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‖ regula|ˈrɛgjʊlə| [L. rēgula a ruler, rule, etc., f. regĕre to make or lead straight.] 1. Arch. A fillet or reglet; spec. a short band, with guttæ on the lower side, placed below the tænia in Doric Architecture.
1563Shute Archit. C iij, Vnder the Capitall, is made Astragalus, with his Regula..The which Regula, shalbe halfe so much in height as the height of Astragalus. 1598R. Haydocke tr. Lomazzo i. 86 The other must be deuided into three [parts]: give two to torus B: and the other to regula C. 1664Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. 133 Where they do frequently encounter and meet together with a small Regula between them. 1727–38Chambers Cycl. 1840Parker Gloss. Archit.; and in mod. Dicts. †2. A rule, norm. Obs. rare.
1650T. Goodwin Wks. (1862) IV. 177 Their punishment is made the regula of all other wicked men's. 1870S. H. Hodgson Theory of Practice II. iv. 255 Logic is the regula of the sequences in meanings..; Grammar the regula of sounds and language. |