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Law :: Law (n.) In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of whist..

Synartesis :: Synarchy (n.) Joint rule or sovereignity.

Patriarch :: Patriarch (n.) The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses..

Solecism :: Solecism (n.) An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax..

Regency :: Regency (a.) Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government..

Rorulent :: Rorulent (a.) Full of, or abounding in, dew..

Contumacy :: Contumacy (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned..

Redemptorist :: Redemptorist (n.) One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth..

Domineer :: Domineer (v. t.) To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents..

Casuistry :: Casuistry (a.) The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases..

Pedagogics :: Pedagogics (n.) The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

Asmonean :: Asmonean (n.) One of the Asmonean family. The Asmoneans were leaders and rulers of the Jews from 168 to 35 b. c.

Verse :: Verse (n.) A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules..

Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar..

Cottised :: Cottised (a.) Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess..

Overrule :: Overrule (v. i.) To be superior or supreme in rulling or controlling; as, God rules and overrules..

Rule :: Rule (a.) Conduct in general; behavior.

Syntax :: Syntactical (a.) Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction..

Floccus :: Floccus (n.) A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.

Standard :: Standard (n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test..

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