imperiously

comparative more imperiously · superlative most imperiously

1. In an imperious manner; in the style of an emperor.

   Reversing the car I got the headlights on the bird sitting on the roadside fencepost to reveal a Powerful Owl imperiously staring back at us.

   2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 72

2. In a way that brooks no refusal; commandingly.

   Something up above was calling him imperiously[.]

   1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12