Word Finder - overlords

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A ruler of other rulers.

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The various tribal chieftains met each spring to elect an overlord that would lead them in time of war.

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In the English feudal system, a lord of a manor who had subinfeudated a particular manor, estate or fee, to a tenant.

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The tenant thenceforth owed to the overlord one of a variety of services, usually military service or serjeanty, depending on which form of tenure the estate was held under.

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Anyone with overarching power or authority in a given domain.

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The crusty old professor was overlord of the history department, and few dared to cross his will.

The overlords were the bishops of Bath and Wells, who had a palace and park here.

The D e Mohun family were overlords of the town from 1086 to the 14th century, when they were followed by the Luttrells, who are the present owners.

Nevertheless, there is as yet no monumental evidence in favour of the genuineness of the story, and at the most it can only be said that the author (of whatever date) has derived his names from a trustworthy source, and in representing an invasion of Palestine by Babylonian overlords has given expression to a possible situation.

While other vassals might hold of a graduated hierarchy of overlords up to the crown, the burgess always held directly of the sovereign.

They were henceforth ranked as "Galatians" by the outside world equally with their overlords, and it was from their numbers that the "Galatian" slaves who figure in the markets of the ancient world were drawn.

The earliest of these Bohemian overlords, King John and the emperor Charles IV., fully justified their intrusion by the vigorous way in which they restored order and regularized the administration; in particular, the cities at this time attained a high degree of material prosperity and political importance.

The town and lands were purchased in 1720 by a fishing company in England and, on their failure, by the Merchant Maidens' Hospital of Edinburgh for £3000, who are still the overlords.

If the kings of Sicily on this side the Pharos kept Corfu down to 1386, those beyond the Pharos became in 1311 overlords of Athens, when that duchy was seized by Catalan adventurers, disbanded after the wars of Sicily.

It was granted by John in 1204 to Hugh, archdeacon of Wells, who sold it to the bishop of Bath and Wells in 1229, whose successors were overlords until 1 553, when the bishop granted it to the king.

Retief, like his English predecessors at Port Natal (known also since 1835 as Durban), sought a formal grant of territory from the chief of the Zulu nation, the Zulus being the acknowledged overlords of the tribes living in Natal.

The " orange-hoods," as his followers were called, rapidly gained in numbers and influence, until they so overshadowed the " red-hoods," as the followers of the older sect were called, that in the middle of the r 5th century the emperor of China acknowledged the two leaders of the new sect at that time as the titular overlords of the church and tributary rulers over the realm of Tibet.

The lightning conclusion of the Western campaign, however, robbed the Moscow overlords of their hope of an early flagging of German power.

The Ottoman Empire had swallowed a great deal of the Middle East and the Turkish overlords were not welcome in that region.

Do you for one welcome our new ant overlords?

Had the overlords been more considerate incorporation with Edinburgh would not have been so bitterly resisted.

Don't be a slave to the fashion overlords!

These implacable overlords assimilate everything their path into their hiveminded hegemony, and all the deadliest battles Picard will experience will be against the Borg.