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▪ I. governing, vbl. n.|ˈgʌvənɪŋ|
[f. govern v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. govern. (rarely pl.)
a1300Cursor M. 7414 Saul was yeitt in sted o king, Bot he moght do na gouerning. c1400Rom. Rose 7266 To such folk..Shuld princes & these lordes wyse Take alle her londes & her thinges, Bothe werre & pees, in governinges. 1450–70Golagros & Gaw. 1320 Sen vourschipfull Wawane has wonnyn to your handis The senyory in gouernyng. 1661Milton Gram. ii. Wks. (1847) 469/1 Governing, wherby one part of speech is govern'd by another. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iv. i, It was a valorous Governing.
†2. = government, esp. in phrases to have the governing of; (to have) in, under one's governing.
c1340Cursor M. 7402 (Trin.) Þe kyngdome to haue in gouernyng. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 581 Cleopatra, Tholome the kyng, That al Egypte hadde in his governyng. 1389Eng. Gilds (1870) 116 Other fundacion or gouernynge is noughte in oure gilde. 1450–70Golagros & Gaw. 1169 Ye ar gaderit in grosse..vndir my gouernyng. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. clxxxvii. 221 The towne, wherof I haue the gouernynge. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. ix. 44 And Troy againe out of her dust was reard To sitt in second seat of soveraine king Of all the world, under her governing.
†3. Conduct, mode of action. Also, means of living; livelihood. Obs.
1375Barbour Bruce vi. 383 He valde se his gouernyng, That hade the castell in keping. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 447 Gangand with laidis, my gouerning to get. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xli. 2 Be ȝe ane luvar, think ȝe nocht ȝe suld Be weill adwysit in ȝour gouerning? a1550Freiris Berwick 360 in Dunbar's Poems (S.T.S.) 297 For in her hairt scho had ane persaving That he had knawin all hir governing.
▪ II. governing, ppl. a.|ˈgʌvənɪŋ|
[f. govern v. + -ing2.]
That governs, in sense of the vb.
governing body: a designation (in some cases the only term officially recognized) for the body of managers of a hospital, public school, etc.
1635Gram. Warre D 6 b, Betweene the word gouerning and gouerned. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. iv. §125 And so they were both invested in those offices, to the no small displeasure of the governing party. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 157 He will be somewhat covetous because of the governing Sign. 1701Atterbury Serm. vii. (1726) I. 274 God's Governing Providence, by which he holds the Balance of Nations. 1736Butler Anal. i. iii. Wks. 1874 I. 62 Man is the acknowledged governing animal upon the earth. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 399 When a verb in the infinitive mood, follows its governing verb [etc.]. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 113 Knowledge is certainly a governing power. 1887Daily News 30 May 5/1 M. Grévy..had most of the governing men..on his side. 1901Westm. Gaz. 20 Apr. 2/3 He [sc. Whitty] originated the term ‘governing classes’. 1903G. B. Shaw Man & Superman p. xxiv, We know now that there is no hereditary ‘governing class’ any more than a hereditary hooliganism. 1938New English Weekly 21 July 276/1 It may be that behind the apparent split in governing-class opinion there is a conflict of financial interests.
Hence ˈgoverningly adv.
1884C. H. Parkhurst Serm. in Bibl. Soc. Rec. Dec. 178 We infer that somewhere some one mind has worked governingly on these forty musicians. |