imperially
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8.2
- adverb
- /ɪmˈpɪrɪəli/
- For example, in "The 'Three Doctrines Discussions' of Tang China," Garrett examines the imperially sponsored debates in medieval China between representatives of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism.
Examples
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There are people who claim that all military interventions will inevitably be the work of rich and powerful states acting imperially and will all end in domination.
Academic text (2011) -
Do you think they will just sleep, or will they try to territorially and imperially expand, kill elected leaders, invade, set up puppet governments, etc.?
Blog text (34) -
His father sat back, crossing his arms imperially.
Fiction book (2002) -
He would have rigged the garrote imperially.
Fiction book (2001) -
And I submit that this is what the real, no-bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.
Blog text (29) -
Whether they are "rising peacefully" (a self-confident China), truculently (an imperially nostalgic Russia), or boastfully (an assertive India, despite its internal multiethnic and religious vulnerabilities),
Academic text (2009) -
He sat splendidly alone in a crimson-upholstered chair to one side of the dais upon which the thrones stood, looking out imperially at the other officials assembling in the chairs lining both sides of the broad central aisle.
Fiction book (1993) -
The constitutional changes enabled by the Second Charter were intended to address the New World's troubling political-legal exceptionality by establishing what we might call a "satellite absolutism," a locally sovereign but imperially subordinate government.
Academic text (2018) -
The queen spoke imperially, commanding respect and attention from everyone in the room.
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He walked imperially through the hall, exuding confidence and authority.
Synonyms
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8.4
In a way that tries to control other countries and their people
How Imperial
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8.2
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6.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Imperially comes from imperial, which goes back to an old word meaning 'command' or 'rule' and is the same root as emperor and empire. So to act imperially is to behave like a ruler, with authority and grand style.