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Plsce of Affembly, as foon as the Sacrifice was over; in Imitati- on of the Flight of larquin the Proud.

Some Criticks and Antiquaries will have Regifugium, the lame with Fugalia; others hold them to be different. See Fuga- lia.

REGICIDE, a King-killer.— The Term is alfo ufed for the Aft itfelf of murdering of a King; of Rex and CxJo, I flay.

Regicide is chiefly uied in fpeaking of the Perfons concern'd in the Trial, Condemnation, and Execution of King Charles the Firft.

REGIMEN, in Medicine, a Rule or Courfe of living, with regard to eating, drinking, cloathing, and the like; accommoda- ted to fome Difeafe, and to the particular Courfe of Medicine the Patient is under. See EIiet.

'Tis doubted whether the hot or cold Regimen be mod conve- nient in Fevers. — The hot Regimen which antiently obtained in the Small-Pox, begins to be difufed.— The Regimen is very diffe- rent in different Countries : Bartholin fays, a Slice of Bacon, in itomark, is an ufual Difh for a Perfon in;a high Eever. The Word is pure Latin, and fignifies Government and Rule.

Regimen, in Chymiftry and Alchymy, is the Method of or- dering and conducting any thing, that it may anfwer its Intention.

Thus, Regimen of the Fire, is the manner of making and or- dering a Fire, and the Degrees thereof. See Fire and De- gree.

Regimen of the Work, that is, of the Philofipher's Stone, call'd its Work of Patience, is the Rule and Condud to be obferv'd to attain Projection. See Philosophers Stone, and Projection.

There are three things to be chiefly regarded in the Regtmen of the Work—The firft to adminifter a gentle, eafy Heat, at the be- ginning of the Coction.

The fecon j to continue this external Heat according to the Seafon of the Work; always obferving four Seafons, as in the common and agronomical Year : The beginning being the Win- ter, the Progrefs the Spring, then Summer, and laftly Autumn, which is rhe time of Maturity and Perfection of the Stone : In all which the Heat is to be augmented in Proportion to the Aug- mentation obferv'd in Nature.

It is to be added, that the Work may not be begun in any Seafon, but regard is to be had to the Seafons of Nature; leaft the Win- ter of the Work be found in the Summer of the Year, &c. Which, however, is to be underftood of the Day wherein the Mercury is put in the Ovum Phihfophicum; not of that when it is begun to be fet at Liberty from the Prifons Nature had inclo- fed it in.

The third is that in augmenting the Fire, the Augmentation be not of a whole Degree at once; the Spirits being unable to bear &ch Violence; but a Degree is to be divided into four Parts, and one Part to be taken at a time. See Degree.

All the Operations of the inftRegimen, are occult and invifible : In the fecond Regimen comes Putrifadtion, which is the firft fen- lible Change; (hewing it felf by its black Colour. See Putri- faction, &c.

Regimen, or Government, in Grammar, is that Part of Syntax orConftruction which regulates the Dependancy of Words; and the Alterations which one occafions in another. See Syn- tax and Construction.

Thus we fay, the Regimen of a Verb active, is an Accufative, '■ e. a Verb active governs an Accufative; or requires that the Noun which receives its Action be in the Accufative Cafe. See Verb, Accusative, &c.

Prepolitions have fome Regimen, i. e. they require certain Cafes in the Nouns they are prefix'd to; by which they are diftinguifh- ed from Adverbs which have none. See Preposition and Adverb.

The Regimen, or Conftruction of Government, is entirely ar- bitrary; and differs in all Languages; one Language forming its Regi?»en by Cafes, as the Latins and Greeks; others by Particles, in lieu thereof, as the Enghjb, by of, to, &c. the French, Spani- "ds, and Italians, by de, a, da, &c. See Case.

There are, however, fome general JMaxims which hold in all Languages —as i°. That there is no' Nominative Cafe in any Sentence but has a Reference to fome Verb either exprefs'd or underftood. See Nominative.

a° That there is no Verb but has its Nominative Cafe, either exprefs'd or underftood. — Indeed in Languages which have pro- Pet Accufatives, as the Latin, before Infinitives there is an Ac- cufative, not a Nominative Cafe: as Scio petrum ejfe doclum.

5° There is no Adjective but has a Relation to fome Sub- "aiuive. Sec Adjective, &c.

A That there is no Genitive Cafe but is govern'd by fome other Noun; inafmuch as that Cafe always expreffes the Pofief- >°r> which muff be governed by the poffcfs'd.— This Rule does jot hold fo apparently in the modern as the antient Languages; of r? a!n tlle ' Jarticles "fi *• & c - wnicn are the proper Signs Gen ™ vc Cafes > are frequently ufed as Prepofitions. See

Kinds r n tlle Re S'"' e " ° f Verbs is frequently laid on different does n elations > according to Cuftorn or Ufaee; which yet fliews th* 'n™ 86 the r P ecific Relation of each Cafe, but only to Fane T^™ ^ mac ' e 5' llo ' ce °^ * is or tn, ar ' accora, ing

us the Latins fay, Juvare aliquem, & opitulari ali-

cm, to help one,-Thus the French fay, fervir amltf « & fervW "Ifh"™. to rerveone.-Tb.tis the Eng/ifj \ Y, Fight de, or F,ght ■wah one—And thus in Spanifi molt of the Verbs aftive govern indifferently either a Dative or an Accufative. Some- times, alfo, the Verb admits of feveral Regimens: as, praflare a- tipem, or ahem, Eripere morti aliquem, or aliquem a morte.

indeed the different Regimen fometimes makes an Alteration in the Senfe; in which, particular regard is to be had to the ufage of the Language.— Thus the Latin, cavere alicui, fignifies to watch, or be careful of the prefervation of any one; Cavere almuem, to beware of him. '

There is one very common Fault in Regimen, which our accu- rate Writers fhould be careful to avoid; viz. the ufing of two Verbs that require different Gales, together, as only governing m e rr e ' As '" *' S Exam P le > after embracing and giving his Bleffing to his Son; where, embracing requiring an Accufative, and gtvmg a Dative Cafe, the Regimen, or Conftruction of the hrit Verb with the Noun is irregular: embrace to a Son.

The fame ma y be obferv'd in Nouns; as I conjured him by the Memory and the Friendfhip he bore my Father; where Me- mory does not agree with the Verb he bore.

REGIMENT, in War, a Body of Troops of Horfe, orCom- panies of Foot, commanded by a Colonel. See Colonel.

The Number of Men in a Regiment is as undetermined as that of the Men in a Troop or Company. See Troop and Company.

There are Regiments of Horfe, that are not above 300 Men; and there are feme in Germany of 2000; and the Regiment of Pi- cardy in France confifts of 120 Companies, or 6000 Men.

The French Regiments of Horfe are not commanded by a Co- lonel, as the Foot are, but by a Meftre de Camp. See Mestre de Camp.

Some obferve, that there were no Regiments of Horfe before the Year 1637. 'Till then the Troops were loofe, and indepen- dent of each other, not incorporated into a Body or Regiment. See Guard.

REGIO A/Jenfu, is a Writ whereby the King gives his Roy- al Aflent to the Election of a Bifhop. See Bishop.

REGION, Regio, in Geography, a Country; or a particular Diviiionof the Earth; or a Trad of Land inhabited by People of the fame Nation. See Earth, Nation, ejre.

The modern Aftronomers divide the Moon into reveral Regi- ons or Provinces, to each whereof they give its Name. See Moon.

Region in Phyfiolgy.— Authors divide the Atmofphere into three Stages, call'd the upper, middle, and lower Regions. See Atmosphere.

The loweft is that wherein we breath; and is bounded by the Reflexion of the Sun's Rays; that is, by the Height to which they rebound from the Earth. See Ray.

The middle is that wherein the Clouds refide, Meteors are form'd, &c. extending from the Extremity of the loviefc, to the tops of the higheft Mountains. See Meteor, Cloud, Moun- tain, &c.

The upper commences from the Tops of the Mountains, and reaches to the utmoft Limits of the Atmofphere.— In this reigns a perpetual, equable Calmnels, Clearnefs, and Serenity. See Air.

Some Authors ufe the Term Elementary Region, for the Space of the whole Atmofphere, from the Earth to the Sphere or Hea- ven of the Moon; becaufe within this are contained the four Ele- ments, and all Elementary Bodies. See Element and Ele- mentary.

Etherial Region is ufed for the whole extent of the Univerfe, including the Orb of the fix'd Stars, &c. See Universe.

Region, in Anatomy, is a Divilion of the human Body. Sea Body.

Anatomifts divide the Body into three Regions, or Venters. See Venter.

The upper Region is that of the Head; reaching as low as the firft Vertebra; and comprehending the animal Organs, the Brain, &c. See Head, &c.

The middle Region is that of the Thorax or Breaft, which Hip- pocrates calls the upper Venter, and which reaches from the Cla- vicles to the Diaphragm; wherein are contained the vital Parts, as the Heart, Lungs, &c. See Heart, Lungs, &c.

The third or lower Region is the Abdomen or Belly, &c. con- taining the natural Parts, deftin'd for Digeftion, Purgation, and Generation. See Abdomen. -

REGIONARY, Regionarius, in Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, a Title given from the fifth Century, to Peribns who had the Charge and Adminifttation of the Church Affairs within a certain Di- itrict or Region.

At Rome there were antiently feven Regionary Deacons, who prefided over a kind of Holpitals, and look'd to the Diftriburion of Alms. See Deacon.

There were alfo Regionary Subdeacons, and Regionary Notaries, Regionary Bijhops, &c. See Notary.

A Regionary Bi/bop was properly a Miffionary inverted with an Epifcopal Character, but without being attach'd to any particular See; that he might be at Liberty to go preach, and perform 0- ther Functions of his Miniftry, whither foever the Spirit of God, and the Wants of the People fhould call him. See Missionary-.

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