Definition of rule

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Rule (a.) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.

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Entail :: Entail (n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.
Contrapuntal :: Contrapuntal (a.) Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint..
Extraregular :: Extraregular (a.) Not comprehended within a rule or rules.
Malignity :: Malignity (n.) The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
Temperament :: Temperament (v. t.) The act of tempering or modifying; adjustment, as of clashing rules, interests, passions, or the like; also, the means by which such adjustment is effected..
Nomarchy :: Nomarchy (n.) A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome..
Monarch :: Monarch (n.) A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief..
Rule :: Rule (n.) To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book..
Ceremonious :: Ceremonious (a.) According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious.
Masterdom :: Masterdom (n.) Dominion; rule; command.
Secular :: Secular (n.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules..
Column :: Column (n.) A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper..
Dictator :: Dictator (n.) One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc..
Polycracy :: Polycracy (n.) Government by many rulers; polyarchy.
Misrule :: Misrule (n.) The act, or the result, of misruling..
Parliamentary :: Parliamentary (a.) According to the rules and usages of Parliament or of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary motion..
Hierarchy :: Hierarchy (n.) A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
Rulingly :: Rulingly (adv.) In a ruling manner; so as to rule.
Half-bred :: Half-bred (a.) Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained.
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