Word Meanings - SELF-REGULATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Regulated by one's self or by itself.

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• REGULATE
  1. To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws. The laws which regulate the successions of the seasons. Macaulay. The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their
• REGULATION
  1. The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. The temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay. 2. A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law;
• REGULATIVE
  Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton. Note: These terms are borrowed from Kant, and
• REGULATOR
  A contrivance for regulating and controlling motion, as: The lever or index in a watch, which controls the effective length of the hairspring, and thus regulates the vibrations of the balance. The governor of a steam engine. A valve
• ITSELF
  The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke.
• SELF-REGULATED
  Regulated by one's self or by itself.
• THERMOREGULATOR
  A device for the automatic regulation of temperature; a thermostat.
• SELF-REGULATIVE
  Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself. Whewell.
• MISREGULATE
  To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.
• IRREGULATE
  To make irregular; to disorder. Sir T. Browne.