| 释义 |
governed, ppl. a.|ˈgʌvənd|
[f. govern v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.
1686J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 435 The Church, by Christ's own Institution, is a governed Society of Men. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 261 The sign of the possessive should be annexed to each of the governed nouns. 1861T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady (1863) 158 A well-planned city in a governed land That [etc.].
absol.1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 649 This inconvenience..is..more hardly to be redressed in governour than in the governed. 1681Nevile Plato Rediv. 30 It was instituted for the good and preservation of the Governed. a1832Mackintosh Lit. Soc. Bombay Wks. 1846 II. 577 The security of the governed cannot exist without the security of the governors. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 393 This great contract between the governors and the governed. |