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Regimen

//ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.mən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Orderly government; system of order; administration.

    "In ski areas like Arapahoe Basin, about 80 percent of the male patrollers have had to drastically change (or introduce) shaving regimens."

  2. 2
    (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) wordnet
  3. 3
    Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.

    "Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health[…]"

  4. 4
    Object.

    "(3.) Verbs admit two kinds of regimen: the direct regimen and the indirect regimen. (4.) The direct regimen, or immediate object … (5.) The indirect regimen, or remote object [....]"

  5. 5
    A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
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  1. 6
    Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons. dated

Etymology

From Middle English regimen, from Middle French regimen and its etymon, Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”). Doublet of regime.

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