regimen

Definitions

1. Orderly government; system of order; administration.
2. regime
3. Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
4. Object.
5. scheme (e.g. a pension scheme, an aid scheme, a loan scheme)
6. A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
7. Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.
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Equivalents

12 more languages

العربيةنظام التغذية

Българскиуправление

Catalàrègim

Ελληνικάαγωγήσχήμα

Suomihallintojärjestelmähoito-ohjelmakuuriohjelma+ 1 more

Magyarkezelésrendrendszeruralom+ 1 more

Bahasa Indonesiaregimen

Italianoregime

Latinadiaeta

Polskirekcja

Русскийуправление

Tiếng Việtchế độphác đồ

Examples

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

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

“...and, having an excellent constitution, regularly attributed any temporary ailment of her daughters to carelessness, for which she prescribed "water gruel, and keeping in bed," being certain that under so safe a regimen, "they would get⟳ well as soon as possible, and learn⟳ to keep⟳ well also."”

“(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.”

“Pronouns may be nominatives, and of the direct⟳ or indirect regimen.”

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