Definition of "herile" [herile]

• Of or pertaining to a master. (adjective)

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• "Within this scheme, Hobbes defined despotical do - minion (in the Latin version; dominium herile in servos):"
• "In his De iure belli ac pacis (1625), Grotius designated despotism by the word herilis, as in imperium herile; as did Pufendorf, in his De iure naturae et gentium libri octo (1673), a chapter of which is called De potestate herili."
• "It is evident from what has been said, that a herile and a political government are not the same, or that all governments are alike to each other, as some affirm; for one is adapted to the nature of freemen, the other to that of slaves."