Lorded

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lord \Lord\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lorded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Lording}.]
     To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or
     despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it
     in the manner of a transitive verb; as, rich students lording
     it over their classmates.


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           The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss. --Spenser.
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           I see them lording it in London streets. --Shak.
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           And lorded over them whom now they serve. --Milton.
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