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Definition of Lorded
1. lord [v] - See also: lord
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lorded
Literary usage of Lorded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"... while the great reptiles lorded it over the earth, there were developing in
odd out-of- the-way corners those hairy mammals and feathered birds who were ..."
2. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1900)
"... extending from east to west, would have aI lorded an excellent means of
registering the varying positions of heavenly bodies. ..."
3. The Upper Canada Law Journal and Local Courts Gazette by Canadian Bar Association (1855)
"48 in extended, and relief is ai lorded to a certain description of persons not
originally provided for; had the Legislature over intended that by the ..."
4. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"anybody's power to undo the mischief that the sect he originally belonged to liad
am да g them managed to do—before he was be- lorded, or even dreamt of ..."
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