regimen

1. (medicine) Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.Examples: "Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health[…]"; "...and, having an excellent constitution, regularly attributed any temporary ailment of her daughters to carelessness, for which she prescribed "water gruel, and keeping in bed," being certain that under so safe a regimen, "they would get well as soon as possible, and learn to keep well also.""

2. (grammar) Object.Examples: "(3.) Verbs admit two kinds of regimen: the direct regimen and the indirect regimen. (4.) The direct regimen, or immediate object … (5.) The indirect regimen, or remote object [....]"; "Active verbs express an action which an agent, called the nominative or subject, performs on an object or regimen, without the help of a preposition: as,--- Pierre aime Sophie, Peter loves Sophia. [...] Of the Object or Regimen of Verbs."; "15. A verb is active in French when it expresses that an agent called nominative, or subject, performs an action on an object, or regimen, without the help of a preposition---as, Jean frappe Joseph, John strikes Joseph, &c."

3. (grammar) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.Synonyms: government, rection

4. (medicine, dated) Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.dated