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; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. Burke.

eaty. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government. Constitution of the U. S.

Government. [Obs.]

The act of governing; government [Obs.] I. Watts.

Pertaining to a governor, or to government.

The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading. His studies were without guidance and without plan. Macaulay.

; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.

Government by a woman. Chesterfield.

Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy. Bailey.

Female government; gynecocracy. The aforesaid state has repeatedly changed from absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fishwoman. Sir H. Scott.…

A sacred government; by holy orders of men. Southey.

Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.

Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. W. E. Griffis.

; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government. Full of hearty tears For our good father's loss. Marston.

ntil the 19th century, also in Cape Colony, a council to assist a local magistrate in the government of rural districts; hence, also, a member of such a council.

Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates. Lieber.

A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.

The government of an alien. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests. Shipley.

Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy. Jefferson.