imperiously
advEtymology From imperious + -ly.
1
In an imperious manner; in the style of an emperor.
- Reversing the car I got the headlights on the bird sitting on the roadside fencepost to reveal a Powerful Owl imperiously staring back at us.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 72:
2
In a way that brooks no refusal; commandingly.
- Something up above was calling him imperiously[.]1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12: