Tyrannize
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v. i.) To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices.

2. (v. t.) To subject to arbitrary, oppressive, or tyrannical treatment; to oppress.

Strong's Hebrew
5065. nagas -- to press, drive, oppress, exact
... A primitive root; to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication,
to tax, harass, tyrannize -- distress, driver, exact(-or), oppress(-or ...
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The Value of Life
... child labor and infant mortality? What prompts some young men to tyrannize
over their younger brothers? How does this passage and ...
/.../rauschenbusch/the social principles of jesus/chapter i the value of.htm

Must I Demonstrate to You So Simple a Truth? Can You not ...
... himself alone, without making an equitable and proportional division to the
weak;"where the weak wishes to conquer at any price, that he may tyrannize in his ...
/.../lamartine/atheism among the people/vii must i demonstrate to.htm

Jesus the Good Shepherd.
... sheep, and in indignation at those who thus assumed authority, Jesus explicitly
declares, "I am the door." Not through the word of men who tyrannize over the ...
/.../xxi jesus the good shepherd.htm

Peculiarities of Tennessee Synod.
... But when the Church is identified with the State, it is also fettered by human
traditions, aspiring priests obtain the power to tyrannize men's consciences. ...
/.../bente/american lutheranism/peculiarities of tennessee synod.htm

How John Tyrannized Over the Rest; and what Mischiefs the Zealots ...
... 1. By this time John was beginning to tyrannize, and thought it beneath him to accept
of barely the same honors that others had; and joining to himself by ...
/.../chapter 7 how john tyrannized.htm

Herod Ejects Antigonus, the Son of Aristobulus Out of Judea, and ...
... He had been left by Cassius to tyrannize over Tyre; for this Cussiris was a man
that seized on Syria, and then kept it under, in the way of a tyrant. ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 12 herod ejects antigonus.htm

That we Must, Notwithstanding the Opinion of Apuleius, Reject the ...
... Over many, however, who are manifestly unworthy of participation in the true religion,
they tyrannize as over captives whom they have subdued,"the greatest ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 22 that we must notwithstanding.htm

Of the Disasters which Vexed the Roman Republic after the ...
... to oppress the people as slaves, to condemn them to death or scourging, as the kings
had done, to drive them from their holdings, and to tyrannize over those ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 17 of the disasters which.htm

"Take My Yoke Upon You," &C.
... It is an enlargement of heart, from the base restraint and abominable servitude
of the vilest lusts, that tyrannize over us, and keep our affections in bondage ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon viii take my yoke.htm

That Vespasian, after He had Taken Gadara Made Preparation for the ...
... they were accustomed to dwell in that citadel, they were afraid of going far from
that which was their hiding-place; but he affecting to tyrannize, and being ...
/.../chapter 9 that vespasian after.htm

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Tyrannize (1 Occurrence)
... not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to
the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his ...
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Tyrannized (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Tyrannize. Multi-Version Concordance
Tyrannized (1 Occurrence). Deuteronomy 24:7 When a ...
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Tyrannical (2 Occurrences)

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Eve (5 Occurrences)
... Not from his head, lest she should rule over him; nor from his feet, lest he should
tyrannize over her; but from his side, to denote that species of equality ...
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Delighted (56 Occurrences)
... if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and
thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her ...
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Tyrannize (1 Occurrence)

Deuteronomy 21:14
And it hath been -- if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.
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