Definition of govern

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Govern (v. i.) To exercise authority; to administer the laws; to have the control.

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Arbitrator :: Arbitrator (n.) One who has the power of deciding or prescribing without control; a ruler; a governor.
Guild :: Guild (v. t.) An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority..
Absolutism :: Absolutism (n.) The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
Behave :: Behave (v. t.) To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
Revolutionist :: Revolutionist (n.) One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution.
Presbyterianism :: Presbyterianism (n.) That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively..
Disorganization :: Disorganization (v. t.) The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government..
Monarchy :: Monarchy (n.) A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch.
General :: General (a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal..
Manageable :: Manageable (a.) Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse..
Policy :: Policy (n.) The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state..
Judge :: "Judge (v. i.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years..
Administration :: Administration (n.) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management..
Civil :: Civil (a.) Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.
Ungovernable :: Ungovernable (a.) Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions..
Surplus :: Surplus (n.) Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government..
Kakistocracy :: Kakistocracy (n.) Government by the worst men.
Regimen :: Regimen (n.) Orderly government; system of order; adminisration.
Episcopacy :: Episcopacy (n.) Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind..
Misgovernance :: Misgovernance (n.) Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior.
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