regulate
verb (used with object)
to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc..
regulatively
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a word derived from
regulate.
Example Sentences
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Religious ideas were regarded as true regulatively, not speculatively.
From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar
The practically real was the best ideal; and by the real he would understand that power which most capably and most regulatively nursed, guided, and assisted the best instincts of the average man.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift
