reg'lar

A form of regular — Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).

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adjectivereg'lar (not comparable)
  1. not comparablepronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of regular.

    The widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell—everything’s so awful reg’lar a body can’t stand it.

    1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 270
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    For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.

    1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
adverbreg'lar (not comparable)
  1. not comparablepronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of regular.

    'And if the knowledge wasn'y well come by, why, you might ha' made up for it by coming to church reg'lar.'

    1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter X, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
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APA

reg'lar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reg'lar

MLA

“reg'lar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reg'lar. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reg'lar,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reg'lar.

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