regimen

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin regimen (“‘guidance, direction, government, rule’”) < regere (“‘to rule’”).

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regimen (plural regimens)

1. Orderly government; system of order; administration.
2. Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
3. (grammar) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

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