Meanings
- obsoleteDominion; rule or power.
Henry the Eight add[ed] the portcluse to his current money, as a character of his peculiar title to this dition
1674, John Evelyn, Navigation and Commerce1 more example
[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; […]
1640, Thomas Fuller, “A Comment on 1 Cor. XI. 18, &c.”, in Ioseph’s Partie-coloured Coat: Containing, a Comment on Part of the II. Chapter of the I. Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians. […], London: […] Iohn Dawson, for Iohn Williams, […], →OCLC, page 16
Origin
- Latinditiō
- Englishdition
From Latin ditiō, diciō. Compare French dition.
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