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Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts.

like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government. Clarendon.

e; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession. Who informed the governor . . . And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so. Acts xxiv. 9. The princess assented to all that was suggested. Macaulay.

One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.

Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business. According to the fair play of the world, Let me have audience: I am sent to speak. Shak.

rily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government.

Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities. [Chiefly in the plural.]

Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.

An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).

ing to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. -- Au`to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Having the power of self-government; autonomous. Hickok.

Independent in government; having the right or power of self- government.

The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

own, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.

The territory governed by a ban.

or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.

The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [Obs.] He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. Shak.

One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.

et, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known. Willing to serve or betray any government for hire. Macaulay.