n. Want or difference of belief; disbelief. [ Obs. ] Bp. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. dominio, equiv. to L. dominium. See Domain, Dungeon. ] 1. Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. Dan. iv. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

To choose between dominion or slavery. Jowett (Thucyd. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency. [ 1913 Webster ]

Objects placed foremost ought . . . have dominion over things confused and transient. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

By him were all things created . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Col. i. 16.

Syn. -- Sovereignty; control; rule; authority; jurisdiction; government; territory; district; region. [ 1913 Webster ]

. In Canada, a legal holiday, July lst, being the anniversary of the proclamation of the formation of the Dominion in 1867. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'ini`on the back of the head. ] (Anat.) The external occipital protuberance of the skull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See 2d Minion. ] Fine; trim; dainty. [ Obs. ] “Their . . . minion dancing.” Fryth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Minimum. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. mignon, fr. OHG. minni love, G. minne; akin to E. mind. See Mind, and cf. Mignonette. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A loved one; one highly esteemed and favored; -- in a good sense. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

God's disciple and his dearest minion. Sylvester. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is this the Athenian minion whom the world
Voiced so regardfully? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Print.) A small kind of type, in size between brevier and nonpareil. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This line is printed in minion type. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An ancient form of ordnance, the caliber of which was about three inches. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Print.) A size of type between nonpareil and minion; -- used in ornamental borders, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Small; delicate. [ Obs. ] “His minionette face.” Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Kind treatment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To flavor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. & adv. Like a minion; daintily. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being a minion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong opinion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. Virginia; -- a name of uncertain origin, perh. from the old designation of the colony as “the Colony and Dominion of Virginia.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F., from L. opinio. See Opine. ] 1. That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action. [ 1913 Webster ]

Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inclines to one persuasion than to another, yet not without a mixture of incertainty or doubting. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can not put off my opinion so easily. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Friendship . . . gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

However, I have no opinion of those things. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

This gained Agricola much opinion, who . . . had made such early progress into laborious . . . enterprises. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law.) The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be of opinion, to think; to judge. --
To hold opinion with, to agree with. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sentiment; notion; persuasion; idea; view; estimation. See Sentiment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To opine. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opinionated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Conceitedly. Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An opinionist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of the nature of an opinion; conjectured. [ Obs. ] “Things both opinionative and practical.” Bunyan. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ly, adv. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opinionated; conceited. [ 1913 Webster ]

His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. opinioniste. ] One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A moth of the genus Lithophane, as Lithophane antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. pignon a pen, F., gable, pinion (in sense 5); cf. Sp. piñon pinion; fr. L. pinna pinnacle, feather, wing. See Pin a peg, and cf. Pen a feather, Pennat, Pennon. ] 1. A feather; a quill. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wing, literal or figurative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A fetter for the arm. Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mech.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lantern pinion. See under Lantern. --
Pinion wire, wire fluted longitudinally, for making the pinions of clocks and watches. It is formed by being drawn through holes of the shape required for the leaves or teeth of the pinions. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pinioned p. pr. & vb. n. Pinioning. ] 1. To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To disable by cutting off the pinion joint. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her elbows pinioned close upon her hips. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up. “Pinioned up by formal rules of state.” Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having wings or pinions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any winged creature. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + pinion. ] To loose from pinions or manacles; to free from restraint. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]