Definition of System of rules

1. Noun. A complex of methods or rules governing behavior. "That language has a complex system for indicating gender"

Exact synonyms: System
Generic synonyms: Method
Specialized synonyms: Accounting, Discipline, Frame, Frame Of Reference, Gambling System, Government, Honor System, Logic, Logical System, System Of Logic, Merit System, Point System, Spoils System, Organon, Program, Programme, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Logic, Theological System, Theology, Ethic, Ethical Code

Lexicographical Neighbors of System Of Rules

syssitia
syssitias
systaltic
system
system administrator
system architecture
system architectures
system call
system clock
system command
system error
system of logic
system of macrophages
system of measurement
system of numeration
system of rules (current term)
system of weights
system of weights and measures
system program
system pull
system software
systema alimentarium
systema digestorium
systema lymphaticum
systema nervosum
systema nervosum centrale
systema nervosum periphericum
systema respiratorium
systema skeletale

Literary usage of System of rules

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... this very early called for the adoption and promulgation by the court of aj system of rules of action. This court went into operation in January, 1863. ..."

2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"393 construct a system of rules for the analytical machinery of the science, he will not allow that he ever got beyond the ancient conception of the ..."

3. The Baptist Missionary Magazine by Massachusetts Baptist Convention, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1852)
"At the same time they are " deeply convinced that neither those nor any other system of rules can effect the object most to be desired in native assistants ..."

4. The Cost of Our National Government: A Study in Political Pathology by Henry Jones Ford (1910)
"... for the House to get through its business by proceeding in regular order through the calendars. But a complex system of rules has been evolved by ..."

5. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"And so we may as well understand that (for some time to come) the tendency to keep a system of rules of Evidence, as a refuge for the judge in handling the ..."

6. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1843)
"delegated to the Secretary of the Navy and Attorney General of the United Stales, who were directed to prepare a system of rules to be submitted to Congress ..."

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