regimentaladj.n.

1629 F. Malthus tr. Treat. Artific. Fire-works (end matter) (advt.) Regimental Book for the Use of the Major or Adjutant, beautifully engraved, with proper Heads, folio.

1659 J. Jones Let. 1 Dec. in J. Mayer Inedited Lett. Cromwell & Other Regicides (1861) 112 But crosse windes stayed the messenger at the water side till saturday last, soe that the tyme of meeteing at whitehall is come upon us before wee canne have any regimental meetings of o[u]r offic[e]rs.

1698 B. Bullivant in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 168 Grashoppers..have a kind of Regimental Discipline, and as it were, some Commanders, which shew greater or more splendid Wings than the Commoners.

1702 London Gaz. No. 3843/4 He is 5 foot 9 inches, in his Regimental Clothes.

1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., App. at Hospital Regimental hospitals are of the greatest importance.

1762 London Chron. 30 Oct. 431/3 The Eton boys have for several years taken upon themselves..to lay the country under military contribution; they take possession annually of a certain strong post on an hill, and appearing in exact regimental discipline, levy whatever supplies they please.

1776 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 406 It is right, I believe, to make the rule of promotion among captains and subalterns regimental only.

1829 Regul. & Ord. Army (1844) 10 The Regimental, or Second, Standard, or Guidon, is to be of the Colour of the Facing of the Regiment.

1880 Gen. Adye in 19th Cent. Apr. 703 With only seven officers in a regiment, a system of pure regimental rise by single battalions cannot well be applied.

1941 J. Grenfell Let. 28 Dec. in Darling Ma (1989) 324 We had an assignation with the messing officer from his camp who would be passing by there at the time, having been to London in a regimental lorry.

1985 Times 30 Oct. 23/2 Their offside trap began to work once more with regimental efficiency.

2004 New Yorker 19 Jan. 84/3 The local regimental band is playing ‘The Radetzky March’.

1845 J. Saunders Cabinet Pictures of Eng. Life: Chaucer 8 Chaucer had not much relish for the regimental school of rhythm.

1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 422 With metallic beliefs and regimental devotions.

1890 T. H. Huxley Coll. Ess. I. 419 The final outcome of Regimentation is seen in those extreme forms of regimental Socialism which undertake to regulate..every detail of human life.

1904 Mag. of Art 2 179/2 Some [firms of furnishers] are inclined to set too great a store by regimental uniformity, to the end that they may produce what are called ‘suites’.

1990 P. Dickens Urban Sociol. (BNC) 117 It's not having everything regimental. Not feeling it's got to be like a furniture showroom to be comfortable.

1919 Athenæum 1 Aug. 695/1 Regimental, an Old Army adjective for a strict disciplinarian.

1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 154 Regimental... As an adjective, applied to an officer or N.C.O. who was a stickler for details. ‘So-and-so's too regimental for words.’

1966 N. Ward Party Politician xv. 206 To my civilian mind he was altogether too regimental.

1969 D. Barrett in K. S. Inglis Hist. Melanesia (1971) 500 They were the most casual pair of individuals one could meet... Rather naturally neither of these officers was very regimental.

2000 I. Watt Ess. on Conrad xii. 196 Some regarded him as a bit too regimental for their taste; but, unanswerably, he delivered the goods.

1764 F. C. Sheridan Dupe i. iv. 10 With an old tatter'd regimental, a rusty black crape about your neck to hide the want of a stock, and a pair of greasy high-topp'd gloves to look as if you had a shirt.

1774 G. Colman Man of Business ii. 27 If they had been ruled by me, they would have put you into the guards. You would have made a sweet figure in a regimental.

1795 A. Anderson Narr. Brit. Embassy China 7 The regimental consisting of a very coarse blue jacket, with a vest and breeches of the same colour.

1803 B. Greatheed Jrnl. 5 Jan. (1953) i. 11 The General..dressd in the plainest possible blue regimental with white lapells, gallop'd to the extremity of the first line.

1840 W. B. Bernard Conquering Game iii. 23 Another rival—well, sir, strip off this Cupid's regimental—my love's campaign is over.

1800 Sun (London) 8 Nov. After firing three vollies, giving a general salute, with the Regimental Colour dropped in honour of the day,..the Regiment marched back to the barrack.

1830 E. S. N. Campbell Dict. Mil. Sci. 39 Colours..are the two silken flags carried by the Senior Ensigns in each Regiment of Infantry. The first, called the King's Colour..the Second, or Regimental Colour.

1941 ‘Faugh-a-Ballagh’ 34 53/2 A silk embroidered shamrock leaf, 3 ins. by 1¾ ins.; being a fragment of the 89th Regimental Colour.

2006 Mil. Hist. May 43/2 His entire center left and left flank..stood mesmerized by Orkney's one thin red line and the regimental colors fluttering above the crest beyond it.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 103 Gypseity and regimentality can never be turned into one another.

1901 P. T. Ross Let. 26 Feb. in Yeoman's Lett. 172 I have already referred to the confounded regimentality of this place.

2002 Racing Post (Nexis) 29 Aug. 8 Although there is a regimentality among the majority of trainers and leading owners, she believes there is still plenty of scope for individuality.

1792 Ann. Reg. 1789 Poetry 156 The regimental'd and the trowser'd trains.

1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie II. xiii. 125 When supper was over, the regimentaled gipsy accordingly renewed his offer to conduct our hero to the village.

1876 J. C. Hamilton Prairie Province iv. 38 The strains proceed from a band of some fifteen performers, regimentaled in the uniform of Canadian Militia.