1. (n.) The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.

2. (n.) A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school.

Procrustean law accepted accommodation accustomed act adaptation adjustment administration assimilation attunement authoritative authority average balance balancing bill binding bylaw canon canonical charting civil government coaptation code codification command commandment common commonplace conduct conformable consuetudinary control convention conventional coordination criterion current customary decree decretum dictate dictated dictation dictum didactic direction directive discipline dispensation disposition edict empery empire enactment established everyday familiar fiat fixing form form of government formality formula formulary general orders general principle generally accepted golden rule governance government guidance guideline guiding principle habitual handling hard and fast harmonization household husbandry imperative institution instruction instructive integration jus law law of nature lead leading legislation lex maintenance management managery managing mandatory manipulation maxim measure methodization mitzvah modification modulation moral norm norma normal normalization normative obtaining official order order of nature ordering ordinance ordinary ordination ordonnance organization oversight pilotage planning political organization polity popular precept preceptive predominating prescribed prescribed form prescript prescription prescriptive prevailing prevalent principium principle proclamation pronouncement rationalization received reconcilement reconciliation regime regimen regnancy regular regularization reign required routinization rubric rule ruling running set set form setting settled principle sovereignty squaring standard standing order statute statutory steerage steering stock supervision sway synchronization system of government systematization tenet the conn the helm the wheel time-honored timing traditional typical ukase universal universal law usual vernacular widespread wonted working principle working rule