Empire vs Empery - What's the difference?
empire | empery |
A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.
A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
A state ruled by an emperor.
An expansive and wealthy corporation.
(obsolete) An empire; the status or dominion of an emperor.
*1661 , John Donne, "To his Mistress going to Bed":
*:My Myne of precious stones: My Emperie , / How blest am I in this discovering thee!
(archaic) Absolute power or authority.
* 1833 , Elizabeth Barret Browning, Prometheus Bound
As a verb empire
is .As a noun empery is
(obsolete) an empire; the status or dominion of an emperor.empire
English
(wikipedia empire)Noun
(en noun)- the McDonald's fast food empire
Derived terms
* American Empire * British Empire * First French Empire * German Empire * Holy Roman Empire * Portuguese Empire * Roman Empire * Second French Empire * Spanish Empire * empirehood * global empire * colonial empireExternal links
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English
Noun
(emperies)- Because he filched away Thine own bright flower, the glory of plastic fire, And gifted mortals with it, — such a sin It doth behoove he expiate to the gods, Learning to accept the empery of Zeus, And leave off his old trick of loving man.