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The word "regulate" in literature is employed to denote various forms of control and organization, whether it be over personal behavior, natural phenomena, or societal structures. In some works, it is used to convey the idea of managing conduct or feelings, as when a character is urged to control their emotions or conduct in line with moral principles [1][2][3]. In political and legal contexts, it reflects the exercise of power—for instance, governing electoral processes or the disposition of commerce—illustrating the structuring and enforcement of systems within society [4][5][6]. Additionally, the term appears in more tangible forms, managing the coordination of physical actions such as setting a watch or dividing spoils [7][8][9]. Through these diverse applications, literature uses "regulate" to capture the notion of imposing order on both the inner self and the external world.
  1. Miss B. knows how to regulate her feelings better than this poor little creature.
    — from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  2. In this I believe; in this is my faith; and according to it I desire to regulate my life, and enjoy all my consolations.
    — from Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
  3. So that whoever is careful to regulate his desires and aversions as he ought is thus made careful of piety likewise.
    — from The Enchiridion by Epictetus
  4. The Same Subject Continued (Concerning the Power of Congress to Regulate the Election of Members) FEDERALIST No. 62.
    — from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison
  5. It is the business of government, by laying down and enforcing laws, to regulate the outward conduct of the g
    — from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
  6. The laws which regulate this relation bear the name of political laws, and are also called fundamental laws, not without reason if they are wise.
    — from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  7. You ought to regulate your watch at noon in each country.
    — from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  8. When I travel, I always chose to regulate my own supper.
    — from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith
  9. At the distance of sixty furlongs the Roman generals halted to regulate the division of the spoil.
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

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