Word Meanings - MISGOVERNED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.

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• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• DIRECT
  In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body. Direct action. See Direct-acting. -- Direct discourse , the language of any one quoted
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• GOVERNANCE
  Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
• DIRECTORY
  Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
• DIRECTRESS
  A woman who directs. Bp. Hurd.
• HANDSOMENESS
  The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• HANDSPIKE
  A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
• DIRECTORSHIP
  The condition or office of a director; directorate.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• IMPEOPLE
  To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.
• DISPEOPLE
  To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.