regulationn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌrɛɡjᵿˈleɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌrɛɡ(j)əˈleɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: 1600s– regulation; U.S. regional 1800s reggelation, 1800s reglashin.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin regulation- , regulatio ; regulate v., -ion suffix¹.

Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin regulation-, regulatio (from 13th cent. in British sources), or independently < regulate v. + -ion suffix¹ (compare -ation suffix). Compare French régulation (c1470 in Middle French in an isolated attestation in sense ‘power, sovereignty’, subsequently from 1832), Catalan regulació (1554), Spanish regulación (first half of the 16th cent.), Italian regolazione (a1311).In sense A. 5a after German Regulation (H. Driesch 1898, in Ergebnisse der Anat. u. Entwickelungsgeschichte 8 718).

A. n.

1. The action or fact of regulating (in various senses of regulate v.); an instance of this. Also: the state of being regulated.In quots. 1688, 1849: spec. with reference to the activities of the 17th-cent. regulators (see regulator n. 3).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation

ordinancec1384

rule1438

ordera1500

reglement1604

regulation1611

correction1657

the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > action of winding or setting

winding1630

rewinding1785

regulation1885

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. xiv. 611 Such transcendent courses deuiating from all due regulation of Iustice, haue been too frequent in this Kingdome.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia xxxviii. 173 The regulation of the motion of the wing.

1676 G. Carew Fraud & Oppress. Detected & Arraigned 40 In all regulations of trade, and Treaties Marine, both parties should have their respective Considerations of advantage.

1676 G. Towerson Explic. Decalogue 501 The whole duty of man..as concerns the regulation of our manners.

1688 Acct. Late Proposals Archbishop of Canterbury in G. Burnet Coll. Papers 9 He would..restore to those Corporations which had been already disturbed, their ancient Charters, Priviledges, Grants, and Immunities, and Condemn all those late Illegal Regulations of Corporations.

1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 389 The Regulation and Supervisal of the whole Course of a Man's Life.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. xviii. 459 The advancement and regulation of manufactures and commerce.

1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts in Wks. (1815) IV. 199 For the interiour regulation of India, a minute knowledge of India is requisite.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xlviii. 590 The regulation of the calendar, and the prediction of eclipses, were regarded in this country [sc. China] as important objects.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 334 From the records of the Privy Council it appears that the number of regulations, as they were called, exceeded two hundred.

1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 316/2 Regulation is effected by raising the pendulum bob to make the clock go faster.

1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism iv. 260 What the poor need for their spiritual health is..‘regulation’, and regulation is possible only if they work under the eye of an employer.

1953 Ann. Reg. 1952 145 This plan provides for the discussion of the regulation of all armaments..and of their disclosure and verification by two committees.

1969 E. P. Anderson Home Appliance Servicing (ed. 2) ii. 26 One type of thermostat usually employed in the regulation of temperature in electrical home appliances depends for its operation on the expansion of metals.

2005 L. H. Kaufman Leaders Count viii. 215 Under regulation, a railroad had been expected to cross-subsidize various lines of business.

2. A rule or principle governing behaviour or practice; esp. such a directive established and maintained by an authority.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation > a regulation or rule

lawa1225

precepta1325

line1340

observancea1382

rulea1387

reglec1475

regimentc1485

reuglec1485

instruction1526

maxima1564

maxim1578

preception1620

reglement1622

positure1624

gnomon1627

regulationa1640

parapegm1646

rubric1891

reg1904

a1640 L. Roberts Treasure of Traffike (1641) 72 What decrees and ordinances are enacted in foraine states or countries..and how to meet with, and prevent the same by counter Decrees, and Regulations.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 462 And then several regulations were made, chiefly the famed ones at Clarendon.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. vii. 263 The nature of foreign trade, it's privileges, regulations, and restrictions.

1774 Ld. Kames Sketches Hist. Man II. ii. x. 51 I heartily approve every regulation that tends to prevent idleness.

1809 C. Mackenzie in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 9 244 Books on the laws, customs, ceremonies and regulations of the Jain religion.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 368 The government did not venture..to enforce a regulation of which the legality might well be questioned.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood ii. 12 It's against regulations for me to call at night.

1911 R. G. S. Williams Austral. White Slaves 72 He was leg-ironed, in accordance with the prison regulations.

1971 C. J. White Introd. Coal Mining Industry x. 99 Explosions of the deadly firedamp gas and the resultant heavy toll of life gave rise to a spate of rules and regulations.

2000 Pop. Sci. June 33/1 Both cars meet California's tough regulations for Super-Ultra-Low-Emission Vehicles.

3. North American. Frequently with capital initial. The protest or uprising by the Regulator Movement (Regulator movement n. at regulator n. Compounds 2); (also) the movement itself. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1768 Scots Mag. Oct. 546/2 They unanimously adopted the plan of regulation, and are now executing it with indefatigable ardour.

1809 D. Ramsay Hist. S. Carolina I. vi. 213 This mode of proceeding was called regulation, and its authors and friends regulators.

1812 H. Williamson Hist. N. Carolina 128 The Regulation began in the northern part of the colony.

1856 Southern Literary Messenger Sept. 164/2 As the Revolution had its Arnold and its Conway, so the Regulation had its crowd of rioters.

1916 Amer. Hist. Rev. 21 320 The Regulation has been exhaustively studied, and is still something of a cause célèbre in North Carolina history.

2002 M. Kars Breaking Loose Together ii. 26 Contrasting goals and values lay at the heart of the deep social unrest known as the Regulation, which was to divide the region bitterly.

4. Electrical Engineering. The degree to which the output voltage of a circuit or device remains unchanged as the load is varied, typically expressed as the percentage change in the former for a given change in the latter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > operation of machinery > [noun] > maintaining constancy

regulation1889

1889 E. W. Rice U.S. Patent 396,602 3/1 I am thus enabled..to obtain a fairly good regulation of the electro-motive force fed to the circuit in proportion to the load.

1947 Proc. IRE 35 444/2 The operations can be performed to any desired degree of precision, providing power supplies of excellent regulation and circuit components of high precision are used.

1975 Physics Bull. June 247/2 (advt.) Excellent regulation of 0·005%, stability to 0·01% and low noise combine to assume high output resolution.

2005 A. R. Hambley Electr. Engin. (ed. 3) xv. 723 Poor regulation in a residence would mean that the lights dim when an electric clothes dryer is started.

5. Biology.

a. The process whereby a living organism, embryo, etc., adapts its structure in order to accommodate disturbances or damage that it undergoes, so that it develops as an integrated whole.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > mechanism for self-regulation > [noun]

regulation1898

servo1953

servomechanism1953

1898 Science 4 Feb. 160/2 There is adaptiveness also in regeneration and self-regulation of the organism... These questions can be answered by paying attention to cases of unadaptive response and unadaptive regeneration and regulation.

1928 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 261 For Haldane, regulation places organisms in a different category from any non-living systems: for Driesch, it demands the intervention of vitalistic ‘forces’.

1948 New Biol. 5 121 This phenomenon of regulation, the adjustment of the entire developmental mechanism to disturbances.., is a characteristic of the early stages of development of many kinds of animals.

1970 E. J. Ambrose & D. M. Easty Cell Biol. xiii. 422 Eggs..which have the capacity to redevelop normally after a disturbance, are known as regulation eggs.

2006 Development. Biol. 297 304/1 The embryos can undergo regulation if the D quadrant macromere is removed.

b. Genetics. The control of gene expression.

ΚΠ

1927 Science 21 Oct. 365/2 A theory of quantitative regulation of the genes, according to which each gene..enters into activity at a rate..proportional to a precisely regulated initial quantity.

1963 Proc. 16th Internat. Congr. Zool. II. 243 Changes in histone proteins permit an estimate of the variety and proportions of histone molecules available for possible gene regulation.

1983 E. F. Keller Feeling for Organism i. 7 Monod and Jacob worked out a mechanism for genetic regulation that allowed for environmental control of the rates of protein production.

2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 May 17/4 The regulation of genes inside the embryo..is part of a larger set of processes that allow organisms to experiment with evolution.

B. adj.

That is prescribed by, or in accordance with, a regulation or regulations; (hence) standard; of a typical or predictable type.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary

wonesomec1200

wonec1275

customable1381

customeda1382

useda1382

wonta1382

wonted1408

accustomed1429

vulgarc1430

usualc1444

famosec1449

customalc1450

accustomablec1475

accustomatea1513

frequent1531

accustomary1541

customary1574

frequented1586

consuetudinary1590

ordinary1605

consuetudinal1656

habitual1689

solent1694

regulation1803

usitate1885

1803 Times 8 Oct. 2/3 It is said, that all the Volunteers are to wear Regulation Caps.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xviii. 306 The regulation mode of cutting the hair.

1855 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gen. Bounce I. xi. 246 The handsome lieutenant was already wrapped in slumber and an enormous rough great-coat (not strictly regulation).

1865 J. Morley Mod. Characteristics 168 Conversation is, as a rule, reduced to a regulation level of decorous flatness.

1917 R. Batchelder Watching & Waiting on Border iv. 52 Everything which the soldier uses or wears must be ‘regulation’.

1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn i. 12 The regulation plastic water-jug and glass.

1999 D. Sobel Galileo's Daughter (2000) ii. 19 By the end of the year, the university authorities were docking his pay for a different sort of infraction: his refusal to wear the regulation academic regalia at all times.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as regulation book, regulation district, regulation office, regulation order, etc.

ΚΠ

1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 28 Rules of OEconomy and Management..which..may be entered in the Regulation Book, so be observed as Law for Government of the House.

1816 Times 11 Nov. 2/3 Capt. Richbell, late of His Majesty's Regulation-office for seamen.

1854 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (ed. 3) 121 The presidency of Bengal is divided into sixteen provinces, in seven of which..certain regulations prevail... These former are called regulation districts.

1854 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (ed. 3) 123 Surat [etc.]..constitute the regulation collectorates; Scinde, Sattarah,..comprise the non-regulation divisions.

1904 C. R. Henderson Mod. Methods Charity iv. 188 The exceptional cases in which outdoor relief can be granted under the prohibitory order are also valid under the regulation order.

1918 Times 7 Dec. 5/2 40 prisoners had secured repatriation to Germany in consequence of forgery and other irregularities of Germans employed in the camp regulation office.

2005 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. 55 588 By exhaustive analysis of the statute and regulation books, he refuted Hewart comprehensively.

C2.

Regulation movement n. American History = Regulator movement n. at regulator n. Compounds 2; see also regulator n. 4.

ΚΠ

1849 Sartain's Mag. Dec. 352/1 Soon after the Revolution, the leading men out of North Carolina, regarded this regulation movement as a mere riot; but now, after the lapse of a century, the leading men see in this ‘tumultuous outbreak’ the first indications of that restless and mighty spirit which is destined to regulate the world.]

1867 A. Gregg Hist. Old Cheraws 130 Such, however, was not the history of the Regulation Movement on the Pedee.

1919 C. L. Skinner Pioneers of Old Southwest viii. 159 Meanwhile the Regulation Movement stirred the Back Country of both the Carolinas.

1994 Amer. Hist. Rev. 99 966/2 These feelings were manifest in the Regulation movement of the late 1760s.

regulation roll n. Scots Law (now historical) one of the rolls of the Court of Session, containing a list of those cases in which no appearance has been made for the defender.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court papers > [noun] > list of undefended cases

regulation roll1711

1711 J. Spotiswood Form of Process p. xi After finishing his Suspension &c. Roll, he would call the Causes in the Regulation Roll of ordinary Actions.

1825 Act 6 George IV c. 120 §29 All the Actions above enumerated, originating in the Court of Session, shall be first enrolled in..the Regulation Roll.

1990 I. Macleod et al. Scots Thes. 236/1 Regulation roll, a roll of the Court of Session listing jury cases or those where no appearance had been made for the defender.

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

单词	regulation
释义	regulationn.adj. Brit. /ˌrɛɡjᵿˈleɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌrɛɡ(j)əˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: 1600s– regulation; U.S. regional 1800s reggelation, 1800s reglashin. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin regulation- , regulatio ; regulate v., -ion suffix¹. Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin regulation-, regulatio (from 13th cent. in British sources), or independently < regulate v. + -ion suffix¹ (compare -ation suffix). Compare French régulation (c1470 in Middle French in an isolated attestation in sense ‘power, sovereignty’, subsequently from 1832), Catalan regulació (1554), Spanish regulación (first half of the 16th cent.), Italian regolazione (a1311).In sense A. 5a after German Regulation (H. Driesch 1898, in Ergebnisse der Anat. u. Entwickelungsgeschichte 8 718). A. n. 1. The action or fact of regulating (in various senses of regulate v.); an instance of this. Also: the state of being regulated.In quots. 1688, 1849: spec. with reference to the activities of the 17th-cent. regulators (see regulator n. 3). ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation ordinancec1384 rule1438 ordera1500 reglement1604 regulation1611 correction1657 the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > action of winding or setting winding1630 rewinding1785 regulation1885 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. xiv. 611 Such transcendent courses deuiating from all due regulation of Iustice, haue been too frequent in this Kingdome. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia xxxviii. 173 The regulation of the motion of the wing. 1676 G. Carew Fraud & Oppress. Detected & Arraigned 40 In all regulations of trade, and Treaties Marine, both parties should have their respective Considerations of advantage. 1676 G. Towerson Explic. Decalogue 501 The whole duty of man..as concerns the regulation of our manners. 1688 Acct. Late Proposals Archbishop of Canterbury in G. Burnet Coll. Papers 9 He would..restore to those Corporations which had been already disturbed, their ancient Charters, Priviledges, Grants, and Immunities, and Condemn all those late Illegal Regulations of Corporations. 1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 389 The Regulation and Supervisal of the whole Course of a Man's Life. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. xviii. 459 The advancement and regulation of manufactures and commerce. 1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts in Wks. (1815) IV. 199 For the interiour regulation of India, a minute knowledge of India is requisite. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xlviii. 590 The regulation of the calendar, and the prediction of eclipses, were regarded in this country [sc. China] as important objects. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 334 From the records of the Privy Council it appears that the number of regulations, as they were called, exceeded two hundred. 1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 316/2 Regulation is effected by raising the pendulum bob to make the clock go faster. 1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism iv. 260 What the poor need for their spiritual health is..‘regulation’, and regulation is possible only if they work under the eye of an employer. 1953 Ann. Reg. 1952 145 This plan provides for the discussion of the regulation of all armaments..and of their disclosure and verification by two committees. 1969 E. P. Anderson Home Appliance Servicing (ed. 2) ii. 26 One type of thermostat usually employed in the regulation of temperature in electrical home appliances depends for its operation on the expansion of metals. 2005 L. H. Kaufman Leaders Count viii. 215 Under regulation, a railroad had been expected to cross-subsidize various lines of business. 2. A rule or principle governing behaviour or practice; esp. such a directive established and maintained by an authority. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation > a regulation or rule lawa1225 precepta1325 line1340 observancea1382 rulea1387 reglec1475 regimentc1485 reuglec1485 instruction1526 maxima1564 maxim1578 preception1620 reglement1622 positure1624 gnomon1627 regulationa1640 parapegm1646 rubric1891 reg1904 a1640 L. Roberts Treasure of Traffike (1641) 72 What decrees and ordinances are enacted in foraine states or countries..and how to meet with, and prevent the same by counter Decrees, and Regulations. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 462 And then several regulations were made, chiefly the famed ones at Clarendon. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. vii. 263 The nature of foreign trade, it's privileges, regulations, and restrictions. 1774 Ld. Kames Sketches Hist. Man II. ii. x. 51 I heartily approve every regulation that tends to prevent idleness. 1809 C. Mackenzie in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 9 244 Books on the laws, customs, ceremonies and regulations of the Jain religion. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 368 The government did not venture..to enforce a regulation of which the legality might well be questioned. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood ii. 12 It's against regulations for me to call at night. 1911 R. G. S. Williams Austral. White Slaves 72 He was leg-ironed, in accordance with the prison regulations. 1971 C. J. White Introd. Coal Mining Industry x. 99 Explosions of the deadly firedamp gas and the resultant heavy toll of life gave rise to a spate of rules and regulations. 2000 Pop. Sci. June 33/1 Both cars meet California's tough regulations for Super-Ultra-Low-Emission Vehicles. 3. North American. Frequently with capital initial. The protest or uprising by the Regulator Movement (Regulator movement n. at regulator n. Compounds 2); (also) the movement itself. Now historical. ΚΠ 1768 Scots Mag. Oct. 546/2 They unanimously adopted the plan of regulation, and are now executing it with indefatigable ardour. 1809 D. Ramsay Hist. S. Carolina I. vi. 213 This mode of proceeding was called regulation, and its authors and friends regulators. 1812 H. Williamson Hist. N. Carolina 128 The Regulation began in the northern part of the colony. 1856 Southern Literary Messenger Sept. 164/2 As the Revolution had its Arnold and its Conway, so the Regulation had its crowd of rioters. 1916 Amer. Hist. Rev. 21 320 The Regulation has been exhaustively studied, and is still something of a cause célèbre in North Carolina history. 2002 M. Kars Breaking Loose Together ii. 26 Contrasting goals and values lay at the heart of the deep social unrest known as the Regulation, which was to divide the region bitterly. 4. Electrical Engineering. The degree to which the output voltage of a circuit or device remains unchanged as the load is varied, typically expressed as the percentage change in the former for a given change in the latter. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > operation of machinery > [noun] > maintaining constancy regulation1889 1889 E. W. Rice U.S. Patent 396,602 3/1 I am thus enabled..to obtain a fairly good regulation of the electro-motive force fed to the circuit in proportion to the load. 1947 Proc. IRE 35 444/2 The operations can be performed to any desired degree of precision, providing power supplies of excellent regulation and circuit components of high precision are used. 1975 Physics Bull. June 247/2 (advt.) Excellent regulation of 0·005%, stability to 0·01% and low noise combine to assume high output resolution. 2005 A. R. Hambley Electr. Engin. (ed. 3) xv. 723 Poor regulation in a residence would mean that the lights dim when an electric clothes dryer is started. 5. Biology. a. The process whereby a living organism, embryo, etc., adapts its structure in order to accommodate disturbances or damage that it undergoes, so that it develops as an integrated whole. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > mechanism for self-regulation > [noun] regulation1898 servo1953 servomechanism1953 1898 Science 4 Feb. 160/2 There is adaptiveness also in regeneration and self-regulation of the organism... These questions can be answered by paying attention to cases of unadaptive response and unadaptive regeneration and regulation. 1928 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 261 For Haldane, regulation places organisms in a different category from any non-living systems: for Driesch, it demands the intervention of vitalistic ‘forces’. 1948 New Biol. 5 121 This phenomenon of regulation, the adjustment of the entire developmental mechanism to disturbances.., is a characteristic of the early stages of development of many kinds of animals. 1970 E. J. Ambrose & D. M. Easty Cell Biol. xiii. 422 Eggs..which have the capacity to redevelop normally after a disturbance, are known as regulation eggs. 2006 Development. Biol. 297 304/1 The embryos can undergo regulation if the D quadrant macromere is removed. b. Genetics. The control of gene expression. ΚΠ 1927 Science 21 Oct. 365/2 A theory of quantitative regulation of the genes, according to which each gene..enters into activity at a rate..proportional to a precisely regulated initial quantity. 1963 Proc. 16th Internat. Congr. Zool. II. 243 Changes in histone proteins permit an estimate of the variety and proportions of histone molecules available for possible gene regulation. 1983 E. F. Keller Feeling for Organism i. 7 Monod and Jacob worked out a mechanism for genetic regulation that allowed for environmental control of the rates of protein production. 2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 May 17/4 The regulation of genes inside the embryo..is part of a larger set of processes that allow organisms to experiment with evolution. B. adj. That is prescribed by, or in accordance with, a regulation or regulations; (hence) standard; of a typical or predictable type. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary wonesomec1200 wonec1275 customable1381 customeda1382 useda1382 wonta1382 wonted1408 accustomed1429 vulgarc1430 usualc1444 famosec1449 customalc1450 accustomablec1475 accustomatea1513 frequent1531 accustomary1541 customary1574 frequented1586 consuetudinary1590 ordinary1605 consuetudinal1656 habitual1689 solent1694 regulation1803 usitate1885 1803 Times 8 Oct. 2/3 It is said, that all the Volunteers are to wear Regulation Caps. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xviii. 306 The regulation mode of cutting the hair. 1855 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gen. Bounce I. xi. 246 The handsome lieutenant was already wrapped in slumber and an enormous rough great-coat (not strictly regulation). 1865 J. Morley Mod. Characteristics 168 Conversation is, as a rule, reduced to a regulation level of decorous flatness. 1917 R. Batchelder Watching & Waiting on Border iv. 52 Everything which the soldier uses or wears must be ‘regulation’. 1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn i. 12 The regulation plastic water-jug and glass. 1999 D. Sobel Galileo's Daughter (2000) ii. 19 By the end of the year, the university authorities were docking his pay for a different sort of infraction: his refusal to wear the regulation academic regalia at all times. Compounds C1. General attributive, as regulation book, regulation district, regulation office, regulation order, etc. ΚΠ 1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 28 Rules of OEconomy and Management..which..may be entered in the Regulation Book, so be observed as Law for Government of the House. 1816 Times 11 Nov. 2/3 Capt. Richbell, late of His Majesty's Regulation-office for seamen. 1854 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (ed. 3) 121 The presidency of Bengal is divided into sixteen provinces, in seven of which..certain regulations prevail... These former are called regulation districts. 1854 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (ed. 3) 123 Surat [etc.]..constitute the regulation collectorates; Scinde, Sattarah,..comprise the non-regulation divisions. 1904 C. R. Henderson Mod. Methods Charity iv. 188 The exceptional cases in which outdoor relief can be granted under the prohibitory order are also valid under the regulation order. 1918 Times 7 Dec. 5/2 40 prisoners had secured repatriation to Germany in consequence of forgery and other irregularities of Germans employed in the camp regulation office. 2005 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. 55 588 By exhaustive analysis of the statute and regulation books, he refuted Hewart comprehensively. C2. Regulation movement n. American History = Regulator movement n. at regulator n. Compounds 2; see also regulator n. 4. ΚΠ 1849 Sartain's Mag. Dec. 352/1 Soon after the Revolution, the leading men out of North Carolina, regarded this regulation movement as a mere riot; but now, after the lapse of a century, the leading men see in this ‘tumultuous outbreak’ the first indications of that restless and mighty spirit which is destined to regulate the world.] 1867 A. Gregg Hist. Old Cheraws 130 Such, however, was not the history of the Regulation Movement on the Pedee. 1919 C. L. Skinner Pioneers of Old Southwest viii. 159 Meanwhile the Regulation Movement stirred the Back Country of both the Carolinas. 1994 Amer. Hist. Rev. 99 966/2 These feelings were manifest in the Regulation movement of the late 1760s. regulation roll n. Scots Law (now historical) one of the rolls of the Court of Session, containing a list of those cases in which no appearance has been made for the defender. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court papers > [noun] > list of undefended cases regulation roll1711 1711 J. Spotiswood Form of Process p. xi After finishing his Suspension &c. Roll, he would call the Causes in the Regulation Roll of ordinary Actions. 1825 Act 6 George IV c. 120 §29 All the Actions above enumerated, originating in the Court of Session, shall be first enrolled in..the Regulation Roll. 1990 I. Macleod et al. Scots Thes. 236/1 Regulation roll, a roll of the Court of Session listing jury cases or those where no appearance had been made for the defender. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1611
随便看	the farm of the borough the farm of the city the farm of the county the farm of the etc the farm of the shire the farness the fashion the fashionable world the fat flits from a man's beard the fat flits from beard the fat is in the fire the fat of glass the fat of the land the fatal dames, ladies, sisters the fatal thread the father and mother of a the father of a the father of faith the father of lies the father of lights the father of mischief the father of the faith the father of the faithful the favour of your letter the feast of st michael