[f. CONQUER v. + -ING2.] That conquers; victorious.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., II. i. 26. God is our Fortresse, in whose conquering name Let vs resolue to scale their flinty bulwarkes.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., III. xlii. 314. Submission to a conquering Enemy.
1747. Morell, Joshua (1888), 141. (Chorus). See the conqu’ring hero comes, Sound the trumpets, beat the drums.
1847. Emerson, Repr. Men, Plato, Wks. (Bohn), I. 304. The bounds of whose conquering intelligence no man had ever reached.
1871. Morley, Voltaire (1886), 54. A descendant of the conquering Franks.
b. That decides a contest.
Mod. They are now playing the conquering game [e.g., in a chess tournament].
