regimen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.mən/
Forms: form: regimens
form: regimina
Etymology: From Middle English regimen, from Middle French regimen and its etymon, Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”). Doublet of regime.
Senses: examples: text: In ski areas like Arapahoe Basin, about 80 percent of the male patrollers have had to drastically change (or introduce) shaving regimens.
ref: 2020 November 23, Shauna Farnell, “Ski patrollers shave their beards, and a tradition, to wear N95 masks.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Orderly government; system of order; administration.
examples: text: Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health[…]
ref: 1832, The Edinburgh Review, page 470:
text: ...and, having an excellent constitution, regularly attributed any temporary ailment of her daughters to carelessness, for which she prescribed "water gruel, and keeping in bed," being certain that under so safe a regimen, "they would get well as soon as possible, and learn to keep well also."
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 229:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
examples: text: (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 [....]
ref: The Popular Educator. A Complete Encyclopaedia of Elementary, Advanced, and Technical Education. New and Revised Edition. Volume III., page 394 (Lessions in French.---LVIII. § 42.---Of Verbs)
text: Active verbs express an action which an agent, called the nominative or subject, performs on an object or regimen, without the help of a preposition: as,--- Pierre aime Sophie, Peter loves Sophia. [...] Of the Object or Regimen of Verbs.
ref: 1828, J. V. Douville, The Speaking French Grammar, forming a series of sixty explanatory lessons, with colloquial essays, 3rd edition, London, page 84 & 315:
text: 15. A verb is active in French when it expresses that an agent called nominative, or subject, performs an action on an object, or regimen, without the help of a preposition---as, Jean frappe Joseph, John strikes Joseph, &c.
ref: 1831, A. Bolmar, “A Book of the French Verbs, Wherein the Model Verbs, and Several of the Most Difficult Are Conjugated Affirmatively, Negatively, Interrogatively, an Negatively and Interrogatively.”, in A Book of the French Verbs, Wherein the Model Verbs, and Several of the Most Difficult Are Conjugated Affirmatively, Negatively, Interrogatively, an Negatively and Interrogatively. A New Edition, Philadelphia, published 1854, page 2:
text: Pronouns may be nominatives, and of the direct or indirect regimen.
ref: 1847, M. Josse, A Grammar of the Spanish Language with Practical Exercises. First Part, page 51:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Object.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: government
rection
coordinate_terms: agreement
concord
concordance
glosses: A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.
Derived terms: Yuzpe regimen
Related terms: régime
regime
regiminal