regula
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Origin of regula
1555–65; < Latin rēgula ruler, pattern (akin to rēx king, regere to rule; see -ule)
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One popular proposal is to create an apolitical board to review all regula tions, set priorities and eliminate much of the confusion and expense of conflicting laws.
From Time Magazine Archive
I. 21: "regula sacramenti;" likewise V. 20, a passage specially instructive as to the fact that there can be only one regula.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
On the other hand, in solving the problem of adapting the different points of his heterodox system of thought to the regula fidei, he displayed the most masterly skill.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
This creed formulates its relation to Scripture over and over, as the one regula by which all dogmata are to be tried.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
Hence this article of the regula fidei received a significance from this point of view also.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
His ideal of the pastoral office is set forth in that golden book, the Liber regulae pastoralis, in which he describes the life of a true shepherd of the Christian people.
From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by Hutton, William Holden
It is also referred to under the name of canones, sacri canones, a title of great antiquity, for the κανόνες, regulae, were very early distinguished from the secular laws, the νόμοι, leges.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
Hildegard’s writings, besides the Scivias already mentioned and first printed in Paris in 1513, include the Liber divinorum operum, Explanatio regulae S. Benedicti, Physica and the Letters, &c., are contained in Migne, Patr.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
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