regle

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See also: réglé, reglé, and règle

English

Etymology

See reglement.

Pronunciation

Verb

regle (third-person singular simple present regles, present participle regling, simple past and past participle regled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To rule; to govern.
    • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: J G W L and W G, published 1662, →OCLC:
      to regle their lives

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “regle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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German

Verb

regle

  1. inflection of regeln:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative
    3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse regla, from Latin regula.

Pronunciation

Noun

regle f or m (definite singular regla or reglen, indefinite plural regler, definite plural reglene)

  1. a rhyme, jingle
  2. a rhythmic and (often) rhyming series of words or syllables, often with joking or absurd content, used e.g. in children's play's or practiced as a lyrical genre

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Spanish

Verb

regle

  1. inflection of reglar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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