Definition of rule

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Rule (a.) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.

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Conscientious :: Conscientious (a.) Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person..
Dieter :: Dieter (n.) One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules..
Order :: Order (n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order..
Vote :: Vote (n.) A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage..
Khedive :: Khedive (n.) A governor or viceroy; -- a title granted in 1867 by the sultan of Turkey to the ruler of Egypt.
Move :: Move (v. t.) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king..
Truth :: Truth (n.) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like..
Ceremonious :: Ceremonious (a.) According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious.
Despot :: Despot (n.) One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.
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..
Round :: Round (n.) The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules; a bout..
Bevel :: Bevel (n.) An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square..
Regime :: Regime (n.) Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system..
Cerule :: Cerule (a.) Blue; cerulean.
Diplomatically :: Diplomatically (adv.) According to the rules of diplomacy; in the manner of a diplomatist; artfully.
Tungstite :: Tungstite (n.) The oxide of tungsten, a yellow mineral occurring in a pulverulent form. It is often associated with wolfram..
Cancerite :: Cancerite (n.) Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.
Ulcer :: Ulcer (n.) A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It is distinguished from an abscess, which has its beginning, at least, in the depth of the tissues..
Hinge :: Hinge (n.) That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned..
Propriety :: Propriety (n.) The quality or state of being proper; suitableness to an acknowledged or correct standard or rule; consonance with established principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety of behavior, language, manners, etc..
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