reign
Definitions
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The Castle of St. Germain in the Reign Of Henry IV.—107 -
WordNet 3.6
- v reign have sovereign power "Henry VIII reigned for a long time"
- v reign be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance "Money reigns supreme here","Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood"
- n reign royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- n reign the period during which a monarch is sovereign "during the reign of Henry VIII"
- n reign a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful "he was helpless under the reign of his egotism"
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The Arsenal in the Reign of Henry IV.——143
PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED IN THE REIGN OF RICHARD II
COSTUME OF THE REIGN OF HENRY VII
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Interesting fact: Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had
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- Reign Hence, to be predominant; to prevail. "Pestilent diseases which commonly reign in summer."
- Reign Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion. "He who like a father held his reign .""Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean, and deep hell beneath."
- Reign The territory or sphere which is reigned over; kingdom; empire; realm; dominion. "God] him bereft the regne that he had."
- Reign The time during which a king, queen, or emperor possesses the supreme authority; as, it happened in the reign of Elizabeth.
- Reign To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule. "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body."
- Reign To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule. "We will not have this man to reign over us.""Shall Banquo's issue ever Reign in this kingdom?"
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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Interesting fact: During the Reign of Peter the Great, their was a special tax on anyone who had a beard.
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- n reign Royal or imperial authority; sovereignty: supreme power; control; sway.
- n reign The time during which a monarch occupies the throne: as, an act passed in the present reign.
- n reign The territory over which a sovereign holds sway; empire; kingdom; dominions; realm.
- n reign Power; influence; sway; dominion.
- reign To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; govern, as a king or emperor; hold the supreme power; rule.
- reign To prevail; be in force.
- reign To have dominion or ascendancy; predominate.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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Interesting fact: Jimmu, the legendary first ruler of Japan, began his reign in the year 660. Akihito, the current emperor, is said to be the 125th direct descendant of Jimmu to rule Japan.
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- n Reign rān rule: dominion, as Reign of Terror: royal authority: supreme power: influence: time during which a sovereign rules
- v.i Reign to rule: to have sovereign power: to be predominant
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Quotations
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“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.” -
“Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.” -
“Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.” -
“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”
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“To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.”
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“The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.”
Etymology
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. regne, OF. reigne, regne, F. règne, fr. L. regnum, fr. rex, regis, a king, fr. regere, to guide, rule. See Regal Regimen
Usage
In literature:
The reign of Attalus II.
"Needlework As Art" by Marian Alford
A member of the House of Commons, in the reign of Elizabeth, made a speech entirely composed of the most homely proverbs.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)" by Isaac Disraeli
He was succeeded by his son, Hiao-wen Wang, who died after a three days' reign.
"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2" by Various
For a brief period silence reigned.
"Solaris Farm" by Milan C. Edson
During the reigns of the succeeding shoguns a violent persecution began.
"Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15)" by Charles Morris
CHRONICLE OF THE REIGN .
"Rulers of India: Akbar" by George Bruce Malleson
The women reigned then; the Revolution dethroned them.
"The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun" by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Reigns from March 21 to April 19.
"The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1" by Various
Really to reign, is to reign over a soul.
"Priests, Women, and Families" by J. Michelet
Its ruins are extensive, and date for the most part from the Norman period to the reign of Edward I.
"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4" by Various
They agree at last to reign singly, each a year by turns, and the first lot is obtained by Eteocles.
"The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1" by Alexander Pope
So all Roman ideals of civic concord are concentrated in and derived from the legendary reign of Numa Pompilius.
"Roman Women" by Alfred Brittain
Henry, who reigned by the title of Count, improved every advantage which offered.
"The Lusiad" by Luís de Camões
There was, indeed, nothing national in the reign of Charles.
"History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain." by William H. Prescott
Such types of purity, honor, and moral courage were very exceptional during this reign.
"Women of Modern France (Illustrated)" by Hugo Paul Thieme (1870-1940)
Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years over Israel.
"The Bible Story" by Rev. Newton Marshall Hall
But the old jealousy arose in the reign of George I., and in the reign of George III.
"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7" by Various
But in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Henry VIII.
"Cathedral Cities of England" by George Gilbert
For all that, Harold was, during the latter part of his reign, a popular ruler and well beloved both by yeomanry and chieftains.
"The Story of Norway" by Hjalmar H. Boyesen
A duel forms a fit conclusion to the reign.
"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8" by Various
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In poetry:
Our everlasting hopes arise
Above the ruinable skies,
Where the eternal Builder reigns,
And his own courts his power sustains.
Above the ruinable skies,
Where the eternal Builder reigns,
And his own courts his power sustains.
"Hymn 60" by Isaac Watts
Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they're slain;
They see the triumph from afar,
And shall with Jesus reign.
Shall conquer, though they're slain;
They see the triumph from afar,
And shall with Jesus reign.
"Hymn 37 part 2" by Isaac Watts
See him below his angels made;
See him in dust amongst the dead,
To save a ruined world from sin;
But he shall reign with power divine.
See him in dust amongst the dead,
To save a ruined world from sin;
But he shall reign with power divine.
"Psalm 8 part 2" by Isaac Watts
Jesus, the holy child, shall sit
High on his father David's throne;
Shall crush his foes beneath his feet,
And reign to ages yet unknown.
High on his father David's throne;
Shall crush his foes beneath his feet,
And reign to ages yet unknown.
"Hymn 13" by Isaac Watts
This truth, let ev'ry creature know,
"The Lord above, is God below,
"That he is Sov'reign o'er all lands,
"That he the universe commands."
"The Lord above, is God below,
"That he is Sov'reign o'er all lands,
"That he the universe commands."
"Psalm C" by Rees Prichard
And peace and glory long shall dwell
With Him, who sits on David's throne;
The hope, the joy of Israel,
He reigns for ever, conqu'ring One!
With Him, who sits on David's throne;
The hope, the joy of Israel,
He reigns for ever, conqu'ring One!
"Hymn: We walked in darkness, but at last" by John Bowring
In news:
King James Bible 's 400-year reign.
Planters of all sizes and shapes reign, while firepots and lanterns flicker and shine.
That Madea Reign Just Won't Let Up .
That Madea Reign Just Won't Let Up.
City should reign in Loaves & Fishes.
A few weeks back, California's reigning kings of pop rock released a head-spinning music video for their new single ' Look Around .
Love of beer reigns at Dark Lord Day.
His reign ended when Michael Hayes defeated him at the Music City Showdown pay-per-view event in May 1989.
Lamberts reign over Krewe of Lul .
Two weeks in and the NBA's lockout lunacy reigns.
Steelers' reign is maddening in Philadelphia.
Poet, my friend who reigns supremely in the Mississippi Delta, has few complaints so when he voiced one the other day, I was not only surprised, I was astounded.
Sammy Wanjiru, a record-shattering Kenyan marathon runner and reigning Olympic champion, died May 15 in Nyahururu, a town about 115 miles north of Nairobi.
In Modern Era , After Frank Rich's Reign of Terror, Times Can't Close Shows.
Heidi Klum is most definitely the reigning queen of Halloween.
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In science:
However, the concept of integrability that also reigns this case, is so powerful that replica limit can be taken in exactly the same way as in the quenched case.
QCD, Chiral Random Matrix Theory and Integrability
This way the main features of today’s biological molecular motors: a non-equilibrium force applied close-toequilibrium that could reign-in Brownian noise, plus asymmetry (via an H-field gradient), can be recovered (Mitra-Delmotte and Mitra 2009).
Magnetism, FeS colloids, and Origins of Life
As a semi-classical approach, this technique exploits the advantages of the kinematics conditions reigning at sufficiently high energies, where high momentum transfers strongly favor forward rescattering of the outgoing nucleon.
Modeling neutrino-nucleus interactions in the few-GeV regime
The reigning candidate for physics beyond the Standard Model is supersymmetry, a beautiful concept which implies that there may be quantities more fundamental than space and time.
Conference Summary (5th Int. Conf. on Hyperons, Charm, and Beauty Hadrons)
The virial mass derived from the Hβ linewidth assuming random orbits of broad-line reigns (BLRs) is consistent with that from the soft X-ray bump luminosity for NLS1s but with a larger scatter.
Black hole masses in narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies
But here, the bath and the associated Hamiltonian, which is not a Lorentz invariant, are out of it: it is ˜C which reigns, and that is Lorentz invariant.
Book Review of Stephen L. Adler's, "Quantum theory as an emergent phenomenon."
The goal of this paper is to bring some light on the life of Senenmut, the chief architect and astronomer during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut.
Senenmut: An Ancient Egyptian Astronomer
Senenmut originally entered the royal court during the reign of Tuthmosis II, under Hatshepsut he would eventually hold over 80 titles (Dorman 1988) during his period as an official and administrator working in the royal court.
Senenmut: An Ancient Egyptian Astronomer
Modern chronologists tend to agree that Hatshepsut reigned as pharaoh from 1479 to 1458 BC, but there is no definitive proof of the beginning date.
Senenmut: An Ancient Egyptian Astronomer
Still, WMAP’s first data release put the reigning cosmological model on much stronger footing.
The Cosmic Microwave Background for Pedestrians: A Review for Particle and Nuclear Physicists
That is because I don‟t understand it.”” (Ford, 2004, p98) Similar statements apply to relativity theory. For perhaps the first time in the history of any science, scholars simply don’t personally believe what the reigning theories of their discipline are saying.
The emergence of the physical world from information processing
A recent article of Khmaladze, Brownrigg and Haywood reached the interesting conclusion that the lengths of rule of Roman Emperors were exponentially distributed, implying that their reigns ceased unexpectedly (“brittle power”).
Empirical likelihood-based tests for stochastic ordering
From Eqs. (84) to (89) we also see what happens when the system moves from one Hall plateau, i.e., when Eqs. (90) and (91) reign, to the next: A longitudinal resistance appears, as long as R = 1 − T > 0.
Criticality in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect
Sceptics are outcasts when enthusiasm reigns, and seers when the chill sets in.
The APEX/EPOS Quandary: the Way Out via Low Energy Studies
However, even they are unlikely to ’reign’ for a long time.
Multiplicity of species in some replicative systems
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