- Autonomous - Old British gold coin - Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others;
chief; as, our sovereign prince. - Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing,
or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign
state; a sovereign discretion. - Princely; royal. - Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount. - Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual;
controlling; as, a sovereign remedy.
- One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office,
by a superior power; a commissioner. - An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical
jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence
of the bishop. - An officer having charge of a special service; as, the
commissary of musters. - An officer whose business is to provide food for a body
of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of
subsistence.
- To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to
vanquish. - To marry (one) to a superior. - One superior in power; also, an unequal match; a contest
in which one of the opponents is overmatched.