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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 48 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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

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

CAMPAIGN

campaign or See also:

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.

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