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- English Word Regular Definition Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy.
- English Word Regular Definition Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug.
- English Word Regular Definition Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin.
- English Word Regular Definition Same as Isometric.
- English Word Regular Definition A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church.
- English Word Regular Definition A soldier belonging to a permanent or standing army; -- chiefly used in the plural.
- English Word Regularia Definition A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
- English Word Regularity Definition The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
- English Word Regularize Definition To cause to become regular; to regulate.
- English Word Regularly Definition In a regular manner; in uniform order; methodically; in due order or time.
- English Word Regularness Definition Regularity.
- English Word Regulate Definition To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.
- English Word Regulate Definition To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
- English Word Regulate Definition To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
- English Word Regulated Definition of Regulate
- English Word Regulating Definition of Regulate
- English Word Regulation Definition The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.
- English Word Regulation Definition A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school.
- English Word Regulative Definition Tending to regulate; regulating.
- English Word Regulative Definition Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty.
- English Word Regulator Definition One who, or that which, regulates.
- English Word Regulator Definition A contrivance for regulating and controlling motion, as: (a) The lever or index in a watch, which controls the effective length of the hairspring, and thus regulates the vibrations of the balance. (b) The governor of a steam engine. (c) A valve for controlling the admission of steam to the steam chest, in a locomotive.
- English Word Regulator Definition A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock.
- English Word Regulator Definition A member of a volunteer committee which, in default of the lawful authority, undertakes to preserve order and prevent crimes; also, sometimes, one of a band organized for the comission of violent crimes.
- English Word Reguli Definition of Regulus
- English Word Reguline Definition Of or pertaining to regulus.
- English Word Regulize Definition To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony.
- English Word Regulus Definition A petty king; a ruler of little power or consequence.
- English Word Regulus Definition The button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and reduction of ores.
- English Word Regulus Definition A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Leo; -- called also the Lion's Heart.