lord it over

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To behave as if one is in control of

   To behave as if one is in control of; to make a display of having an advantage over or superiority to.

   • They were in a manner absolute despots in their little domains, lording it, if so disposed, over both law and gospel, and accountable to none but the mother-country.
   • Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, deprived of their situations, were gradually reduced to great indigence and misery, and finally became paupers in that very same workhouse in which they had once lorded it over others.
   • Peter was a little annoyed with them for knowing so much, but if he wanted to lord it over them his triumph was at hand.

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