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Government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried officials.

an emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant. -- Ne*ro"ni*an, a.

Fine lines ruled on glass in a series of groups of different closeness of line, and used to test the power of a microscope.

A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.

Any melody determined by inviolable rules. [Obs.]

A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.

A norm; a principle or rule; a model; a standard. J. S. Mill.

According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical. Deviations from the normal type. Hallam.

To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.

According to the rule of obedience. [R.] An obediental subjection to the Lord of Nature. Sir M. Hale.

To submit to the authority of; to be ruled by. My will obeyed his will. Chaucer. Afric and India shall his power obey. Dryden.

Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude. To disobey [God]...imports a moral obliquity. South.

bediently watchful; regardful; mindful; obedient (to); -- with of, as, to be observant of rules. We are told how observant Alexander was of his master Aristotle. Sir K. Digby.

rm one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or commands; to observe civility. Ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Ex. xii. 17. He wolde no such cursedness observe. Chaucer. Must I budge Must I observe you Shak. With solemn purpose to observe Immutably his…

n the harbor obstructs the passage of ships; clouds obstruct the light of the sun; unwise rules obstruct legislation. "Th' impatience of obstructed love." Johnson.

A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.

e transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.

Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty.

To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish. "Battle well ordained." Spenser. The stake that shall be ordained on either side. Chaucer.

That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate. The church hath authority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish. Hooker.