Definition of rule

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Rule (a.) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root..

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Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. t.) To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct..
Spot :: Sporuliferous (a.) Producing sporules.
Unruled :: Unruled (a.) Not governed or controlled.
Disobedient :: Disobedient (a.) Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts..
Matter :: Matter (n.) Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance..
Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state..
Misrule :: Misrule (n.) The act, or the result, of misruling..
Institute :: Institute (a.) Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n..
Anormal :: Anormal (a.) Not according to rule; abnormal.
Error :: Error (n.) The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.
Seniorize :: Seniorize (v. i.) To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it.
Regiment :: Regiment (n.) Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen.
Regulus :: Regulus (n.) A petty king; a ruler of little power or consequence.
Position :: Position (n.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.
Virulented :: Virulented (a.) Made virulent; poisoned.
Overlogical :: Overlogical (a.) Excessively logical; adhering too closely to the forms or rules of logic.
Upas :: Upas (n.) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute)..
Hierarchy :: Hierarchy (n.) A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
Nero :: Nero (n.) A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant..
Rule :: Rule (a.) A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly..
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