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noun

Regimen n.

Orderly government; system of order; adminisration.

Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation; esp. (Med.), A systematic course of diet, etc., pursed with a view to improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; sometimes used synonymously with hygiene.

(Gram.)

(a)

A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

(b)

The word or words governed.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Regimen" Quotes from Famous Books

... of this alleged wonderful case made a great noise among the ignorant classes. But the sceptic writer above mentioned argued that Lovel's cure was but temporary, and that the benefit was due to change of air and a strict regimen, rather than to the touch of the Pretender's hand at Avignon. For, queried he, can any man with a grain of reason believe that such an idle, superstitious charm as the touch of a man's hand can convey a virtue ...

— Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery • Robert Means Lawrence

... undoubtedly, if you mean by the people the sovereign people. But who are the people constituting the nation? The sovereign people? This is only to revolve in a vicious circle. The nation is the tribe or the people living under the same regimen, and born of the same ancestor, or sprung from the same ancestor or progenitor. But where find a nation in this the primitive sense of the word? Migration, conquest, and intermarriage, have so broken up and intermingled the primitive races, that it is more than doubtful if a single nation, ...

— The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny • A. O. Brownson

... proves this. But Madrid more plainly than any other capital shows the traces of having been set down and properly brought up by the strong hand of a paternal government; and like children with whom the same regimen has been followed, it presents in its maturity a curious mixture of lawlessness ...

— Castilian Days • John Hay

... comprehensive teaching, partly in the characteristics often theoretically so justifiable but practically so awkward, of the Prayer Book. There is little in our Church which corresponds to that elemental regimen or discipline which possesses simple-minded Roman Catholics. The power of cultus, of institutional and family religion, ...

— Thoughts on religion at the front • Neville Stuart Talbot

... and lodging within two francs a-day, making the whole month's expenditure considerably less than I had commonly thrown away on an epicurean breakfast or dinner. And I was all the better for the coarse regimen to which I thus suddenly found myself reduced. Harassed in mind though I was, my body felt the benefit of unusual abstinence from deep potations, late hours, and sustained dissipation. The large amount of foot-exercise I took during these few weeks, ...

— Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 • Various

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