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vb. (context transitive idiomatic English) to be a ruler of, to command.
Usage examples of "rule over".
The world is often reproached because it is deceitful and vain, yet notwithstanding it is not easily given up, because the lusts of the flesh have too much rule over it.
For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does.
Obatala lost the struggle, but was eventually asked to rule over the earth with his former adversary.
That is to say, we have the planets in the order in which they were supposed to rule over the days of the week.
And as a sovereign commands his lords: These villages and these villages shall ye rule over!
To-day he is said to be originally and permanently inferior to the white race, and yet wild apprehensions are expressed lest six millions of this inferior race will somehow or other manage to rule over thirty-five millions of the superior race.
But in the future I shall give them thanks, for I see how much worse it might have been--I might have been born a prince, with a duchy to rule over.