Regimen

·noun The word or words governed.

II. Regimen ·noun Orderly government; system of order; adminisration.

III. Regimen ·noun Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.

IV. Regimen ·noun A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

V. Regimen ·noun a systematic course of diet, ·etc., pursed with a view to improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh;

— sometimes used synonymously with hygiene.