regimenn.

Brit.

/ˈrɛdʒᵻmən/,

/ˈrɛʒᵻmɛn/, U.S.

/ˈrɛdʒəmən/,

/ˈrɛdʒəˌmɛn/

Forms: Middle English– regimen, 1600s regimine; also Scottish pre-1700 regemen.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French regimen; Latin regimen.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French regimen government, administration (c1265 in Old French), medical treatment (1314 in Old French), regulations, lifestyle (both 14th cent.; Middle French, French régime regime n.) and its etymon classical Latin regimen control, management, guidance, controller, guide, in post-classical Latin also course of medical treatment (a1252, a1294, 1424 in British sources), (in grammar) relation of a word to the word that governs it (13th cent. in a British source; 15th cent. in a continental source) < regere to rule, direct (see regent adj.) + -men (see -ment suffix). Compare Spanish régimen medical diet (1431), medical treatment (1493 or earlier), lifestyle, way of life (1629 or earlier), government, administration (c1500), form of government, political system (18th cent.), Portuguese regímen (1680), regime (1789), Italian regime administration, government (1308), lifestyle, diet (a1758), form of government, political system (1797). Compare regime n., regiment n.In form regimine probably after oblique forms of classical Latin regimin-, regimen.

a. The regulation of aspects of life (diet, exercise, etc.) which have an influence on a person's health (frequently without article). Also: a mode of treatment; (now more commonly): a particular course of diet, exercise, medication, etc., prescribed or adopted for the restoration or preservation of health. Cf. regime n. 1, regiment n. 5.Regimen rather than regime is now the usual word in the United States and in Medicine; in British English regime is more usual.In quot. a1656 in figurative context as part of an extended metaphor.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > [noun] > course of treatment

medicinec1325

regimena1400

regiment?a1425

discipline?a1439

regime1864

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 289/24 (MED) Þou schalt kepe him wiþ good regimen, & he schal vse no metis ne drinkis þat engendrith scharp blood.

1646 G. Daniel Wks. (Grosart) I. 41 Things..Very behoofull to the Regimen Of health.

a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1659) ii. 33 This my text therefore is a Spiritual Regimen and diet for these who are of a weak and sickly constitution of minde, and it contains a Recipe for a man of crazie and diseased faith.

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 197 If thereby the Pulse be alter'd to more frequency, we use a cool Regimen.

1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 293 A regimen of bread and water; or, what is little better, of small beer and apple-dumplings.

1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind i. §3 Would he not hope for his cure from physic and good regimen?

1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft i. 19 His physician received a grateful letter from him acknowledging the success of his regimen.

1855 Lancet 14 Apr. 389/2 In chronic complaints, simply requiring attention to regimen and diet to effect a cure, the patient may safely be amused by the ridiculous little globules of ‘sugar of milk’.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 425 A strict regimen..being at the same time observed.

1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. iv. ii. 281 ‘Very sound advice and a very good regimen,’ said Mr Adelaide, who had pricked up his ears at the Senator's mention of breakfast foods.

2006 M. Pollan Omnivore's Dilemma xvi. 289 We're settling on a weight-loss regimen (low fat or low carb?).

b. In extended use: any systematic or prescribed course of action, esp. one adopted for a particular purpose or end; a programme; a routine.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation > a regulation or rule > body or system of

disciplinea1393

formulary?1541

code1548

codex1577

rationale1580

disciplizationa1706

regimen1751

code of practice1783

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 89. ⁋7 Active employment..is generally a necessary part of this intellectual regimen.

1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal iii. iii. 35 There's Harry, Dick, and Careless himself, who are under a hazard regimen.

1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. vi. 137 That educatory regimen of which Scripture is the rule and end.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter 97 ‘A course of reading’ as it is sometimes called, is a course of regimen for dwarfing the mind.

1911 A. C. Coolidge Reciprocity xvii. 131 To properly describe the feelings of a man who has been brought up on a strict regimen of conventionalities, is a difficult task.

1975 New Yorker 28 Apr. 6/3 She's lately been branching out from a strict regimen of blues and folk songs..to include some rock, soul, and Nashville-inspired ditties.

1992 Duke (Durham, N. Carolina) Dialogue 2 July 12/1 A two-week, all-day regimen of lectures, supplemented by evening tutoring.

a. The action of governing; governance, rule. Also figurative. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > [noun] > action or act of

ruling?c1225

governingc1384

governancec1400

government?c1400

gubernationc1450

regence?1457

regencya1475

subjectionc1475

regimenc1485

administration1516

signorizing1588

ministry1700

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 62 Quhare thare is na hede, regemen na ordinaunce, thare resoun naturale failis.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 55 (MED) Diuerse comontees haue accepted heyers in reemes as for the most perfight and semblably of the vniuersall regimen which cometh all owt of hevene.

a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 5 Thocht he [sc. God]..may nocht ere in regimen and gubernacioune [etc.].

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 52 Baith sword and sceptour, regimen and croun.

1658 R. Flecknoe Enigmaticall Characters 59 He has the Regimen of your Ladies Legs..and is the sole pedagogue of the Feet.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xii. 111 Do what we can, they'l get loose from the Minds Regimen.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 491 Others commonly assign him the Regimen of Separate Souls after Death.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 130 The General himself, and the Martial affairs, were subject to this Regimen and Discipline as well as the Civil.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 25 In the inns of court all sorts of regimen and academical superintendance..are found impracticable.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. i. 2 The forms and principles of political regimen in these different nations became more divergent from each other.

1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary iii. i. 104 Sir, no woman's regimen Can save us.

1880 L. Morris Ode of Life (ed. 2) 99 Thou rulest all things still; The Governance and Regimen is Thine, Oh Plenitude divine!

1907 Hearings bef. Comm. Interoceanic Canals (U.S. Senate, 59th Congr., 2nd Sess.) III. 2263 This power can not be retained in any place over which the United States has jurisdiction except that place is under military regimen.

2003 C. Valente Theory & Pract. Revolt in Med. Eng. iii. 44 Medieval Englishmen more often than not approved of rebels..accepting baronial claims to be working to establish good regimen through defending law and counsel.

†b. A group of people considered as a class or kind esp. as a result of following a particular system or form of governance. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > [noun]

estatec1230

statec1300

rowa1350

qualityc1425

calling1477

range1494

line1528

stature1533

respect1601

station1603

gradationa1616

ordinancea1616

repute1615

spherea1616

distance1635

impression1639

civils1650

footing1657

regimen1660

order1667

sect1709

caste1791

status1818

position1829

social status1833

standpoint1875

1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 2 The soul of Pythagoras, being of the regimine of Apollo, (whether as a follower, or some other way more near to him).

1709 Tatler No. 68 I have also a long List of Persons of Condition, who are certainly of the same Regimen with these Banditti.

c. A particular form of governance or control; a prevailing system. Cf. regime n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > [noun]

ordinance?a1400

governance1402

policy?a1439

regimentc1475

frame1529

statea1538

government1553

estate1559

platform1587

polity1590

governail1598

regimen1663

constitution1735

regime1792

system1806

party government1834

1663 E. Gayton Relig. of Physician 78 No such Regimen was left by our Saviour, nor no such Vicar, nor no such Peter, with a brandisht Sword.

1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 274 Gentlemen's Sons in the College, under the Influence of such a Regimen, will be exposed to the Mischiefs of Idleness, Expence, and Debauchery.

1792 A. Young Trav. France 529 Under the regimen of land-taxes, all foreigners residing in a kingdom absolutely escape taxation.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. vii. 565 Nothing is so apt to follow as sedition from a popular regimen.

1861 J. S. Mill Considerations Representative Govt. iii. 47 What sort of human beings can be formed under such a regimen?

1929 H. G. Farmer Hist. Arabian Music vii I have conveniently demonstrated how culture stood in relation to the social and political regimen.

1972 William & Mary Q. 29 217 Indian villages where some of the settlers found life more agreeable that at Jamestown where a military regimen prevailed after 1608.

2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 May a21 My hope is that inside of the new political regimen, we develop a center, a left and a right.

3. Grammar. The relation of a word, clause, etc., to the word that governs it. Also: a case, word, or phrase so governed by another word. Now rare. in regimen: forming part of such a construction.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [noun] > government

regimenta1504

regimen1531

government1569

rection1585

construction1762

1531 J. Vaus Rudimenta (new ed.) iii. sig. ffij Quhou mony thingis fallis to congruite? twa..concord and regimen.

1600 P. Holland in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 2nd Index at H–S You must in this manner of speech understand millia for the regimen of the Genitive case.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iv. 448 The Regimen of words doth concern their government of others.

1676 J. Wilson Vanity Mans Present State iv. 109 The assuming of (ַ) for (ָ) in Regimen shews its relation to the subsequent substantive.

1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. iii. 263 Hence..arises the Grammatical Regimen of the Verb by its Nominative, and of the Accusative by its Verb.

1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 127 I am therefore inclined to believe, that the word ואחי ought to be considered as in regimen, or construction.

1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. ii. iv. 490 To say he was laughed, would be repugnant alike to grammar and to sense. But give this verb a regimen, and say, to laugh at, and you alter its nature by adding to its signification.

1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. iii. 308 The following sentences, which give the passive voice the regimen of an active verb, are very irregular.

1872 F. Hall Rec. Exempl. False Philol. 84 The grammarians posit the absence of regimen as one of the differential features of a conjunction.

1881 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 2 313 The dative case where we now put the nominative, and the verb in regimen, not as at present, in agreement.

1901 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 16 313 Whenever it does govern an object, the present participle..has the same regimen as the verb from which it is derived.

1966 Eng. Stud. 47 53 This is an old trait in Germanic where the pres. participles had the character and regimen of nomina agentis.

1977 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 97 131 The typical case is a contrasted pair of terms, one of which is in regimen with a third term, while the other..is not.

†4. Chemistry. The manner in which fire or heat is applied and regulated during a procedure. Cf. regiment n. 7. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1655 Chymical, Medicinal, & Chyrurg. Addr. 37 Nor have we but one matter, nor but one way of working upon that matter, nor but one regimen of heat, and one linear way of proceeding.

a1665 G. Starkey Sir George Ripley's Epist. Unfolded 44 in Ripley Reviv'd (1678) You must boyl this Stone in the same water, in the same proportion, with the same Regimen, (only your Fire shal then be a little slacker).

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Regimen, in Chymistry and Alchymy, is the Method of ordering and conducting any thing, that it may answer its Intention. Thus, Regimen of the Fire, is the manner of making and ordering a Fire, and the Degrees thereof.

1776 J. Seiferth tr. C. E. Gellert Metallurgic Chym. ii. 316 If a proper regimen of fire has been observed, a real sulphur will appear collected in the neck of the retort.

5. Physical Geography. = regime n. 3a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > watercourse or channel

runeOE

sitchOE

pipeOE

sichetc1133

guttera1300

siket1300

sikec1330

watergate1368

gole?a1400

gotea1400

flout14..

aa1430

trough1513

guta1552

race1570

lode1572

canala1576

ditch1589

trink1592

leam1601

dike1616

runlet1630

stell1651

nullah1656

course1665

drain1700

lade1706

droke1772

regimen1797

draught1807

adit1808

sluit1818

thalweg1831

runway1874

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 283/2 Let us call this state of a river its regimen, denoting by the word the proper adjustment of the velocity of the stream to the tenacity of the channel.

1851 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 10 231 Experiments and observations were made on the velocity and regimen of the stream.

1971 R. F. Flint Glacial & Quaternary Geol. iii. 47 It will be useful to..refer to the system or activity of the glacier as a whole, based on its meteorology, economy, rate and possible type of flow, and fluctuation, as the regimen of the glacier.

1998 M. Reuss Designing the Bayous vii. 215 Future floods would threaten the regimen of the Mississippi and force the river into a new channel.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	regimen
释义	regimenn. Brit. /ˈrɛdʒᵻmən/, /ˈrɛʒᵻmɛn/, U.S. /ˈrɛdʒəmən/, /ˈrɛdʒəˌmɛn/ Forms: Middle English– regimen, 1600s regimine; also Scottish pre-1700 regemen. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French regimen; Latin regimen. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French regimen government, administration (c1265 in Old French), medical treatment (1314 in Old French), regulations, lifestyle (both 14th cent.; Middle French, French régime regime n.) and its etymon classical Latin regimen control, management, guidance, controller, guide, in post-classical Latin also course of medical treatment (a1252, a1294, 1424 in British sources), (in grammar) relation of a word to the word that governs it (13th cent. in a British source; 15th cent. in a continental source) < regere to rule, direct (see regent adj.) + -men (see -ment suffix). Compare Spanish régimen medical diet (1431), medical treatment (1493 or earlier), lifestyle, way of life (1629 or earlier), government, administration (c1500), form of government, political system (18th cent.), Portuguese regímen (1680), regime (1789), Italian regime administration, government (1308), lifestyle, diet (a1758), form of government, political system (1797). Compare regime n., regiment n.In form regimine probably after oblique forms of classical Latin regimin-, regimen. 1. a. The regulation of aspects of life (diet, exercise, etc.) which have an influence on a person's health (frequently without article). Also: a mode of treatment; (now more commonly): a particular course of diet, exercise, medication, etc., prescribed or adopted for the restoration or preservation of health. Cf. regime n. 1, regiment n. 5.Regimen rather than regime is now the usual word in the United States and in Medicine; in British English regime is more usual.In quot. a1656 in figurative context as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > [noun] > course of treatment medicinec1325 regimena1400 regiment?a1425 discipline?a1439 regime1864 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 289/24 (MED) Þou schalt kepe him wiþ good regimen, & he schal vse no metis ne drinkis þat engendrith scharp blood. 1646 G. Daniel Wks. (Grosart) I. 41 Things..Very behoofull to the Regimen Of health. a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1659) ii. 33 This my text therefore is a Spiritual Regimen and diet for these who are of a weak and sickly constitution of minde, and it contains a Recipe for a man of crazie and diseased faith. 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 197 If thereby the Pulse be alter'd to more frequency, we use a cool Regimen. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 293 A regimen of bread and water; or, what is little better, of small beer and apple-dumplings. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind i. §3 Would he not hope for his cure from physic and good regimen? 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft i. 19 His physician received a grateful letter from him acknowledging the success of his regimen. 1855 Lancet 14 Apr. 389/2 In chronic complaints, simply requiring attention to regimen and diet to effect a cure, the patient may safely be amused by the ridiculous little globules of ‘sugar of milk’. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 425 A strict regimen..being at the same time observed. 1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. iv. ii. 281 ‘Very sound advice and a very good regimen,’ said Mr Adelaide, who had pricked up his ears at the Senator's mention of breakfast foods. 2006 M. Pollan Omnivore's Dilemma xvi. 289 We're settling on a weight-loss regimen (low fat or low carb?). b. In extended use: any systematic or prescribed course of action, esp. one adopted for a particular purpose or end; a programme; a routine. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation > a regulation or rule > body or system of disciplinea1393 formulary?1541 code1548 codex1577 rationale1580 disciplizationa1706 regimen1751 code of practice1783 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 89. ⁋7 Active employment..is generally a necessary part of this intellectual regimen. 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal iii. iii. 35 There's Harry, Dick, and Careless himself, who are under a hazard regimen. 1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. vi. 137 That educatory regimen of which Scripture is the rule and end. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter 97 ‘A course of reading’ as it is sometimes called, is a course of regimen for dwarfing the mind. 1911 A. C. Coolidge Reciprocity xvii. 131 To properly describe the feelings of a man who has been brought up on a strict regimen of conventionalities, is a difficult task. 1975 New Yorker 28 Apr. 6/3 She's lately been branching out from a strict regimen of blues and folk songs..to include some rock, soul, and Nashville-inspired ditties. 1992 Duke (Durham, N. Carolina) Dialogue 2 July 12/1 A two-week, all-day regimen of lectures, supplemented by evening tutoring. 2. a. The action of governing; governance, rule. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > [noun] > action or act of ruling?c1225 governingc1384 governancec1400 government?c1400 gubernationc1450 regence?1457 regencya1475 subjectionc1475 regimenc1485 administration1516 signorizing1588 ministry1700 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 62 Quhare thare is na hede, regemen na ordinaunce, thare resoun naturale failis. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 55 (MED) Diuerse comontees haue accepted heyers in reemes as for the most perfight and semblably of the vniuersall regimen which cometh all owt of hevene. a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 5 Thocht he [sc. God]..may nocht ere in regimen and gubernacioune [etc.]. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 52 Baith sword and sceptour, regimen and croun. 1658 R. Flecknoe Enigmaticall Characters 59 He has the Regimen of your Ladies Legs..and is the sole pedagogue of the Feet. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xii. 111 Do what we can, they'l get loose from the Minds Regimen. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 491 Others commonly assign him the Regimen of Separate Souls after Death. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 130 The General himself, and the Martial affairs, were subject to this Regimen and Discipline as well as the Civil. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 25 In the inns of court all sorts of regimen and academical superintendance..are found impracticable. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. i. 2 The forms and principles of political regimen in these different nations became more divergent from each other. 1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary iii. i. 104 Sir, no woman's regimen Can save us. 1880 L. Morris Ode of Life (ed. 2) 99 Thou rulest all things still; The Governance and Regimen is Thine, Oh Plenitude divine! 1907 Hearings bef. Comm. Interoceanic Canals (U.S. Senate, 59th Congr., 2nd Sess.) III. 2263 This power can not be retained in any place over which the United States has jurisdiction except that place is under military regimen. 2003 C. Valente Theory & Pract. Revolt in Med. Eng. iii. 44 Medieval Englishmen more often than not approved of rebels..accepting baronial claims to be working to establish good regimen through defending law and counsel. †b. A group of people considered as a class or kind esp. as a result of following a particular system or form of governance. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [noun] estatec1230 statec1300 rowa1350 qualityc1425 calling1477 range1494 line1528 stature1533 respect1601 station1603 gradationa1616 ordinancea1616 repute1615 spherea1616 distance1635 impression1639 civils1650 footing1657 regimen1660 order1667 sect1709 caste1791 status1818 position1829 social status1833 standpoint1875 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 2 The soul of Pythagoras, being of the regimine of Apollo, (whether as a follower, or some other way more near to him). 1709 Tatler No. 68 I have also a long List of Persons of Condition, who are certainly of the same Regimen with these Banditti. c. A particular form of governance or control; a prevailing system. Cf. regime n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > [noun] ordinance?a1400 governance1402 policy?a1439 regimentc1475 frame1529 statea1538 government1553 estate1559 platform1587 polity1590 governail1598 regimen1663 constitution1735 regime1792 system1806 party government1834 1663 E. Gayton Relig. of Physician 78 No such Regimen was left by our Saviour, nor no such Vicar, nor no such Peter, with a brandisht Sword. 1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 274 Gentlemen's Sons in the College, under the Influence of such a Regimen, will be exposed to the Mischiefs of Idleness, Expence, and Debauchery. 1792 A. Young Trav. France 529 Under the regimen of land-taxes, all foreigners residing in a kingdom absolutely escape taxation. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. vii. 565 Nothing is so apt to follow as sedition from a popular regimen. 1861 J. S. Mill Considerations Representative Govt. iii. 47 What sort of human beings can be formed under such a regimen? 1929 H. G. Farmer Hist. Arabian Music vii I have conveniently demonstrated how culture stood in relation to the social and political regimen. 1972 William & Mary Q. 29 217 Indian villages where some of the settlers found life more agreeable that at Jamestown where a military regimen prevailed after 1608. 2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 May a21 My hope is that inside of the new political regimen, we develop a center, a left and a right. 3. Grammar. The relation of a word, clause, etc., to the word that governs it. Also: a case, word, or phrase so governed by another word. Now rare. in regimen: forming part of such a construction. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [noun] > government regimenta1504 regimen1531 government1569 rection1585 construction1762 1531 J. Vaus Rudimenta (new ed.) iii. sig. ffij Quhou mony thingis fallis to congruite? twa..concord and regimen. 1600 P. Holland in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 2nd Index at H–S You must in this manner of speech understand millia for the regimen of the Genitive case. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iv. 448 The Regimen of words doth concern their government of others. 1676 J. Wilson Vanity Mans Present State iv. 109 The assuming of (ַ) for (ָ) in Regimen shews its relation to the subsequent substantive. 1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. iii. 263 Hence..arises the Grammatical Regimen of the Verb by its Nominative, and of the Accusative by its Verb. 1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 127 I am therefore inclined to believe, that the word ואחי ought to be considered as in regimen, or construction. 1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. ii. iv. 490 To say he was laughed, would be repugnant alike to grammar and to sense. But give this verb a regimen, and say, to laugh at, and you alter its nature by adding to its signification. 1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. iii. 308 The following sentences, which give the passive voice the regimen of an active verb, are very irregular. 1872 F. Hall Rec. Exempl. False Philol. 84 The grammarians posit the absence of regimen as one of the differential features of a conjunction. 1881 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 2 313 The dative case where we now put the nominative, and the verb in regimen, not as at present, in agreement. 1901 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 16 313 Whenever it does govern an object, the present participle..has the same regimen as the verb from which it is derived. 1966 Eng. Stud. 47 53 This is an old trait in Germanic where the pres. participles had the character and regimen of nomina agentis. 1977 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 97 131 The typical case is a contrasted pair of terms, one of which is in regimen with a third term, while the other..is not. †4. Chemistry. The manner in which fire or heat is applied and regulated during a procedure. Cf. regiment n. 7. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1655 Chymical, Medicinal, & Chyrurg. Addr. 37 Nor have we but one matter, nor but one way of working upon that matter, nor but one regimen of heat, and one linear way of proceeding. a1665 G. Starkey Sir George Ripley's Epist. Unfolded 44 in Ripley Reviv'd (1678) You must boyl this Stone in the same water, in the same proportion, with the same Regimen, (only your Fire shal then be a little slacker). 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Regimen, in Chymistry and Alchymy, is the Method of ordering and conducting any thing, that it may answer its Intention. Thus, Regimen of the Fire, is the manner of making and ordering a Fire, and the Degrees thereof. 1776 J. Seiferth tr. C. E. Gellert Metallurgic Chym. ii. 316 If a proper regimen of fire has been observed, a real sulphur will appear collected in the neck of the retort. 5. Physical Geography. = regime n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > watercourse or channel runeOE sitchOE pipeOE sichetc1133 guttera1300 siket1300 sikec1330 watergate1368 gole?a1400 gotea1400 flout14.. aa1430 trough1513 guta1552 race1570 lode1572 canala1576 ditch1589 trink1592 leam1601 dike1616 runlet1630 stell1651 nullah1656 course1665 drain1700 lade1706 droke1772 regimen1797 draught1807 adit1808 sluit1818 thalweg1831 runway1874 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 283/2 Let us call this state of a river its regimen, denoting by the word the proper adjustment of the velocity of the stream to the tenacity of the channel. 1851 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 10 231 Experiments and observations were made on the velocity and regimen of the stream. 1971 R. F. Flint Glacial & Quaternary Geol. iii. 47 It will be useful to..refer to the system or activity of the glacier as a whole, based on its meteorology, economy, rate and possible type of flow, and fluctuation, as the regimen of the glacier. 1998 M. Reuss Designing the Bayous vii. 215 Future floods would threaten the regimen of the Mississippi and force the river into a new channel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400
随便看	bere bread bere corn bere crop bere floor bere-bag bere-seed bereason bereave bereaved bereavement bereavement counselling bereavement counsellor bereavements bereaven bereaver bereavers bereaves bereaving berebag berebus bered berede bereft berefter bereftest