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ruled, ppl. a.|ruːld|
[f. rule v.]
1.
†a. Subjected to control, guidance, or discipline. Also well-ruled, well-conducted. Obs.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 163 Pitee..mad mercy passen ryght Thurgh Innocence and ruled curtesye. 1406Hoccleve La Male Regle 70 Why wilt thow nat enclyne, And vn-to reuled reform bowe thee? 1453Rolls of Parlt. V. 267/2 Diverse and many well ruled persones. 1526Coventry Leet Bk. (E.E.T.S.) 692 Euery aldemman..shall elect & chose onest & well ruled persones within his warde to be constables. 1556[see ruleless a. 1]. 1736Ainsworth Eng.-Lat. Dict. s.v., A well-ruled city, civitas bene morata.
b. Governed; subject. In quots. absol.
1847Tennyson Princ. Concl. 53 God bless the narrow sea which..keeps our Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled. 1875Hopps Princ. Relig. x. 32 He may become a hero, and, though punished by the rulers, may be rewarded by the ruled.
†2. According to rule; regular. Obs.
1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. i. Defin., Cinkangles, whose sydes partlye are all equall.., and those are counted ruled cinkeangles, and partlye unequall.., and they are called unruled.
3. Judicially or authoritatively determined. ruled case, an established decision or ruling.
1567–9Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 453 This Decree in old times stood as a ruled case. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. §20. 544/1 When the will of a Ruler, is a rule, or ruled⁓case to his Iudges. 1681J. Flavel Meth. of Grace xxviii. 498 The wisest and holiest among men may pretend no higher than a ruled rule. 1714R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. ii. 6 We have both precept, Col. 2. 18, and what amounts in effect to a ruled case to the contrary, Rev. 22. 9. a1740Waterland Arg. a Priori Wks. 1823 IV. 407 This author looked upon it as a ruled point, a thing universally agreed to.
4. Marked with parallel straight lines.
1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 756 Desiring the use of Ink and rul'd paper (such as we call Musical Paper). 1758L. Temple Sketches (ed. 2) 34 He writes but like a School-boy, who keeps in the Line only with the Help of ruled Paper. 1817M. W. Shelley in Dowden Life Shelley (1887) II. 148 Remember..to bring me a good thick book to write extracts in, ruled. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxii. IV. 700 The neatly ruled pages of the subscription book..were still blank. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 178 A good ruled screen is obtained on development.
5. Formed with, or as with, a ruler.
1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. (1897) I. ii. i. §7. 118 A violent, black, sharp, ruled penmanlike line. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 446 The number of red corpuscles in it will be..crowded over the surface of the ruled squares.
b. Geom. ruled surface (see quot.).
1862Salmon Anal. Geom. Three Dim. 75 A surface generated by the motion of a right line is called a ruled surface.
6. Measured with the rule.
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 345 The fine red cutting bricks are used for ruled and gauged work. |