RULER Copy link • RULEROne who rules, a governor, dominator alicujus (the governor, Cic., N.D., 2, 2, 4, dominator rerum Deus): dominus, of anybody, alicujus (unlimited master, lord; hence the pure Latin term for tyrannus): moderator: gubernator: rector. (The words are found in this connection and order.) rector et moderator (guide and governor; especially of God): tyrannus (one that has raised himself to dominion; a tyrant): princeps; imperator (as prince, emperor: ☞ of the Silver Age): feminine, quae imperio regit; dominatrix, moderatrix, gubernatrix. The sovereign or universal RULER, regnator omnium; cujus numini parent omnia (of God; regnator omnium Deus, cetera subjecta et parentia; Tac., Germ., 39, 5). An instrument for ruling with; Vid. SULE, s.