American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latinimperium (“power, command”), from imperō (“command, order”), from im- (“form of in”) + parō (“prepare, arrange; intend”).
Imperium Sentence Examples
After the nomination, the imperium of the dictator was confirmed by a lex curiata.
During these years Commodus was associated with Marcus in the imperium, and.
42: ut varia complurium regum in Parthia successione imperium accepit Orodes qui Crassum delevit).
But above all things the church was being criticized as an imperium in imperio, a privileged body not amenable to ordinary jurisdiction, and subservient to a foreign lordthe pope.
This temple was cared for, and the cult attended, by women only, and the same was the case at a second celebration at the beginning of December in the house of a magistrate with imperium, which became famous owing to the profanation of these mysteries by P. Clodius in 62 B.C., and the political consequences of his act.