What is "misrule"

Usage examples of "misrule".

Queen of Misrule fell to one of the clothworkers, a remarkably attractive young woman who at least looked the part.

Had scarce burst forth, when from afar The ministers of misrule sent, Seized upon Lionel, and bore His chained limbs to a dreary tower, In the midst of a city vast and wide.

Robbing one another, misruling one another, while they all rotted alive with a thousand vile diseases.

At Christmasse there was in the Kinges house, wheresoever hee was lodged, a lorde of misrule or mayster of merie disportes, and the like had ye in the house of every nobleman of honor, or good worshipper were he spirituall or temporall.

The Vorduvians and the Horbites had not been pleased at the prospect of several centuries of Honethite misrule, so they dropped their own candidates and swung their support to the Borunes.

There was present every coincidence that could make the British rulers feel they were mere abbots of misrule.

True enough, he was getting most of the stone free from quarries in his client state of Airgialla, to the south, but it still had to be either hauled by land or barged in good weather up to the building sites, then manhandled into place and finished, and all of these tasks took men from the land or the sea who might otherwise be laboring to produce food of various sorts for feeding his people or producing income for the kingdom, said realm still a long way from being recovered from the rebellion which had led to the overthrow of the previous usurping renegade who had for so long misruled and openly robbed Ulaid.

She did restore the choir of the Chapel Royal, where mass was said daily from 8 August 1553, and punctiliously observed the old pre-Reformation traditions, such as appointing a Lord of Misrule at Yuletide, or creeping to the Cross and blessing cramp rings on Good Friday, as well as touching sufferers of scrofula, the 'King's Evil', to effect a miraculous cure.

The boy was one of those untameable young lords of misrule that frolic and chafe themselves through nursery and preparatory and public-school days with the utmost allowance of storm and dust and dislocation and the least possible amount of collar-work, and come somehow with a laugh through a series of catastrophes that has reduced everyone else concerned to tears or Cassandra-like forebodings.

The master of these floating revels was the Lord of Misrule himself, the clown prince of Old Christmas, to which he came from fathoms deep in time.

The hooved and masked Lord of Misrule who came down from the moon of Christmas Eve with his cloak of leaves and his gifts of apples and nuts was a rarely heard myth on Brownheath and in the Easterlies, but at Walcote House he was legend made real.

Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, the Lord of Misrule and the Green Man.

Less than five months we've been together, and yet I feel I've known you an age, you Lord of Misrule You'll be king!

For five years, this city has been misruled, as has all of Kehooryos Ehlas, to the benefit of certain unscrupulous noble families.

He hadn’t seen how the Marxist idiots misruled, hadn’t experienced the cruel bite of their incompetence.