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▪ I. regulating, vbl. n.|ˈrɛgjʊleɪtɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. regulate.
1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xviii. 91 This is not repugnant to regulating of the same by Peace. 1680Burnet Rochester 41 As reasonable for God to prescribe a Regulating of those appetites. 1712Prideaux Direct. Ch.-wardens (ed. 4) 51 He presides for the regulating and directing of this Matter. 1824W. N. Blans Excursion U.S. & Canada 236 This practice of Regulating seems very strange to an European.
▪ II. regulating, ppl. a.|ˈrɛgjʊleɪtɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That regulates.
1. a. Of principles, persons, etc.
With quot. 1768 compare regulator 1 c.
1710Norris Chr. Prud. i. 7 There is therefore a conducting Rule, and a regulating Rule. 1768Boston Chron. 1–8 Aug. 1315/1 The reforming or regulating people will not suffer process civil or criminal, to be executed, but where, and against whom they think proper. 1796Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 27 The commanding officer of the regulating squadron of the line. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 185 An attracting and regulating body, that gives compactness and strength to the commonwealth. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. iii. ii. (1874) 364 Besides benevolence, there is needed..a regulating power of justice.
†b. regulating captain or regulating judge: (see quots. 1815–63). Obs.
1758J. Blake Plan Mar. Syst. 48 The regulating judge to determine how far such man is obliged to serve. 1768Woman of Honor II. 182 Recommended him to a regulating Captain ‘as a fit person to serve the King’. 1815Burney Falconer's Dict. Marine, Regulating Captain is an officer stationed at the different royal ports, in time of war, to examine the seamen intended for the navy. 1863A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2), Regulating Captain, in the Navy, ‘the Officer appointed to superintend the raising of seamen, and who examines them on their entry’.
2. Of mechanical contrivances.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 201 The pipe from the steam-case..has a regulating valve. Ibid. 314, L is the regulating screw. 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 303/1 The pendulum-spring (also called the regulating-spring and hair-spring). 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 48 The tray which receives the ore..as fast as may be desired, a suitable regulating-gate being employed.
3. Biol. Of developing organisms or tissues (cf. regulate v. 5).
1902Archiv für Entwicklungsmech. der Organismen XV. 231 When a regulating piece is supplied with abundant food, growth and regulation are..very intimately connected. 1926J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 259 This passage from a regulating to a non-regulating condition takes place during gastrulation, before the first structural differentiation, in the shape of the medullary plate, is visible at all. |