emperyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛm.pə.ɹɪ/, /ˈɛm.pɹɪ/

名詞

empery (複数形 emperies)

1. (obsolete) An empire; the status or dominion of an emperor.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:

     Let’s cheere our ſouldiers to incounter him,
     That grieuous image of ingratitude:
     That fiery thirſter after Soueraigntie:
     And burne him in the fury of that flame,
     That none can quench but blood and Empery.

   • 1604, Edward Coke, "To the Reader", The Fourth Part of the Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt..

     Secondly, the Largeneſs of his Empery, and the firſt Conquest of Ireland, long before the Reign of K. Hen. the Second.

   • 1661, John Donne, "To his Mistress going to Bed":

     My Myne of precious stones: My Emperie, / How blest am I in this discovering thee!

2. (archaic) Absolute power or authority.
   • 1833, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Prometheus Bound:

     Because he filched away
     Thine own bright flower, the glory of plastic fire,
     And gifted mortals with it, — such a sin
     It doth behoove he expiate to the gods,
     Learning to accept the empery of Zeus,
     And leave off his old trick of loving man.