Governed
[ɡʌvənd]
Definition
(noun.) the body of people who are citizens of a particular government; 'governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed'--Declaration of Independence.
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Govern
Editor: Nolan
Examples
- Governing his curiosity better than I had governed mine, he passed us without a word, and went on into the house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Beginning with the State, I replied, would you say that a city which is governed by a tyrant is free or enslaved? Plato. The Republic.
- This was in the old days when the Patricians alone governed Venice--the common herd had no vote and no voice. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Let us apply the first element in this criterion to a despotically governed state. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A virtuous and laborious people may be cheaply governed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Community of study and amusement developed the best parts of his character, his steady perseverance, generosity, and well-governed firmness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yes, but hang it,' says Wegg argumentatively, 'a well-governed mind can be soured sitting! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- So far I have governed myself thoroughly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This, in connection with an ingenious management of springs, absorbed the shocks and governed the machine so that no matter what was done to it, it would operate only at a certain speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An Italian family ruled as Dukes of Naxos, another line governed Seriphos, but those potentates were somewhere about the fifteenth century. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The escorted governed his own horse, but a loose line was attached to his bridle, the end of which one of the patriots kept girded round his wrist. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I have laid down my plan, and if I am capable of adhering to itmy feelings shall be governed and my temper improved. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I took it that the colored people would go there in great numbers, so as to have independent states governed by their own race. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Now there are occasions on which the governors and the governed meet together,--at festivals, on a journey, voyaging or fighting. Plato. The Republic.
- What is to be done with a human being that can be governed only by the lash,--_that_ fails,--it's a very common state of things down here! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Edited by Beverly