REGULATION
Reg`u*la"tion (-l"shn), n.
1. The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. The temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay.
2. A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school. Regulation sword, cap, uniform, etc. (Mil.), a sword, cap, uniform, etc., of the kind or quality prescribed by the official regulations.
Syn.
— Law; rule; method; principle; order; precept. See Law.
REGULATIVE
Reg"u*la*tive (rg"*l*tv), a.
1. Tending to regulate; regulating. Whewell.
2. (Metaph.)
Defn: Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton.
Note: These terms are borrowed from Kant, and suggest the thought, allowed by Kant, that possibly these principles are only true for the human mind, the operations and belief of which they regulate.
REGULATOR
Reg"u*la`tor (-l`tr), n.