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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
  • SERRULA
    The red-breasted merganser.
  • MISGOVERNMENT
    Bad government; want of government. Shak.
  • 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.

 

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