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The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers of government inherent in every sovereignty to the extent of its dominions…

Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order, enforced by organized administration. "A policed kingdom." Howell.

To regulate by laws; to reduce to order. [Obs.] "Policying of cities." Bacon.

cupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate.

To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design. He that proceeds upon other principles in his inquiry. Locke.

To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound. Sir T. Browne.

y in which it was made or indorsed, and then taken up. Bouvier. The rate of reëxchange is regulated with respect to the drawer, at the course of exchange between the place where the bill of exchange was payable, and the place where it was drawn. Reëxchange can not be cumulated. Walsh.

A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

Capable of being regulated. [R.]

To cause to become regular; to regulate. [R.]

The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. The temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay.

Tending to regulate; regulating. Whewell.

One who, or that which, regulates.

To regulate; to govern. [Obs.]

A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion. Trench. A good man was there of religion. Chaucer.

Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.

One who is strongly attached to, or versed in, the Scriptures, or who endeavors to regulate his life by them. The Puritan was a Scripturist with all his heart, if as yet with imperfect intelligence . . . he cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory. Palfrey.…

Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself. Whewell.

Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.

serve out, to distribute; as, to serve out rations. -- To serve the time or the hour, to regulate one's actions by the requirements of the time instead of by one's duty; to be a timeserver. [Obs.] They think herein we serve the time, because thereby we either hold or seek preferment. Hooker.