Definitions for misrule
mɪsˈrulmis·rule

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. misgovernment, misrulenoun

   government that is inefficient or dishonest

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. misrulenoun

   A bad or unwise rule.

2. misrulenoun

   The error of a trial judge during a trial.

3. misrulenoun

   Misgovernment.

4. misrulenoun

   A state of disorder or lawlessness.

5. misruleverb

   Of a trial judge, to make a bad decision in court.

6. misruleverb

   To be inefficient in government management.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Misrulenoun

   Tumult; confusion; revel; unjust domination.

   Etymology: mis and rule.

   In the portal plac’d, the heav’n-born maid,
   Enormous riot, and misrule survey’d. Alexander Pope.

   And through his airy hall the loud misrule
   Of driving tempest, is for ever heard. James Thomson.

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1. misrule

   In England, the Lord of Misrule – known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason and in France as the Prince des Sots – was an officer appointed by lot during Christmastide to preside over the Feast of Fools. The Lord of Misrule was generally a peasant or sub-deacon appointed to be in charge of Christmas revelries, which often included drunkenness and wild partying. The Church in England held a similar festival involving a boy bishop. This custom was abolished by Henry VIII in 1541, restored by the Catholic Mary I and again abolished by Protestant Elizabeth I, though here and there it lingered on for some time longer. On the Continent it was suppressed by the Council of Basel in 1431, but was revived in some places from time to time, even as late as the eighteenth century. In the Tudor period, the Lord of Misrule (sometimes called the Abbot of Misrule or the King of Misrule) is mentioned a number of times by contemporary documents referring to revels both at court and among the ordinary people.While mostly known as a British holiday custom, some folklorists, such as James Frazer and Mikhail Bakhtin (who is said to have borrowed the novel idea from Frazer), have claimed that the appointment of a Lord of Misrule comes from a similar custom practised during the Roman celebration of Saturnalia. In ancient Rome, from 17 to 23 December (in the Julian calendar), a man chosen to be a mock king was appointed for the feast of Saturnalia, in the guise of the Roman deity Saturn; at the end of the festival, the man was sacrificed. This hypothesis has been heavily criticized by William Warde Fowler and as such, the Christmas custom of the Lord of Misrule during the Christian era and the Saturnalian custom of antiquity may have completely separate origins; the two separate customs, however, can be compared and contrasted.

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1. misrule

   Misrule refers to a manner of governing or exercising authority that is ineffective, unjust, or marked by disorder or abuse of power. It is characterized by chaos, corruption, incompetence, or a lack of proper regulation or control.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Misrule

   to rule badly; to misgovern

2. Misrulenoun

   the act, or the result, of misruling

3. Misrulenoun

   disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Misrule

   mis-rōōl′, n. wrong or unjust rule: disorder: tumult.—v.t. and v.i. to govern badly.—Abbot, or Lord, of Misrule, or Unreason, ancient titles for the leader of the Christmas revels.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of misrule in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of misrule in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of misrule in a Sentence

1. Obert Gutu:

   ZANU-PF should be utterly ashamed of hosting an expensive birthday bash for their aging ruler whilst more than 90 percent of Zimbabweans are wallowing in grinding poverty caused by decades of Robert Mugabe's misrule and mismanagement of the economy, the money that is being budgeted for this ill-conceived birthday bash should actually be used to import maize to avert the impending starvation in Masvingo province and other parts of the country.

2. Yonsei University:

   The electorate wants to punish the whole party for the misrule of the Park era.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=misrule
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Misrule
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=misrule
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misrule
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misrule
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=misrule