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governor noun caretaker, director, elected official, executive, executive leader, government official, highest state official, politician, potentate, public official, statesman
Associated concepts: executive branch of government
See also: caretaker, director, pedagogue, principal, superintendent

GOVERNOR. The title of the executive magistrate in each state and territory of the United States. Under the names of the particular states, the reader will find some of the duties of the governor of such state.



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of the Governour and the Company of Merchants of London Trading into East Indies 1600-1619 (London: Bernard Quaritch, Piccadilly London, Anno Domini MDCCCXCIII), available online at <http://books.
He underwrites these readings with a careful analysis of John Lyly's Euphues, which, he argues, satirizes the friendship ideal extolled by Sir Thomas Elyot in his story of Titus and Gisippus in The Boke Named the Governour.
The related discussions, lucid and interesting though they often are, of The Boke Named the Governour, Euphues, The Faerie Queene, Damon and Pithias, The Malcontent, The Maid's Tragedy, The Atheist's Tragedy, the plays of Marlowe and Jonson, etc.
 
 
 
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