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单词 regulated
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regulatedadj.

Brit. /ˈrɛɡjᵿleɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈrɛɡjəˌleɪdᵻd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: regulate v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < regulate v. + -ed suffix1. Compare earlier regulate adj.
1. Properly controlled, governed, or directed; subject to guidance or regulations. Also: adjusted in response to, or in order to conform to, a principle, standard, set of circumstances, etc. Frequently with modifying word, as badly-, best-, ill-, well-regulated, etc.
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society > authority > control > [adjective] > regulating > regulated
regulate1549
regulated1615
controlled1889
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > [adjective] > making conform > adjusted to a standard or purpose
regulate1549
regulated1766
1615 T. Tuke Christians Looking Glasse 70 Hee that loues God truely, and with a well regulated loue will loue God, chiefly for God himselfe.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 243 How Matrimonially soever such persons as have maried themselves may pretend to love,..yet..all that life is but a regulated Adultery.
1697 J. Woodward Acct. Relig. Societies London in Earnest Admon. Young Persons 142 Those regulated Societies, which are now..conspicuous among us for many good Works.
a1704 T. Brown Ess. Satire Ancients in Wks. (1730) I. 16 These [verses]..had regulated forms, that is regular dances and musick.
1731 tr. E. Le Noble Winter Evening Tales xvi. 238 Even in the best regulated families some petty Quarrels will arise.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Surveying Then may you measure all the whole chains by your regulated chain.
1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 336 They are fired with a regulated charge of powder and shot.
1838 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. London 1 358 Many [schools]..are close, filthy, ill-regulated, and the teachers utterly unqualified for either teaching or keeping the children in order.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 621 Regulated exercises, such as the gentle climbing, especially in mountain districts, known as the terrain cure.
1946 G. Wilson Fidelity Folks 54 He stoutly maintained that a regulated open saloon was to be preferred to the evils of moonshining and boot-legging.
1961 Econ. Bot. 15 357 Contact between the refrigerated plates and packaged product is maintained under regulated pressure.
2008 Daily Mail (Nexis) 8 Oct. 91 We need only to look at banking to see what can happen in a badly regulated industry.
2. Of troops, an army, etc.: properly organized; formally constituted into a professional body. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. Obsolete. Cf. regular adj. 7.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > [adjective] > qualities
mainc1450
weak1488
unserviceablea1599
new-raised?1609
unrecruited1649
regulated1650
strongish1652
steady1670
mastering1711
undisciplined1718
unbroken1720
reduced1817
sticky1898
mechanicalized1901
u/s1942
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. iii. 45 Fight they durst not, being a multitude of undisciplin'd people, of all ages and sexes, against a regulated army of their enemies.
1690 London Gaz. No. 2568/3 We hear likewise that the French are in a great Allarm in Dauphine and Bresse, not having at present 1500 Men of regulated Troops on that side.
1714 J. Pointer Chronol. Hist. Eng. II. 461 The Muscovite Army was above 100000 Men, and the Swedes but 20000 Regulated Troops.
1769 J. Brown Dict. Holy Bible II. 487/1 What regulated troops of vigilant, active, and courageous ministers, armed with the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
1816 J. Aikin Ann. Reign of George III II. 253 On November 15, the Janissaries, who had massacred the principal officers of the regulated troops, scaled the walls of the seraglio.

Compounds

regulated company n. now historical a trading company in which each member trades using his or her own capital at personal risk, and of which membership is not restricted; contrasted with joint-stock company at joint stock n. Compounds.
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1677 R. Ferguson East-India-trade 23 All persons being at liberty to Trade for India under a Regulated Company, there would be more buyers of Cloth,..and so the Prices would be raised here by the multiplicity of Buyers.
1784 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations (ed. 3) III. v. iii. 110 When those companies..are obliged to admit any person, properly qualified,..they are called regulated companies.
1836 Legal Observer 16 July 202/2 A regulated company is in fact a device for making those engaged in a particular branch of trade bear the public or political expenses incident to it.
1912 W. R. Scott Const. & Finance Eng., Sc. & Irish Joint-stock Companies to 1720 I. ii. 17 The regulated company had..perpetual succession and a permanent body of officials, but..each member might use his own capital as he thought best.
2011 R. Swedberg in N. Bandelj & F. F. Wherry Cultural Wealth of Nations ii. 66 In regulated companies, each of the participating merchants had to invest a certain sum, but they could trade on their own.
regulated tenancy n. Law (in the UK) a residential tenancy beginning before January 1989 and governed by the terms of the 1965–77 Rent Acts, giving the tenant the right to secure tenancy and a fair rent.Replaced by assured tenancies and assured shorthold tenancies under the 1988 Housing Act.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > leasehold tenure > statutory or regulated
statutory tenancy1866
regulated tenancy1965
1965 Act Eliz. II c. 75 §1 In this Act ‘regulated tenancy’ means—a) a tenancy to which the Rent Acts apply by virtue of this section; or b) a statutory tenancy arising on the termination of such a tenancy as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection.
1970 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 4th Ser. 19 ii. 206 Unfurnished tenancies under the Rent Act being either (2) ‘controlled’ or (3) ‘regulated tenancies’.
1985 R. C. A. White Admin. of Justice iii. xi. 181 Fair rents for the type of tenancy known as a regulated tenancy are fixed by..Rent officers.
2008 Times (Nexis) 9 May 2 Regulated tenancies are residential tenancies that began before January 15, 1989. They are governed by the Rent Acts, which were generally favourable to tenants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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