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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To govern.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To govern.

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  • Latin guberno.

    --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850

    January 19, 2018