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empery

/em-puh-ree/US // ˈɛm pə ri //UK // (ˈɛmpərɪ) //

经验,经验之谈,帝国,经验主义

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural em·per·ies.

    • : absolute dominion; sovereignty.

Examples

  • Romance survives, of course; but it has lost the undisputed empery of fiction 35 which it held in ancient and in medieval times.

  • That was in the day of his lust for power and life, when her empery seemed equal in degree to his.

  • They seemed to be saying, defiantly perhaps, that they could cry if they would, but they had other modes of empery.

  • A lady So fair, and fastened to an empery, Would make the great'st king double.

  • Romance survives, of course; but it has lost the undisputed empery of fiction which it held in ancient and in medieval times.