Word Meanings - INDIFFERENTIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One governed by indifferentism.
Related words: (words related to INDIFFERENTIST)
- GOVERNORSHIP
The office of a governor. - GOVERNABLENESS
The quality of being governable; manageableness. - GOVERNANCE
Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman. - GOVERNMENTAL
Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties. - 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, - 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. - 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 - 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. - GOVERNAL; GOVERNAIL
Management; mastery. Chaucer. Spenser. - GOVERN
To require to be in a particular case; as, a transitive verb governs a noun in the objective case; or to require (a particular case); as, a transitive verb governs the objective case. (more info) 1. To direct and control, as the actions or conduct - INDIFFERENTISM
See IDENTISM (more info) 1. State of indifference; want of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism. The indifferentism - GOVERNOR GENERAL
A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India. - GOVERNABLE
Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient. Locke. - MISGOVERNED
Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak. - UNGOVERNABLE
Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith. - MISGOVERNMENT
Bad government; want of government. Shak. - RELAY GOVERNOR
A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle. - MISGOVERN
To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country. Knolles. - SUBGOVERNOR
A subordinate or assistant governor. - MISGOVERNANCE
Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior. Chaucer. Spenser.