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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Imperious" Quotes from Famous Books

... pleasure, uncle—whenever you wish," came then, it is said, and many times afterward, almost mechanically from the trembling lips of Pepita, in obedience to the admonitions, the sermons, the complaints, and even the imperious mandate ...

— Pepita Ximenez • Juan Valera

... who was in his pay, but now decided that he was probably some new trader or hunter from the Tanganyika district. He instructed Sakamata that he was to send a messenger to this white man and command him to come to him immediately. Then waving the imperious jewelled hand, he dismissed them. But noticing the sullen countenance of MYalu, he drew Sergeant Schultz's attention, ordering him to mark the man and if the tax was not forthcoming quickly, to have him given fifty ...

— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle

... serenely in the dream, and then lost itself amid the presaging chords of some sinister fate, and came again, exquisite and fresh as ever, and then was interrupted by a high note like a clarion; and while Diaz held that imperious, compelling note, he turned his face slightly from the piano and gazed at me. Several times since the first time our eyes had met, by accident as I thought. But this was a deliberate seeking on his part. Again I flushed hotly. ...

— Sacred And Profane Love • E. Arnold Bennett

... over to the older man and held out his hand. "Shake hands, father," he said. Mr. Louden looked at him out of small implacable eyes, the steady hostility of which only his wife or the imperious Martin Pike, his employer, could quell. He ...

— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington

... the library he called up to Claude, "Come down!" The tone was imperious; it was even threatening. That degree of menace at least he was ...

— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King

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