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Command

To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

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Broader term 22

Accessibility 76% connected

The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility.

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Authority 76% connected

Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authori…

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Authorization 76% connected

The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant.

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Availability 76% connected

The quality of being available; availableness.

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Availableness 76% connected

Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.

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Code 76% connected

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a comp…

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Demand 76% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Dominance 76% connected

Alt. of Dominancy

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Dominate 76% connected

To predominate over; to rule; to govern.

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Enjoin 76% connected

To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

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Exact 76% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

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Force 76% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Handiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being handy.

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Lie 76% connected

See Lye.

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Master 76% connected

A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Potency 76% connected

The quality or state of being potent; physical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influenc…

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Status 76% connected

State; condition; position of affairs.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Manner of action 42

Becharm 76% connected

To charm; to captivate.

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Burden 76% connected

That which is borne or carried; a load.

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Care 76% connected

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Charm 76% connected

A melody; a song.

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Corner 76% connected

The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Disallow 76% connected

To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

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Dominate 76% connected

To predominate over; to rule; to govern.

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Dwarf 76% connected

An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.

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Forbid 76% connected

of Forbid

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General 76% connected

Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.

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Govern 76% connected

To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.

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Guide 76% connected

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Harness 76% connected

Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Interdict 76% connected

To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.

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Internationalize 76% connected

To make international; to cause to affect the mutual relations of two or more nations; as, to internationalize a principle of law, or a philanthropic…

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Manage 76% connected

The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

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Maneuver 76% connected

Alt. of Manoeuvre

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Manoeuvre 76% connected

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

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Master 76% connected

A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

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Monopolize 76% connected

To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as,…

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Nix 76% connected

One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.

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Officer 76% connected

One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police office…

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Overshadow 76% connected

To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure.

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Preoccupy 76% connected

To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.

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Preside 76% connected

To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regul…

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Prohibit 76% connected

To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, an…

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Proscribe 76% connected

To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.

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Regiment 76% connected

Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen.

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Rein 76% connected

The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.

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Requisition 76% connected

The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority.

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Rule 76% connected

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 r…

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Saddle 76% connected

A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, a…

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Shadow 76% connected

Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the ray…

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Steer 76% connected

A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

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Veto 76% connected

An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

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Narrower term 11

Behest 76% connected

That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Commandment 76% connected

An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.

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Commission 76% connected

The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.

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Countermand 76% connected

To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.

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Direction 76% connected

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public…

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Injunction 76% connected

The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting.

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Link 76% connected

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Toggle 76% connected

A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bi…

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Commandant 74% connected

A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard.

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Commandant 74% connected

A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard.

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Commander 74% connected

A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.

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Commander 74% connected

A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.

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Commandment 74% connected

An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.

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Commandment 74% connected

An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.

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Control 74% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Control 74% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Entreat 74% connected

To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.

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Entreat 74% connected

To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.

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Restrainer 74% connected

One who, or that which, restrains.

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Restrainer 74% connected

One who, or that which, restrains.

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Containing whole 2

Program 70% connected

Same as Programme.

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Programme 70% connected

That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order…

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Bid 92% connected

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Bidding 92% connected

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Control 92% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Dictation 92% connected

The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.

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Dominate 92% connected

To predominate over; to rule; to govern.

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Instruction 92% connected

The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

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Mastery 92% connected

The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.

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Overlook 92% connected

To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to…

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Overtop 92% connected

To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above.

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Require 92% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Statement 92% connected

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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