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Word Meanings - RULINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a ruling manner; so as to rule.

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  • RULELESS
    Destitute of rule; lawless. Spenser.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • 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;
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • RULE-MONGER
    A stickler for rules; a slave of rules Hare.
  • RULINGLY
    In a ruling manner; so as to rule.
  • 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
  • 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
  • MANNERLINESS
    The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
  • RULABLE
    That may be ruled; subject to rule; accordant or conformable to rule. Bacon.
  • MANNERED
    1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
  • MANNER
    manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
  • RULLICHIES
    Chopped meat stuffed into small bags of tripe. They are cut in slices and fried.
  • MANNERCHOR
    A German men's chorus or singing club.
  • MANNERLY
    Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
  • OVERRULING
    Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
  • 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.
  • SERRULATION
    1. The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw. Wright. 2. One of the teeth in a serrulate margin.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • PURULENT
    Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.
  • CERULE
    Blue; cerulean. Dyer.
  • PHASE RULE
    A generalization with regard to systems of chemical equilibrium, discovered by Prof. J. Willard Gibbs. It may be stated thus: The degree of variableness of a system is equal to the number of components minus the number of phases, plus two. Thus,

 

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