cruse. n. A small earthenware container, such as a pot or jar, for holding liquids. [Middle English., perhaps from Middle Dutch. , pot .]. (kruËz).er mother prepared her a basket of provisions with all sorts of good things, and a goat skin full of wine; the girl now got into the waggon, and her mother gave her also a golden cruse of oil, that she and her women might anoint themselves.
dominate verb (BE IMPORTANT). C1 [T] to be the âlargest, most âimportant, or most ânoticeable âpart of something: The âcathedral dominates the âlandscape for âmiles around. The âdispute is âlikely to dominate the ânews.
Predominant means the same as dominant, the part or group or aspect which tends to take over. That's what it means now and that's what it meant then. In Romeo and Juliet Friar Lawrence says: In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will; And where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.