Word Meanings - DOMINATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.

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• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• GOVERNANCE
  Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
• RULELESS
  Destitute of rule; lawless. Spenser.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• RULING
  1. Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign. 2. Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen. Syn. -- Predominant; chief; controlling; directing; guilding; governing; prevailing;
• RULE-MONGER
  A stickler for rules; a slave of rules Hare.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• RULINGLY
  In a ruling manner; so as to rule.
• GOVERNING
  Requiring a particular case. (more info) 1. Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state. Jay.
• GOVERNANTE
  A governess. Sir W. Scott.
• GOVERNABILITY
  Governableness.
• RULY
  orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to Ant: unruly. Gascoigne.
• RULER
  1. One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor. And he made him ruler over all the land. Gen. xii. 43. A prince and ruler of the land. Shak. 2. A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding
• GOVERNOR
  A pilot; a steersman. (more info) gouverneur, fr. L. gubernator steersman, ruler, governor. See 1. One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of
• RULE
  An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit. Wharton. (more info) regula a ruler, rule, model, fr. regere, rectum, to lead straight, to 1. That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide
• IMPERIOUS
  1. Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic. "A vast and imperious mind." Tilloison. Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness, Imperious. Shak. 2. Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner.
• RULABLE
  That may be ruled; subject to rule; accordant or conformable to rule. Bacon.
• GOVERNESS
  A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.
• RULLICHIES
  Chopped meat stuffed into small bags of tripe. They are cut in slices and fried.
• OVERRULING
  Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• FERULIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida ; as, ferulic acid.
• CHONDRULE
  A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
• PURULENCE; PURULENCY
  The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself. Arbuthnot.
• TORULA
  A chain of special bacteria. A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• SERRULATION
  1. The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw. Wright. 2. One of the teeth in a serrulate margin.
• VIRULENCE; VIRULENCY
  1. The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy. 2. Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition. "Refuted without satirical virulency." Barrow. The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• SERRULA
  The red-breasted merganser.
• GASTRULA
  An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by
• TRULLIZATION
  The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel.
• FERULACEOUS
  Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.
• TRULY
  1. In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented. I can not truly say how I came here. Shak. 2. Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight
• VIRULENT
  1. Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury. A contagious disorder rendered more virulent by uncleanness. Sir W. Scott. 2. Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective.
• SPORULIFEROUS
  Producing sporules.
• TORULAFORM
  Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci.
• GASTRULATION
  The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.