01 a. Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
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Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.“The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel.” — Macaulay.
Phrases & compounds
Dominant estate —
the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement.
Dominant owner —
one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another.
Syn.
Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.