Word Meanings - RULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket. We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exact rules for the government of our lives. Tillotson. 2. Hence: Uniform or established course of things. 'T is against the rule of nature. Shak. Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock. Ordibary course of procedure; usual way; comon state or condition of things; as, it is a rule to which there are many exeptions. Conduct in general; behavior. This uncivil rule; she shall know of it. Shak. 3. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control. Obey them that have the rule over you. Heb. xiii. 17. His stern rule the groaning land obeyed. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RULE)

• Aphorism
• Adage
• apothegm
• maxim
• saying
• precept
• rule
• proverb
• Canon
• Rule
• measure
• regulation
• test
• law
• Decree
• Decision
• determination
• mandate
• edict
• manifesto
• verdict
• order
• judgment
• ordinance
• proclamation
• Dominion
• Power
• authority
• tyranny
• despotism
• government
• control
• empire
• sway
• realm
• territory
• jurisdiction
• Economy
• Administration
• dispensation
• management
• arrangement
• distribution
• husbanding

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RULE)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion

Related words: (words related to RULE)

• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• SAYING
  That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb. Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled. Milton. Syn. -- Declaration; speech; adage; maxim; aphorism; apothegm;
• SAYMAN
  One who assays.
• CANONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to a canonist. "This canonistic exposition." Milton.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• PRECEPTIAL
  Preceptive. would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• CANONICITY
  The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
• CANON BONE
  The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.
• HUSBANDABLE
  Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
• HUSBANDLESS
  Destitute of a husband. Shak.
• CANON
  A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second
• CANONICALLY
  ; according to the canons.
• EDICT
  A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. It stands as
• EMPIRE STATE
  New York; -- a nickname alluding to its size and wealth.
• ADAGE
  An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb. Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the adage. Shak. Syn. -- Axiom; maxim; aphorism; proverb; saying; saw; apothegm. See Axiom.
• PRECEPTRESS
  A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• VISAYAN
  A member of the most numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet.
• UNDERSAY
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• ASSAY POUND
  A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
• PROTOCANONICAL
  Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical.
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.