verb To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power.
verb To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone.
verb To enjoy a commanding position in some field.
verb To overlook from a height.
verb To precede another node of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.
adjective Dominant.
noun The late period of the Roman Empire, following the principate, during which the emperor's rule became more explicitly autocratic and remaining vestiges of the Roman Republic were removed from the formal workings of government; the reign of any particular emperor during this period.