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Regiment

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

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Assign 76% connected

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

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Command 76% connected

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

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Control 76% connected

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

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Delegate 76% connected

Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

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Depute 76% connected

To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.

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Designate 76% connected

Designated; appointed; chosen.

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Organize 76% connected

To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter;…

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Regimental 74% connected

Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment; as, regimental officers, clothing.

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Regimental 74% connected

Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment; as, regimental officers, clothing.

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Battalion 70% connected

A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.

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Alamodality noun · 78% connection

The quality of being a la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness.

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Archy unknown · 78% connection

A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch.

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Banish verb · 78% connection

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

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Bureaucracy noun · 78% connection

A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradic…

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Central bank noun · 78% connection

a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sell…

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Constitutionalism noun · 78% connection

The theory, principles, or authority of constitutional government; attachment or adherence to a constitution or constitutional governm…

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Democracy noun · 78% connection

Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exe…

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Diet noun · 78% connection

A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

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Domination noun · 78% connection

The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway.

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Envoy noun · 78% connection

One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or…

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Episcopacy noun · 78% connection

Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of wh…

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Fashion noun · 78% connection

The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; partic…

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Gallicism noun · 78% connection

A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.

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Gerocomy noun · 78% connection

That part of medicine which treats of regimen for old people.

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Jurisdiction adjective · 78% connection

Sphere of authority; the limits within which any particular power may be exercised, or within which a government or a court has author…

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Latinism noun · 78% connection

A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model.

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Law noun · 78% connection

In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a r…

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Modal adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.

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