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Rule
RULE, n. [L. regula, from rego, to govern, that is, to stretch, strain or make straight.]
1. Government; sway; empire; control; supreme command or authority.
A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame. Prov 17.
And his stern rule the groaning land obey'd.
2. That which is established as a principle, standard or directory; that by which any thing is to be adjusted or regulated, or to which it is to be conformed; that which is settled by authority or custom for guidance and direction. Thus a statute or law is a rule of civil conduct; a canon is a rule of ecclesiastical government; the precept or command of a father is a rule of action or obedience to children; precedents in law are rules of decision to judges; maxims and customs furnish rules for regulating our social opinions and manners. The laws of God are rules for directing us in life, paramount to all others.
A rule which you do not apply, is no rule at all.
3. An instrument by which lines are drawn.
Judicious artist will use his eye, but he will trust only to his rule.
4. Established mode or course of proceeding prescribed in private life. Every man should have some fixed rules for managing his own affairs.
5. In literature, a maxim, canon or precept to be observed in any art or science.
6. In monasteries, corporations or societies, a law or regulation to be observed by the society and its particular members.
7. In courts, rules are the determinations and orders of court, to be observed by its officers in conducting the business of the court.
8. In arithmetic and algebra, a determinate mode prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
9. In grammar, an establish form of construction in a particular class of words; or the expression of that form in words. Thus it is a rule in English, that s or es, added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but man forms its plural men, and is an exception to the rule.
Rule of three, is that rule of arithmetic which directs, when three terms are given, how to find a fourth, which shall have the same ratio to the third term, as the second has to the first.
RULE, v.t.
1. To govern; to control the will and actions of others, either by arbitrary power and authority, or by established laws. The emperors of the east rule their subjects without the restraints of a constitution. In limited governments, men are ruled by known laws.
If a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? 1 Tim 3.
2. To govern the movements of things; to conduct; to manage; to control. That God rules the world he has created, is a fundamental article of belief.
3. To manage; to conduct, in almost any manner.
4. To settle as by a rule.
That's a ruled case with the schoolmen.
5. To mark with lines by a ruler; as, to rule a blank book.
6. To establish by decree or decision; to determine; as a court.
RULE, v.i. To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority.
By me princes rule. Prov 8.
It is often followed by over.
They shall rule over their oppressors. Isa 14.
We subdue and rule over all other creatures.
rule appears in definitions for these words:
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Sally Saucy Say Science Scientific Scientifically Scribe Secular Serenity Sermonize Serviceable Servile Set Shackle Sin Skillfulness Solecism Sonnet Sound Sovereign Specialty Square Standard Standing State Statute Stereographic Stereographical Strict Strictness Subject Sublime Subnormal Subserve Sultan Supreme Supremely Suveran Sway Swayed Swerve Swerving Sword Synarchy Syntactic Syntax Templar Terror Tetrarch Thearchy Theorem Third Thralldom Toss Transgress Transgression Transgressional Transgressor Transiently Trespass Trigonal Trigonometrically True Truth Tye Type Tyrannize U Ule Unaccountable Unconformable Uncritical Under Undeviating Undiplomatic Undramatic Undue Uneasy Ungeometrical Ungovernable Ungrammatical Ungrammatically Uniform Uniformity Unmercantile Unmilitary Unparliamentarines Unparliamentary Unphilosophic Unrelenting Unruled Unscientific Unscientifically Ursuline Usage Value Varvels Verse Versification Vice Viceroy Violate Violence Vote Wanton Warp Wickedness Wild Wildness Wisdom With Wold Zendavesta
Abnormity Accumulation Accuracy Accurate Action Addition Adjective Admeasurement Administer Alligation Analogy Anarchic Anarchy Ancient Annul Anomalism Anomalistic Anomalous Anomalously Anomaly Anomia Anteposition Antimetrical Apostolic Arbitrary Architectural Aristarchy Arithmetical Arithmetically Art Ascertain Ascertainment Astronomy Authority Autocrator Autonomy Average Barbarously Beastliness Beguards Benedictines Bible Biblist Billiards Bishop Boldness By Cadency Candidate Canon Canonical Casing Cast Casuistry Caution Census Ceremonial Ceremonious Ceremony Chancery Charge Chief Chronologically Church Citizen Civil Civilizer Clergyman Co-regent Coinage Colon Commandning Common Comportable Concord Condescend Conform Conformably Congregation Conscientious Consecrate Considering Consonant Consort Constitution Constitutional Contempt Contend Contingency Contraregularity Contumacy Correct Correctness Costume Counter Credible Crime Criterion Critic Critical Criticism Critique Cruelty Curse Decree Defective Depart Derogate Determinate Dethrone Deviation Dialectics Diapason Dictate Dictator Didactic Didactical Diet Dietary Dieted Dieter Dietetic Dietetical Dieting Diminish Diplomacy Directive Director Directory Disappropriate Disciplinarian Discipline Disciplined Discontinuer Discordant Discount Disobedient Disorder Disorderly Disparage Disparagement Disproportion Dissatisfactory Distribution Dition Division Dominant Dominate Dominated Dominator Domineer Don Due Duelist Duello Dynast Echometer Economy Edict Eld Element Elementarity Empire Enormity Enormous Entail Entire Equity Erratically Establish Ethics Evil Exact Exactly Exactness Examination Examine Example Exception Excess Exorbitance Exorbitant Explicable Expository Extraction Extraregular Extravagant Fall False Fashion Fated Fellowship Figure Fillet Folly Formality Formally Foul Frame Freedom Fundamental G Gag Game Gaming General Geometric Geometrically Georgic Go God Golden Governable Government Governor Grammar Grammatical Grammatically Gubernation Guilt Gynarchy Habitual Habnab He Heptarchist Heptarchy Heretic Heterarchy Heteroclitic Hierarch Hinge Hold Honor Hylarchical Identify Illogical Illogically Imperfect Inartificial Inartificially Inconformity Incorrect Indecorous Indecorum Indite Initiation Inordinacy Inordinate Inordination Institute Institution Institutist Intelligibility Intercolumniation Interregnum Inversion Invert Irregular Irregularity Irregularly Jade Judge Just Justice Keep King Kingdom Label Latitude Law Lead Lesser Level Like Logical Logically Looseness Lord Lordship Magically Malpractice Mask Master Masterdom Mastership May Measure Measured Mechanic Medically Metaphysic Mete Methodist Military Minority Mistress-ship Mnemonics Modulation Monarch Monarchic Monarchize Monk Moral Morally Multiplication Municipal Musician Nice Nome Normal Novitiate Obedience Obediential Obey Obliquity Observance Observant Observe Ochlocracy Offend Oligrachy Oration Oratory Order Orderless Orderly Ordinance Ordinarily Original Orthographically Our Out Over Overzealed Parallel Parliamentarian Paronomasy Passion Path Patriarch Penitential Penitentiary Pentarchy Perfect Perspective Philosophic Philosophically Philosophize Physically Pillar Pinion Place Plummet Polemarch Power Practicably Practice Prance Precedent Precept Preceptive Precise Preciseness Precisian Predominant Predominate Prefer Prescribe Prescribing Prescription Priest Primitively Prince Principate Principle Probation Procede Proper Proportion Propound Propriety Prosodial Prosodical Proverb Prudential Prudentials Punctilious Punctiliousness Punctually Push Quadrate Random Ratio Reach Reason Reciprocal Rectitude Rector Reduce Reduction Regel Regent Regiment Regular Regularity Regularly Regulate Regulated Regulating Regulation Reign Rejoice Relative Relax Requirement Resolution Resolve Rhetorical Rhetorically Rhetorician Rick Right Rightfulness Rigid Roast Rote Rubric Rudiment Rule Ruler Ruling Ruly S Sally Saucy Say Science Scientific Scientifically Scribe Secular Serenity Sermonize Serviceable Servile Set Shackle Sin Skillfulness Solecism Sonnet Sound Sovereign Specialty Square Standard Standing State Statute Stereographic Stereographical Strict Strictness Subject Sublime Subnormal Subserve Sultan Supreme Supremely Suveran Sway Swayed Swerve Swerving Sword Synarchy Syntactic Syntax Templar Terror Tetrarch Thearchy Theorem Third Thralldom Toss Transgress Transgression Transgressional Transgressor Transiently Trespass Trigonal Trigonometrically True Truth Tye Type Tyrannize U Ule Unaccountable Unconformable Uncritical Under Undeviating Undiplomatic Undramatic Undue Uneasy Ungeometrical Ungovernable Ungrammatical Ungrammatically Uniform Uniformity Unmercantile Unmilitary Unparliamentarines Unparliamentary Unphilosophic Unrelenting Unruled Unscientific Unscientifically Ursuline Usage Value Varvels Verse Versification Vice Viceroy Violate Violence Vote Wanton Warp Wickedness Wild Wildness Wisdom With Wold Zendavesta
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