[see CO- 3 b.] A joint governor.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 246. The inferiour and minor gods … are called … the co-governours and co-reigners with the Supreme God.
So Co-government.
1834. Calhoun, Wks. (1864), II. 384. Reducing them from that independent and distinct existence, as co-governments, assigned to them in the system, to mere subordinate and dependent bodies.
