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Word Meanings - GOVERNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Requiring a particular case. (more info) 1. Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state. Jay.

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  • CONTROLLABLENESS
    Capability of being controlled.
  • PREVALENTLY
    In a prevalent manner. Prior.
  • PREDOMINANT
    Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence. Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind. Bacon. Foul subordination is predominant. Shak.
  • GOVERNORSHIP
    The office of a governor.
  • CONTROLLABILITY
    Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
  • GOVERNABLENESS
    The quality of being governable; manageableness.
  • PREDOMINANTLY
    In a predominant manner.
  • GOVERNANCE
    Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
  • REIGN
    regnum, fr. rex, regis, a king, fr. regere to guide, rule. See Regal, 1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion. He who like a father held his reign. Pope. Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean,, and
  • RULELESS
    Destitute of rule; lawless. Spenser.
  • MASTERFULLY
    In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
  • 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.
  • CONTROLLABLE
    Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.
  • 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,
  • REIGNER
    One who reigns.
  • 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.
  • CONTROLLER
    An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, controls
  • 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.
  • PREIGNITION
    Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.
  • 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.

 

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