| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The right and power to command, decide, rule, or judge: authority, command, control, domination, dominion, jurisdiction, mastery, might, power, prerogative, sovereignty. Informal : say-so. See OVER. 2. The act of exercising controlling power or the condition of being so controlled: command, control, dominance, domination, dominion, mastery, reign, rule. See OVER. 3. The power to produce an effect by indirect means: influence, leverage, weight. Informal : clout. Slang : pull. See AFFECT. | | VERB: | 1. To have an impact on in a certain way: dispose, incline, influence, predispose. See AFFECT, LIKE. 2. Archaic. To exercise the authority of a sovereign: govern, reign, rule. Idioms: wear the crown (or purple) . See OVER. 3. To move back and forth or from side to side, as if about to fall: teeter, totter, vacillate, waver, weave, wobble. See REPETITION. 4. To move rhythmically back and forth suspended or as if suspended from above: oscillate, swing. See MOVE, REPETITION.
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