01 a. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as,…
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Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building.
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Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits.
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Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular nomination; regular troops.
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Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy.
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Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug.[Colloq.]
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Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin.(Bot. & Zool.)
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Phrases & compounds
Regular polygon —
a plane polygon which is both equilateral and equiangular.
Regular polyhedron —
a polyhedron whose faces are equal regular polygons. There are five regular polyhedrons, -- the tetrahedron, the hexahedron, or cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron.
Regular sales —
sales of stock deliverable on the day after the transaction.
Regular troops —
troops of a standing or permanent army; -- opposed to militia.
Syn.
Normal; orderly; methodical. See Normal.