Definition of "dominate"

Individual mistakes proved costly for Wigan who, particularly after the half-time introduction of Hugo Rodallega, dominated for long periods.

2011 October 15, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton”, in BBC Sport‎

Our arrival at Worcester is heralded by the appearance of the city's cathedral tower, a solid square structure that's dominated the skyline since the 12th century.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67

From the middle of June in 1913 and the first of July in 1914, it became the dominate species, forming 90 per cent. or more of the fauna, and remained so until the end of the season.

1918 August, Thomas J. Headlee, “Effective Methods of Fly Control. A Review of the Factors that Underlie the Problem”, in The Tropical Agriculturalist, volume 51, page 111

During the Dominate this tendency was perfected to the point of dirigism in the modern sense, a state-directed society and state-controlled economy, obliterating, once again a prelude to modern times, the laissez-faire climate that had characterized the economic self-determination of the individual under the republic and the Principate.

1973, Karl Loewenstein, The Governance of Rome, Martinus Nijhoff, page 238

The dominate of Diocletian and Constantine differs more sharply from the principate than the latter does from the Republic.

1996, Clare Krojzl (translator), Sebastian Hensel, III: From Diocletian to Alaric , Theodor Mommsen (editor), A History of Rome Under the Emperors, C.H.Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Republished 2005, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), eBook, page 317

Once someone had attained senatorial dignity by way of the successful tenure of some appropriate magistracy, one of the most important mechanisms of the dominate kicked in: all social rankings and professions were to a large extent heritable.

1997, Thomas Dunlap (translator), Herwig Wolfram, The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples, University of California Press, 2005, Paperback, page 55