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One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs. Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man. Bacon.

ure; a supernatural event, or one transcending the ordinary laws by which the universe is governed. They considered not the miracle of the loaves. Mark vi. 52.

To rule badly; to misgovern.

good name that Dr. Stevens has given to our present situation (for one can not call it a government), a mobocracy. Walpole.

One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint. Bayne.

Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.

and in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.

To rule; to govern. [R.]

A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.

ign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin. To prevent such abuses, ... it has been found necessary ... to affix a public stamp upon certain quantities of such particular metals, as were in those countries commonly made use…

One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.

Government by a single person; undivided rule. Sydney Smith.

One who governs alone.

The governor of a province in Egypt, etc. [Written also mudir.]

Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty. A moral agent is a being capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense. J. Edwards.

Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers.

One of a denomination of Christians formerly living under the government of the Moors in Spain, and having a liturgy and ritual of their own. [Written also Mozarab, Mostarab.] Brande & C.

A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.

The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own. A nation is the unity of a people. Coleridge. Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. F. S. Key.

pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc.