The Only Use of
imperious
in
Othello, the Moor of Venice
- there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he is yours.†
Scene 2.3
Definition:
expecting obedience; or arrogant; or domineering