dition

English

Etymology

Latin ditio, dicio. Compare French dition.

Noun

dition

1. (obsolete) dominion; rule

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• nidiot, otinid

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ditio

Pronunciation

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Noun

dition f (plural ditions)

1. authority (absolute)