Imperativelý, adv

[Eng. imperative; -ly.] In an imperative manner; with command or authority; authoritatively; as a command. "The words, though they are delivered imperatively , yet are a plain promise."- Bp . Bull : Sermons, vol. i.,ser. i. Im-per-ā-tor, s. [Lat.] 1. Rom . Antiq .: A title originally bestowed upon a victorious leader on the field of battle by his soldiers; toward the end of the commonwealth it was conferred by the senate. It might be conferred more than once on the same person. August us and his succe ors constantly a umed this title, and it became the peculiar appellation of supreme power. Still later it became equivalent to the modern em per or. 2. Zool.: A genus of gasteropodous mollusks. family Turbinide. About twenty species are known from South Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand.