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  1. A king.
  2. To play rex to play the king; act despotically or with violence; handle a person roughly; “play the mischief.” This phrase probably alludes to the Rex, or king, in the early English plays, a character marked by more or less violence. The noun in time lost its literal meaning, and was often spelled reaks, reeks (“keep a reaks,” etc.), and used as if meaning ‘tricks.’ I … thinke it to be the greatest indignitie to the Queene that may be to suffer such a caytiff to play such Rex. Spenser, State of Ireland. The sound of the hautboys and bagpipes playing reeks with the high and stately timber. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, iii. 2. Love with Rage kept such a reakes that I thought they would have gone mad together. Breton, Dream of Strange Effects, p. 17. Then came the English ordnance, which had been brought to land, to play such reaks among the horse that they were forced to fly. Court and Times of Charles I., I. 256.

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  • For economic reasons, the cast of dinosaurs--a hodgepodge of animals that have more to do with the Cretaceous period (135 to 65 million years B.P.) than with the middle era of dinosaurs, the Jurassic period--has been reduced to just six Tyrannosaurus rex is the king of Jurassic Park, as it was in dinosaur times. —  Omni: July 1993
  • Horner himself questions a far larger assumption about T. rex--that it was a savage hunter. —  Omni: July 1993
  • Such handouts could cost a keeper a hand or more The closest living relatives of T. rex, the raptors, and other carnivorous dinosaurs aren't elephants or other mammals or crocodiles--they're birds. —  Omni: July 1993
  • And kids loved them, as they loved their parents Dear Michael, if t-rex is a symbolic mommy figure, then the American family is a lot sicker than any of us dreamed Dinosaurs are monsters, guys. —  F ;SF - vol 086 issue 01 - January 1994
  • Tyrannosaurus rex, the fiercest and most notorious of all the dinosaurs, is taking up permanent residence in Newcastle. —  Press Office : Press Releases
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  1. from Latin rex (reg-), a king (= Old Irish rīg, Irish rīgh = Gaelic righ = Welsh rhi = Sanskrit rājan, a king: see Raja), from regere (Sanskrit √ rāj), rule: see regent, and rich, riche. Hence ult. roy, royal, regal, real, regale, etc.
 

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