Ré`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 régime 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 régime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections.
The ancient régime, ∨ Ancien régime [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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