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Webster 1913 Edition


Regimen

Reg′i-men

(r?j′?-m?n)
,
Noun.
[L.
regimen
,
-inis
, fr.
regere
to guide, to rule. See
Right
, and cf.
Regal
,
Régime
,
Regiment
.]
1.
Orderly government; system of order; adminisration.
Hallam.
2.
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
.
3.
(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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Regimen

REG'IMEN

,
Noun.
[L. from rego, to govern.]
1.
In medicine, the regulation of diet with a view to the preservation or restoration of health; or in a more general sense, the regulation of all the non-naturals for the same purposes.
2.
Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
3.
In grammar, government; that part of syntax or construction, which regulates the dependency of words, and the alterations which one occasions or requires in another in connection with it; the words governed.
4.
Orderly government; system of order.

Definition 2024


Regimen

Regimen

See also: regimen, regímen, and régimen

German

Noun

Regimen n

  1. dative plural of Regime

regimen

regimen

See also: Regimen, regímen, and régimen

English

Noun

regimen (plural regimens or regimina)

  1. Orderly government; system of order; administration.
  2. Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
    • 1832, The Edinburgh Review (page 470)
      Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health []
  3. (grammar) object
    • The Popular Educator. A Complete Encyclopaedia of Elementary, Advanced, and Technical Education. New and Revised Edition. Volume III., page 394 (Lessions in French.---LVIII. § 42.---Of Verbs):
      (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 [....]
    • 1828, J. V. Douville, The Speaking French Grammar, forming a series of sixty explanatory lessons, with colloquial essays, third edition, London, page 84 and 315:
      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.
    • 1831 and 1854, A. Bolmar, A Book of the French Verbs, Wherein the Model Verbs, and Several of the Most Difficult Are Conjugated Affirmatively, Negatively, Interrogatively, an Negatively and Interrogatively. and A Book of the French Verbs, Wherein the Model Verbs, and Several of the Most Difficult Are Conjugated Affirmatively, Negatively, Interrogatively, an Negatively and Interrogatively. A New Edition, Philadelphia, page 2:
      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.
    • 1847, M. Josse, A Grammar of the Spanish Language with Practical Exercises. First Part, page 51:
      Pronouns may be nominatives, and of the direct or indirect regimen.
  4. (grammar) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

Related terms

Translations

References

  • regimen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • regimen in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Latin

Etymology

From regō (I rule”, “I direct) + -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈre.ɡi.men/, [ˈrɛ.ɡɪ.mẽ]

Noun

regimen n (genitive regiminis); third declension

  1. control, steering
  2. directing
  3. rule; governance

Declension

Third declension neuter.

Case Singular Plural
nominative regimen regimina
genitive regiminis regiminum
dative regiminī regiminibus
accusative regimen regimina
ablative regimine regiminibus
vocative regimen regimina

Descendants

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Swedish

Noun

regimen

  1. definite singular of regim