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The Oxford English Dictionary. (Clarendon Press. 2s. 6d.)— This part

carries us on a little further,—from "ee " to "er" in R," or Vol. VIII. Within this range we have 1,496 words, of which the greater part have a Latin or French origin. It is interesting to see that the two main uses of the word "regiment," as rule (in one aspect or another) and "a body of men," were , contemporaneous. Digges speaks of "a regiment of five or six 1 thousand" while Knox was denouncing the "monstrous regiment of women."