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adjective

Imperious adj.

Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic. (Obs.) "A vast and imperious mind." "Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness, Imperious."

Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner. "This imperious man will work us all From princes into pages." "His bold, contemptuous, and imperious spirit soon made him conspicuous."

Imperative; urgent; compelling. "Imperious need, which can not be withstood."

Synonyms: Dictatorial; haughty; domineering; overbearing; lordly; tyrannical; despotic; arrogant; imperative; authoritative; commanding; pressing. Imperious, Lordly, Domineering. One who is imperious exercises his authority in a manner highly offensive for its spirit and tone; one who is lordly assumes a lofty air in order to display his importance; one who is domineering gives orders in a way to make others feel their inferiority.

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"Imperious" Quotes from Famous Books

... provisions was transacted by his orders; that it was therefore needless for them to complain, as they would get no redress, he being the fittest judge of what was right or wrong, and that he would flog the first man who should dare attempt to make any complaint in future. To this imperious menace they bowed in silence, and not another murmur was heard from them during the remainder of the voyage to Otaheite, it being their determination to seek legal redress on the Bounty's return to England. Happy would it have been had ...

— The Eventful History Of The Mutiny And Piratical Seizure - Of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause And Consequences • Sir John Barrow

... he recall every incident of the parting with Mahommed, every word, every injunction—the return of the ruby ring, even then doubtless upon the imperious master's third finger, a subject of hourly study—the further speech, "They say whoever looketh at her is thenceforward her lover"—and the final charge, with its particulars, concluding: "Forget not that in Constantinople, when I come, I am to receive her from thy ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace

... daughter of Nature, attracted by a bowl of cream, covered by a muffin, knocked the muffin off with my paw, and lapped the cream. Then in joy, and perhaps also on account of the weakness of my young organs, I delivered myself on the waxed floor to the imperious need which young Cats feel. Perceiving the proofs of what she called my intemperance and my faults of education, the old woman seized me and whipped me vigorously with a birchrod, protesting that she would make me a lady or she would ...

— Lords of the Housetops - Thirteen Cat Tales • Various

... assumption of authority, calm and proud as it was, had a mixture of tenderness which partly soothed her. The demand however was imperious. Eleanor answered. ...

— The Old Helmet, Volume I • Susan Warner

... the powder off a butterfly's wings.... If he and Archelaus had been more truly brothers it would have been a very nice arrangement ... little Phoebe would make a sweeter sister in some ways than the imperious Vassie.... ...

— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse

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