Word Meanings - MISGOVERN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country. Knolles.

Related words: (words related to MISGOVERN)

• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• GOVERNANCE
  Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• COUNTRYSIDE
  A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
• 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.
• COUNTRY BANK
  A national bank not in a reserve city.
• MISGOVERN
  To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country. Knolles.
• 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
• COUNTRYMAN
  1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who
• COUNTRYWOMAN
  A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.
• COUNTRY-BASE
  See BASE
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• UPCOUNTRY
  In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry.
• RELAY GOVERNOR
  A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle.