Regimen

Quick meaning: Regimen is a noun meaning Orderly government; system of order; administration.

Meaning

Orderly government; system of order; administration.

More Meanings

1. (medicine) Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
2. (grammar) Object.
3. (medicine, dated) Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.
4. (grammar) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

Example Sentences

Pronouns may be nominatives, and of the direct or indirect regimen.

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

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

(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 [....]

Word Forms

• regimens
• regimina

Synonyms for regimen

Depending on context, synonyms include government, rection, regime.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include regime, salary, system, processing, scheme, pattern.

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