Rēg'i-men

n, [Lat., from regere, to guide, to rule. Cf. supra.]

1. Orderly government; system of order.
2. Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
3. (Med.) The systematic use of food and drink, and the necessaries of life, for the attainment of a determinate result; as, a fattening or reducing regimen; a course of living for the attainment of health; the plan of a systematic course of living;—sometimes used synonymously with hygiene.
4. (Gram.) (a.) A relation of syntax between two words, as one depending on the other and regulated by it in respect to case or mode; government. (b.) The words governed.