DOMINION Copy link • DOMINIONditio: jus (power arising from a right which a person possesses over anyone): potestas (might, power): imperium (supreme command). (The words are found in this connection and order.) jus ditioque: ditio potestasque; imperium ditioque: to be under the dominion of anybody, esse in alicujus ditione (potestate) or in alicujus ditione ac potestate; alicujus juris esse or haberi: to bring under the dominion of anybody, sub or in imperium (potestatem), sub jus ditionemque alicujus redigere; sub imperium ditionemque alicujus subjungere: to bring under one’s dominion, in ditionem suam redigere; ditionis suae or sui juris facere: to be brought under anybody’s dominion, cadere sub imperium ditionemque alicujus: to have dominion over anybody, aliquem in sua potestate habere, in sua potestate et ditione tenere; alicui imperare; imperium or dominationem habere in aliquem: to have dominion over a country, imperium alicujus civitatis obtinere: to have dominion over the whole world, omnium terrarum dominum esse: to exercise dominion (absolutely), imperium tenere, imperare; regnare (to reign, especially of the monarchy of a king; then general term of the. unlimited power of a governor in any sphere): (☞ dominari in aliquem means only to play or act the lord over anyone, to tyrannize over him). FIG., dominari (e.g., where the will has dominion, ubi libido dominatur): fortune has dominion in all things, fortuna in omni re dominatur. Dominions; Vid: REALM.