Definition of rule

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Rule (a.) 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..

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Beylic :: Beylic (n.) The territory ruled by a bey.
Pulverulent :: Pulverulent (a.) Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty..
Procrusteanize :: Procrusteanize (v. t.) To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.
Formality :: Formality (n.) Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.
Spherulate :: Spherulate (a.) Covered or set with spherules; having one or more rows of spherules, or minute tubercles..
Economy :: Economy (n.) The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy..
Swerve :: Swerve (v. i.) To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate..
Virulently :: Virulently (adv.) In a virulent manner.
Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
Abscess :: Abscess (n.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process..
Purulent :: Purulent (a.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation..
Tribute :: Tribute (n.) An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty; as, the Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute..
Blue-bonnet :: Blue-bonnet (n.) The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus); the bluecap.
Norma :: Norma (n.) A norm; a principle or rule; a model; a standard.
Hemispherule :: Hemispherule (n.) A half spherule.
Soldanrie :: Soldanrie (n.) The country ruled by a soldan, or sultan..
Rector :: Rector (n.) A ruler or governor.
Dominate :: Dominate (v. t.) To predominate over; to rule; to govern.
Curule :: Curule (a.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official..
Scientific :: Scientific (a.) Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific arrangement of fossils..
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