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GOVERNED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The body of people who are citizens of a particular government
Example:
governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("governed" is a kind of...):
citizenry; people (the body of citizens of a state or country)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb govern
Context examples:
This means that Ceres' interior is weak enough that its shape is governed by how it rotates.
(What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data, NASA)
An Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago.
(Nunavut, NCI Thesaurus)
He had made his name as the most lewd and bloodthirsty tyrant that had ever governed any country with a pretence to civilization.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Panel is governed by the provisions of Public Law 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2).
(NCI Special Emphasis Panel, NCI Thesaurus)
In the United States, fungicides are governed by the 1972 federal Environmental Protection and Control Act.
(Fungicide, NCI Thesaurus)
Part of the happy news you might experience also includes other topics governed by your ninth house: news from a college or university having to do with your pursuit for an advanced degree or to teach; something to do with the media, as the subject of a story, giving you great publicity; or as the writer, editor, researcher, or translator in any one of the communication arts.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
By a look at her brother she prevented any farther entreaty from the theatrical board, and the really good feelings by which she was almost purely governed were rapidly restoring her to all the little she had lost in Edmund's favour.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Now, according to my idea of Mrs. Churchill, it would be most natural, that while she makes no sacrifice for the comfort of the husband, to whom she owes every thing, while she exercises incessant caprice towards him, she should frequently be governed by the nephew, to whom she owes nothing at all.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone, and a blow of that sort had never touched her before.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Their last meeting had been most important in opening his feelings; she had derived from it a delightful conviction; but she feared from his looks, that the same unfortunate persuasion, which had hastened him away from the Concert Room, still governed.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
