domination, mastery, supremacy
(noun) power to dominate or defeat; “mastery of the seas”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
supremacy (usually uncountable, plural supremacies)
The quality of being supreme.
Power over all others.
(in combination) The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.
Source: Wiktionary
Su*prem"a*cy, n. Etym: [Cf. F. suprématie. See Supreme.]
Definition: The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament. The usurped power of the pope being destroyed, the crown was restored to its supremacy over spiritual men and causes. Blackstone. Oath supremacy, an oath which acknowledges the supremacy of the sovereign in spiritual affairs, and renounced or abjures the supremacy of the pope in ecclesiastical or temporal affairs. [Eng.] Brande & C.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
