Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who controls, directs, or governs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, controls, governs, or determines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
controls ,governs , ordetermines .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then lo did proofe, the overruler of opinions make manifest, that all these are but serving sciences; which as they have [each] a private end in themselves, so yet are they all directed to the highest end of the mistresse knowledge by the Greeks [called] architectonike {30}, which stands as I thinke, in the knowledge of a mans selfe, in the Ethike and Politique consideration, with the end of well doing, and not of well knowing onely.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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But when by the balance of experience it was found, that the astronomer looking to the stars might fall into a ditch, that the inquiring philosopher might be blind in himself, and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart: then lo, did proof the overruler of opinions make manifest that all these are but serving sciences, which, as they have each a private end in themselves, so yet are they all directed to the highest end of the mistress knowledge, by the Greeks called
English literary criticism Various
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