intransitive verb. To make and administer the public policy and affairs of (a state, for example); exercise sovereign authority over.

intransitive verb. To control the speed or magnitude of; regulate.

intransitive verb. To control the actions or behavior of.

intransitive verb. To keep under control; restrain.

intransitive verb. To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.

intransitive verb. To require (a specific morphological form) of accompanying words.

intransitive verb. To exercise political authority.

intransitive verb. To have or exercise a determining influence.

To exercise a directing or restraining power over; control or guide: used of any exertion of controlling force, whether physical or moral.

Specifically To rule or regulate by right of authority; control according to law or prescription; exercise magisterial, official, or customary power over: as, to govern a state, a church, a bank, a household, etc.

In grammar, to cause or require to be in a particular form: as, a transitive verb or a preposition governs a noun or pronoun in the objective case; the possessive case is governed by the thing possessed; the subject governs the verb in number and person.

To exercise or have control; practise direction or guidance; especially, to exercise legal or customary authority.

intransitive verb. To exercise authority; to administer the laws; to have the control.

transitive verb. To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.

transitive verb. To regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage

transitive verb. To require to be in a particular case; ; or to require (a particular case).

verb. To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.

verb. To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.

verb. To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.

verb. To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.

verb. To exercise political authority; to run a government.

verb. To have or exercise a determining influence.

verb. To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.

verb. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations

verb. direct or strongly influence the behavior of

verb. exercise authority over; as of nations

verb. require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood

"Here is the authority, from God himself, to hold men and women, and their increase, in slavery, and to transmit them as property forever; here is plenary power to govern them, whatever measure of severity it may require; provided only, that _to govern_, be the object in exercising it."

governance  governess  government  governor  

ask  call for  command  control  demand  

15-member  =========  accreditation  advisory  airworthiness  

administer  administrate  arrest  be master  be responsible for  

governator  governed  governement  governements  governing