 
  The  whiles  she  lordeth  in  licentious  bliss.  --Spenser. 
 
  I  see  them  lording  it  in  London  streets.  --Shak. 
 
  And  lorded  over  them  whom  now  they  serve.  --Milton. 




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