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\R['e]`gime"\ (r?`zh?m"), n. [F. See {Regimen}.]
1. Mode or system of rule or management; character of
   government, or of the prevailing social system.
         I dream . . . of the new r['e]gime which is to come.
                                               --H. Kingsley.
2. (Hydraul.) The condition of a river with respect to the
   rate of its flow, as measured by the volume of water
   passing different cross sections in a given time, uniform
   r['e]gime being the condition when the flow is equal and
   uniform at all the cross sections.
{The ancient r['e]gime}, or {Ancien r['e]gime} [F.], the
   former political and social system, as distinguished from
   the modern; especially, the political and social system
   existing in France before the Revolution of 1789.
 

 

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