Hypertext Webster Gateway: "regulated"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Regulate \Reg"u*late\ (-l[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Regulated}
(-l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Regulating}.] [L.
regulatus, p. p. of regulare, fr. regula. See {Regular}.]
1. To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct
by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles
or laws.

The laws which regulate the successions of the
seasons. --Macaulay.

The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own
disputes, and regulated their own police.
--Bancroft.

2. To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state
of a nation or its finances.

3. 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.

{To regulate a watch} or {clock}, to adjust its rate of
running so that it will keep approximately standard time.

Syn: To adjust; dispose; methodize; arrange; direct; order;
rule; govern.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

regulated
adj 1: controlled or governed according to rule or principle or
law; "well regulated industries"; "houses with
regulated temperature" [ant: {unregulated}]
2: marked by system or regularity or discipline; "a quiet
ordered house"; "an orderly universe"; "a well regulated
life" [syn: {ordered}, {orderly}]


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