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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   regimen; government; the rules governing the syntax, rules of agreement of a language. archaic

   "rection to a place"

Synonyms

All synonyms

governmentregimen

Etymology

From Latin rectio, from regere (“to rule, to govern”).

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