regimentとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdʒɪmənt/

名詞

regiment (複数形 regiments)

1. (military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions. [from 16th c.]
   • 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, III:

     It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment.

   • 2005, Nicholas Watt & Michael White, The Guardian, 28 April 2005:

     As the prime minister insisted that he had "never told a lie" in his life, the Tory leader attacked him for ordering Scottish troops into battle with no warning that their regiments would be disbanded.

2. (now rare, archaic) Rule or governance over a person, place etc.; government, authority. [from 14th c.]
   • 1576, Abraham Fleming, translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles,&bnsp;XXXIII:

     What place is there in all the world, not ſubiect to the regiment and power of this citie?

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonby, OCLC 932900760, book IV, canto 8, page 116:

     Then loyall loue had royall regiment,
     And each vnto his luſt did make a lawe,
     From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.

   • 1832, John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined,&bnsp;VI:

     And how is it possible to distinguish precisely […] the powers of ecclesiastical regiment which none but the church should wield from the powers of ecclesiastical regiment (on the jus circa sacra) which secular and profane governments may handle without sin?

3. (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership. [14th-17th c.]
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:

     But this it is that doth excruciate
     The verie ſubſtance of my vexed ſoule:
     To ſee our neighbours that were wont to quake
     And tremble at the Perſean Monarkes name,
     Now ſits and laughs our regiment to ſcorne, […]

4. (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet). [14th–17th c.]
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:

     Nature that fram’d vs of foure Elements,
     Warring within our breaſts for regiment,
     Doth teach vs all to haue aſpyring minds:

5. (obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain. [14th–17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto 9, page 324:

     An auncient booke […]
     That of this lands firſt conqueſt did deuize,
     And old diuiſion into Regiments, […]

6. (obsolete, medicine) A regimen. [15th–19th c.]

動詞

regiment (三人称単数 現在形 regiments, 現在分詞 regimenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 regimented)

1. (transitive) To form soldiers into a regiment.
   • J. W. Powell

     The people are organized or regimented into bodies, and special functions are relegated to the several units.

2. (transitive) To systematize, or put in rigid order.

アナグラム

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