misgovernment, misrule
(noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest
Source: WordNet® 3.1
misgovernment (countable and uncountable, plural misgovernments)
Bad government.
(archaic) Failure to restrict oneself; improper behavior; misconduct.
• misgovernance
• governmentism
Source: Wiktionary
Mis*gov"ern*ment, n.
Definition: Bad government; want of government. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 October 2024
(noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; “the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
