RULED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ruled mean? 

• RULED (adjective)
  The adjective RULED has 1 sense:

1. subject to a ruling authority

  Familiarity information: RULED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RULED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to a ruling authority

Context example:

the ruled mass

Similar:

subordinate (subject or submissive to authority or the control of another)

 Context examples 

There were four of them in this country, and they ruled the people who live in the North and South and East and West.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

You are ruled by Uranus, so you are more comfortable with this surprise-a-minute planet, which tends to deliver messages suddenly, than most of the other signs.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I wish dead people would stay dead. Why should I and the beauty in me be ruled by the dead?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

En première jeunesse one is a little inclined to be ruled by one’s heart rather than by one’s reason.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of his own choice, he came in to sit by man's fire and to be ruled by him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Soon afterwards he came to a city, where a king ruled who had a daughter who was so serious that no one could make her laugh.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Despite their tight orbits — closer than Mercury's orbit around our sun — the possibility that life could arise on a planet around such a star cannot be ruled out.

(Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission, NASA)

And over this great demesne Buck ruled.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“You must not be ruled by my suspicions. You must keep them secret. They are very slight, perhaps. I have no right to speak.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Of course the children tyrannized over her, and ruled the house as soon as they found out that kicking and squalling brought them whatever they wanted.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)