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English Dictionary: supremacy by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
supremacy
n
  1. power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas" [syn: domination, mastery, supremacy]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Supremacy \Su*prem"a*cy\, n. [Cf. F. supr[82]matie. See
      {Supreme}.]
      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.
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