domineer

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DOMINEER, verb intransitive [Latin See Dominant.] 1. To rule over with insolence or arbitrary sway. To domineer over subjects or servants is evidence of a low mind. 2. To bluster; to hector; to swell with conscious superiority, or haughtiness. Go to the feast, revel and domineer
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