Regular

regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy

A quarter of a million strong in 1680, the clergy was only half as large in 1789. The unpopular regular clergy were the worst affected.

April may be the cruellest month, but I am planning to render it civilised and to take my antibiotics in a regular manner.

He made regular visits to go see his mother.

"Walked" is the past tense of the regular verb "to walk".

“I don’t see how you can write and act such splendid things, Jo. You’re a regular Shakespeare!” exclaimed Beth, who firmly believed that her sisters were gifted with wonderful genius in all things.

For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.

Maintaining a high-fibre diet keeps you regular.

Gulls cawed and wheeled overhead, dropping splatty white cluster bombs on rooftops and pavements. Goodness knows what those gulls eat, but it certainly keeps them regular.

a regular genius; a regular John Bull

Don't worry, boy. We're gonna set you straight. By tomorrow morning, you'll be a regular Burt Reynolds.

a regular flower; a regular sea urchin

'And if the knowledge wasn'y well come by, why, you might ha' made up for it by coming to church reg'lar.'

Though no minister would visit the Skerburnfoot, or, if he went, departed quicker than he came, the girl Ailie attended regular at the catechising at the mains of Sker.

"There's only twenty men staying in the house regular," said Ahearne, showing him around[.]

"Drain her every thousand, regular. Don't do it myself, o' course; just drop her in at the lubritorium."

"All we've got to do is stick 'em in the bedroom and feed 'em regular."

Bartenders usually know their regulars by name.

Boss, this is the situation. They were regulars in the army. They’ve left the army and are taxi drivers now. He was a commando and he was a state boxer. They don’t earn much and there’s no end.

This gentleman was one of the architect's regulars.

When it comes to regulars, some shows feature ensemble casts in which all the characters are more or less equal and the focus of the show shifts from one member of the ensemble to another from episode to episode.

You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees.