regifugium

[Latin rex (gen it. reg is ) =a king, and fugio to fly.] A festival held annually at Rome in celebration of the flight of Tarquin the Proud. re-gild, v. t. [Pref. re-, and Eng. gild (q. v.).] To gild anew. rê-gîme (gas zh), subst . (Fr.) Mode, style, or system of government, rule, or management; administration, rule, especially as connected with certain social features. "The new regime which is to come."-H. Kingsley: Ravenskoe, ch. xv. The ancient regime: A former or ancient style or system of government; spec if., the political system of France before the Revolution of 1789. reg-1-měn, s. [Latin from rego =to rule; Sp., regimen; Ital. reggimento.] IMG:content-0375.png:[blocks in formation] in connection with it. (2) The word or words governed. 2. Med.: The systematic management of food, drink, exercise, ., for the preservation or restoration of health, or for any other determinate purpose. Sometimes used as synonymous with Hygiene. reg-i-ment (or as reg-ment), subst. [Fr., from Low Latin regimen tum, from regimen = regimen (q. v.); Sp., reg i mien to; Port., regimen to; Ital., reggimento.] I. Ordinary Language : *1. Rule, government; administration, authority, "The regiment of the soul over the body is the regiment of the more active part over the more pa ive."- Hale . Orig. of Mankind , p. 41. *2. Rule of diet; regimen. ( Fletcher .) *3. A kingdom; a district ruled. "That of this land's first conquest did devise, And old division into regiments, Till it reduced was to one man's governments." 4. In the same sense as II. Spenser: F. Q., II. ix. 59. "That's he that gallops by the regiments Viewing their preparations," Beaum. & Flet .: Bonduc a, iii. 3. 5. A troop, a number, a multitude. II. Mil .: A number of companies, usually ten, united under the command of a colonel. rěg-1-ment, v . t . [REGIMENT, 8.] To form into a regiment or regiments, with the proper officers, .; to place under military discipline. "In some countries, the citizens destined for defending the state seem to have exercised only, without being, if I may say so, regimented : that is, without being divided into separate and distinct bodies of troops, each of which performed its exercises under its own proper and permanent officers."- Smith : Wealth of Nations, vol. iii., bk. v., ch. i.