Noun
Dominion; rule or power.
Usage- Obsolete
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[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; […]
Henry the Eight add[ed] the portcluse to his current money, as a character of his peculiar title to this dition