"empery" meaning in English

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          "text": "Let’s cheere our ſouldiers to incounter him,\nThat grieuous image of ingratitude:\nThat fiery thirſter after Soueraigntie:\nAnd burne him in the fury of that flame,\nThat none can quench but blood and Empery.",
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          "ref": "1604, Edward Coke, “To the Reader”, in The Fourth Part of the Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt.:",
          "text": "Secondly, the Largeneſs of his Empery, and the firſt Conquest of Ireland, long before the Reign of K. Hen. the Second.",
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          "text": "Because he filched away\nThine own bright flower, the glory of plastic fire,\nAnd gifted mortals with it, — such a sin\nIt doth behoove he expiate to the gods,\nLearning to accept the empery of Zeus,\nAnd leave off his old trick of loving man.",
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        "(archaic) Absolute power or authority."
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