dition

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English

Etymology

Latin ditiō, diciō. Compare French dition.

Noun

dition

  1. (obsolete) Dominion; rule.
    • 1640, T[homas] F[uller], “A Comment on 1 Cor. XI. 18, &c.”, in Ioseph’s Partie-colored Coat: Containing, a Comment on Part of the 11. Chapter of the 1. Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians: , London: Iohn Dawson, for Iohn Williams, , →OCLC; republished as William Nichols, editor, Joseph’s Party-coloured Coat: , London: William Tegg, 1867, →OCLC, page 16:
      [B]y those many kings mentioned in the Old Testament, "thirty and one" in the little land of Canaan, (Joshua xii. 24,) is meant only toparchs, not great kings, but lords of a little dition and dominion; […]
    • 1674, John Evelyn, Navigation and Commerce:
      Henry the Eight add[ed] the portcluse to his current money, as a character of his peculiar title to this dition

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Latin ditiōnem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

dition f (plural ditions)

  1. authority (absolute)
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