vbl. sb.

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1649.  Milton, Eikon., xv. 141. Had he … known how to distinguish … between the wholsome heat of well Governing, and the fevorous rage of Tyrannizing.

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1656.  Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Advts. fr. Parnass., II. li. (1674), 202. [His] Wit was miraculous in the well-governing of those people.

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