Govern: alternatives and connections

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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

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

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To cut off; to separate.

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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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To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

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To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

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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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Taken.

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To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis.

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Rigorous; stringent; harsh.

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To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country.

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Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.

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To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.

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A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary.

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A girdle; a cincture.

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of Authority

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of Authority

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Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement.

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Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement.

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of Govern

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of Govern

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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 Pe…

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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 Pe…

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The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.

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The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.

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One who, or that which, regulates.

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One who, or that which, regulates.

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

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To cause to become regular; to regulate.

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To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.

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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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