Word Meanings - MASTERFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious; arbitrary. Dryden. 2. Having the skill or power of a master; indicating or expressing power or mastery. His masterful, pale face. Mrs. Browning.
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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.