Word Meanings - RULINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a ruling manner; so as to rule.

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• RULELESS
  Destitute of rule; lawless. Spenser.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• RULING
  1. Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign. 2. Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen. Syn. -- Predominant; chief; controlling; directing; guilding; governing; prevailing;
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• RULE-MONGER
  A stickler for rules; a slave of rules Hare.
• RULINGLY
  In a ruling manner; so as to rule.
• RULY
  orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to Ant: unruly. Gascoigne.
• RULER
  1. One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor. And he made him ruler over all the land. Gen. xii. 43. A prince and ruler of the land. Shak. 2. A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding
• RULE
  An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit. Wharton. (more info) regula a ruler, rule, model, fr. regere, rectum, to lead straight, to 1. That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• RULABLE
  That may be ruled; subject to rule; accordant or conformable to rule. Bacon.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• RULLICHIES
  Chopped meat stuffed into small bags of tripe. They are cut in slices and fried.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• OVERRULING
  Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
• FERULIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida ; as, ferulic acid.
• CHONDRULE
  A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
• PURULENCE; PURULENCY
  The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself. Arbuthnot.
• TORULA
  A chain of special bacteria. A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• SERRULATION
  1. The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw. Wright. 2. One of the teeth in a serrulate margin.
• VIRULENCE; VIRULENCY
  1. The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy. 2. Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition. "Refuted without satirical virulency." Barrow. The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities
• SERRULA
  The red-breasted merganser.
• GASTRULA
  An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by
• TRULLIZATION
  The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel.
• FERULACEOUS
  Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.
• TRULY
  1. In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented. I can not truly say how I came here. Shak. 2. Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight
• VIRULENT
  1. Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury. A contagious disorder rendered more virulent by uncleanness. Sir W. Scott. 2. Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective.
• SPORULIFEROUS
  Producing sporules.
• TORULAFORM
  Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci.
• GASTRULATION
  The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.
• PURULENT
  Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.
• CERULE
  Blue; cerulean. Dyer.
• PHASE RULE
  A generalization with regard to systems of chemical equilibrium, discovered by Prof. J. Willard Gibbs. It may be stated thus: The degree of variableness of a system is equal to the number of components minus the number of phases, plus two. Thus,