Definition of Regularise

1. Verb. Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations. "This town likes to regulate"

Exact synonyms: Govern, Order, Regularize, Regulate
Specialized synonyms: Standardise, Standardize, District, Zone
Generic synonyms: Decide, Determine, Make Up One's Mind
Derivative terms: Government, Governor, Order, Regulating, Regulation, Regulation, Regulator
Antonyms: Deregulate

2. Verb. Make regular or more regular. "Regularize the heart beat with a pace maker"
Exact synonyms: Regularize
Specialized synonyms: Even, Even Out
Generic synonyms: Arrange, Set Up
Derivative terms: Regularisation, Regularisation, Regularization

Definition of Regularise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of regularize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Regularise

regular polygons
regular polyhedron
regular prime
regular primes
regular recurrence
regular space
regular star macromolecule
regular star macromolecules
regular tessellation
regular tessellations
regular tetrahedron
regular verb
regular verbs
regularia
regularisation
regularise (current term)
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regularizer
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regularly

Literary usage of Regularise

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

1. Syndicalism and Labour: Notes Upon Some Aspects of Social and Industrial by Arthur Clay (1911)
"Failure of the Government to pass the promised Act to regularise the Status and Rights of State Employees. The Lesson taught by the Postal Strike. ..."

2. Sessional Papers (1901)
"I want to know before this service was discontinued, did the Post Office take any steps to regularise the service of mails to those ports ? ..."

3. Unemployment: A Problem of Industry by William Henry Beveridge Beveridge (1912)
"... it limits the range of movement, it also makes a large range of movement unnecessary. It is harder to regularise skilled employment than unskilled, ..."

4. Hazell's Annual edited by Watson and Viney (1910)
"Government Departments should regularise ... next that, in order to "regularise" the national demand for labour, a* far as practicable, the Government ..."

5. Hazell's Annual edited by Watson and Viney (1911)
"Government Departments should regularise their work so far as is practicable, ... next that, in order to "regularise" the national demand for labour, ..."

6. The Voltaic Accumulator: An Elementary Treatise. by Émile Reynier (1889)
"With the surface of electrodes mentioned page 119, the zinc-lead couple may regularise a current of 50 to 75 amperes. Its electromotive force, under charge, ..."

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