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#732. Failure. -- N. failure; nonsuccess, nonfulfillment; dead
failure, successlessness; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen &c. 158;
labor in vain &c. (inutility) 645; no go; inefficacy; inefficaciousness &c.
adj.; vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive
efforts; flash in the pan, "lame and impotent conclusion" [Othello];
frustration; slip 'twixt cup and lip &c. (disappointment) 509.
blunder &c. (mistake) 495; fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip,
trip, stumble, claudication|, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas,
titubation, bvue, faute, lurch; botchery &c. (want of skill) 699; scrape,
mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk [U.S.].
mishap &c. (misfortune) 735; split, collapse, smash, blow, explosion.
repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating,
drubbing; quietus, nonsuit, subjugation; checkmake, stalemate, fool's mate.
fall, downfall, ruin, perdition; wreck &c. (destruction0 162;
deathblow; bankruptcy &c. (nonpayment) 808.
losing game, affaire flambe.
victim; bankrupt; flunker, flunky [U.S.].
V. fail; be unsuccessful &c. adj.; not succeed &c. 731; make vain
efforts &c.n.; do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk [U.S.]; lose
one's labor, take nothing by one's motion; bring to naught, make nothing
of; wash a blackamoor white &c. (impossible) 471; roll the stones of
Sisyphus &c. (useless) 645; do by halves &c. (not complete) 730; lose
ground &c. (recede) 282; fall short of &c. 304.
miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays;
slip, trip, stumble; make a slip &c., n. blunder &c. 495, make a mess of,
make a botch of; bitch it|, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come
down like the stick, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the
tail, get the wrong sow by the ear &c. (blunder, mismanage) 699.
limp, halt, hobble, titubate; fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall
to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud,
run aground, split upon a rock; run one's head against a stone wall, knock
one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall;
break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut
from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come
to grief &c. (adversity) 735; go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot;
lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated &c. 731; have the worst of it,
lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb &c.
(submit) 725; not have a leg to stand on.
come to nothing, end in smoke; flat out [U.S.]|; fall to the ground,
fall through, fall dead, fall stillborn, fall flat; slip through one's
fingers; hang fire, miss fire; flash in the pan, collapse; topple down &c.
(descent) 305; go to wrack and ruin &c. (destruction) 162.
go amiss, go wrong, go cross, go hard with, go on a wrong tack; go on
ill, come off ill, turn out ill, work ill; take a wrong term, take an ugly
term.
be all over with, be all up with; explode; dash one's hopes &c.
(disappoint) 509; defeat the purpose; sow the wind and reap the whirlwind,
jump out of the frying pan into the fire.
Adj. unsuccessful, successless; failing, tripping &c.v.; at fault;
unfortunate &c. 735.
abortive, addle, stillborn; fruitless, bootless; ineffectual,
ineffective; inefficient &c. (impotent) 158; insufficient &c. 640;
unavailing &c. (useless) 645; of no effect.
aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered,
capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited; foiled; defeated &c. 731; struck down,
borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with;
ploughed, plowed, plucked.
lost, undone, ruined, broken; bankrupt &c. (not paying) 808; played
out; done up, done for; dead beat, ruined root and branch, flambe, knocked
on the head; destroyed &c. 162.
frustrated, crossed, unhinged, disconcerted dashed; thrown off one's
balance, thrown on one's back, thrown on one's beam ends|; unhorsed, in a
sorry plight; hard hit.
stultified, befooled, dished, hoist on one's own petard; victimized,
sacrificed.
wide of the mark &c. (error) 495; out of one's reckoning &c.
(inexpectation) 508; left in the lurch; thrown away &c. (wasted) 638;
unattained; uncompleted &c. 730.
Adv. unsuccessfully &c. adj.; to little or no purpose, in vain, re
infecta.
Phr. the bubble has burst, "the game is up" [Cymbeline]; all is lost;
the devil to pay; parturiunt montes &c. (disappointment) 509; dies
infaustus; tout est perdu hors l'honneur.

#733. Trophy. -- N. trophy; medal, prize, palm; laurel, laurels; bays,
crown, chaplet, wreath, civic crown; insignia &c. 550; feather in one's cap
&c. (honor) 873; decoration &c. 877; garland, triumphal arch, Victoria
Cross, Iron Cross.
triumph &c. (celebration) 883; flying colors &c. (show) 882.
monumentum aere perennius [Hor.].
Phr. "for valor."

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#734. Prosperity. -- N. prosperity, welfare, well-being; affluence
&c. (wealth) 803; success &c. 731; thrift, roaring trade; good fortune,
smiles of fortune; blessings, godsend.
luck; good luck, run of luck; sunshine; fair weather, fair wind; palmy
days, bright days, halcyon days; piping times, tide, flood, high tide.
Saturnia regna, Saturnian age; golden time, golden age; bed of roses;
fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes.
made man, lucky dog, enfant gate, spoiled child of fortune.
upstart, parvenu, skipjack, mushroom.
V. prosper, thrive, flourish; be prosperous &c adj.; drive a roaring
trade; go on well, go on smoothly, go on swimmingly; sail before the wind,
swim with the tide; run smooth, run smoothly, run on all fours.
rise in the world, get on in the world; work one's way, make one's
way; look up; lift one's head, raise one's head, make one's forune, feather
one's nest, make one's pile.
flower, blow, blossom, bloom, fructify, bear fruit, fatten.
keep oneself afloat; keep one's head above water, hold one's head
above water; light on one's feet, light on one's legs, fall on one's
legs, fall on one's feet; drop into a good thing; bear a charmed life; bask
in the sunshine; have a good time of it, have a fine time of it; have a run
of luck; have the good fortune &c. n. to; take a favorable turn; live on
the fat of the land, live in clover.
Adj. prosperous; thriving &c. v.; in a fair way, buoyant; well off,
well to do, well to do in the world; set up, at one's ease; rich &c. 803;
in good case; in full, in high feather; fortunate, lucky, in luck; born
with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star; on the sunny
side of the hedge.
auspicious, propitious, providential.
palmy, halcyon; agreeable &c. 829; couleur de rose.
Adv. prosperously &c. adj.; swimmingly; as good luck would have it;
beyond all hope.
Phr. one's star in the ascendant, all for the best, one's course runs
smooth.
chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune; donec eris felix multos numerabis
amicos [Ovid]; felicitas multos habet amicos; felix se nescit amari
[Lucan]; 'good luck go with thee' [Henry V]; nulli est homini perpetuum
bonum [Plautus].

#735. Adversity. -- N. adversity, evil &c. 619; failure &c. 732; bad
luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck,
hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius|;
ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life;
sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond.
trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure.
pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint; hard
times, bad times, sad times; rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering
clouds, ill wind; visitation, infliction; affliction &c. (painfulness) 830;
bitter pill; care, trial; the sport of fortune.
mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune; disaster, calamity,
catastrophe; accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub;
backset, comedown, setback [U.S.].
losing game; falling &c. v.; fall, downfall; ruination, ruinousness;
undoing; extremity; ruin &c. (destruction) 162.
V. be ill off &c. adj.; go hard with; fall on evil, fall on evil days;
go on ill; not prosper &c. 734.
go downhill, go to rack and ruin &c. (destruction) 162, go to the
dogs; fall, fall from one's high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in
the world; have seen better days; bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow
to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp's nest
about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.
Adj. unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous,
unprosperous; hoodooed [U.S.]; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble,
in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly
off; in adverse circumstances; poor &c. 804; behindhand, down in the world,
decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in
one's utmost need.
planet-struck, devoted; born under an evil star, born with a wooden
ladle in one's mouth; ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened.
adverse, untoward; disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.

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#736. Mediocrity. -- N. moderate circumstances, average
circumstances; respectability; middle classes; mediocrity; golden mean &c.
(mid-course) 628, (moderation) 174.
V. jog on; go fairly, go quietly, go peaceably, go tolerably, go
respectably, get on fairly, get on quietly, get on peaceably, get on
tolerably, get on respectably.

DIVISION (II) I N T E R S O C I A L V O L I T I O N

SECTION I. GENERAL INTERSOCIAL VOLITION
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#737. Authority.-- N. authority; influence, patronage, power,
preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction; right &c.
(title) 924.
divine right, dynastic rights, authoritativeness; absoluteness,
absolutism; despotism; jus nocendi; jus divinum.
command, empire, sway, rule; dominion, domination; sovereignty,
supremacy, suzerainty; lordship, headship; chiefdom; seigniory,
seigniority; mastery, mastership, masterdom; government &c. (direction)
693; dictation, control.
hold, grasp; grip, gripe; reach; iron sway &c. (severity) 739; fangs,
clutches, talons; rod of empire &c. (scepter) 747.
reign, regime, dynasty; directorship, dictatorship; protectorate,
protectorship; caliphate, pashalic, electorate; presidency, presidentship;
administration; proconsul, consulship; prefecture; seneschalship;
magistrature, magistracy.
empire; monarchy; kinghood, kingship; royalty, regality; aristarchy,
aristocracy; oligarchy, democracy, demagogy; heteronomy; republic,
republicanism; socialism; collectivism; mob law, mobocracy, ochlocracy; vox
populi, imperium in imperio; bureaucracy; beadledom, bumbledom;
stratocracy; military power, military government; feodality, feudal system,
feudalism.
Thearchy, dinarchy; duarchy, triarchy, heterarchy; duumvirate;
triumvirate; autocracy, autonomy; limited monarchy; constitutional
government, constitutional monarchy; home rule; representative government;
monocracy, pantisocracy.
gynarchy, gynocracy, gynaeocracy; petticoat government.
[Vicarious authority] commission &c. 755; deputy &c.759; permission
&c. 760.
state, realm, body politic, posse comitatus.
person in authority &c. (master) 745; judicature &c. 965; cabinet &c.
(council) 696; seat of government, seat of authority; headquarters.
[Acquisition of authority] accession; installation &c. 755.
V. authorize &c. (permit) 760; warrant &c. (right) 924; dictate &c.
(order) 741; have authority, hold authority, possess authority, exercise
authority, exert authority, wield authority &c. n.
be at the head of &c. adj.; hold office, be in office, fill an office;
hold master, occupy master, a post master, be master &c. 745.
rule, sway, command, control, administer; govern &c. (direct) 693;
lead, preside over, reign, possess the throne, be seated on the throne,
occupy the throne; sway the scepter, wield the scepter; wear the crown.
have the upper hand, get the upper hand, have the whip, get the whip;
gain a hold upon, preponderate, dominate, rule the roost; boss [U.S.];
override, overrule, overawe; lord it over, hold in hand, keep under, make a
puppet of, lead by the nose, turn round one's little finger, bend to one's
will, hold one's own, wear the breeches; have the ball at one's feet, have
it all one's own way, have the game in one's own hand, have on the hip,
have under one's thumb; be master of the situation; take the lead, play
first fiddle, set the fashion; give the law to; carry with a high hand; lay
down the law; "ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm" [Addison]; rule
with a rod of iron &c. (severity) 739.
ascend the throne, mount the throne; take the reins, take the reins
into one's hand; assume authority &c. n., -the reins of government; take
command, assume the command.
be governed by, be in the power of.
Adj. ruling &c. v.; regnant, at the head, dominant, paramount,
supreme, predominant, preponderant, in the ascendant, influential;
gubernatorial; imperious; authoritative, executive, administrative, clothed
with authority, official, departmental, ex officio, imperative, peremptory,
overruling, absolute; hegemonic, hegemonical; arbitrary; compulsory &c.
744: stringent.
regal, sovereign; royal, oryalist; monarchical, kingly; imperial,
imperiatorial; princely; feudal; aristocratic, autocratic; oligarchic &c.
n.; republican, dynastic.
at one's command; in one's power, in one's grasp; under control;
authorized &c. (due) 924.
Adv. in the name of, by the authority of, de par le Roi, in virtue of;
under the auspices of, in the hands of.
at one's pleasure; by a dash if the pen, by a stroke of the pen; ex
mero motu; ex catahedra.
Phr. the gray mare the better horse; "every inch a king" [Lear].
"a dog's obeyed in office" [Lear]; cada uno tiene su alguazil; le Roi
le veut; regibus esse manus en nescio longas; regnant populi; "the demigod
Authority [Measure for Measure]; "the right divine of kings to govern
wrong" [Pope]; "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" [Henry IV].

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#738. [Absence of authority] Laxity.-- N. laxity; laxness, looseness,
slackness; toleration &c. (lenity) 740; freedom &c. 748.
anarchy, interregnum; relaxation; loosening &c. v.; remission; dead
letter, brutum fulmen, misrule; license, licentiousness; insubordination
&c. (disobedience) 742; lynch law &c. (illegality) 964; nihilism, reign of
violence.
[Deprivation of power] dethronement, deposition, unsurpation,
abdication.
V. be -lax &c. adj.; laisser faire, lasisser aller; hold a loose rein;
give the reins to, give rope enough, give a loose to; tolerate; relax;
misrule.
go beyond the length of one's tether; have one's swing, have one's
fling; act without instructions, act without authority; act on one's own
responsibility, unsurp authority.
dethrone, depose; abdicate.
Adj. lax, loose; slack; remiss &c. (careless) 460; weak.
relaxed; licensed; reinless, unbridled; anarchical; unauthorized &c.
(unwarranted) 925; adespotic.

#739. Severity.-- N. severity; strictness, harshness &c. adj.; rigor,
stringency, austerity; inclemency &c. (pitilessness) 914a; arrogance &c.
885; precisianism.
arbitrary power; absolutism, despotism; dictatorship, autocracy,
tyranny, domineering, oppression; assumption, usurpation; inquisition,
reign of terror, martial law; iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway;
tight grasp; brute force, brute strength; coercion &c. 744; strong hand,
tight hand.
hard lines, hard measure; tender mercies [ironical]; sharp practice;
pipe-clay, officialism.
tyrant, disciplinarian, precisian, martinet, stickler, bashaw, despot,
hard master, Draco, oppressor, inquisitor, extortioner, harpy, vulture;
accipitres, birds of prey, raptorials, raptors.
V. be -severe &c. adj.
assume, usurp, arrogate, take liberties; domineer, bully &c. 885;
tyrannize, inflict, wreak, stretch a point, put on the screw; be hard upon;
bear a heavy hand on, lay a heavy hand on; be down upon, come down upon;
ill treat; deal hardly with, deal hard measure to; rule with a rod of iron,
chastise with scorpions; dye with blood; oppress, override; trample under
foot; tread under foot, tread upon, trample upon, tread down upon, trample
down upon; crush under an iron heel, ride roughshod over; rivet the yoke;
hold a tight hand, keep a tight hand; force down the throat; coerce &c.
744; give no quarter &c. (pitiless) 914a.
Adj. severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous,
uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible,
obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-shell [U.S.], relentless, Spartan,
Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed,
peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive &c. 744;
tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial;
inclement &c. (ruthless) 914a; cruel &c. (malevolent) 907; haughty,
arrogant &c. 885; precisian.
Adv. severely &c. adj.; with a high hand, with a strong hand, with a
tight hand, with a heavy hand.
at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet.
Phr. Delirant reges plectuntur Achivi; manu forti; ogni debole ha
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#740. Lenity.-- N. lenity, lenience, leniency; moderation &c. 174;
tolerance, toleration; mildness, gentleness; favor, indulgence, indulgency;
clemency, mercy, forbearance, quarter; compassion &c. 914.
V. be -lenient &c. adj.; tolerate, bear with; parcere subjectis, give
quarter.
indulge, allow one to have his own way, spoil.
Adj. lenient; mild, mild as milk; gentle, soft; tolerant, indulgent,
easy-going; clement &c. (compassionate) 914; forbearing; long-suffering.

#741. Command.-- N. command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm,
bidding, dictum, hest, behest, call, beck, nod.
despatch, dispatch; message, direction, injunction, charge,
instructions; appointment, fixture.
demand, exaction, imposition, requisition, claim, reclamation,
revendication; ultimatum &c. (terms) 770; request &c. 765; requirement.
dictation; dictate, mandate; caveat, decree, senatus consultum;
precept; prescript, rescript; writ, ordination, bull, edict, decretal,
dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, firman, hatti-sherif,
warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius,
interpellation, citation; word, word of command; mot d'ordre; bugle call,
trumpet call; beat of drum, tattoo; order of the day; enactment &c. (law)
963; plebiscite &c. (choice) 609.
V. command, order, decree, enact, ordain, dictate, direct, give
orders.
prescribe, set, appoint, mark out; set a task, prescribe a task,
impose a task; set to work, put in requisition.
bid, enjoin, charge, call upon, instruct; require at the hands of;
exact, impose, tax, task; demand; insist on &c. (compel) 744.
claim, lay claim to, revendicate, reclaim.
cite, summon; call for, send for; subpoena; beckon.
issue a command; make a requisition, issue a requisition, promulgate a
requisition, make a decree, issue a decree, promulgate a decree, make an
order, issue an order, promulgate an order &c. n.; give the word of
command, give the word, give the signal; call to order; give the law, lay
down the law; assume the command &c. (authority) 737; remand.
be -ordered &c.; receive an order &c. n.
Adj. commanding &c. v.; authoritative &c. 737; decretory, decretive,
decretal; callable, jussive.
Adv. in a commanding tone; by a stroke of the pen, by a dash of the
pen; by order, at beat of drum, on the first summons.
Phr. the decree is gone forth; sic volo sic jubeo; le Roi le veut;
boutez en avant.

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#742. Disobedience.-- N. disobedience, insubordination, contumacy;
infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance &c. 773.
revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection,
emeute; riot, tumult &c. (disorder) 59; strike &c.(resistance) 719; barring
out; defiance &c. 715.
mutinousness &c. adj.; mutineering; sedition, treason; high treason,
petty treason, misprision of treason; premunire; lese majeste; violation of
law &c. 964; defection, secession.
insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, rioter, traitor, carbonaro,
sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur;
seceder, runagate, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello,
Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader.
V. disobey, violate, infringe; shirk; set at defiance &c. (defy) 715;
set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of; take the law into
one's own hands; kick over the traces.
turn restive, run restive; champ the bit; strike &c. (resist) 719;
rise, rise in arms; secede; mutiny, rebel.
Adj. disobedient; uncomplying, uncompliant; unsubmissive, unruly,
ungovernable; breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control; restiff|,
restive; refractory, contumacious, recusant &c. (refuse) 764; recalcitrant;
resisting &c. 719; lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous.
unobeyed; unbidden.
Phr. seditiosissimus quisque ignavus [Tacitus]; "unthread the rude eye
of rebellion" [King John].

#743. Obedience.-- N. obedience; observance &c. 772; compliance;
submission &c. 725; subjection &c. 749; nonresistance; passiveness,
resignation.
allegiance, loyalty, fealty, homage, deference, devotion; constancy,
fidelity.
submissness, submissiveness; ductility &c. (softness) 324;
obsequiousness &c. (servility) 886.
V. be -obedient &c. adj.; obey, bear obedience to; submit &c. 725;
comply, answer the helm, come at one's call; do one's bidding, do what one
is told, do suit and service; attend to orders, serve faithfully.
follow the lead of, follow to the world's end; serve &c. 746; play
second fiddle.
Adj. obedient; complying, compliant; loyal, faithful, devoted; at
one's call, at one's command, at one's orders, at one's beck and call;
under beck and call, under control.
restrainable; resigned, passive; submissive &c. 725; henpecked; pliant
&c. (soft) 324.
unresisted.
Adv. obediently &c. adj.; in compliance with, in obedience to.
Phr. to hear is to obey; as you please, if you please;.

#744. Compulsion.-- N. compulsion, coercion, coaction, constraint,
duress, enforcement, press, conscription.
force; brute force, main force, physical force; the sword, ultima
ratio; club law, lynch law, mob law, arguementum baculinum, le droit du
plus fort, martial law.
restraint &c. 751; necessity &c. 601; force majeure; Hobson's choice.
V. compel, force, make, drive, coerce, constrain, enforce,
necessitate, oblige.
force upon, press; cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force
down the throat; say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no
denial; put down, dragoon.
extort, wring from; put on the screws, turn on the screw; drag into;
bind, bind over; pin down, tie down; require, tax, put in force;
commandeer; restrain &c. 751.
Adj. compelling &c. v.; coercive, coactive; inexorable &c. 739;
compulsory, compulsatory; obligatory, stringent, peremptory.
forcible, not to be trifled with; irresistible &c. 601; compelled & c.
v.; fain to.
Adv. by force &c. n., by force of arms; on compulsion, perforce; vi et
armis, under the lash; at the point of the sword, at the point of the
bayonet; forcibly; by a strong arm.
under protest, in spite of one's teeth; against one's will &c. 603;
nolens volens &c. (of necessity) 601; by stress of circumstances, by stress
of weather; under press of; de rigueur.

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#745. Master.-- N. master, padrone; lord, lord paramount; commander,
commandant; captain; chief, chieftain; sirdar, sachem, sheik, head, senior,
governor, ruler, dictator; leader &c. (director) 694; boss, cockarouse,
sagamore, werowance.
lord of the ascendant; cock of the walk, cock of the roost; gray mare;
mistress.
potentate; liege, liege lord; suzerain, sovereign, monarch, autocrat,
despot, tyrant, oligarch.
crowned head, emperor, king, anointed king, majesty, imperator,
protector, president, stadholder, judge.
ceasar, kaiser, czar, tsar, sultan, soldan|, grand Turk, caliph,
imaum, shah, padishah, sophi, mogul, great mogul, khan, lama, tycoon,
mikado, inca, cazique; voivode; landamman; seyyid; Abuna, cacique,
czarowitz, grand seignior.
prince, duke &c. (nobility) 875; archduke, doge, elector; seignior;
marland, margrave; rajah, emir, nizam, nawab.
empress, queen, sultana, czarina, princess, infanta, duchess,
margravine; czarevna, czarita; maharani, rani, rectrix.
regent, viceroy, exarch, palatine, khedive, hospodar, beglerbeg,
three-tailed bashaw, pasha, bashaw, bey, beg, dey, scherif, tetrarch,
satrap, mandarin, subahdar, nabob, maharajah; burgrave; laird &c.
(proprietor) 779; collector, commissioner, deputy commissioner, woon.
the authorities, the powers that be, the government; staff, etat
major, aga, official, man in office, person in authority; sircar, sirkar,
Sublime Porte.
[Military authorities] marshal, field marshal, marechal; general,
generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier, hetman; lieutenant general,
major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion,
skipper, lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp,
brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar, ensign, cornet, cadet,
subaltern, noncommissioned officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color
sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum
major; captain general, dizdar, knight marshal, naik, pendragon.
[Civil authorities] mayor, mayoralty; prefect, chancellor, archon,
provost, magistrate, syndic; alcalde, alcaid; burgomaster, corregidor,
seneschal, alderman, warden, constable, portreeve; lord mayor; officer &c.
(executive) 965; dewan, fonctionnaire.
[Naval authorities] admiral, admiralty; rear admiral, vice admiral,
port admiral; commodore, captain, commander, lieutenant, skipper, mate,
master; navarch.
Phr. da locum melioribus; der Furst ist der erste Diener seines
Siaats; "lord of thy presence and no land beside" [King John].

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