m. I. a rule :-- Se gewuna is strængra on ǽlcum worde ðon his regal sý, Ælfc. Gr. 30, 4; Som.. 34, 67. Sume gáþ of ðam regole, forðan ðe se gewuna is strengra, eruo ic nerige, erutus generod. Nú wolde se regol ðæs cræftes habban of ðam eruturus, ac se gewuna hylt eruiturus, 41; Som. 44, 24-26. Ðis is lǽwedra regol æfter bóclícere gesetnysse, Homl. Th. ii. 94, 8. Se Hǽlend him tǽhte ðone regol, ðæt hí sceoldon yfel mid góde forgyldan, i. 372, 31. Ðone eásterlícan regol the rule for determining Easter, Lchdm. iii. 264, 16. Ðonne byþ hé geteald tó ðam mónþe and bē his regolum ácunnod, 250, 6. On mynsteres reogolum gelǽred monasterii regulis erudita, Bd. 1, 27; S. 489, 10. Hé symle rihte regolas Godes cyricean (catholicas ecclesiae regulas) lufode, 5, 19; S. 638, 33. Rúme regulas geongra monna the lax rules of young men, Exon. Th. 131, 23; Gú. 460. II. a rule, pattern, standard, norm :-- Ða leásan wítegan wǽron gedwolmen, and woldon áwendan ðone sóðan geleáfan of ðam rihtan regole tó heora gedwyldum, Homl. Th. ii. 404, 9. Regol normam vite, regol normam, Wrt. Voc. ii. 59, 53-54. III. as an ecclesiastical term, (a) a single rule or prescript, a canon :-- Ðæs regles canonis, Jn. Skt. p. 1, 12. Reglas canones, Mt. Kmbl. p. 2, 18. Bóc ðara reogola librum canonum, Bd. 4, 5; S. 572, 25. (b) the body of rules which guide a particular order of ecclesiastics, a rule, e. g. the Benedictine rule :-- Hér beginþ seó foresprǽc muneca regules, R. Ben. 1, 1. Wite se abbod, eal ðæt hé dó, ðæt hé hit dó mid gehealdsumnesse ðæs regoles, 16, 6. Munecas ðe under regole (sub regula) lifigeaþ, Bd. 4, 4; S. 571, 21. Intó Sanctus Benedictus regole, Chart. Th. 548, 4. Ðæt forme muneca cyn is mynster-monna, ðæt is ðara ðe under regule and abbodes tǽcinge wuniaþ, R. Ben. 9, 4. On ǽlcum þingum hié sceolon habban ðone regol tó láreówe, 15, 20. Benedictus nam ðone hálgan regol ðe hé mid his handum áwrát, Homl. Skt. i. 6, 66. [O. H. Ger. regula regula, canon : Icel. regla. From Lat. regula.]