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Regiment vs Unembodied - What's the difference?

regiment | unembodied |

As a noun regiment

is regiment (army unit).

As an adjective unembodied is

incorporeal; not possessed of a body.

regiment

English

(wikipedia regiment)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions.
  • * 1901 , (Rudyard Kipling), Kim , III:
    • It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment .
  • * 2005 , Nicholas Watt & Michael White, The Guardian , 28 April 2005:
    • As the prime minister insisted that he had "never told a lie" in his life, the Tory leader attacked him for ordering Scottish troops into battle with no warning that their regiments would be disbanded.
  • * 1576 , (Abraham Fleming), translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles , XXXIII:
    • What place is there in all the world, not subiect to the regiment and power of this citie?
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
    • Then loyall love had royall regiment , / And each unto his lust did make a lawe, / From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.
  • * 1832 , , The Province of Jurisprudence Determined , VI:
    • And how is it possible to distinguish precisely […] the powers of ecclesiastical regiment' which none but the church should wield from the powers of ecclesiastical '''regiment (on the ''jus circa sacra ) which secular and profane governments may handle without sin?
  • (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership.
  • (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet).
  • (obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain.
    • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete, medicine) A regimen.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form soldiers into a regiment.
  • To systematize, or put in rigid order.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    unembodied

    English

    Alternative forms

    * unimbodied (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Incorporeal; not possessed of a body.
  • # Not expressed or exhibited in material or concrete form; wholly abstract.
  • # Not incorporated into a coherent system; conceptually disconnected.
  • (especially of armed multitudes) Not united in a regimented structure; lacking structure and order.
  • Existing]] or [[operate, operating without involvement by the body; solely mental or intellectual; “ungrounded”, “heady”.

    • References

    * “ unem?bodied, ppl. a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989