Vocabulary : Regulate to Regulus

Regulate : To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws. ;; To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances. ;; To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
Regulated : of Regulate
Regulating : of Regulate
Regulation : The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. ;; A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school.
Regulative : Tending to regulate; regulating. ;; Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty.

Regulator : One who, or that which, regulates. ;; A contrivance for regulating and controlling motion, as: (a) The lever or index in a watch, which controls the effective length of the hairspring, and thus regulates the vibrations of the balance. (b) The governor of a steam engine. (c) A valve for controlling the admission of steam to the steam chest, in a locomotive. ;; A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock. ;; A member of a volunteer committee which, in default of the lawful authority, undertakes to preserve order and prevent crimes; also, sometimes, one of a band organized for the comission of violent crimes.
Reguli : of Regulus
Reguline : Of or pertaining to regulus.
Regulize : To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony.
Regulus : A petty king; a ruler of little power or consequence. ;; The button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and reduction of ores. ;; A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Leo; -- called also the Lion's Heart.

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