Sense of "adjust (a clock, etc.) with reference to a standard of accuracy" is by 1660s. Related: Regulated; regulating.
Did you read your own source? Or just stop at the first sentence?
I've seen dictionary arguers do this all the time. You say that a word means one thing, and they say, "No, it doesn't." Then they cite a dictionary which provides a few definitions, one of which is in the sense that the subject was using it, and they point to the existence of literally any other definition as evidence that "it does not mean that."
Yeah? Thats still the same meaning as today. Controlling based on a standard.
Its historically always meant basically what it means today https://www.etymonline.com/word/regulate#:\~:text=early%2015c.%2C%20regulaten%2C%20%22,to%20lead%2C%20rule%22).
Did you read your own source? Or just stop at the first sentence?
I've seen dictionary arguers do this all the time. You say that a word means one thing, and they say, "No, it doesn't." Then they cite a dictionary which provides a few definitions, one of which is in the sense that the subject was using it, and they point to the existence of literally any other definition as evidence that "it does not mean that."
Yeah? Thats still the same meaning as today. Controlling based on a standard.