Definition of "governeth" [governeth]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of govern. (verb)

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• "Now it behoveth the Wali who governeth the folk to keep his eyes from their lusts and stay his flesh from its delights."
• "Men create oppositions, which are not; and put them into new terms, so fixed, as whereas the meaning ought to govern the term, the term in effect governeth the meaning."
• "Therefore the civil and ecclesiastical power were both joined together in one and the same person, the high priest; and ought to be so, in whosoever governeth by divine right; that is, by authority immediate from God."