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Definition of Regulars

1. regular [n] - See also: regular

Lexicographical Neighbors of Regulars

Literary usage of Regulars

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... orders^ an undue proportion of those youths who had vocations for the priesthood would join the regulars and so lessen the ranks of the secular clergy. ..."

2. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"Ethelwold, was, through the effects of the Norman Conquest, decided for several centuries in favour of the regulars. Between the coming of William and the ..."

3. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"On the whole we may say that the dispute Conquest regulars and seculars, ... Norman Conquest, decided for several centuries in favour of the regulars. ..."

4. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"At Roxbury side the regulars have dug across the neck, and let the water through ... The regulars have so hardened the provincials by their repeated firing, ..."

5. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"At Roxbury side the regulars have dug across the neck, and let the water through ... The regulars have so hardened the provincials by their repeated firing, ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1902)
"S59 British regulars, 12447 militia, and 17,- :"i") volunteers and reserves. In New South Wales there were 835 regulars, 4.395 militia, and 4756 volunteers ..."

7. The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783 by Moses Coit Tyler (1897)
"... earliest collisions between the British regulars and the American militia— British opinion as to the lack of military courage and of military discipline ..."

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