SOVEREIGN (ruler)
ADJECTIVES
► BASILIC sovereign, kingly, royal → 1728 obs.
► MASTERLIKE sovereign, resembling a master; despotic, autocratic; authoritative, magisterial; exhibiting masterly ability or skill → 1580 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► SOVEREIGNESS a female sovereign → 1600 obs.
► SOVEREIGNTESS a female sovereign → 1586 obs.
► SUFFREYN a sovereign ruler, monarch → 1500 obs.
VERBS
► SOVEREIGNIZE to exercise supreme power; to rule as a sovereign → 1601 obs.