Verb

(rul)

To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.

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(slang) To excel.

To mark (paper or the like) with (lines).

To decide judicially.

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To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.

* Atterbury

That's a ruled case with the schoolmen.

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.

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(lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.

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(lb) To allot or give something as a task.

*(Robert Southey) (1774-1843)

*:The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned .

* (1796-1859)

*:He assigned to his men their several posts.

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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

(lb) To attribute or sort something into categories.

To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.

To give (a value) to a variable.

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