Leading, 1) command, direction: “his eye commends the l. to his hand,” Lucr. 436. H5 IV, 3, 130. R3 V, 3, 297. “if thou wilt have the l. of thine own revenges,” Cor. IV, 5, 143.
2) generalship: “being men of such great l. as you are,” H4A IV, 3, 17.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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