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noun

Government n.

The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law. "That free government which we have so dearly purchased, free commonwealth."

The right or power of governing; authority. "I here resign my government to thee."

The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration. "When we, in England, speak of the government, we generally understand the ministers of the crown for the time being."

The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe.

Management of the limbs or body.

(Gram.) The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case.

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... investigated the pueblos in ruins, and the present condition of the Pueblo Indians. The admirable manner in which they have executed the work is shown by the series of reports issued from time to time by the government. More recently, the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, under Prof. F. V. Hayden, geologist in charge, and also the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, Maj. J. W. Powell, geologist in charge, have furnished a large amount of ...

— Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines • Lewis H. Morgan

... post office, where Benny was seated on a barrel, pensively kicking his heels. Dissembling his eagerness, John nodded a greeting in his direction, and, passing over to the corner of the grocery sacred to the Government pigeonholes, asked for ...

— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham

... and vote for your candidate, or because you say this or that is your opinion, he forgets in which half of the world he was born, Sir! It won't be long, Sir, before we have Americanized religion as we have Americanized government; and then, Sir, every soul God sends into the world will be good in the face of all men for just so much of His "inspiration" as "giveth him understanding"!—None of my words, Sir! none ...

— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

... and established such an order of causes and effects, as (however interrupted here below by hindrances and obstructions apparently of a temporary nature) loudly proclaim the principles of his moral government, and strongly suggest, that vice and imprudence will finally terminate in misery[12]. Not that this species of proof was wanted; for that which we must acknowledge, on weighing the evidence, to be a revelation from God, requires not the aid of such a confirmation: but yet, as this ...

— A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. • William Wilberforce

... of the Island, and its Produce, Situation, and Inhabitants; their Manners and Customs; Conjectures concerning their Government, Religion, and other Subjects; with a more particular Account of the ...

— A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 • James Cook

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