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RULED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to a ruling authority
Example:
the ruled mass
Classified under:
Similar:
subordinate (subject or submissive to authority or the control of another)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb rule
Context examples:
The political organization by which a state or nation is ruled.
(Government, NCI Thesaurus)
It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A thick glass slide with a chamber with a defined volume that is etched with a precisely ruled grid and is used to quantify cells or cell-sized particles in suspension.
(Hemocytometer, NCI Thesaurus)
It also ruled out other possible astrophysical causes of the transit signal, such as the presence of a smaller, dimmer companion star in the system.
(NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World, NASA)
Any noxious and unintended response(s) to a medical product or procedure, for which a causal relationship with this product or procedure is at least a reasonable possibility i.e., the relationship cannot be ruled out.
(Adverse Reaction, NCI Thesaurus)
An atmosphere between 1 and 10 bars on LHS 3844b has been almost entirely ruled out as well, although the authors note there's a slim chance it could exist if the stellar and planetary properties were to meet some very specific and unlikely criteria.
(A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface, NASA)
Besides, in drawing the picture of my early days, I also record those events which led, by insensible steps, to my after tale of misery, for when I would account to myself for the birth of that passion which afterwards ruled my destiny I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
On the other hand, it was Madge who fed him; also it was she who ruled the kitchen, and it was by her favor, and her favor alone, that he was permitted to come within that sacred precinct.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Fanny thought it a bold measure, but offered no further resistance; and they went together into the breakfast-room, where Edmund prepared her paper, and ruled her lines with all the goodwill that her brother could himself have felt, and probably with somewhat more exactness.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In common garb, his masterful face and flashing eye would have marked him as one who was born to rule; but now, with his silken tunic powdered with golden fleurs-de-lis, his velvet mantle lined with the royal minever, and the lions of England stamped in silver upon his harness, none could fail to recognize the noble Edward, most warlike and powerful of all the long line of fighting monarchs who had ruled the Anglo-Norman race.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
