reglementn.

1604 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. Q4 This Conseil d'Estat..was wont only to determine publike affaires, as..the Reglement of Finances.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 243 The Reformation and Reiglement of Vsury.

1683 W. Temple Mem. in Wks. (1731) I. 428 Offering privately..such a Reglement of Commerce as they could desire.

1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 277 They used all Means..to reduce this Master under the like Reglement as the former.

1617 W. Raleigh Hist. World (new ed.) ii. iv. 290 The difference anciently between Lawes and Edicts, which the French call Reglements, consisted in this, that lawes are the Constitutions made or confirmed by soueraigne authoritie (bee the soueraigntie in the people, in a few, or in one) and are withall generall and permanent.]

1622 T. Roe True & Faithfull Relation Constantinople sig. D These Mutiners hauing no head, or direction, kept that Reglement, that they tooke oath in their fury, in hot blood, in the Kings yard, not to dishonour, spoile nor sacke the Imperiall Throne.

1659 P. Heylyn Certamen Epistolare 89 Their Decretals were made by them intentionally to serve for a rule and a reiglement of the Church in general.

1668 England's Wants 24 In the Orders and Reglements set forth by his Grand Mareschals.

1673 Sir L. Jenkins Let. in Wynne Life (1724) I. 88 The other two reglements of trade in Indies they likewise passed over without making any exceptions to them.

1711 Thoughts of Church Eng. Divine 7 A Law cannot be valid nor derogate from other Laws, except in the said Law express mention be made of the said Derogation, with a notwithstanding to the Reglements set down in other Laws that are in Authority on that Subject.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 575/1 By that reglement she divided the whole empire into 43 governments.

1820 Christian Observer June 402/1 They became anxious to have it understood that the simple object of the réglement was to preclude the use of the pulpit as an arena of theological debate.

1898 Schedule Articles Greek Loan Art. i The conditions of this Loan..will form the subject of a Règlement which will be sanctioned by a Royal Decree.

1962 M. Shanks & J. Lambert Common Market Today & Tomorrow ii. i. 49 The procedure when a règlement is submitted by the Council is for it to be examined first by one of the parliamentary Committees.

2005 R. B. Allen in E. A. Alpers et al. Slavery & Resistance in Afr. & Asia 27 As early as 1775, a règlement commuted the death penalty for third-time maroons to less severe forms of punishment.