Registration
a modern social or civil system pertaining to births, marriages, and deaths, variously regulated in different countries. In England, parish registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials were instituted by Lord Cromwell while he was vicar-general to Henry VIII., and subsequently regulated by various acts of Parliament. No thorough system, however, existed till in 1836 a Registration Act was passed applicable to England and Wales , which has been amended by subsequent acts. In the United States, there is no national law on the subject, such regulations being made by States, municipalities, or religious bodies.
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Regnal Years
the years a sovereign has reigned, numbered successively, and used for chronological purposes, as in the enumeration of acts of Parliament. The practice of dating a new reign from the day following the last of the late king's reign has generally been adopted since the reign of Richard II., but before this time a reign was generally considered to begin with some act of sovereignty.
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Regnauld
One of the first French clockmakers who attempted to compensate a clock against the effects of heat and cold.
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Regnault
ALEXANDRE GEORGES HENRI, a French painter; born in Paris, Oct. 30, 1843, the son of HENRI VICTOR REGNAULT (q.v.). His aptitude for drawing manifested itself very early, and he was continually sketching the animals in the Jardin des Plantes. He studied art under Lamothe and Cabanel; and, after two unsuccessful attempts, gained the prix de Rome (the Rome prize) in 1866. He executed there a remarkable portrait of Madame Duparc, and his historical subject of "Automedon Breaking the Horses of Achilles," and drew on wood illustrations for Way's "Rome. " In 1869 he painted an equestrian portrait of General Prim, now in the Louvre, and in 1870 "The Execution Without Judgment Under the Moorish Kings of Granada" to be found in the same collection . Other works of 1870 are "Judith" and "Salome." He returned to Paris on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War; and though exempt from military service, he volunteered as a private soldier , and was killed at Buzenval , Jan. 19, 1871.
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Regnault (II)
HENRI VICTOR, a French scientist; born in Aix-la-Cha pelle, Prussia, July 21, 1810. A shopman in a Paris bazaar, he entered the Polytechnic School, and, after the two years' course, came out as a mining engineer. He became a professor in Lyons, whence, in 1840, he was recalled to Paris as a member of the Academy of Sciences, in consequence of some important discoveries in organic chemistry. He filled chairs in the Polytechnic School and the College of France, and became in 1854 director of the imperial porcelain manufactory of Sèvres. He devoted himself to the determination of important physical data, the Royal Society of London awarded him their Rumford medal and the Copley medal (1869 ). He published an "Elementary Course in Chemistry" (1871). He died Jan. 20 , 1878.
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Regular Clergy
the term applied in the Roman Catholic Church to priests who have taken the vows, and who are bound to follow the rules of some monastic order, as opposed to the secular clergy, that is parish priests, etc. , not connected with any of the orders.
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Regulator
The small steel hand or lever to the shorter end of which the curb pins are attached, and which by moving from side to side practically shortens the hairspring. (See Curb Pins.) 2. A standard clock having a compensating pendulum and used for timing watches and clocks. REID, THOMAS. Born in 1750 and died in 1834. He was a celebrated Scotch horologist and the author of a treaties on watch and clockmaking.
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Regulus
a celebrated Roman general. He died about 250 B. C. He commanded the Roman forces in the First Punic War. In 256 he defeated the Carthaginian fleet, invaded Africa, and besieged Carthage. In the following year his army was defeated by the Carthaginians and he was taken prisoner. According to tradition, resting entirely on Roman authority, he was released on parole and sent to Rome to treat for peace, with the understanding that, if he induced his countrymen to accept liberty, he should be released; if not, he should return to Carthage. Instead of persuading the Roman Senate to accept the terms of the Carthaginians, he is said to have encouraged them to prosecute the war. On going back to Carthage he was put to death barbarously. His fate was avenged by his family, who inflicted similar tortures on two noble Carthaginians in their power. It has been suggested that the Carthaginians met their fate as described, and that the story of Regulus was invented by his family to justify Roman cruelty to Carthaginian prisoners. See Punic War; Scipio ; Carthage
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Regulus
a term in metallurgy, now used in a generic sense for metals in different stages of purity, but which still retain, to a greater or less extent, the impurities they contained in the state of ore.
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Regulus
the star Alpha Leonis, the brightest in the constellation of the Lion.
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Regulus
or RULE, ST., according to legend, a monk of Constantinople or Bishop of Patras, who in A. D. 347, came to Muckross or Kilrimont (afterward St. Andrews), bringing relics of St. Andrew to Scotland from the East.
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Regulus
MARCUS ATTILIUS, a Roman general, celebrated for his patriotism and devotion in the service of his country. Made consul a second time about 256 B. C., with his colleague, Manlius Vulso, he commanded in the first war against Carthage. Taken prisoner by the Carthaginians, he was sent to Rome with an embassy, that peace might be procured, and bound himself, by an oath, to return if the terms were rejected. He considered it his duty to advise the continuance of the war; which, being determined on, no entreaties could prevent him from fulfilling his solemn engagement; and the Carthaginians, on his return, put him to a cruel death.
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Regurgitation
the flowing back into the vessels of the heart of the blood which had just left them . It is the result of valvular disease of the heart. It is of three kinds: aortal, mitral, and tricuspid regurgitation.
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