Adjective

(en adjective)

(Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to (secular)).

* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, page 201:

A quarter of a million strong in 1680, the clergy was only half as large in 1789. The unpopular regular clergy were the worst affected.

Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.

(geometry, of a polygon) Having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size

(geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.

Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.

* 2011 , (AL Kennedy), The Guardian , 12 Apr 2011:

April may be the cruellest month, but I am planning to render it civilised and to take my antibiotics in a regular manner.

(now, rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).

Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.

(chiefly, US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.

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(chiefly, military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.

Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.

(colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.

Belonging to a monastic order or community.

regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy

(botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.

a regular''' flower; a '''regular sea urchin

(crystallography) isometric

(snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward. BBC Sport, "Sochi 2014: A jargon-busting guide to the halfpipe", 11 February 2014

(analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(label) The same in all respects.

* (1671-1743)

They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me.

Exactly identical, having the same value.

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(label) Fair, impartial.

* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :

it could not but much redound to the lustre of your milde and equall Government, when as private persons are hereby animated to thinke ye better pleas'd with publick advice, then other statists have been delighted heretofore with publicke flattery.

* Bible, (w) xviii. 29

Are not my ways equal ?

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

Thee, O Jove, no equal judge I deem.

(label) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.

* 1881 , (Jane Austen), , p. 311

her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged.

* (1609-1674)

The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit.

* (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)

whose voice an equal messenger / Conveyed thy meaning mild.

(label) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

an equal temper

(label) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.