RULING • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Ruling

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/rˈulɪŋ/ Listen

Ruling

adjective

Exercising power or authority. Synonyms: regnant, reigning.

noun

The reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself). Synonym: opinion.

Rule

verb

(past & past part. ruled; pres. part. ruling)

Exercise authority over; as of nations. Synonym: govern.

Decide with authority. Synonym: decree.

Be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance. Synonyms: dominate, predominate, prevail, reign. "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood"

Decide on and make a declaration about. Synonym: find.

Have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac.

Mark or draw with a ruler.

Keep in check. Synonyms: harness, rein.

See more definitions of Ruling...

See images of 'Ruling'

Etymology of 'Ruling'

Related searches:

Share |

"Ruling" Quotes from Famous Books

... house self, has room to be his real self—God's eternal idea of him. He lives eternally; in virtue of the creative power present in him with momently, unimpeded creation, he is. How should there be in him one thought of ruling or commanding or surpassing! He can imagine no bliss, no good in being greater than some one else. He is unable to wish himself other than he is, except more what God made him for, which is indeed the ...

— Hope of the Gospel • George MacDonald

... a most worthy, exemplary and influential member of society; was, for many years, a Ruling Elder of the Presbyterian Church, and lies buried in the graveyard of Sugar Creek Church. On his gravestone is ...

— Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical • C. L. Hunter

... that seem to be the most sterile and wild yield sometimes either delicious fruits or most wholesome medicines that are wanting in the most fertile countries. Besides, it is the effect of a wise over-ruling providence that no land yields all that is useful to human life. For want invites men to commerce, in order to supply one another's necessities. It is therefore that want that is the natural tie of society between nations: otherwise all the people of the earth would ...

— The Existence of God • Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon

... Do you ask for sanctions! One whose conscience has been strengthened from youth in this faith, can know no greater bitterness than the stain cast by wrong act or unworthy thought on the high memories with which he has been used to walk, and the discord wrought in hopes that have become the ruling harmony of ...

— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

... natural preservation of varieties and species in a state of nature. For brevity sake I sometimes speak of natural selection as an intelligent power;—in the same way as astronomers speak of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets, or as agriculturists speak of man making domestic races by his power of selection. In the one case, as in the other, selection does nothing without variability, and this depends ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin

More quotes...