regimentedadj.
/ˈrɛdʒᵻmɛntᵻd/, U.S. /ˈrɛdʒəˌmɛn(t)əd/ 1.
a. Of a fighting force, group of people, etc.: formed into a regiment or regiments; formed into an organized group or groups; ordered; organized. Also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > [adjective] > formed into regiments
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society > [adjective] > formed into organized groups
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a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1653 544/1 A great part of the Army there, was reduced, Eleven Regiments of Foot, and Four Regiments of Horse, besides all new Regimented Troopers, and Foot Companies.
1693 J. Tyrrell Bibliotheca Politica (1694) ix. 639 A Regimented Militia, being of no elder date than Queen Elizabeth.
1702 D. Defoe Mock Mourners 14 A Regimented Few we had indeed, Who serv'd for neither Pride nor Fame, but Bread.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 422 His books well trimmed..Like regimented coxcombs rank and file.
1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 327 They became objects of jealousy to the whole regimented forces of the Romish Church.
1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece VI. ii. liv. 608 The superiority of disciplined and regimented force over disorderly numbers.
1882 Times 16 Jan. 7/3 Regimented Irishmen are as true to their duty as either English or Scotch.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 Apr. 1/2 We have no idea whether victory will crown the banners of the Chicago women or of the regimented women mill-workers.
1954 R. Coupland Welsh & Sc. Nationalism i. 10 The question to be decided was whether parliamentary England could hold her own in fighting power and endurance against the massed and regimented forces of military despotism.
1992 Harper's Mag. Oct. 64/1 The dead have come to take the living. The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays a hurdy-gurdy.
b. Of objects: arranged into or forming a regular pattern, esp. one suggestive of an assembled regiment.
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1737 C. King in London Mag. June 332/1 Here, planted by thy own industrious hand, The regimented trees in order stand.
1827 Westm. Rev. July 50 We, in the plenitude of our admiration, strip off the screen, take away the regimented columns, and then fall down and worship a bare wall.
1946 C. Batley Archit. 31 The conglomerations of regimented cubicles known as chawls.
1971 Morning Star 13 July 2 Whole families prepared to descend on the regimented lines of strawberries and fill thousands of punnets.
1992 Holiday Which? May 130 The rugged grey limestone terrain, broken only by the dark green spears of cypresses and regimented vineyards.
2. Characterized by or subject to strict order or regulation; excessively or oppressively systematized.
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1914 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 19 485 Contrast the regimented lives of city workers..with the frontiersman's life.
1931 V. Woolf Waves 136 But from one attic there was a blue view, a distant view of a field unstained by the corruption of this regimented, unreal existence.
1967 A. Djoleto Strange Man v. 61 Such a pupil is nothing but a regimented doll who opposes change.
1996 City Paper (Baltimore) 4 Dec. 15/1 In recent weeks the union has ranted about highly regimented working conditions.
2005 Hot Bike Mar. 86 (caption) The motor..was gently brought to life in a regimented process called heat cycling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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