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English
Noun
reule (plural reules)
- Obsolete form of rule.
Verb
reule (third-person singular simple present reules, present participle reuling, simple past and past participle reuled)
- Obsolete form of rule.
Anagrams
Middle English
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Etymology
From Old French reule, from Latin rēgula.
Pronunciation
Noun
reule (plural reules)
- legal code, set of rules
- moral code, principles
- rule, authority, supervision, control
- orderliness, efficiency
- rule, regulation, law
- custom, practice
- decision, order, directive
- instruction, recommendation
- principle, scientific law; rule of nature
- (Christianity) monastic rule
- ruler, measuring stick
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Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Semi-learned term borrowed from Latin regula. Compare the inherited doublet reille, from Vulgar Latin *regla.
Noun
reule oblique singular, f (oblique plural reules, nominative singular reule, nominative plural reules)
- rule (regulation, law, guideline)
- ruler; rule (straight-edge)
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