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Regular   /rˈɛgjələr/  /rˈeɪgjələr/   Listen
adjective
Regular  adj.  
1.
Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building.
2.
Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits.
3.
Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular nomination; regular troops.
4.
Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy.
5.
Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug. (Colloq.)
6.
(Bot. & Zool.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin.
7.
(Crystallog.) Same as Isometric.
Regular polygon (Geom.), a plane polygon which is both equilateral and equiangular.
Regular polyhedron (Geom.), a polyhedron whose faces are equal regular polygons. There are five regular polyhedrons, the tetrahedron, the hexahedron, or cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron.
Regular sales (Stock Exchange), sales of stock deliverable on the day after the transaction.
Regular troops, troops of a standing or permanent army; opposed to militia.
Synonyms: Normal; orderly; methodical. See Normal.



noun
Regular  n.  
1.
(R. C. Ch.) A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church.
2.
(Mil.) A soldier belonging to a permanent or standing army; chiefly used in the plural.






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"Regular" Quotes from Famous Books



... hundred members of the German church who had not united with Zion in 1797 asked for a separate English church. The request was declined, but regular services in English were held in the afternoon with promises of a new ...
— The Lutherans of New York - Their Story and Their Problems • George Wenner

... after this, Ellish was perfectly in her element. The jaunting-car was procured; and her spirits seemed to be quite elevated. She paid regular visits to both her sons, looked closely into their manner of conducting business, examined their premises, and subjected every fixture and improvement made or introduced without her sanction, to the most rigorous scrutiny. In fact, what, between ...
— Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee • William Carleton

... us a little out of our regular and stated course, to notice the other travels of this enterprising man in the place, yet we prefer doing it, in order that our readers, by having at once before them a brief abstract of all he performed for geography, may the better be enabled to ...
— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson

... flower-shop windows, settling what kind of flowers would be best, and in asking the prices of hers from a flower-woman who often sat near the corner of the square. She was very good-natured about it. We shouldn't have liked to go into a regular shop only to ask prices, so it was a good thing to know a little about ...
— Peterkin • Mary Louisa Molesworth

... proper places, carefully selected and constructed for the purpose of illustrating the various Voyages and Travels. At the close of the whole, a complete Index will be given to the entire series of volumes, so arranged as to form a regular Gazetteer of the whole world. In every article which has been adopted into this work, the original and accessory sources of all the materials shall be distinctly indicated. Notes of explanation will be given, wherever ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr


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