IMPERIOUS
ADJECTIVES
► GAUSTERING imperious, boasting → 1824 Eng. dial.
► HIGH-MINDED arrogant, haughty, imperious → 1503
► MASTERLY characteristic of a master or lord; usually in a bad sense, arbitrary, despotic; imperious, overbearing, domineering → 1531 obs.
► PONTIFICIAL stately; lordly; imperious → 1613
► SIRLY lordly, haughty, imperious → c1350 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BARGE a cantankerous, argumentative woman; a scold; a passionate, boisterous, imperious woman → 1880 Sc. & Ireland
► BASHAW a grandee; a haughty, imperious man → 1593
► BAWSAND ► BAWSIN an imperious, noisy fellow → 1828 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GRIMALKIN a jealous or imperious old woman → 1798
► MASTER WOMAN an imperious or masculine woman → 1534 obs.
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