REGULAR  , orderly, following or arranged according to a See also:

• RULE

rule (See also:

• LAT

Lat. See also:

• REGULA

regula, whence O.Fr. reule, whence See also:

• ENGLISH

English " rule "), steady, See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform, formally correct . The earliest and only use in English until the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century was in the Med . Lat. sense of regularis, one See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound by and subject to the rule (regula) of a monastic or religious See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order, a member of the " regular " as opposed to the " See also:

• SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

secular " See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy, and so, as a substantive, a regular, i.e. a See also:

• MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
• MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
• MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
• MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)

monk or See also:

• FRIAR (from the Lat. (rater, through the Fr. frere)

friar . Another specific application is to that portion of the armed forces of a nation which are organized on a permanent See also:

• SYSTEM

system, the See also:

• STANDING

standing See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, as opposed to " irregulars," levies raised on a voluntary basis and disbanded when the particular See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign or See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war for which they were raised is at an end . In the See also:

• BRITISH

British army, the forces were divided into regulars, See also:

• MILITIA (Fr. milice, Ger. Miliz, from Lat. miles, soldier, militia, military service)

militia and See also:

• VOLUNTEERS

volunteers, until 1906, when they were divided into regular and territorial forces .