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Regulation   /rˌɛgjəlˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Regulation

noun
1.
An authoritative rule.  Synonym: ordinance.
2.
A principle or condition that customarily governs behavior.  Synonym: rule.  "Short haircuts were the regulation"
3.
The state of being controlled or governed.
4.
(embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered.
5.
The act of bringing to uniformity; making regular.  Synonyms: regularisation, regularization.
6.
The act of controlling or directing according to rule.  Synonym: regulating.
adjective
1.
Prescribed by or according to regulation.



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"Regulation" Quotes from Famous Books



... young man slightly glancing at Eve, at the interruption, "is purely a point of internal regulation. In England there is compulsory service for seamen without restriction, or what is much the same, without an equal protection; in France, it is compulsory service on a general plan; in America, as respects seamen, the service ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper
... when its wearer is rising at the trot and is thus apt to release the stirrup leather. Fig. 64 shows the top of the boot in position to raise the safety bar flap in the manner mentioned. I have obviated these inconveniences and have ridden in comfort by wearing boots made two inches shorter than the regulation height, and by wearing breeches with "continuations," no stockings are exposed to view, even when one gets a fall. With boots of this length there is no possibility of the left leg being hurt by pressure of boot and breeches ...
— The Horsewoman - A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. • Alice M. Hayes
... However, Andrews behaved very thankfully and gratefully to him for his intended kindness, which he told him he never would forget, and at the same time received from the good man many admonitions concerning the regulation of his future conduct, and his perseverance in innocence ...
— Joseph Andrews Vol. 1 • Henry Fielding
... Drusus—such as the regulation that the punishment of scourging might only be inflicted on the Latin soldier by the Latin officer set over him, and not by the Roman officer—which were to all appearance intended to indemnify the Latins for other losses. The plan was not the most ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2 • Various
... institutions organized to ameliorate the sufferings of the poor in their midst; and while as a Christian she conformed to the outward observances of her church, she faithfully inculcated and practiced at home the pure precepts of a religion whose effects should be the proper regulation of the heart and charity toward the world. Her parlors were not the favorite rendezvous where gossips met to retail slander. Refined, dignified, gentle, and hospitable, she was a woman too rarely, alas! met with, in so-called fashionable ...
— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans


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