Verb

(en verb)

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

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

Govern yourselves like civilized people.

a student who could not govern his impulses.

To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.

Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.

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

a valve that governs fuel intake.

To exercise political authority; to run a government.

To have or exercise a determining influence.

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

Verb

(head)

(regulate)

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, passage=...It regulates and governs the Passions of the Mind, and brings them into due moderation and frame... , page=17 , title=An Account of the Growth of Deism in England , author=William Stephens , year=1696}}