regimens

Noun

regimen (plural regimens or regimina)

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.2020 November 23, Shauna Farnell, “Ski patrollers shave their beards, and a tradition, to wear N95 masks.”, in The New York Times
2. 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[…]1832, The Edinburgh Review, page 470
3. 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 [....]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)
4. A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

   Synonyms:

   government, rection

5. (dated) Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.