dominate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DOMINATE, verb transitive [Latin See Dominant.] To rule; to govern; to prevail; to predominate over. We every where meet the Slavonian nations either dominant or dominated. DOMINATE, verb intransitive To predominate. [Little used.]
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