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noun

Regime n.

Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system. "I dream... of the new régime which is to come."

(Hydraul.) The condition of a river with respect to the rate of its flow, as measured by the volume of water passing different cross sections in a given time, uniform régime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections.

The ancient regime, or Ancien regime, the former political and social system, as distinguished from the modern; especially, the political and social system existing in France before the Revolution of 1789.

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Etymology of 'Regime'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Regime" Quotes from Famous Books

... REGIME as it Existed on the Continent before the French Revolution. Three Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution. By the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A., formerly Professor of Modern History in the University of ...

— MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869 • Unknown

... system was a survival of the French regime. The reader is referred to The Seigneurs of Old Canada by Professor Munro ...

— The Day of Sir John Macdonald - A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion • Joseph Pope

... St. Louis, where the council dominated, and where "Boss Butler" paid that body $250,000 to pass a street railway franchise. Neither did it work in Philadelphia, which has been plundered of an amount equal to 10 per cent of her real estate valuation; nor in San Francisco under the disgraceful regime of Mayor Schmitz. So overwhelming is the evidence on this point that it is needless ...

— Elements of Debating • Leverett S. Lyon

... Witchcraft, book xii. 21.—We shall have occasion hereafter to notice this great opponent of the devil's regime in the sixteenth century. We may be inclined to consider a more probable reason—that spirits, being in the general belief (so Adam infers that God had 'peopled highest heaven with spirits masculine') of the masculine gender, the recipients of their inspiration are naturally of the other sex: ...

— The Superstitions of Witchcraft • Howard Williams

... highly pleased with some development. He held up a hand to cut Josip short and turned to his superior. "You see, Zoran. A most average, laudable young man. Born under our regime, raised under the People's Democratic Dictatorship. ...

— Expediter • Dallas McCord Reynolds

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