regimen

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Orderly government

   Orderly government; system of order; administration.

   • In ski areas like Arapahoe Basin, about 80 percent of the male patrollers have had to drastically change (or introduce) shaving regimens.
2. 2

   Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual…

   Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.

   • Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health[…]
3. 3

   Object.

   • (3.) Verbs admit two kinds of regimen: the direct regimen and the indirect regimen. (4.) The direct regimen, or immediate object … (5.) The indirect regimen, or remote object [....]
   • Active verbs express an action which an agent, called the nominative or subject, performs on an object or regimen, without the help of a preposition: as,--- Pierre aime Sophie, Peter loves Sophia. [...] Of the Object or Regimen of Verbs.
   • 15. A verb is active in French when it expresses that an agent called nominative, or subject, performs an action on an object, or regimen, without the help of a preposition---as, Jean frappe Joseph, John strikes Joseph, &c.
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   1. 4

      A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by…

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

   2. 5

      Diet

      Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.

The neighborhood

• neighborrégime
• neighborregime
• neighborregiminal