regulate

verb

1. To dictate policy.
2. To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.

   “the laws which regulate the succession of the seasons”

   “The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.”

   “But on Tuesday, Sam Altman[…] testified before members of a Senate subcommittee and largely agreed with them on the need to regulate the increasingly powerful A.I. technology being created inside his company and others like Google and Microsoft.”

   “The NFA has been a flashpoint for advocates, who say that silencers are not frequently used in crime and believe that the silencers and other weapons regulated under the law, including machine guns and short-barreled rifles and shotguns, are protected by the Second Amendment.”

3. To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.

   “to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time”

   “to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.”

4. To put or maintain in order.

   “to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances”

   “to regulate one's eating habits”