Meaning & use
Dicion
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An archaic term for dominion, sovereign power, or rule over others.
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The chronicler wrote that the lands lay under the king's dicion.
The old poem speaks of nations bound to a distant lord's dicion.
A note on using this word
A rare, archaic word derived from Latin 'dicio', found occasionally in older English poetry such as Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene'.
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