Matriarchal: alternatives and connections

Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.

a legal document that creates a corporation; it is filed with a state by the founders of a corporation and is governed by the laws of…

The territory governed by a ban.

The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.

Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.

That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heath…

Governed by events or circumstances.

A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or…

Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wr…

Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just.

One who is governed by conventionalism.

Governed by deacons.

That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the do…

Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church.

Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy.

One who is governed by fancy.

A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in whic…

Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient.