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noun

Regime n.

Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system. "I dream... of the new régime which is to come."

(Hydraul.) The condition of a river with respect to the rate of its flow, as measured by the volume of water passing different cross sections in a given time, uniform régime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections.

The ancient regime, or Ancien regime, the former political and social system, as distinguished from the modern; especially, the political and social system existing in France before the Revolution of 1789.

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... arrondissement, ici pour favoriser le depute republicain, la pour nuire au depute conservateur. C'est par la qu'elle perira, parce que le mal est sans remede et s'aggrave chaque jour. Loi generale d'ailleurs. C'est par les finances que perissent les gouvernements definitivement condamnes: temoin l'ancien regime. ...

— Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. VOL. II. • John Knox Laughton

... Tocqueville came to England, where he married a Miss Mottley. He became a member of the French Academy; was appointed to the Chamber of Deputies, took an important part in public life, and in 1849 became vice-president of the Assembly, and Minister of Foreign Affairs. His next work, "L'Ancien Regime" ("The Old Regime"), translated under the title "On the State of Society in France before the Revolution of 1789; and on the Causes which Led to that Event," appeared in 1856. It is of the highest importance, because it was the starting point ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee