reule

reule (plural reules)

1. Obsolete form of rule.

reule (third-person singular simple present reules, present participle reuling, simple past and past participle reuled)

1. Obsolete form of rule.

• Euler, Reuel

• rewle, rule, riwle, riule, rewl, rwle, reul, rewel

From Old French reule, from Latin rēgula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈriu̯l(ə)/

reule (plural reules)

1. legal code, set of rules
2. moral code, principles
3. rule, authority, supervision, control
4. orderliness, efficiency
5. rule, regulation, law
6. custom, practice
7. decision, order, directive
8. instruction, recommendation
9. principle, scientific law; rule of nature
10. (Christianity) monastic rule
11. ruler, measuring stick

• reulen, rewlen, rulen
• reuler, rewler
• reulily, reweleliche
• rewly

• English: rule
• Scots: rule, reule

• “reule (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-01.

• reulle
• rieule
• riule
• rule
• ruele

Semi-learned term borrowed from Latin regula. Compare the inherited doublet reille, from Vulgar Latin *regla.

reule f (oblique plural reules, nominative singular reule, nominative plural reules)

1. rule (regulation, law, guideline)
2. ruler; rule (straight-edge)

• reuler/riuler

• Middle English: reule, rewle, rule
  • English: rule

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rieule)
• reule on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub