Regimen

Pronunciation

Origin

From Latin regimen ("guidance”, “direction”, “government”, “rule"), from regō ("I rule”, “I direct"); compare regular.

Full definition of regimen

Noun

1. Orderly government; system of order; administration.
2. Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
• 1832, The Edinburgh Review (page 470)Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health...
3. (grammar) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

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