regimen

noun

Etymology: From Middle English regimen, from Middle French regimen and its etymon, Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”). Doublet of regime.

1. Orderly government; system of order; administration.

   “In ski areas like Arapahoe Basin, about 80 percent of the male patrollers have had to drastically change (or introduce) shaving regimens.”

2. Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.

   “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."”

3. Object.

   “(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.”

4. A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
5. Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.