1. domin'ion: domin + ion = the act of exercising mastery: hence, (1) rule; (2) a territory ruled over.
2. dom'inant: domin + ant = relating to lordship or mastery: hence, prevailing.
3. domineer': through Fr. v. dominer; literally, to "lord it" over one: hence, to rule with insolence.
4. predom'inate: pre + domin + ate = to cause one to be master before another: hence, to be superior, to rule.
EXERCISE.
(1.) What is meant by saying that "in 1776 the United Colonies threw off the dominion of Great Britain"?
(2.) What is meant by the "dominant party"? a "dominant race"?
(3.) Compose a sentence containing the word "domineer." MODEL: "The blustering tyrant, Sir Edmund Andros, domineered for several years over the New England colonies; but his misrule came to an end in 1688 with the accession of King William."
(4.) "The Republicans at present predominate in Mexico": what does this mean?