Index of English words, starting with "re"

(1) - Regulate (v. t.) 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.
(2) - Regulate (v. t.) To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
(3) - Regulate (v. t.) To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.

(1) - Regulation (n.) 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.
(2) - Regulation (n.) The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.

(1) - Regulative (a.) 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.
(2) - Regulative (a.) Tending to regulate; regulating.