RE, a prefix or inseparable particle in the composition of words, denotes return, repetition, iteration. It is contracted from red, which the Latins retained in words beginning with a vowel, as in redamo, redeo, redintegro. In a few English words, all or most of which, I believe, we receive from the French, it has lost its appropriate signification, as in rejoice, recommend, receive.
REABSORB', verb transitive [re and absorb.]
1. To draw in or inbibe again what has been effused, extravasated or thrown off; used of fluids; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, blood, gas, etc.
2. To swallow up again.
REABSORB'ED, participle passive Imbibed again.
REABSORB'ING, participle present tense Reimbibing.
REABSORP'TION, noun The act or process of inbibing what has been previously thrown off, effused or extravasated; the swallowing a second time.
REACCESS', noun [re and access.] A second access or approach; a visit renewed.
REACH, verb transitive Raught, the ancient preterit, is obsolete. The verb is now regular; participle passive reached. Latin rego, to rule or govern, to make right or straight, that is, to strain or stretch, the radical sense. The English sense of reach appears in Latin porrigo and porricio. Greek, to reach to stretch, the radical sense of desiring. Latin fragro. But the primary sense is the same, to reach to extend, to shoot forth, to urge.]
1. To extend; to stretch; in a general sense; sometimes followed by out and forth; as, to reach out the arm. Hence,
2. To extend to; to touch by extending either the arm alone, or with an instrument in the hand; as, to reach a book on the shelf; I cannot reach the object with my cane; the seaman reaches the bottom of the river with a pole or a line.
3. To strike from a distance.
O patron power, thy present aid afford, that I may reach the beast.
4. To deliver with the hand by extending the arm; to hand. He reached [to] me an orange.
He reached me a full cup.
5. To extend or stretch from a distance.
REACH hither thy finger - reach hither thy hand. John 20:27.
6. To arrive at; to come to. The ship reached her port in safety. We reached New York on Thursday. The letter reached me at seven o'clock.
7. To attain to or arrive at, by effort, labor or study; hence, to gain or obtain. Every artist should attempt to reach the point of excellence.
The best accounts of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach come short of its reality.
8. To penetrate to.
Whatever alterations are made in the body, if they reach not the mind, there is no perception.
9. To extend to so as to include or comprehend in fact or principle.
The law reached the intention of the promoters, and this act fixed the natural price of money.
If these examples of grown men reach not the case of children, let them examine.
10. To extend to.
Thy desire leads to no excess that reaches blame.
11. To extend; to spread abroad.
Trees reach'd too far their pampered boughs.
12. To take with the hand.
Lest therefore now his bolder hand reach also of the tree of life and eat. [Unusual.]
13. To overreach; to deceive.
REACH, verb intransitive
1. To be extended.
The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone.
The border shall descend, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward. Numbers 34:11.
And behold, a ladder set on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. Genesis 28:12.
2. To penetrate.
Ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth to heaven. 2 Chronicles 28:9.
3. To make efforts to vomit. [See Retch.]
To reach after, to make efforts to attain to or obtain.
He would be in a posture of mind, reaching after a positive idea of infinity.
REACH, noun
1. In a general sense, extension; a stretching; extent.
2. The power of extending to, or of taking by the hand, or by any instrument managed by the hand. The book is not within my reach The bottom of the sea is not within the reach of a line or cable.
3. Power of attainment or management, or the limit of power, physical or moral. He used all the means within his reach The causes of phenomena are often beyond the reach of human intellect.
Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.
4. Effort of the mind in contrivance or research; contrivance; scheme.
- Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended.
5. A fetch; an artifice to obtain an advantage.
The duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own underhand, to cross the design.
6. Tendency to distant consequences.
Strain not my speech to grosser issues, nor to larger reach than to suspicion.
7. Extent.
And on the left hand, hell with long reach interpos'd.
8. Among seamen, the distance between two points on the banks of a river, in which the current flows in a straight course.
9. An effort to vomit.
RE'ACHED, participle passive Stretched out; extended; touched by extending the arm; attained to; obtained.
RE'ACHER, noun One that reaches or extends; one that delivers by extending the arm.
RE'ACHING, participle present tense Stretching out; extending; touching by extension of the arm; attaining to; gaining; making efforts to vomit.
REACT', verb transitive [re and act.] To act or perform a second time; as, to react a play. The same scenes were reacted at Rome.
REACT', verb intransitive
1. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force. Every elastic body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
2. To act in opposition; to resist any influence or power.
REACT'ED, participle passive Acted or performed a second time.
REACT'ING, participle present tense Acting again; in physics, resisting the impulse of another body.
REAC'TION, noun
1. In physics, counteraction; the resistance made by a body to the action or impulse of another body, which endeavors to change its state, either of motion or rest. Action and reaction are equal.
2. Any action in resisting other action or power.
READ, noun [See the Verb.]
1. Counsel. [Obs.]
2. Saying; sentence. obsolete
READ, verb transitive The preterit and participle passive read is pronounced red. [Gr. to say or tell, to flow; a speaker, a rhetorician. The primary sense of read is to speak, to utter, that is, to push, drive or advance. This is also the primary sense of ready, that is, prompt or advancing, quick. Latin gratia, the primary sense of which is prompt to favor, advancing towards, free. The elements of these words are the same as those of ride and Latin gradior, etc. The sense of reason is secondary, that which is uttered, said or set forth; hence counsel also. See Ready.]
1. To utter or pronounce written or printed words, letters or characters in the proper order; to repeat the names or utter the sounds customarily annexed to words, letters or characters; as, to read a written or printed discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music.
2. To inspect and understand words or characters; to peruse silently; as, to read a paper or letter without uttering the words; to read to one's self.
3. To discover or understand by characters, marks or features; as, to read a man's thoughts in his countenance.
To read the interior structure of the globe.
An armed corse did lie, in whose dead face he read great magnanimity.
4. To learn by observation.
Those about her from her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
5. To know fully.
Who is't can read a woman?
6. To suppose; to guess. obsolete
7. To advise. obsolete
READ, verb intransitive
1. To perform the act of reading.
So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. Nehemiah 8:3.
2. To be studious; to practice much reading.
It is sure that Fleury roads.
3. To learn by reading.
I have read of an eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence.
4. To tell; to declare. [Not in use.]
READ, participle passive red.
1. Uttered; pronounced, as written words in the proper order; as, the letter was read to the family.
2. Silently perused.
READ, adjective red. Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned. Well read is the phrase commonly used; as well read in history; well read in the classics.
A poet well read in Longinus -
RE'ADABLE, adjective That may be read; fit to be read.
READEP'TION, noun [from Latin re and adeptus, obtained.]
A regaining; recovery of something lost. [Not much used.]
RE'ADER, noun
1. One that reads; any person who pronounces written words; particularly, one whose office is to read prayers in a church.
2. By way of distinction, one that reads much; one studious in books.
RE'ADERSHIP, noun [See Read.] the office of reading prayers in a church.
READILY, adverb red'ily. [See Ready.]
1. Quickly; promptly; easily. I readily perceive the distinction you make.
2. Cheerfully; without delay or objection; without reluctance. He readily granted my request.
READINESS, noun red'iness. [from ready.]
1. Quickness; promptness; promptitude; facility; freedom from hinderance or obstruction; as readiness of speech; readiness of thought; readiness of mind in suggesting an answer; readiness of reply.
2. Promptitude; cheerfulness; willingness; alacrity; freedom from reluctance; as, to grant a request or assistance with readiness
They received the word with all readiness of mind. Acts 17:11.
3. A state of preparation; fitness of condition. The troops are in readiness
RE'ADING, participle present tense
1. Pronouncing or perusing written or printed words or characters of a book or writing.
2. Discovering by marks; understanding.
RE'ADING, noun
1. The act of reading; perusal.
2. Study of books; as a man of extensive reading
3. A lecture or prelection.
4. Public recital.
The Jews had their weekly readings of the law.
5. In criticism, the manner of reading the manuscripts of ancient authors, where the words or letters are obscure. No small part of the business of critics is to settle the true reading or real words used by the author; and the various readings of different critics are often perplexing.
6. A commentary or gloss on a law, text or passage.
7. In legislation, the formal recital of a bill by the proper officer, before the house which is to consider it. In Congress and in the state legislatures, a bill must usually have three several readings on different days, before it can be passed into a law.
READJOURN', verb transitive [re and adjourn.]
1. To adjourn a second time.
2. To cite or summon again. [Not used.]
READJUST', verb transitive [re and adjust.] To settle again; to put in order again what had been discomposed.
READJUST'ED, participle passive Adjusted again; resettled.
READJUST'ING, participle present tense Adjusting again.
READJUST'MENT, noun A second adjustment.
READMIS'SION, noun [re and admission.] The act of admitting again what had been excluded; as the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.
READMIT', verb transitive [re and admit.] To admit again.
Whose ear is ever open and his eye gracious to readmit the suppliant.
READMIT'TANCE, noun A second admittance; allowance to enter again.
READOPT', verb transitive [re and adopt.] To adopt again.
READORN', verb transitive To adorn anew; to decorate a second time.
READVERT'ENCY, noun [re and advertency.] The act of reviewing.
READY, adjective red'y. [Eng. to rid; redo, ready; rida, to ride; bereda, to prepare. Gr. easy. The primary sense is to go, move, or advance forward, and it seems to be clear that ready ride, read, riddle, are all of one family, and probably from the root of Latin gradior. See Read and Red.]
1. Quick; prompt; not hesitating; as ready wit; a ready consent.
2. Quick to receive or comprehend; not slow or dull; as a ready apprehension.
3. Quick in action or execution; dextrous; as an artist ready in his business; a ready writer. Psalms 45:1.
4. Prompt; not delayed present in hand. He makes ready payment; he pays ready money for every thing he buys.
5. Prepared; fitted; furnished with what is necessary, or disposed in a manner suited to the purpose; as a ship ready for sea.
My oxen and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready Matthew 22:4.
6. Willing; free; cheerful to do or suffer; not backward or reluctant; as a prince always ready to grant the reasonable requests of his subjects.
The spirit is ready but the flesh is weak. Mark 14:15.
I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. Acts 21:13.
7. Willing; disposed. Men are generally ready to impute blame to others. They are more ready to give than to take reproof.
8. Being at the point; near; not distant; about to do or suffer.
A Syrian ready to perish was my father. Deuteronomy 26:5. Job 29:13. Psalms 88:15.
9. Being nearest or at hand.
A sapling pine he wrench'd from out the ground, the readiest weapon that his fury found.
10. Easy; facile; opportune; short; near, or most convenient; the Greek sense.
Sometimes the readiest way which a wise man has to conquer, is to flee.
Through the wild desert, not the readiest way.
The ready way to be thought mad, is to contend you are not so.
1. To make ready to prepare; to provide and put in order.
2. An elliptical phrase, for make things ready; to make preparations; to prepare.
READY, adverb red'y. In a state of preparation, so as to need no delay.
We ourselves will go ready armed before the house of Israel. Numbers 32:17.
READY, noun red'y. For ready money.
Lord Strut was not flush in ready either to go to law, or to clear old debts. [A low word.]
READY, verb transitive red'y. To dispose in order; to prepare. [Not in use.]
REAFFIRM', verb transitive [re and affirm.] To affirm a second time.
REAFFIRM'ANCE, noun A second confirmation.
REA'GENT, noun [re and agent.] In chimistry, a substance employed to precipitate another in solution, or to detect the ingredients of a mixture.
Bergman reckons barytic muriate to be one of the most sensible reagents.
REAGGRAVA'TION, noun [re and aggravation.]
In the Romish ecclesiastical law, the last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication. Before they proceed to fulminate the last excommunication, they publish an aggravation and a reaggravation
REAK, noun A rush. [Not in use.]
RE'AL, adjective [Low Latin realis. The Latin res and Eng. thing coincide exactly with the Heb. a word, a thing, an event. See Read and Thing.]
1. Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as a description of real life. The author describes a real scene or transaction.
2. True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit or factitious; as real Madeira wine; real ginger.
3. True; genuine; not affected; not assumed. The woman appears in her real character.
4. Relating to things, not to persons; not personal.
Many are perfect in men's humors, that are not greatly capable of the real part of business. [Little used or obsolete.]
5. In law, pertaining to things fixed, permanent or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as real estate, opposed to personal or movable property.
Real action, in law, is an action which concerns real property.
Real assets, assets consisting in real estate, or lands and tenements descending to an heir, sufficient to answer the charges upon the estate created by the ancestor.
Chattels real are such chattels as concern or savor of the reality; as a term for years of land, wardships in chivalry, the next presentation to a church, estate by statue-merchant, elegit, etc.
Real composition, is when an agreement is made between the owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with consent of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof.
Real presence, in the Romish church, the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ.
RE'ALGAR, noun
A combination of sulphur and arsenic; red sulphuret of arsenic. realgar differs from orpiment in having undergone a greater degree of heat.
RE'ALIST, noun A scholastic philosopher, who maintains that things and not words, are the objects of dialectics; opposed to nominal or nominalist.
RE'AL, noun A small Spanish coin of the value of forty maravedis; but its value is different in different provinces, being from five or six to ten cents, or six pence sterling. It is sometimes written rial.
REAL'ITY, noun
1. Actual being or existence of any thing; truth; fact; in distinction from mere appearance.
A man may fancy he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
2. Something intrinsically important, not merely matter of show.
And to realities yield all her shows.
3. In the schools, that may exist of itself, or which has a full and absolute being of itself, and is not considered as a part of any thing else.
4. In law, immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of property; as chattels which savor of the reality [This word is so written in law, for reality ]
REALIZA'TION, noun [from realize.]
1. The act of realizing or making real.
2. The act of converting money into land.
3. The act of believing or considering as real.
4. The act of bringing into being or act.
RE'ALIZE, verb transitive
1. To bring into being or act; as, to realize a scheme or project.
We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighing a single grain of sand against the globe of earth.
2. To convert money into land, or personal into real estate.
3. To impress on the mind as a reality; to believe, consider or treat as real. How little do men in full health realize their frailty and mortality.
Let the sincere christian realize the closing sentiment.
4. To bring home to one's own case or experience; to consider as one's own; to feel in all its force. Who, at his fire side, can realize the distress of shipwrecked mariners?
This allusion must have had enhanced strength and beauty to the eye of a nation extensively devoted to a pastoral life, and therefore realizing all its fine scenes and the tender emotions to which they gave birth.
5. To bring into actual existence and possession; to render tangible or effective. He never realized much profit from his trade or speculations.
RE'ALIZED, participle passive Brought into actual being; converted into real estate; impressed, received or treated as a reality; felt in its true force; rendered actual, tangible or effective.
RE'ALIZING, participle present tense
1. Bringing into actual being; converting into real estate; impressing as a reality; feeling as one's own or in its real force; rendering tangible or effective.
2. adjective That makes real, or that brings home as a reality; as a realizing view of eternity.
REALLEDGE, verb transitive reallej'. [re and alledge.] To alledge again.
RE'ALLY, adverb
1. With actual existence.
2. In truth; in fact; not in appearance only; as things really evil.
The anger of the people is really a short fit of madness.
In this sense, it is used familiarly as a slight corroboration of an opinion or declaration.
Why really sixty five is somewhat old.
REALM, noun relm. [Latin rex, king, whence regalis, royal.]
1. A royal jurisdiction or extent of government; a kingdom; a king's dominions; as the realm of England.
2. Kingly government; as the realm of bees. [Unusual.]
RE'ALTY, noun [Latin rex.]
1. Lovalty. [Not in use.]
2. Reality. [Not in use.]
3. In law, immobility. [See Reality.]
REAM, noun [Latin remus., ramus, a branch, for the shoots of trees or shrubs were the first bands used by men. See Gird and Withe.]
A bundle or package of paper, consisting of twenty quires.
REAN'IMATE, verb transitive [re and animate.]
1. To revive; to resuscitate; to restore to life; as a person dead or apparently dead; as, to reanimate a drowned person.
2. To revive the spirits when dull or languid; to invigorate; to infuse new life or courage into; as, to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate drowsy senses or languid spirits.
REAN'IMATED, participle passive Restored to life or action.
REAN'IMATING, participle present tense Restoring life to; invigorating with new life and courage.
REANIMA'TION, noun The act or operation of reviving from apparent death; the act or operation of giving fresh spirits, courage or vigor.
REANNEX', verb transitive [re and annex.] To annex again; to reunite; to annex what has been separated.
REANNEXA'TION, noun The act of annexing again.
REANNEX'ED, participle passive Annexed or united again.
REANNEX'ING, participle present tense Annexing again; reuniting.
REAP, verb transitive [Latin rapio, carpo; Gr. a sickle, to reap; Eng. crop.]
1. To cut grain with a sickle; as, to reap wheat or rye.
When ye reap the harvest, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field. Leviticus 19:9.
2. To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
3. To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward, or as the fruit of labor or of works; in a good or bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
He that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption. Galatians 6:7.
Ye have plowed wickedness; ye have reaped iniquity.
Hosea 10.
REAP, verb intransitive
1. To perform the act or operation of reaping. In New England, farmers reap in July and August.
2. To receive the fruit of labor or works.
They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy. Psalms 126:5.
RE'APED, participle passive Cut with a sickle; received as the fruit of labor or works.
RE'APER, noun One that cuts grain with a sickle.
RE'APING, participle present tense Cutting grain with a sickle; receiving as the fruit of labor or the reward of works.
REAPPAR'EL, verb transitive [re and apparel.] To clothe again.
REAPPAR'ELED, participle passive Clothed again.
REAPPAR'ELING, participle present tense Clothing again.
REAPPE'AR, verb intransitive [re and appear.] To appear a second time.
REAPPE'ARANCE, noun A second appearance.
REAPPE'ARING, participle present tense Appearing again.
REAPPLICA'TION, noun [See Reapply. A second application.
REAPPLY', verb transitive or i. [re and apply.] To apply again.
REAPPLY'ING, participle present tense Applying again.
REAPPOINT', verb transitive To appoint again.
REAPPOINT'MENT, noun A second appointment.
REAPPORTION, verb transitive To apportion again.
REAPPORTIONED, participle passive Apportioned again.
REAPPORTIONING, participle present tense Apportioning. again.
REAPPORTIONMENT, noun A second apportionment.
REAR, noun
1. In a general sense, that which is behind or backwards; appropriately, the part of an army which is behind the other, either when standing on parade or when marching; also, the part of a fleet which is behind the other. It is opposed to front or van. Bring up the rear
2. The last class; the last in order.
Coins I place in the rear
In the rear behind the rest; backward, or in the last class. In this phrase, rear signifies the part or place behind.
REAR, adjective
1. Raw; rare; not well roasted or boiled.
2. Early. [A provincial word.]
REAR, verb transitive
1. To raise.
Who now shall rear you to the sun, or rank your tribes?
2. To lift after a fall.
In adoration at his feet I fell submiss; he rear'd me.
3. To bring up or to raise to maturity, as young; as, to rear a numerous offspring.
4. To educate; to instruct.
He wants a father to protect his youth, and rear him up to virtue.
5. To exalt; to elevate.
Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind, softens the high, and rears the abject mind.
6. To rouse; to stir up.
And seeks the tusky boar to rear
7. To raise; to breed; as cattle.
8. To achieve; to obtain.
To rear the steps, to ascend; to move upward.
RE'ARED, participle passive Raised; lifted; brought up; educated; elevated.
RE'ARING, participle present tense Raising; educating; elevating.
RE'ARWARD, noun [from rear. See Rereward.]
1. The last troop; the rear-guard.
2. The end; the tail; the train behind.
3. The latter part.
REASCEND', verb intransitive [re and ascend.] To rise, mount or climb again.
REASCEND', verb transitive To mount or ascend again.
He mounts aloft and reascends the skies.
REASCEND'ED, participle passive Ascended again.
REASCEND'ING, participle present tense Ascending again.
REASCEN'SION, noun The act of reascending; a remounting.
REASCENT', noun A returning ascent; acclivity.
REASON, noun re'zn. [Latin ratio, which is from ratus, and which proves reor to be contracted from redo, redor, and all unite with rod, Latin radius, etc. Gr. to say or speak, whence rhetoric. See Read.]
1. That which is thought or which is alleged in words, as the ground or cause of opinion, conclusion or determination. I have reasons which I may choose not to disclose. You ask me my reasons. I freely give my reasons. The judge assigns good reasons for his opinion, reasons which justify his decision. Hence in general,
2. The cause, ground, principle or motive of any thing said or done; that which supports or justifies a determination, plan or measure.
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness. 1 Peter 3:15.
3. Efficient cause. He is detained by reason of sickness.
Spain in thin sown of people, partly by reason of its sterility of soil
The reason of the motion of the balance in a wheel-watch is by motion of the next wheel.
4. Final cause.
REASON, in the English language, is sometimes taken for true and clear principles; sometimes for clear and fair deductions; sometimes for the cause, particularly the final cause.
5. A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, and good from evil, and which enables the possessor to deduce inferences from facts or from propositions.
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul, reason's comparing balance rules the whole - That sees immediate good by present sense, reason the future and the consequence.
REASON is the director of man's will.
6. Ratiocination; the exercise of reason
But when by reason she the truth has found -
7. Right; justice; that which is dictated or supported by reason Every man claims to have reason on his side.
I was promised on a time to have reason for my rhyme.
8. Reasonable claim; justice.
God brings good out of evil, and therefore it were but reason we should trust God to govern his own world.
9. Rationale; just account.
This reason did the ancient fathers render, why the church was called catholic.
10. Moderation; moderate demands; claims which reason and justice admit or prescribe.
The most probable way of bringing France to reason would be by the making an attempt on the Spanish West Indies -
In reason in all reason in justice; with rational ground.
When any thing is proved by as good arguments as a thing of that kind is capable of, we ought not in reason to doubt of its existence.
RE'ASON, verb intransitive
1. To exercise the faculty of reason; to deduce inferences justly from premises. Brutes do not reason; children reason imperfectly.
2. To argue; to infer conclusions from premises, or to deduce new or unknown propositions from previous propositions which are known or evident. To reason justly is to infer from propositions which are known, admitted or evident, the conclusions which are natural, or which necessarily result from them. Men may reason within themselves; they may reason before a court or legislature; they may reason wrong as well as right.
3. To debate; to confer or inquire by discussion or mutual communication of thoughts, arguments or reasons.
And they reasoned among themselves. Matthew 16:8.
1. To reason with, to argue with; to endeavor to inform, convince or persuade by argument. reason with a profligate son, and if possible, persuade him of his errors.
2. To discourse; to talk; to take or give an account.
Stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord, of all the righteous acts of the Lord. obsolete 1 Samuel 12:7.
RE'ASON, verb transitive
1. To examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss. I reasoned the matter with my friend.
When they are clearly discovered, well digested and well reasoned in every part, there is beauty in such a theory.
2. To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief of truth; to reason one out of his plan; to reason down a passion.
RE'ASONABLE, adjective
1. Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; as a reasonable being. [In this sense, rational is now generally used.]
2. Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally or according to the dictates of reason; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men.
3. Conformable or agreeable to reason; just; rational.
By indubitable certainty, I mean that which does not admit of any reasonable cause of doubting.
A law may be reasonable in itself, though a man does not allow it.
4. Not immoderate.
Let all things be thought upon, that may with reasonable swiftness add more feathers to our wings.
5. Tolerable; being in mediocrity; moderate; as a reasonable quantity.
6. Not excessive; not unjust; as a reasonable fine; a reasonable sum in damages.
RE'ASONABLENESS, noun
1. The faculty of reason. [In this sense, little used.]
2. Agreeableness to reason; that state or quality of a thing which reason supports or justifies; as the reasonableness of our wishes, demands or expectations.
the reasonableness and excellency of charity.
3. Conformity to rational principles.
The whole frame and contexture of a watch carries in it a reasonableness - the passive impression of the reason or intellectual idea that was in the artist. [Unusual.]
4. Moderation; as the reasonableness of a demand.
RE'ASONABLY, adverb
1. In a manner or degree agreeable to reason; in consistency with reason. We may reasonably suppose self interest to be the governing principle of men.
2. Moderately; in a moderate degree; not fully; in a degree reaching to mediocrity.
If we can be industry make our deaf and dumb persons reasonably perfect in the language -
RE'ASONER, noun One who reasons or argues; as a fiar reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner
RE'ASONING, participle present tense arguing; deducing inferences from premises; debating; discussing.
RE'ASONING, noun The act or process of exercising the faculty of reason; that act or operation of the mind by which new or unknown propositions are deduced from previous ones which are known and evident, or which are admitted or supposed for the sake of argument; argumentation; ratiocination; as fair reasoning; false reasoning; absurd reasoning; strong or weak reasoning The reasonings of the advocate appeared to the court conclusive.
RE'ASONLESS, adjective
1. Destitute of reason; as a reasonless man or mind.
2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason.
This proffer is absurd and reasonless
REASSEM'BLAGE, noun assemblage a second time.
REASSEM'BLE, verb transitive [re and assemble.] to collect again.
REASSEM'BLE, verb intransitive to assemble or convene again.
REASSEM'BLED, participle passive assembled again.
REASSEM'BLING, participle present tense assembling again.
REASSERT', verb transitive [re and asset.] To assert again; to maintain after suspension or cessation.
Let us hope - we may have a body of authors who will reassert our claim to respectability in literature.
REASSERT'ED, participle passive Asserted or maintained anew.
REASSERT'ING, participle present tense Asserting again; vindicating anew.
REASSIGN, verb transitive [re and assign.] To assign back; to transfer back what has been assigned.
REASSIM'ILATE, verb transitive [re and assimilate.]
To assimilate or cause to resemble anew; to change again into a like or suitable substance.
REASSIM'ILATED, participle passive Assimilated anew; changed again to a like substance.
REASSIM'ILATING, participle present tense Assimilating again.
REASSIMILA'TION, noun A second or renewed assimilation.
REASSU'ME, verb transitive [re and assume.] To resume; to take again.
REASSU'MED, participle passive Resumed; assumed again.
REASSU'MING, participle present tense Assuming or taking again.
REASSUMP'TION, noun A resuming; a second assumption.
REASSU'RANCE, noun [See Sure and Assurance.]
A second assurance against loss; or the assurance of property by an underwriter, to relieve himself from a risk he has taken.
REASSURE, verb transitive reashu're. [re and assure.]
1. To restore courage to; to free from fear or terror.
They rose with fear, till dauntless Pallas reassur'd the rest.
2. To insure a second time against loss, or rather to insure by another what one has already insured; to insure against loss that may be incurred by taking a risk.
REASSU'RED, participle passive
1. Restored from fear; re-encouraged.
2. Insured against loss by risk taken, as an underwriter.
REASSU'RER, noun One who insures the first underwriter.
REASSU'RING, participle present tense
1. Restoring from fear, terror or depression of courage.
2. Insuring against loss by insurance.
RE'ASTINESS, noun Rancidness. [Not in use or local.]
RE'ASTY, adjective Covered with a kind of rust and having a rancid taste; applied to dried meat. [Not in use or local.]
RE'ATE, noun A kind of long small grass that grows in water and complicates itself. [Not in use or local.]
REATTACH', verb transitive [re and attach.] To attach a second time.
REATTACH'MENT, noun A second attachment.
REATTEMPT', verb transitive [re and attempt.] To attempt again.
REAVE, verb transitive To take away by stealth or violence; to bereave. obsolete [See Bereave.]
REBAP'TISM, noun A second baptism.
REBAPTIZA'TION, noun [from rebaptize.] A second baptism.
REBAPTI'ZE, verb transitive [re and baptize.] To baptize a second time.
REBAPTI'ZED, participle passive Baptized again.
REBAPTI'ZING, participle present tense Baptizing a second time.
REBA'TE, verb transitive
To blunt; to beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness.
He doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
The keener edge of battle to rebate
REBA'TEMENT, noun
1. Diminution.
2. In commerce, abatement in price; deduction.
3. In heraldry, a diminution or abatement of the bearings in a coat of arms.
REBA'TO, noun A sort of ruff. [See Rabato.]
RE'BECK, noun A three stringed fiddle. [Not much used.]
REB'EL, noun [Latin rebellis, making war again.]
1. One who revolts from the government to which he owes allegiance, either by openly renouncing the authority of that government, or by taking arms and openly opposing it. A rebel differs from an enemy, as the latter is one who does not owe allegiance to the government which he attacks. Numbers 17:10.
2. One who willfully violates a law.
3. One who disobeys the king's proclamation; a contemner of the king's laws.
4. A villain who disobeys his lord.
REB'EL, adjective Rebellious; acting in revolt.
REBEL', verb intransitive [Latin rebello, to make war again; re and bello.]
1. To revolt; to renounce the authority of the laws and government to which one owes allegiance. Subjects may rebel by an open renunciation of the authority of the government, without taking arms; but ordinarily, rebellion is accompanied by resistance in arms.
Ye have built you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord. Joshua 22:16. Isaiah 1:20.
2. To rise in violent opposition against lawful authority.
How could my hand rebel against my heart? How could your heart rebel against your reason?
REBEL'LED, participle passive or adjective Rebellious; guilty of rebellion.
REBEL'LER, noun One that rebels.
REBEL'LING, participle present tense Renouncing the authority of the government to which one owes allegiance; rising in opposition to lawful authority.
REBEL'LION, noun [Latin rebellio. among the Romans, rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a renewed war.]
1. An open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes allegiance; or the taking of arms traitorously to resist the authority of lawful government; revolt. rebellion differs from insurrection and from mutiny. Insurrection may be a rising in opposition to a particular act or law, without a design to renounce wholly all subjection to the government. Insurrection may be, but is not necessarily, rebellion Mutiny is an insurrection of soldiers or seamen against the authority of their officers.
No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed, than men of desperate principles resort to it.
2. Open resistance to lawful authority.
Commission of rebellion in law, a commission awarded against a person who treats the king's authority with contempt, in not obeying his proclamation according to his allegiance, and refusing to attend his sovereign when required; in which case, four commissioners are ordered to attach him wherever he may be found.
REBEL'LIOUS, adjective Engaged in rebellion; renouncing the authority and dominion of the government to which allegiance is due; traitorously resisting government or lawful authority. Deuteronomy 9:7. Deuteronomy 21:18.
REBEL'LIOUSLY, adverb With design to throw off the authority of legitimate government; in opposition to the government, to which one is bound by allegiance; with violent or obstinate disobedience to lawful authority.
REBEL'LIOUSNESS, noun The quality or state of being rebellious.
REBEL'LOW, verb intransitive [re and bellow.] To bellow in return; to echo back a loud roaring noise.
The cave rebellow'd and the temple shook.
REBEL'LOWING, participle present tense Bellowing in return or in echo.
REBILD', verb transitive [re and build.] To build again; to renew a structure; to build or construct what has been demolished; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf or a city.
REBILD'ING, participle present tense Building again.
REBILT', participle passive Built again; reconstructed.
REBLOS'SOM, verb intransitive [re and blossom.] To blossom again.
REBOA'TION, noun [Latin rebo; re and boo.]
The return of a loud bellowing sound. [Not used.]
REBOIL', verb intransitive [Latin re and bullio.] To take fire; to be hot.
REBOUND', verb intransitive
To spring back; to start back; to be reverberated by an elastic power resisting force or impulse impressed; as a rebounding echo.
Bodies absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
REBOUND', verb transitive To drive back; to reverberate.
Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound
REBOUND', noun The act of flying back in resistance of the impulse of another body; resilience.
Put back as from a rock with swift rebound
REBOUND'ING, participle present tense Springing or flying back; reverberating.
REBRA'CE, verb transitive [re and brace.] To brace again.
REBRE'ATHE, verb intransitive [re and breathe.] To breathe again.
REBUFF', noun
1. Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud.
2. Sudden check; defeat.
3. Refusal; rejection of solicitation.
REBUFF', verb transitive To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check.
REBUILD',
REBUILD'ING,
REBUILT',
REBU'KABLE, adjective [from rebuke.] Worthy of reprehension.
REBUILD'ING,
REBUILT',
REBU'KE, verb transitive [See Pack and Impeach.]
1. To chide; to reprove; to reprehend for a fault; to check by reproof.
The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd, not to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.
Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor. Leviticus 19:17.
2. To check or restrain.
The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan. Zechariah 3:2. Isaiah 17:13.
3. To chasten; to punish; to afflict for correction.
O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger. Psalms 6:1.
4. To check; to silence.
Master, rebuke thy disciples. Luke 19:39.
5. To check; to heal.
And he stood over her and rebuked the fever. Luke 4:35.
6. To restrain; to calm.
He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea. Matthew 8:26.
REBU'KE, noun
1. A chiding; reproof for faults; reprehension.
Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?
2. In Scripture, chastisement; punishment; affliction for the purpose of restraint and correction. Ezekiel 5:15. Hosea 5.
3. In low language, any kind of check.
To suffer rebuke to endure the reproach and persecution of men. Jeremiah 15:15.
To be without rebuke to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.
REBU'KED, participle passive Reproved; reprehended; checked; restrained; punished for faults.
REBU'KEFUL, adjective Containing or abounding with rebukes.
REBU'KEFULLY, adverb With reproof or reprehension.
REBU'KER, noun One that rebukes; a chider; one that chastises or restrains.
REBU'KING, participle present tense Chiding; reproving; checking; punishing.
REBULLI'TION, noun [See ebullition and Boil.] Act of boiling or effervescing. [Little used.]
REBURY, verb transitive reber'ry. [re and bury.] To inter again.
RE'BUS, noun [Latin from res, which is of the class Rd, Rs, and of the same family as riddle. See Riddle, Read and Real.]
1. An enigmatical representation of some name, etc. by using figures or pictures instead of words. A gallant in love with a woman named Rose Hill, painted on the border of his gown, a rose, a hill, an eye, a loaf and a well, which reads, Rose Hill I love well.
2. A sort of riddle.
3. In some chimical writers, sour milk; sometimes, the ultimate matter of which all bodies are composed.
4. In heraldry, a coat of arms which bears an allusion to the name of the person; as three cups, for Butler.
REBUT', verb transitive [See Butt and Pout.]
To repel; to oppose by argument, plea or countervailing proof. [It is used by lawyers in a general sense.]
REBUT', verb intransitive
1. To retire back. obsolete
2. To answer, as a plaintiff's sur-rejoinder.
The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a sur-rejoinder; on which the defendant may rebut
REBUT'TED, participle passive Repelled; answered.
REBUT'TER, noun In law pleadings, the answer of a defendant to a plaintiff's sur-rejoinder.
If I grant to a tenant to hold without impeachment of waste, and afterward implead him for waste done, he may debar me of this action by showing my grant, which is a rebutter
REBUT'TING, participle present tense Repelling; opposing by argument, countervailing allegation or evidence.
RECALL', verb transitive [re and call.]
1. To call back; to take back; as, to recall words or declarations.
2. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; as, to recall a decree.
3. To call back; to revive in memory; as, to recall to mind what has been forgotten.
4. To call back from a place or mission; as, to recall a minister from a foreign court; to recall troops from India.
RECALL', noun
1. A calling back; revocation.
2. The power of calling back or revoking.
'Tis done, and since 'tis done, 'tis past recall
RECALL'ABLE, adjective That may be recalled.
Delegates recallable at pleasure.
RECALL'ED, participle passive Called back; revoked.
RECALL'ING, participle present tense Calling back; revoking.
RECANT', verb transitive [Latin recanto; re and canto. See Cant.]
To retract; to recall; to contradict a former declaration.
How soon would ease recant vows made in pain, as violent as void.
RECANT', verb intransitive To recall words; to revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said. Convince me I am wrong, and I will recant
RECANTA'TION, noun The act of recalling; retraction; a declaration that contradicts a former one.
RECANT'ED, participle passive Recalled; retracted.
RECANT'ER, noun One that recants.
RECANT'ING, participle present tense Recalling; retracting.
RECAPAC'ITATE, verb transitive [re and capacitate.] To qualify again; to confer capacity on again.
RECAPAC'ITATED, participle passive Capacitated again.
RECAPAC'ITATING, participle present tense Conferring capacity again.
RECAPIT'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin capitulum. See Capitulate.]
To repeat the principal things mentioned in a preceding discourse, argument or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points or arguments.
RECAPIT'ULATED, participle passive Repeated in a summary.
RECAPIT'ULATING, participle present tense Repeating the principal things in a discourse or argument.
RECAPITULA'TION, noun
1. The act of recapitulating.
2. A summary or concise statement or enumeration of the principal points or facts in a preceding discourse, argument or essay.
RECAPIT'ULATORY, adjective Repeating again; containing recapitulation.
RECAP'TION, noun [Latin re and captio; capio, to take.]
The act of retaking; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife or children from one who has taken them and wrongfully detains them.
Writ of recaption a writ to recover property taken by a second distress, pending a replevin for a former distress for the same rent or service.
RECAP'TOR, noun [re and captor.] One who retakes; one that takes a prize which had been previously taken.
RECAP'TURE, noun [re and capture.]
1. The act of retaking; particularly, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
2. A prize retaken.
RECAP'TURE, verb transitive To retake; particularly, to retake a prize which had been previously taken.
RECAP'TURED, participle passive Retaken.
RECAP'TURING, participle present tense Retaking, as a prize from the captor.
REC'ARNIFY, verb transitive [re and carnify, from Latin caro, flesh.]
To convert again into flesh. [Not much used.]
RECAR'RIED, participle passive Carried back or again.
RECAR'RY, verb transitive [re and carry.] To carry back.
RECAR'RYING, participle present tense Carrying back.
REC'AST, verb transitive [re and cast.]
1. To cast again; as, to recast cannon.
2. To throw again.
3. To mold anew.
4. To compute a second time.
REC'AST, participle passive Cast again; molded anew.
REC'ASTING, participle present tense Casting again; molding anew.
RECE'DE, verb intransitive [Latin recedo; re and cedo.]
1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
Like the hollow roar of tides receding from th' insulted shore.
All bodies moved circularly, endeavor to recede from the center.
2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist from; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand; to recede from terms or propositions.
RECE'DE, verb transitive [re and cede.] To cede back; to grant or yield to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.
RECE'DED, participle passive Ceded back; regranted.
RECE'DING, participle present tense
1. Withdrawing; retreating; moving back.
2. Ceding back; regranting.
RECE'IPT,
RECE'IT, noun rece't. [Latin receptus. This word wought to follow the analogy of conceit, deceit, from Latin conceptus, deceptus, and be written without p, receit.]
1. The act of receiving; as the receit of a letter.
2. The place of receiving; as the receit of custom.
Matthew 9:9.
3. Reception; as the receit of blessings or mercies.
4. Reception; welcome; as the kind receit of a friend. obsolete
[In this sense, reception is now used.]
5. Recipe; prescription of ingredients for any composition, as of medicines, etc.
6. In commerce, a writing acknowledging the taking of money or goods. A receit of money may be in part or in full payment of a debt, and it operates as an acquittance or discharge of the debt either in part or in full. A receit of goods makes the receiver liable to account for the same, according to the nature of the transaction, or the tenor of the writing. It is customary for sheriffs to deliver goods taken in execution, to some person who gives his receit for them, with a promise to redeliver them to the sheriff at or before the time of sale.
RECEIPT,
RECEIT, verb transitive rece't. To give a receit for; as, to receit goods delivered by a sheriff.
RECE'IT, n. rece't. [L. receptus. This word wought to follow the analogy of conceit, deceit, from L. conceptus, deceptus, and be written without p, receit.]
1. The act of receiving; as the receit of a letter.2. The place of receiving; as the receit of custom.Matt. 9.
3. Reception; as the receit of blessings or mercies.4. Reception; welcome; as the kind receit of a friend. Obs.[In this sense, reception is now used.]5. Recipe; prescription of ingredients for any composition, as of medicines, &c.6. In commerce, a writing acknowledging the taking of money or goods. A receit of money may be in part or in full payment of a debt, and it operates as an acquittance or discharge of the debt either in part or in full. A receit of goods makes the receiver liable to account for the same, according to the nature of the transaction, or the tenor of the writing. It is customary for sheriffs to deliver goods taken in execution, to some person who gives his receit for them, with a promise to redeliver them to the sheriff at or before the time of sale.RECE'IVABLE, adjective That may be received.
RECE'IVABLENESS, noun Capability of being received.
RECE'IVE, verb transitive [Latin recipio; re and capio, to take.]
1. To take, as a thing offered or sent; to accept. He had the offer of a donation, but he would not receive it.
2. To take as due or as a reward. He received the money on the day it was payable. He received ample compensation.
3. To take or obtain from another in any manner, and either good or evil.
Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? Job 2:10.
4. To take, as a thing communicated; as, to receive a wound by a shot; to receive a disease by contagion.
The idea of a solidity we receive by our touch.
5. To take or obtain intellectually; as, to receive an opinion or notion from others.
6. To embrace.
Receive with meekness the engrafted word. James 1:7.
7. To allow; to hold; to retain; as a custom long received.
8. To admit.
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Psalms 73:24.
9. To welcome; to lodge and entertain; as a guest.
They kindled a fire and received us every one, because of the present rain and because of the cold. Acts 28:2.
10. To admit into membership or fellowship.
Him that is weak in the faith, receive ye. Romans 14:1.
11. To take in or on; to hold; to contain.
The brazen altar was too little to receive the burnt-offering. 1 Kings 8:64.
12. To be endowed with.
Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you. Acts 1:8.
13. To take into a place or state.
After the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven. Mark 16:19.
14. To take or have as something ascribed; as, to receive praise or blame. Revelation 4:11. Revelation 5:12.
15. To bear with or suffer. 2 Corinthians 11:4.
16. To believe in. John 1:11.
17. To accept or admit officially or in an official character. The minister was received by the emperor or court.
18. To take stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
RECE'IVED, participle passive Taken; accepted; admitted; embraced; entertained; believed.
RECE'IVEDNESS, noun General allowance or belief; as the receivedness of an opinion.
RECE'IVER, noun
1. One who takes or receives in any manner.
2. An officer appointed to receive public money; a treasurer.
3. One who takes stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen, and incurs the guilt of partaking in the crime.
4. A vessel for receiving and containing the product of distillation.
5. The vessel of an air pump, for containing the thing on which an experiment is to be made.
6. One who partakes of the sacrament.
RECE'IVING, participle present tense Taking; accepting; admitting; embracing; believing; entertaining.
RECEL'EBRATE, verb transitive [re and celebrate.] To celebrate again.
RECEL'EBRATED, participle passive Celebrated anew.
RECEL'EBRATING, participle present tense Celebrating anew.
RECELEBRA'TION, noun A renewed celebration.
RE'CENCY, noun [Latin recens.]
1. Newness; new state; late origin; as the recency of a wound or tumor.
2. Lateness in time; freshness; as the recency of a transaction.
RECENSE, verb transitive recens'. [Latin recenso; re and censeo.]
To review; to revise.
RECEN'SION, noun [Latin recensio.] Review; examination; enumeration.
RE'CENT, adjective [Latin recens.]
1. New; being of late origin or existence.
The ancients believed some parts of Egypt to be recent and formed by the mud discharged into the sea by the Nile.
2. Late; modern; as great and worthy men ancient or recent [Modern is now used.]
3. Fresh; lately received; as recent news or intelligence.
4. Late; of late occurrence; as a recent event or transaction.
5. Fresh; not long dismissed, released or parted from; as Ulysses, recent from the storms.
RE'CENTLY, adverb Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as advices recently received; a torn recently built or repaired; an isle recently discovered.
RE'CENTNESS, noun Newness; freshness; lateness of origin or occurrence; as the recentness of alluvial land; the recentness of news or of events.
RECEP'TACLE, noun [Latin receptaculum, from receptus, recipio.]
1. A place or vessel into which something is received or in which it is contained, as a vat, a tun, a hollow in the earth, etc. The grave is the common receptacle of the dead.
2. In botany, one of the parts of the fructification; the base by which the other parts of the fructification are connected. A proper receptacle belongs to one fructification only; a common receptacle connects several florets or distinct fructifications. The receptacle of the fructification is common both to the flower and the fruit, or it embraces the corol and germ. The receptacle of the flower, is the base to which the parts of the flower, exclusive of the germ, are fixed. The receptacle of the fruit, is the base of the fruit only. The receptacle of the seeds, is the base to which the seeds are fixed.
3. In anatomy, the receptacle of the chyle is situated on the left side of the upper verteber of the loins, under the aorta and the vessels of the left kidney.
RECEPTAC'ULAR, adjective In botany, pertaining to the receptacle or growing on it, as the nectary.
REC'EPTARY, noun Thing received. [Not in use.]
RECEPTIBIL'ITY, noun The possibility of receiving.
RECEP'TION, noun [Latin receptio.]
1. The act of receiving; in a general sense; as the reception of food into the stomach, or of air into the lungs.
2. The state of being received.
3. Admission of any thing sent or communicated; as the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas.
4. Readmission.
All hope is lost of my reception into grace.
5. Admission of entrance for holding or containing; as a sheath fitted for the reception of a sword; a channel for the reception of water.
6. A receiving or manner of receiving for entertainment; entertainment. The guests were well pleased with their reception Nothing displeases more than a cold reception
7. A receiving officially; as the reception of an envoy by a foreign court.
8. Opinion generally admitted.
Philosophers who have quitted the popular doctrines of their countries, have fallen into as extravagant opinions, as even common reception countenanced. [Not in use.]
9. Recovery. [Not in use.]
RECEP'TIVE, adjective Having the quality of receiving or admitting what is communicated.
Imaginary space is receptive of all bodies.
RECEPTIV'ITY, noun The state or quality of being receptive.
RECEP'TORY, adjective Generally or popularly admitted or received. [Not in use.]
RECESS', noun [Latin recessus, from recedo. See Recede.]
1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; as the recess of the tides.
2. A withdrawing from public business or notice; retreat; retirement.
My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.
And every neighboring grove sacred to soft recess and gentle love.
3. Departure.
4. Place of retirement or secrecy; private abode.
This happy place, our sweet recess
5. State of retirement; as lords in close recess
In the recess of the jury, they are to consider their evidence.
6. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; as, the house of representatives had a recess of half an hour.
7. Privacy; seclusion from the world or from company.
Good verse recess and solitude requires.
8. Secret or abstruse part; as the difficulties and recesses of science.
9. A withdrawing from any point; removal to a distance.
10. An abstract or registry of the resolutions of the imperial diet. [Not in use.]
11. The retiring of the shore of the sea or of a lake from the general line of the shore, forming a bay.
RECES'SION, noun [Latin recessio.]
1. The act of withdrawing, retiring or retreating.
2. The act of receding from a claim, or of relaxing a demand.
3. A cession or granting back; as the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.
RECHANGE, verb transitive [re and change.] To change again.
RECHANGED, participle passive Changed again.
RECHANGING, participle present tense Changing again.
RECH'ARGE, verb transitive [re and charge.]
1. To charge or accuse in return.
2. To attack again; to attack anew.
RECH'ARGED, participle passive Accused in return; attacked anew.
RECH'ARGING, participle present tense Accusing in return; attacking anew.
RECHE'AT, noun
Among hunters, a lesson which the huntsman winds on the horn when the hounds have lost the game, to call them back from pursuing a counter scent.
RECHE'AT, verb transitive To blow the recheat
RECHOOSE, verb transitive rechooz'. To choose a second time.
RECHOSEN, participle passive or adjective recho'zn. Re-elected; chosen again.
RECIDIVA'TION, noun [Latin recidivus, from recido, to fall back; re and cado, to fall.]
A falling back; a backsliding. [Not much used.]
RECID'IVOUS, adjective [Latin recidivus.] Subject to backslide. [Little used.]
RECIPE, noun res'ipy. [Latin imperative of recipio, to take.]
A medical prescription; a direction of medicines to be taken by a patient.
RECIP'IENT, noun [Latin recipiens, recipio.]
1. A receiver; the person or thing that receives; he or that to which any thing is communicated.
2. The receiver of a still.
RECIP'ROCAL, adjective [Latin reciprocus.]
1. Acting in vicissitude or return; alternate.
Corruption is reciprocal to generation.
2. Mutual; done by each to the other; as reciprocal love; reciprocal benefits or favors; reciprocal duties; reciprocal aid.
3. Mutually interchangeable.
These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.
Reciprocal terms, in logic, those terms that have the same signification, and consequently are convertible and may be used for each other.
Reciprocal quantities, in mathematics, are those which, multiplied together, produce unity.
Reciprocal figures, in geometry, are those which have the antecedents and consequents of the same ratio in both figures.
Reciprocal ratio, is the ratio between the reciprocals of two quantities; as, the reciprocal ratio of 4 to 9, is that of 1/4 to 1/9.
RECIP'ROCAL, noun The reciprocal of any quantity, is unity divided by that quantity. Thus the reciprocal of 4 is 1/4.
RECIP'ROCALLY, adverb Mutually; interchangeably; in such a manner that each affects the other and is equally affected by it.
These two particles do reciprocally affect each other with the same force.
RECIP'ROCALNESS, noun Mutual return; alternateness.
RECIP'ROCATE, verb intransitive [Latin reciproco.] To act interchangeably; to alternate.
One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, and draws and blows reciprocating air.
RECIP'ROCATE, verb transitive To exchange; to interchange; to give and return mutually; as, to reciprocate favors.
RECIP'ROCATED, participle passive Mutually given and returned; interchanged.
RECIP'ROCATING, participle present tense Interchanging; each giving or doing to the other the same thing.
RECIPROCA'TION, noun [Latin reciprocatio.]
1. Interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as the reciprocation of kindnesses.
2. Alternation; as the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides.
3. Regular return or alternation of two symptoms or diseases.
RECIPROC'ITY, noun Reciprocal obligation or right; equal mutual rights or benefits to be yielded or enjoyed. The commissioners offered to negotiate a treaty on principles of reciprocity
RECI'SION, noun s as z. [Latin recisio, from recido, to cut off; re and caedo.]
The act of cutting off.
RECI'TAL, noun [from recite.]
1. Rehearsal; the repetition of the words of another or of a writing; as the recital of a deed; the recital of testimony.
2. Narration; a telling of the particulars of an adventure or of a series of events.
3. Enumeration.
RECITA'TION, noun [Latin recitatio.]
1. Rehearsal; repetition of words.
2. In colleges and schools, the rehersal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.
RECIT'ATIVE, adjective [See recite.]
Reciting; rehearsing; pertaining to musical pronunciation.
RECIT'ATIVE, noun a kind of musical pronunciation, such as that in which the several parts of the liturgy are rehearsed in churches, or that of actors on the stage, when they express some action or passion, relate some event or reveal some design.
In recitative the composer and the performer endeavor to imitate the inflections, accent and emphasis of natural speech.
[Note. The natural and proper English accent of this word is on the second syllable. The foreign accent may well be discarded.]
RECIT'ATIVELY, adverb In the manner of recitative.
RECI'TE, verb transitive [Latin recito; re and cito, to call or name.]
1. To rehearse; to repeat the words of another or of a writing; as, to recite the words of an author or of a deed or covenant.
2. In writing, to copy; as, the words of a deed are recited in the pleading.
3. To tell over; to relate; to narrate; as to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.
4. To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
5. To enumerate.
RECI'TE, verb intransitive To rehearse a lesson. The class will recite at eleven o'clock.
RECITE. for recital. [Not in use.]
RECI'TED, participle passive Rehearsed; told; repeated; narrated.
RECI'TER, noun One that recites or rehearses; a narrator.
RECI'TING, participle present tense Rehearsing; telling; repeating narrating.
RECK, verb intransitive [Latin rego. See Rack and Reckon.]
To care; to mind; to rate at much; as we say, to reckon much of; followed by of. obsolete
Thou's but a lazy loorde, and recks much of thy swinke.
I reck as little what betideth me, as much I wish all good befortune you.
Of night or loneliness it recks me not.
RECK, verb transitive To heed; to regard; to care for.
This son of mine not recking danger.
[This verb is obsolete unless in poetry. We observe the primary sense and application in the phrase, 'it recks me not, ' that is, it does not strain or distress me; it does not rack my mind. To reck danger is a derivative form of expression, and a deviation from the proper sense of the verb.]
RECK'LESS, adjective Careless; heedless; mindless.
I made the king reckless as them diligent.
RECK'LESSNESS, noun Heedlessness; carelessness; negligence.
[These words, formerly disused, have been recently revived.]
RECKON, verb transitive rek'n. [Latin rego, rectus, whence regnum, regno, Eng. to reign and right.]
1. To count; to number; that is, to tell the particulars.
The priest shall reckon to him the money, according to the years that remain, even to the year of jubilee, and it shall be abated. Leviticus 27:18.
I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
2. To esteem; to account; to repute. Romans 8:18.
For him I reckon not in high estate.
3. To repute; to set in the number or rank of.
He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 22:37.
4. To assign in an account. rom. 4.
5. to compute; to calculate.
RECK'ON, verb intransitive
1. To reason with one's self and conclude from arguments.
I reckoned till morning, that as a lion, so will he break all my bones. Isaiah 38:13.
2. To charge to account; with on.
I call posterity into the debt, and reckon on her head.
3. To pay a penalty; to be answerable; with for.
If they fall in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day.
1. To reckon with, to state an account with another, compare it with his account, ascertain the amount of each and the balance which one owes to the other. In this manner the countrymen of New England who have mutual dealings, reckon with each other at the end of each year, or as often as they think fit.
After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. Matthew 25:19.
2. To call to punishment.
God suffers the most grievous sins of particular persons to go unpunished in this world, because his justice will have another opportunity to meet and reckon with them.
To reckon on or upon, to lay stress or dependence on. He reckons on the support of his friends.
RECKONED, participle passive rek'nd. Counted; numbered; esteemed; reputed; computed; set or assigned to in account.
RECKONER, noun rek'ner. One who reckons or computes.
RECKONERs without their host must reckon twice.
RECKONING, participle present tense rek'ning. Counting; computing; esteeming; reputing; stating an account mutually.
RECK'ONING, noun
1. The act of counting or computing; calculation.
2. An account of time.
3. A statement of accounts with another; a statement and comparison of accounts mutually for adjustment; as in the proverb, 'short reckonings make long friends.'
The way to make reckonings even, is to make them often.
4. The charges or account made by a host.
A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning
5. Account taken. 2 Kings 22:7.
6. Esteem; account; estimation.
You make no further reckoning of the beauty, than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed.
7. In navigation, an account of the ship's course and distance calculated from the log-board without the aid of celestial observation. This account from the log-board, is called the dead reckoning
RECLA'IM, verb transitive [Latin reclama. re and clamo, to call. See Claim.]
1. To claim back; to demand to have returned. The vender may reclaim the goods.
2. To call back from error, wandering or transgression, to the observance of moral rectitude; to reform; to bring back to correct deportment or course of life.
It is the intention of Providence in its various expressions of goodness, to reclaim mankind.
3. To reduce to the state desired.
Much labor is requir'd in trees, to tame their wild disorder, and in ranks reclaim
4. To call back; to restrain.
Or is her tow'ring flight reclaim'd by seas from Icarus' downfall nam'd?
5. To recall; to cry out against.
The headstrong horses hurried Octavius along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them. [Unusual.]
6. To reduce from a wild to a tame or domestic state; to tame; to make gentle; as, to reclaim a hawk, an eagle or a wild beast.
7. To demand or challenge; to make a claim; a French use.
8. To recover.
9. In ancient customs, to pursue and recall, as a vassal.
10. To encroach on what has been taken from one; to attempt to recover possession.
A tract of land [Holland snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy.
RECLA'IM, verb intransitive To cry out; to exclaim.
RECLA'IMABLE, adjective That may be reclaimed, reformed or tamed.
RECLA'IMANT, noun One that opposes, contradicts or remonstrates against.
RECLA'IMED, participle passive Recalled from a vicious life; reformed; tamed; domesticated; recovered.
RECLA'IMING, participle present tense Recalling to a regular course of life; reforming; recovering; taking; demanding.
RECLAMA'TION, noun
1. Recovery.
2. Demand; challenge of something to be restored; claim made.
REC'LINATE, adjective [Latin reclinatus. See recline.]
In botany, reclined, as a leaf; bend downwards, so that the point of the leaf is lower than the base.
A reclinate stem is one that bends in an arch towards the earth.
RECLINA'TION, noun That act of leaning or reclining.
RECLI'NE, verb transitive [Latin reclino; re and clino, to lean.]
To lean back; to lean to one side or sideways; as, to recline the head on a pillow, or on the bosom of another, or on the arm.
The mother reclin'd her dying head upon his breast.
RECLI'NE, verb intransitive To lean; to rest or repose; as, to recline on a couch.
RECLI'NE, adjective [Latin reclinis.] Leaning; being in a leaning posture.
They sat recline on the soft downy bank damask'd with flowers. [Little used.]
RECLI'NED, participle passive Inclined back or sideways.
RECLI'NING, participle present tense Leaning back or sideways; resting; lying.
RECLO'SE, verb transitive s as z. [re and close.] To close or shut again.
RECLO'SED, participle passive Closed again.
RECLO'SING, participle present tense Closing again.
RECLU'DE, verb transitive [Latin recludo; re and claudo, cludo.] To open. [Little used.]
RECLU'SE, adjective
Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; as a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.
I all the live-long day consume in meditation deep, recluse from human converse.
RECLU'SE, noun
1. A person who live in retirement or seclusion from intercourse with the world; as a hermit or monk.
2. A person who confines himself to a cell in a monastery.
RECLU'SELY, adverb In retirement or seclusion from society.
RECLU'SENESS, noun Retirement; seclusion from society.
RECLU'SION, noun s as z. A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.
RECLU'SIVE, adjective Affording retirement from society.
RECOAGULA'TION, noun [re and coagulation.] A second coagulation.
RECOCT', adjective [Latin recoctus, recoquo.] New vamped. [Not used.]
RECOGNITION, noun reconish'on or recognish'on. [Latin recognitio.]
1. Acknowledgment; formal avowal; as the recognition of a final concord on a writ of covenant.
2. Acknowledgment; memorial.
3. Acknowledgment; solemn avowal by which a thing is owned or declared to belong to, or by which the remembrance of it is revived.
The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God.
4. Knowledge confessed or avowed; as the recognition of a thing present; memory of it as passed.
RECOGNITOR, noun recon'itor. One of a jury upon assize.
RECOGNIZABLE, adjective recon'izable. [from recognize.] That may be recognized or acknowledged.
RECOGNIZANCE, noun recon'izance.
1. Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; as the recognizance of christians, by which they avow their belief in their religion.
2. In law, an obligation of record which a man enters into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the assizes, to keep the peace or pay a debt. This recognizance differs from a bond, as it does not create a new debt, but it is the acknowledgment of a former debt or record. This is witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal. There is also a recognizance in the nature of a statute staple, acknowledged before either of the chief justices or their substitutes, the mayor of the staple at Westminster and the recorder of London, which is to be enrolled and certified into chancery.
3. The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.
RECOGNIZE, verb transitive rec'onize. [Latin recognosco; re and cognosco, to know. The g in these words has properly no sound in English.]
1. To recollect or recover the knowledge of, either with an avowal of that knowledge or not. We recognize a person at a distance, when we recollect that we have seen him before, or that we have formerly known him. We recognize his features or his voice.
Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen.
2. To review; to re-examine.
REC'OGNIZE, verb intransitive To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal. A B recognized in the sum of twenty pounds.
REC'OGNIZED, participle passive Acknowledged; recollected as known; bound by recognizance.
RECOGNIZEE, noun reconizee'. The person to whom a recognizance is made.
REC'OGNIZING, participle present tense Acknowledging; recollecting as known; entering a recognizance.
RECOGNIZOR, noun reconizor'. One who enters into a recognizance.
RECOIL', verb intransitive
1. To move or start back; to roll back; as, a cannon recoils when fired; waves recoil from the shore.
2. To fall back; to retire.
3. To rebound; as, the blow recoils.
4. To retire; to flow back; as, the blood recoils with horror at the sight.
5. To start back; to shrink. Nature recoils at the bloody deed.
6. To return. The evil will recoil upon his own head.
RECOIL', verb transitive To drive back. [Not used.]
RECOIL', noun A starting or falling back; as the recoil of fire-arms; the recoil of nature of the blood.
RECOIL'ING, participle present tense Starting or falling back; retiring; shrinking.
RECOIL'ING, noun The act of starting or falling back; a shrinking; revolt.
RECOIL'INGLY, adverb With starting back or retrocession.
RECOIN', verb transitive [re and coin.] To coin again; as, to recoin gold or silver.
RECOIN'AGE, noun
1. The act of coining anew.
2. That which is coined anew.
RECOIN'ED, participle passive Coined again.
RECOIN'ING, participle present tense Coining anew.
RECOLLECT', verb transitive [re and collect; Latin recolligo, recollectus.]
1. To collect again; applied to ideas that have escaped from the memory; to recover or call back ideas to the memory. I recollect what was said at a former interview; or I cannot recollect what was said.
2. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory. I met a man whom I thought I had seen before, but I could not recollect his name or the place where I had seen him. I do not recollect you, sir.
3. To recover resolution or composure of mind.
The Tyrian queen admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man, then recollected stood.
[In this sense, collected is more generally used.]
RECOLLECT'ED, participle passive Recalled to the memory.
RECOLLECT'ING, participle present tense Recovering to the memory.
RECOLLEC'TION, noun
1. The act of recalling to the memory, as ideas that have escaped; or the operation by which ideas that have escaped; or the operation by which ideas are recalled to the memory or revived in the mind. recollection differs from remembrance, as it is the consequence of volition, or an effort of the mind to revive ideas; whereas remembrance implies no such volition. We often remember things without any voluntary effort. recollection is called also reminiscence.
2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance. The events mentioned are not within my recollection
3. In popular language, recollection is used as synonymous with remembrance.
RECOLLECT'IVE, adjective Having the power of recollecting.
REC'OLLET, noun A monk of a reformed order of Franciscans.
RECOMBINA'TION, noun Combination a second time.
RECOMBI'NE, verb transitive [re and combine.] To combine again.
If we recombine these two elastic fluids.
RECOMBI'NED, participle passive Combined anew.
RECOMBI'NING, participle present tense Combining again.
RECOMFORT, verb transitive [re and comfort.]
1. To comfort again; to console anew.
2. To give new strength.
RECOMFORTED, participle passive Comforted again.
RECOMFORTING, participle present tense Comforting again.
RECOMFORTLESS, adjective Without comfort. [Not used.]
RECOMMENCE, verb transitive recommens'. [re and commence.] To commence again; to begin anew.
RECOMMEN'CED, participle passive Commenced anew.
RECOMMEN'CING, participle present tense Beginning again.
RECOMMEND', verb transitive [re and commend.]
1. To praise to another; to offer or commend to another's notice, confidence or kindness by favorable representations.
Maecenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus.
[In this sense, commend, though less common, is the preferable word.]
2. To make acceptable.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends, succeeds, and ev'n a stranger recommends.
3. To commit with prayers.
Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren to the grace of God. Acts 15:40.
[Commend here is much to be preferred.]
RECOMMEND'ABLE, adjective That may be recommended; worthy of recommendation or praise.
RECOMMENDA'TION, noun
1. The act of recommending or of commending; the act of representing in a favorable manner for the purpose of procuring the notice, confidence or civilities of another. We introduce a friend to a stranger by a recommendation of his virtues or accomplishments.
2. That which procures a kind or favorable reception. The best recommendation of a man to favor is politeness. Misfortune is a recommendation to our pity.
RECOMMEND'ATORY, adjective That commends to another; that recommends.
RECOMMEND'ED, participle passive Praised; commended to another.
RECOMMEND'ER, noun One who commends.
RECOMMEND'ING, participle present tense Praising to another; commending.
RECOMMIS'SION, verb transitive [re and commission.] To commission again.
Officers whose time of service had expired, were to be recommissioned.
RECOMMIS'SIONED, participle passive Commissioned again.
RECOMMIS'SIONING, participle present tense Commissioning again.
RECOMMIT', verb transitive [re and commit.]
1. To commit again; as, to recommit persons to prison.
2. To refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.
RECOMMIT'MENT, noun A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.
RECOMMIT'TED, participle passive Committed anew; referred again.
RECOMMIT'TING, participle present tense Committing again; referring again to a committee.
RECOMMU'NICATE, verb intransitive [re and communicate.] To communicate again.
RECOMPACT', verb transitive [re and compact.] To join anew.
Repair and recompact my scatter'd body.
RECOMPENSA'TION, noun Recompense. [Not used.]
REC'OMPENSE, verb transitive
1. To compensate; to make return of an equivalent for any thing given, done or suffered; as, to recompense a person for services, for fidelity or for sacrifices of time, for loss or damages.
The word is followed by the person or the service. We recompense a person for his services, or we recompense his kindness. It is usually found more easy to neglect than to recompense a favor.
2. To require; to repay; to return an equivalent; in a bad sense.
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Romans 12:17.
3. To make an equivalent return in profit or produce. The labor of man is recompensed by the fruits of the earth.
4. To compensate; to make amends by any thing equivalent.
Solyman - said he would find occasion for them to recompense that disgrace.
5. To make restitution or an equivalent return for. Numbers 5:7.
REC'OMPENSE, noun
1. An equivalent returned for any thing given, done or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; as a recompense for services, for damages, for loss, etc.
2. Requital; return of evil or suffering or other equivalent; as a punishment.
To me belongeth vengeance and recompense Deuteronomy 32:35.
And every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward. Hebrews 2:2.
REC'OMPENSED, participle passive Rewarded; requited.
REC'OMPENSING, participle present tense Rewarding; compensating; requiting.
RECOMPI'LEMENT, noun [re and compilement.] New compilation or digest; as a recompilement of laws.
RECOMPO'SE, verb transitive s as z. [re and compose.]
1. To quiet anew; to compose or tranquilize that which is ruffled or disturbed; as, to recompose the mind.
2. To compose anew; to form or adjust again.
We produced a lovely purple which we can destroy or recompose at pleasure.
RECOMPO'SED, participle passive Quieted again after agitation; formed anew; composed a second time.
RECOMPO'SING, participle present tense Rendering tranquil after agitation; forming or adjusting anew.
RECOMPOSI'TION, noun Composition renewed.
RECONCI'LABLE, adjective
1. Capable of being reconciled; capable of renewed friendship. The parties are not reconcilable
2. That may be made to agree to be consistent; consistent.
The different accounts of the numbers of ships are reconcilable
3. Capable of being adjusted; as, the difference between the parties is reconcilable
RECONCI'LABLENESS, noun
1. The quality of being reconcilable; consistency; as the reconcilableness of parts of Scripture which apparently disagree.
2. Possibility of being restored to friendship and harmony.
RECONCI'LE, verb transitive [Latin reconcilio; re and concilio; con and calo, to call, Gr. The literal sense is to call back into union.]
1. To conciliate anew; to call back into union and friendship the affections which have been alienated; to restore to friendship or favor after estrangement; as, to reconcile men or parties that have been at variance.
Go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother - Matthew 5:24.
We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:18. Ephesians 2:16. Colossians 1:20.
2. To bring to acquiescence, content or quiet submission; with to; as, to reconcile one's self to afflictions. It is our duty to be reconciled to the dispensations of Providence.
3. To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; followed by with or to.
The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labor with affairs of state.
Some figures monstrous and misshap'd appear, considered singly, or beheld too near; which but proportion'd to their light and place, due distance reconciles to form and grace.
4. To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences or quarrels.
RECONCI'LED, participle passive Brought into friendship from a state of disagreement or enmity; made consistent; adjusted.
RECONCI'LEMENT, noun
1. Reconciliation; renewal of friendship. Animosities sometimes make reconcilement impracticable.
2. Friendship renewed.
No cloud of anger shall remain, but peace assured and reconcilement
RECONCI'LER, noun
1. One who reconciles; one who brings parties at variance into renewed friendship.
2. One who discovers the consistence of proposition.
RECONCILIA'TION, noun [Latin reconciliatio.]
1. The act of reconciling parties at variance; renewal of friendship after disagreement or enmity.
Reconciliation and friendship with God, really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment.
2. In Scripture, the means by which sinners are reconciled and brought into a state of favor with God, after natural estrangement or enmity; the atonement; expiation.
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity. Daniel 9:24. Hebrews 2:17.
3. Agreement of things seemingly opposite, different or inconsistent.
RECONCIL'IATORY, adjective Able or tending to reconcile.
RECONCI'LING, participle present tense Bringing into favor and friendship after variance; bringing to content or satisfaction; showing to be consistent; adjusting; making to agree.
RECONDENSA'TION, noun The act of recondensing.
RECONDENSE, verb transitive recondens'. [re and condense.] To condense again.
RECONDENS'ED, participle passive Condensed anew.
RECONDENS'ING, participle present tense Condensing again.
REC'ONDITE, adjective [Latin reconditus, recondo; re and condo to conceal.]
1. Secret; hidden from the view or intellect; abstruse; as recondite causes of things.
2. Profound; dealing in things abstruse; as recondite studies.
RECOND'ITORY, noun [supra.] A repository; a store-house or magazine. [Little used.]
RECONDUCT', verb intransitive [re and conduct.] To conduct back or again.
RECONDUCT'ED, participle passive Conducted back or again.
RECONDUCT'ING, participle present tense Conducting back or again.
RECONFIRM', verb transitive [re and confirm.] To confirm anew.
RECONJOIN', verb transitive [re and conjoin.] To join or conjoin anew.
RECONJOIN'ED, participle passive Joined again.
RECONJOIN'ING, participle present tense Joining anew.
RECONNOIT'ER, verb transitive
To view; to survey; to examine by the eye; particularly in military affairs, to examine the state of an enemy's army or camp, or the ground for military operations.
RECONNOIT'ERED, participle passive Viewed; examined by personal observation.
RECONNOIT'ERING, participle present tense Viewing; examining by personal observation.
RECONQUER, verb transitive recon'ker. [re and conquer.]
1. To conquer again; to recover by conquest.
2. To recover; to regain.
RECON'QUERED, participle passive Conquered again; regained.
RECON'QUERING, participle present tense Conquering again; recovering.
RECON'SECRATE, verb transitive [re and consecrate.] To consecrate anew.
RECONSECRATED, participle passive Consecrated again.
RECON'SECRATING, participle present tense Consecrating again.
RECONSECRA'TION, noun A renewed consecration.
RECONSID'ER, verb transitive [re and consider.]
1. To consider again; to turn in the mind again; to review.
2. To annul; to take into consideration a second time and rescind; as, to reconsider a motion in a legislative body; to reconsider a vote. The vote has been reconsidered, that is, rescinded.
RECONSIDERA'TION, noun
1. A renewed consideration or review in the mind.
2. A second consideration; annulment; recision.
RECONSID'ERED, participle passive Considered again; rescinded.
RECONSID'ERING, participle present tense Considering again; rescinding.
RECON'SOLATE, verb transitive To console or comfort again. [Not in use.]
RECONVE'NE, verb transitive [re and convene.] To convene or call together again.
RECONVE'NE, verb intransitive To assemble or come together again.
RECONVE'NED, participle passive Assembled anew.
RECONVE'NING, participle present tense Assembling anew.
RECONVER'SION, noun [re and conversion.] A second conversion.
RECONVERT', verb transitive [re and convert.] To convert again.
RECONVERT'ED, participle passive Converted again.
RECONVERT'ING, participle present tense Converting again.
RECONVEY, verb transitive [re and convey.]
1. To convey back or to its former place; as, to reconvey goods.
2. To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.
RECONVEYED, participle passive Conveyed back; transferred to a former owner.
RECONVEYING, participle present tense Conveying back; transferring to a former owner.
RECORD', verb transitive [Latin recorder, to call to mind, to remember, from re and cor, cordis, the heart or mind.]
1. To register; to enroll; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic or correct evidence of a thing; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record a deed or lease; to record historical events.
2. To imprint deeply on the mind or memory; as, to record the sayings of another in the heart.
3. To cause to be remembered.
So ev'n and morn recorded the third day.
4. To recite; to repeat. [Not in use.]
5. To call to mind. [Not in use.]
RECORD', verb intransitive To sing or repeat a tune. [Not in use.]
REC'ORD, noun
1. A register; an authentic or official copy of any writing, or account of any facts and proceedings, entered in a book for preservation; or the book containing such copy or account; as the records of statutes or of judicial courts; the records of a town or parish. Records are properly the registers of official transactions, made by officers appointed for the purpose, or by the officer whose proceedings are directed by law to be recorded.
2. Authentic memorial; as the records of past ages.
Court of record is a court whose acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled on parchment or in books for a perpetual memorial; and their records are the highest evidence of facts, and their truth cannot be called in question.
Debt of record is a debt which appears to be due by the evidence of a court of record as upon a judgment or a recognizance.
Trial by record is where a matter of record is pleaded and the opposite party pleads that there is no such record In this case, the trial is by inspection of the record itself, no other evidence being admissible.
RECORDA'TION, noun [Latin recordatio.] Remembrance. [Not in use.]
RECORD'ED, participle passive Registered; officially entered in a book or on parchment; imprinted on the memory.
RECORD'ER, noun
1. A person whose official duty is to register writings or transactions; one who enrolls or records.
2. An officer of a city who is keeper of the rolls or records, or who is invested with judicial powers.
3. Formerly, a kind of flute, flageolet or wind instrument.
The figures of recorders, flutes and pipes are straight; but the recorder hath a less bore and a greater above and below.
RECORD'ING, participle present tense Registering; enrolling; imprinting on the memory.
RECOUCH', verb intransitive [re and couch.] To retire again to a lodge, as lions.
RECOUNT', verb transitive [re and count.]
To relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars; to rehearse.
Say from these glorious seeds what harvest flows, recount our blessings, and compare our woes.
RECOUNT'ED, participle passive Related or told in detail; recited.
RECOUNT'ING, participle present tense Relating in a series; narrating.
RECOUNT'MENT, noun Relation in detail; recital. [Little used.]
RECOURED, for recovered or recured. [Not used.]
RECOURSE, noun [Latin recursus; re and cursus, curro, to run.] Literally, a running back; a return.
1. Return; a new attack. [Not in use.]
2. A going to with a request or application, as for aid or protection. Children have recourse to their parents for assistance.
3. Application of efforts, art or labor. The general had recourse to stratagem to effect his purpose.
Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
4. Access. [Little used.]
5. Frequent passage.
RECOURSE, verb intransitive To return. [Not used.]
RECOURSEFUL, adjective Moving alternately. [Not in use.]
RECOVER, verb transitive [Latin recupero; re and capio, to take.]
1. To regain; to get or obtain that which was lost; as, to recover stolen goods; to recover a town or territory which an enemy had taken; to recover sight or senses; to recover health or strength after sickness.
David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away. 1 Samuel 30:8.
2. To restore from sickness; as, to recover one from leprosy. 2 Kings 5:3.
3. To revive from apparent death; as, to recover a drowned man.
4. To regain by reparation; to repair the loss of, or to repair an injury done by neglect; as, to recover lost time.
Good men have lapses and failings to lament and recover
5. To regain a former state by liberation from capture or possession.
That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil. 2 Timothy 2:26.
6. To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and cost in a suit at law.
7. To reach; to come to.
The forest is not three leagues off; if we recover that, we're sure enough.
8. To obtain title to by judgment in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery.
RECOVER, verb intransitive
1. To regain health after sickness; to grow well; followed by of or from.
Go, inquire of Beelzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease. 2 Kings 1:2.
2. To regain a former state or condition after misfortune; as, to recover from a state of poverty or depression.
3. To obtain a judgment in law; to succeed in a lawsuit. The plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
RECOVERABLE, adjective
1. That may be regained or recovered. Goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable
2. That may be restored from sickness.
3. That may be brought back to a former condition.
A prodigal course is like the sun's, but not like his recoverable
4. That may be obtained from a debtor or possessor. The debt is recoverable
RECOVERED, participle passive Regained; restored obtained by judicial decision.
RECOVEREE', noun In law, the tenant or person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.
RECOVERING, participle present tense Regaining; obtaining in return or by judgment in law; regaining health.
RECOVEROR, noun In law, the demandant or person who obtains a judgment in his favor in common recovery.
RECOVERY, noun
1. The act of regaining, retaking or obtaining possession of anything lost. The crusades were intended for the recovery of the holy land from the Saracens. We offer a reward for the recovery of stolen goods.
2. Restoration from sickness or apparent death. The patient has a slow recovery from a fever. recovery from a pulmonary affection is seldom to be expected. Directions are given for the recovery of drowned persons.
3. The capacity of being restored to health. The patient is past recovery
4. The obtaining of right to something by a verdict and judgment of court from an opposing party in a suit; as the recovery of debt, damages and costs by a plaintiff; the recovery of cost by a defendant; the recovery of land in ejectment.
Common recovery in law, is a species of assurance by matter of record, or a suit or action, actual or fictitious, by which lands are recovered against the tenant of the freehold; which recovery binds all persons, and vests an absolute fee simple in the recoveror.
REC'REANT, adjective [See Craven.]
1. Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; hence, cowardly; mean spirited.
2. Apostate; false.
Who for so many benefits receiv'd, turn'd recreant to God, ingrate and false.
REC'REANT, noun One who yields in combat and cries craven; one who begs for mercy; hence, a mean spirited, cowardly wretch.
REC'REATE, verb transitive [Latin recero; re and creo, to create.]
1. To refresh after toil; to reanimate, as languid spirits or exhausted strength; to amuse or divert in weariness.
Painters when they work on white grounds, place before them colors mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes.
St. John is said to have recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge.
2. To gratify; to delight.
These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
3. To relieve; to revive; as, to recreate the lungs with fresh air.
REC'REATE, verb intransitive To take recreation.
REC'REATED, participle passive Refreshed; diverted; amused; gratified.
REC'REATING, participle present tense Refreshing after toil; reanimating the spirits or strength; diverting; amusing.
RECREA'TION, noun
1. Refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion.
2. Relief from toil or pain; amusement in sorrow or distress.
REC'REATIVE, adjective Refreshing; giving new vigor or animation; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting. Choose such sports as are recreative and healthful.
Let the music be recreative
REC'REATIVELY, adverb With recreation or diversion.
REC'REATIVENESS, noun The quality of being refreshing or diverting.
REC'REMENT, noun [Latin recrementum; probably re and cerno, to secrete.]
Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; spume; as the recrement of ore or of the blood.
RECREMENT'AL,
RECREMENTI'TIAL,
RECREMENTI'TIOUS, adjective Drossy; consisting of superfluous matter separated from that which is valuable.
RECREMENTI'TIAL,
RECREMENTI'TIOUS, a. Drossy; consisting of superfluous matter separated from that which is valuable.
RECRIM'INATE, verb intransitive [Latin re and criminor, to accuse.]
1. To return one accusation with another.
It is not my business to recriminate
2. To charge an accuser with the like crime.
RECRIM'INATE, verb transitive To accuse in return.
RECRIM'INATING, participle present tense Returning one accusation with another.
RECRIMINA'TION, noun
1. The return of one accusation with another.
2. In law, an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser upon the same fact.
RECRIM'INATOR, noun He that accuses the accuser of a like crime.
RECRIM'INATORY, adjective Retorting accusation.
RECROSS', verb transitive To cross a second time.
RECROSS'ED, participle passive Crossed a second time.
RECROSS'ING, participle present tense Crossing a second time.
RECRUDES'CENCE,
RECRUDES'CENCY, noun [from Latin recrudescens; re and crudesco, to grow raw; crudus, raw.]
The state of becoming sore again.
RECRUDES'CENCY, n. [from L. recrudescens; re and crudesco, to grow raw; crudus, raw.]
The state of becoming sore again.RECRUDES'CENT, adjective Growing raw, sore or painful again.
RECRUIT, verb transitive [Latin cresco.]
1. To repair by fresh supplies any thing wasted. We say, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.
Her cheeks glow the bright, recruiting their color.
2. To supply with new men any deficiency of troops; as, to recruit an army.
RECRUIT, verb intransitive
1. To gain new supplies of any thing wasted; to gain flesh, health, spirits, etc.; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
2. To gain new supplies of men; to raise new soldiers.
RECRUIT, noun The supply of any thing wasted; chiefly, a new raised soldier to supply the deficiency of an army.
RECRUITED, participle passive Furnished with new supplies of what is wasted.
RECRUITING, participle present tense Furnishing with fresh supplies; raising new soldiers for an army.
RECRUITING, noun The business of raising new soldiers to supply the loss of men in an army.
RECRUITMENT, noun The act or business of raising new supplies of men for an army.
RECRYS'TALIZE, verb intransitive To crystalize a second time.
RECT'ANGLE, noun [Latin rectangulus; rectus, right, and angulus, angle.]
1. A right angled parallelogram.
2. In arithmetic, the product of two lines multiplied into each other.
RECT'ANGLED, adjective Having right angles, or angles of ninety degrees.
RECTAN'GULAR, adjective Right angled; having angles of ninety degrees.
RECTAN'GULARLY, adverb with or at right angles.
RECTIFIABLE, adjective [from rectify.] that may be rectified; capable of being corrected or set right; as a rectifiable mistake.
RECTIFICA'TION, noun
1. The act or operation of correcting, amending or setting right that which is wrong or erroneous; as the retification of errors, mistakes or abuses.
2. In chimistry, the process of refining or purifying any substance by repeated distiliation, which separates the grosser parts; as the rectification of spirits or sulphuric acid.
REC'TIFIED, participle passive Corrected; set or made right; refined by repeated distiliation or sublimation.
REC'TIFIER, noun
1. One that corrects or amends.
2. One who refines a substance by repeated distiliation.
3. An instrument that shows the variations of the compass, and rectifies the course of a ship.
REC'TIFY, verb transitive [Latin rectus, right, and facio, to make.]
1. To make right; to correct that which is wrong, erroneous or false; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.
2. In chimistry, to refine by repeated distiliation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit or wine.
3. To rectify the globe, is to bring the sun's place in the ecliptic on the globe to the brass meridian.
REC'TIFYING, participle present tense Correcting; amending; refining by repeated distiliation or sublimation.
RECTILIN'EAL,
RECTILIN'EAR, adjective [Latin rectus, right, and linea, line.]
Right lined; consisting of a right line or of right lines; straight; as a rectilinear figure or course; a rectilinear side or way.
RECTILIN'EAR, a. [L. rectus, right, and linea, line.]
Right lined; consisting of a right line or of right lines; straight; as a rectilinear figure or course; a rectilinear side or way.RECTILIN'EOUS, adjective Rectilinear. obsolete
REC'TITUDE, noun [Latin rectus, right, straight.]
In morality, rightness of principle or practice; uprightness of mind; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws. rectitude of mind is the disposition to act in conformity to any known standard of right, truth or justice; rectitude of conduct is the actual conformity to such standard. Perfect rectitude belongs only to the Supreme Being. The more nearly the rectitude of men approaches to the standard of the divine law, the more exalted and dignified is their character. Want of rectitude is not only sinful, but debasing.
There is a sublimity in conscious rectitude - in comparison with which the treasures of earth are not worth naming.
REC'TOR, noun [Latin rector from rego, rectum, to rule.]
1. A ruler or governor.
God is the supreme rector of the world.
[This application of the word is unusual.]
2. A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; or the parson of an unimpropriated parish.
3. The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland. The same title was formerly given to the president of a college in New England, but it is now in disuse. In Scotland, it is still the title of the head master of a principal school.
4. The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits, the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.
REC'TORAL,
RECTO'RIAL, adjective Pertaining to a rector.
RECTO'RIAL, a. Pertaining to a rector.
REC'TORSHIP, noun The office or rank of a rector.
REC'TORY, noun
1. A parish church, parsonage or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes and glebes.
2. A rector's mansion or parsonage house.
REC'TRESS,
REC'TRIX, noun [Latin rectrix.] A governess.
REC'TUM, noun [Latin] In anatomy, the third and last of the large intestines.
RECUBA'TION, noun [Latin recubo; re and cubo, to lie down.]
The act of lying or leaning. [Little used.]
RECU'LE, verb intransitive To recoil. [Not used. See Recoil.]
RECUMB', verb intransitive [Latin recumbo; re and cumbo, to lie down.] To lean; to recline; to repose.
RECUMB'ENCE, noun [from Latin recumbens.] The act of reposing or resting in confidence.
RECUMB'ENCY, noun
1. The posture of leaning, reclining or lying.
2. Rest; repose; idle state.
RECUMB'ENT, adjective [Latin recumbens.]
1. Leaning; reclining; as the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals.
2. Reposing; inactive; idle.
RECUPERA'TION, noun [Latin recuperatio.] Recovery, as of any thing lost.
RECU'PERATIVE,
RECU'PERATORY, adjective Tending to recovery; pertaining to recovery.
RECU'PERATORY, a. Tending to recovery; pertaining to recovery.
RECUR', verb intransitive [Latin recurro; re and curro, to run.]
1. To return to the thought or mind.
When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind, when the word is heard.
2. To resort; to have recourse.
If to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the punctum stans of the schools, they will very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration.
RECU'RE, verb transitive [re and cure.] To cure; to recover. [Not in use.]
RECU'RE, noun Cure; recovery. [Not in use.]
RECUR'RENCE,
RECUR'RENCY, noun [See Recur.]
1. Return; as the recurrence of error.
2. Resort; the having recourse.
RECUR'RENCY, n. [See Recur.]
1. Return; as the recurrence of error.2. Resort; the having recourse.RECUR'RENT, adjective [Latin recurrens.
1. Returning from time to time; as recurrent pains of a disease.
2. In crystallography, a recurrent crystal is one whose faces, being counted in annular ranges from one extremity to the other, furnish two different numbers which succeed each other times, as 4, 8, 4, 8, 4.
3. In anatomy, the recurrent nerve is a branch of the par vagum, given off in the upper part of the thorax, which is reflected and runs up along the trachea to the larynx.
RECUR'SION, noun [Latin recursus, recurro; re and curro, to run.] Return. [Little used.]
RECURV'ATE, verb transitive [Latin recurro; re and curvo, to bend.] To bend back.
RECURV'ATE, adjective
1. In botany, bent, bowed or curved downwards; as a recurvate leaf.
2. Bent outward; as a recurvate prickle, awn, petiole, calyx or corol.
RECURVA'TION,
RECURVE, verb transitive recurv'. [Latin recurvo, supra.] To bend back.
RECURV'ED, participle passive Bent back or downwards; as a recurved leaf.
RECURV'IROSTER, noun [Latin recurvus, bent back, and rostrum, a beak.]
A fowl whose beak or bill bends upwards, as the avoset.
RECURV'ITY, noun A bending or flexure backwards.
RECURV'OUS, adjective [Latin recurvus.] Bent backwards.
RECU'SANCY, noun Non-conformity. [See Recusant.]
RECU'SANT, adjective s as z. [Latin recusans, recuso, to refuse; re and the root of causa, signifying to drive. The primary sense is to repel or drive back.]
Refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as a recusant lord.
RECU'SANT, noun [supra.]
1. In English history, a person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as a popish recusant who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope.
2. One who refuses communion with the church of England; a non-conformist.
All that are recusants of holy rites.
RECUSA'TION, noun [Latin recusatio.]
1. Refusal.
2. In law, the act of refusing a judge, or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality. [This practice is now obsolete.]
RECU'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin recuso.] To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause. [The practice and the word are obsolete.]
RED, adjective [Gr red and a rose, from its color. Heb. to descend, to bring down. Latin gradior, also to correct, to teach, erudio.]
Of a bright color, resembling blood. red is a simple or primary color, but of several different shades or hues, as scarlet, crimson, vermilion, orange red etc. We say red color, red cloth, red flame, red eyes, red cheeks, red lead, etc.
RED book of the exchequer, an ancient English record or manuscript containing various treatises relating to the times before the conquest.
RED men, red people, red children, the aboriginals of America, as distinguished from the whites.
RED, noun A red color; as a brighter color, the best of all the reds.
REDACT', verb transitive [Latin redactus, redigo; red, re, and ago.]
To force; to reduce to form. [Not used.]
RED'AN, noun [written sometimes redent and redens; said to be contracted from Latin recedens. Lunier.]
In fortification, a work indented, or formed with salient and re-entering angles, so that one part may flank and defend another.
RED'ARGUE, verb transitive [Latin redarguo; red, re, and arguo.] To refute. [Not in use.]
REDARGU'TION, noun [supra.] Refutation; conviction. [Not in use.]
RED'BREAST, noun A bird so called from the color of its breast, a species of Motacilla. In America, this name is given to the robin, so called, a species of Turdus.
RED'BUD, noun A plant or tree of the genus Cercis.
REDDEN, verb transitive red'n. [from red.] To make red.
REDDEN, verb intransitive red'n.
1. To grow or become red.
- The coral redden and the ruby glow.
2. To blush.
Appius reddens at each word you speak.
REDDEND'UM, noun In law, the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease.
RED'DISH, adjective Somewhat red; moderately red. Leviticus 13:19.
RED'DISHNESS, noun Redness in a moderate degree.
REDDI'TION, noun [Latin reddo, to return.]
1. A returning of any thing; restitution; surrender.
2. Explanation; representation.
RED'DITIVE, adjective [Latin redditivus, from reddo.]
Returning; answering to an interrogative; a term of grammar.
RED'DLE, noun [from red.] Red chalk, commonly used as a pigment. It is a mineral of a florid color, but not of a deep red.
REDE, noun Counsel; advice. obsolete
REDE, verb transitive To counsel or advise. obsolete
REDEE'M, verb transitive [Latin redimo; red, re, and emo, to obtain or purchase.]
1. To purchase back; to ransom; to liberate or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying an equivalent; as, to redeem prisoners or captured goods; to redeem a pledge.
2. To repurchase what has been sold; to regain possession of a thing alienated, by repaying the value of it to the possessor.
If a man [shall] sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold.
Leviticus 25:25.
3. To rescue; to recover; to deliver from.
Th' Almighty from the grave hath me redeem'd.
Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. Psalms 25:22. Deuteronomy 7:8.
The mass of earth not yet redeemed from chaos.
4. To compensate; to make amends for.
It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows.
By lesser ills the greater to redeem
5. To free by making atonement.
Thou hast one daughter who redeems nature from the general curse.
6. To pay the penalty of.
Which of you will be mortal to redeem man's mortal crime?
7. To save.
He could not have redeemed a portion of his time for contemplating the powers of nature.
8. To perform what has been promised; to make good by performance. He has redeemed his pledge or promise.
9. In law, to recall an estate, or to obtain the right to re-enter upon a mortgaged estate by paying to the mortgagee his principal, interest, and expenses or costs.
10. In theology, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law, by obedience and suffering in the place of the sinner, or by doing and suffering that which is accepted in lieu of the sinner's obedience.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Galatians 3:13. Titus 2:14.
11. In commerce, to purchase or pay the value in specie, of any promissory note, bill or other evidence of debt, given by the state, by a company or corporation, or by an individual. The credit of a state, a banking company or individuals, is good when they can redeem all their stock, notes or bills, at par.
To redeem time, is to use more diligence in the improvement of it; to be diligent and active in duty and preparation. Ephesians 5:1.
REDEE'MABLE, adjective
1. That may be redeemed; capable of redemption.
2. That may be purchased or paid for in gold and silver, and brought into the possession of government or the original promiser.
The capital of the debt of the United States may be considered in the light of an annuity redeemable at the pleasure of the government.
REDEE'MABLENESS, noun The state of being redeemable.
REDEE'MED, participle passive Ransomed; delivered from bondage, distress, penalty, liability, or from the possession of another, by paying an equivalent.
REDEE'MER, noun
1. One who redeems or ransoms.
2. The Savior of the world, JESUS CHRIST.
REDEE'MING, participle present tense Ransoming; procuring deliverance from captivity, capture, bondage, sin, distress or liability to suffer, by the payment of an equivalent.
REDELIB'ERATE, verb intransitive [re and deliberate.] To deliberate again.
REDELIB'ERATE, verb transitive To reconsider. [Not in use.]
REDELIV'ER, verb transitive [re and deliver.]
1. To deliver back.
2. To deliver again; to liberate a second time.
REDELIV'ERANCE, noun A second deliverance.
REDELIV'ERED, participle passive Delivered back; liberated again.
REDELIV'ERING, participle present tense Delivering back; liberating again.
REDELIV'ERY, noun The act of delivering back; also, a second delivery or liberation.
REDEM'AND, verb transitive [re and demand.]
To demand back; to demand again.
REDEM'AND, noun A demanding back again.
REDEM'ANDABLE, adjective That may be demanded back.
REDEM'ANDED, participle passive Demanded back or again.
REDEM'ANDING, participle present tense Demanding back or again.
REDEMI'SE, verb transitive s as z. [re and demise.] To convey or transfer back, as an estate in fee simple, fee tail, for life or a term of years.
REDEMI'SE, noun Reconveyance; the transfer of an estate back to the person who has demised it; as the demise and redemise of an estate in fee simple, fee tail, or for life or years, by mutual leases.
REDEMI'SED, participle passive Reconveyed, as an estate.
REDEMI'SING, participle present tense Reconveying.
REDEMP'TION, noun [Latin redemptio. See Redeem.]
1. Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; the act of procuring the deliverance of persons or things from the possession and power of captors by the payment of an equivalent; ransom; release; as the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.
2. Deliverance from bondage, distress, or from liability to any evil or forfeiture, either by money, labor or other means.
3. Repurchase, as of lands alienated. Leviticus 25:24. Jeremiah 32:7.
4. The liberation of an estate from a mortgage; or the purchase of the right to re-enter upon it by paying the principal sum for which it was mortgaged with interest and cost; also, the right of redeeming and re-entering.
5. Repurchase of notes, bills or other evidence of debt by paying their value in specie to their holders.
6. In theology, the purchase of God's favor by the death and sufferings of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law by the atonement of Christ.
In whom we have redemption through his blood. Ephesians 1:7.
Colossians 1:14.
REDEMP'TIONER, noun One who redeems himself, or purchases his release from debt or obligation to the master of a ship by his services; or one whose services are sold to pay the expenses of his passage to America.
REDEMP'TORY, adjective Paid for ransom; as Hector's redemptory price.
REDENT'ED, a. Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.
REDESCEND', verb intransitive [re and descent.] To descend again.
REDESCEND'ING, participle present tense Descending again.
RED'EYE, noun [red and eye.] A fish of a red color, particularly the iris.
RED'GUM, noun A disease of new born infants; an eruption of red pimples in early infancy.
RED'-HAIRED, adjective Having hair of a red or sandy color.
RED'IENT, adjective [Latin rediens, redeo, to return.] Returning.
REDIGEST', verb transitive To digest or reduce to form a second time.
REDIGEST'ED, participle passive Digested again.
REDIGEST'ING, participle present tense Digesting a second time; reducing again to order.
REDIN'TEGRATE, verb transitive [Latin redintegro; red, re, and integro, from integer, whole.]
To make whole again; to renew; to restore to a perfect state.
REDIN'TEGRATE, adjective Renewed; restored to wholeness or a perfect state.
REDIN'TEGRATED, participle passive Renewed; restored to entireness.
REDIN'TEGRATING, participle present tense Restoring to a perfect state.
REDINTEGRA'TION, noun
1. Renovation; restoration to a whole or sound state.
2. In chimistry, the restoration of any mixed body or matter to its former nature and constitution.
REDISBURSE, verb transitive redisburs'. [re and disburse.] To repay or refund.
REDISPOSE, verb transitive s as z. [re and dispose.] To dispose or adjust again.
REDISPO'SED, participle passive Disposed anew.
REDISPO'SING, participle present tense Disposing or adjusting anew.
REDISSE'IZIN, noun [re and disseizin.] In law, a writ of redisseizin is a writ to recover seizin of lands or tenements against a redisseizor.
REDISSE'IZOR, noun [re and disseizor.] A person who disseizes lands or tenements a second time, or after a recovery of the same from him in an action of novel disseizin.
REDISSOLVE, verb transitive redizolv'. [re and dissolve.] To dissolve again.
REDISSOLV'ED, participle passive Dissolved a second time.
REDISSOLV'ING, participle present tense Dissolving again.
REDISTRIB'UTE, verb transitive [re and distribute.] To distribute again; to deal back again.
REDISTRIB'UTED, participle passive Distributed again or back.
REDISTRIB'UTING, participle passive Distributing again or back.
REDISTRIBU'TION, noun A dealing back, or a second distribution.
RED'LY, adverb With redness.
RED'NESS, noun [See Red.] The quality of being red; red color.
RED'OLENCE,
RED'OLENCY, noun [from redolent.] Sweet scent.
RED'OLENCY, n. [from redolent.] Sweet scent.
RED'OLENT, adjective [Latin redolens, redoleo; red, re, and oleo, to smell.]
Having or diffusing a sweet scent.
REDOUBLE, verb transitive redub'l. [re and double.]
1. To repeat in return.
2. To repeat often; as, to redouble blows.
3. To increase by repeated or continued additions.
And AEtna rages with redoubl'd heat.
REDOUBLE, verb intransitive redub'l. To become twice as much.
The argument redoubles upon us.
REDOUBLED, participle passive redub'ld. Repeated in return; repeated over and over; increased by repeated or continued additions.
REDOUBLING, participle present tense redub'ling. Repeating in return; repeating again and again; increasing by repeated or continued additions.
REDOUND, verb intransitive [Latin redundo; red, re, and undo, to rise or swell, as waves.]
1. To be sent, rolled or driven back.
The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.
2. To conduce in the consequence; to contribute; to result.
The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God the author of it.
3. To proceed in the consequence or effect; to result.
There will no small use redound from them to that manufactures.
REDOUND'ING, participle present tense Conducing; contributing; resulting.
REDOUT', noun [Latin reductus, reduco, to bring back; literally a retreat. The usual orthography, redoubt, is egregiously erroneous.]
In fortification, an outwork; a small square fort without any defense, except in front; used in trenches, lines of circumvallation, contravallation and approach to defend passages, etc.
REDOUT'ABLE, adjective
Formidable; that is to be dreaded; terrible to foes; as a redoubtable hero. Hence the implied sense is valiant.
REDOUT'ED, adjective Formidable. [Not in use.]
RED'POLE, noun A bird with a red head or poll, of the genus Fringilla.
REDR'AFT, verb transitive [re and draft.] To draw or draft anew.
REDR'AFT, noun
1. A second draft or copy.
2. In the French commercial code, a new bill of exchange which the holder of a protested bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, by which he reimburses to himself the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges.
REDR'AFTED, participle passive Drafted again; transcribed into a new copy.
REDR'AFTING, participle present tense Redrawing; drafting or transcribing again.
REDRAW', verb transitive [re and draw.]
1. To draw again. In commerce, to draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers.
2. To draw a second draft or copy.
REDRESS', verb transitive
1. To set right; to amend.
In yonder spring of roses, find what to redress till noon.
[In this sense, as applied to material things, rarely used.]
2. To remedy; to repair; to relieve from, and sometimes to indemnify for; as, to redress wrongs; to redress injuries; to redress grievances. Sovereigns are bound to protect their subjects, and redress their grievances.
3. To ease; to relieve; as, she labored to redress my pain.
[We use this verb before the person or the thing. We say, to redress an injured person, or to redress the injury. The latter is most common.]
REDRESS', noun
1. Reformation; amendment.
For us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves.
[This sense is now unusual.]
2. Relief; remedy; deliverance from wrong, injury or oppression; as the redress of grievances. We applied to government, but could obtain no redress
There is occasion for redress when the cry is universal.
3. Reparation; indemnification. [This sense is often directly intended or implied in redress ]
4. One who gives relief.
Fair majesty, the refuge and redress of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.
REDRESS'ED, participle passive Remedied; set right; relieved; indemnified.
REDRESS'ER, noun One who gives redress.
REDRESS'ING, participle present tense Setting right; relieving; indemnifying.
REDRESS'IVE, adjective Affording relief.
REDRESS'LESS, adjective Without amendment; without relief.
REDSE'AR, verb intransitive [red and sear.] To break or crack when too hot, as iron under the hammer; a term of workmen.
RED'SHANK, noun
1. A bird of the genus Scolopax.
2. A contemptuous appellation for bare legged persons.
RED'SHORT, adjective [red and short.] Brittle, or breaking short when red hot, as a metal; a term of workmen.
RED'START,
RED'STREAK, noun [red and streak.]
1. A sort of apple, so called from its red streaks.
2. Cider pressed from the red streak apples.
RED'STREAK, n. [red and streak.]
1. A sort of apple, so called from its red streaks.2. Cider pressed from the red streak apples.RED'TAIL, noun [red and start.] A bird of the genus Motacilla.
REDU'CE, verb transitive [Latin reduco; re and duco, to lead or bring.]
1. Literally, to bring back; as, to reduce these bloody days again.
[In this sense, not in use.]
2. To bring to a former state.
It were but just and equal to reduce me to my dust.
3. To bring to any state or condition, good or bad; as, to reduce civil or ecclesiastical affairs to order; to reduce a man to poverty; to reduce a state to distress; to reduce a substance to powder; to reduce a sum to fractions; to reduce on to despair.
4. To diminish in length, breadth, thickness, size, quantity or value; as, to reduce expenses; to reduce the quantity of any thing; to reduce the intensity of heat; to reduce the brightness of color light; to reduce a sum or amount; to reduce the price of goods.
5. To lower; to degrade; to impair in dignity or excellence.
Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten on something belonging to it, to reduce it.
6. To subdue; to bring into subjection. The Romans reduced Spain, Gaul and Britain by their arms.
7. To reclaim to order.
8. To bring, as into a class, order, genus or species; to bring under rules or within certain limits of description; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce men to tribes; to reduce language to rules.
9. In arithmetic, to change numbers from one denomination into another without altering their value; or to change numbers of one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce a dollar to a hundred cents, or a hundred cents to a dollar.
10. In algebra, to reduce equations, is to clear them of all superfluous quantities, bring them to their lowest terms, and separate the known from the unknown, till at length the unknown quantity only is found on one side and the known ones on the other.
11. In metallurgy, to bring back metallic substances which have been divested of their form, into their original state of metals.
12. In surgery, to restore to its proper place or state a dislocated or fractured bone.
To reduce a figure, design or draught, to make a copy of it larger or smaller than the original, but preserving the form and proportion.
REDU'CED, participle passive Brought back; brought to a former state; brought into any state or condition; diminished; subdued; impoverished.
REDU'CEMENT, noun The act of bringing back; the act of diminishing; the act of subduing; reduction.
[This word is superseded by reduction.]
REDU'CER, noun One that reduces.
REDU'CIBLE, adjective That may be reduced.
All the parts of painting are reducible into these mentioned by the author.
REDU'CIBLENESS, noun The quality of being reducible.
REDU'CING, participle present tense Bringing back; bringing to a former state, or to a different state or form; diminishing; subduing; impoverishing.
REDUCT', verb transitive [Latin reductus, reduco.] To reduce. [Not in use.]
REDUCT', noun In building, a little place taken out of a larger to make it more regular and uniform, or for some other convenience.
REDUC'TION, noun [Latin reductio.]
1. The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; as the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order.
2. Diminution; as the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of the national debt.
3. Conquest; subjugation; as the reduction of a province to the power of a foreign nation.
4. In arithmetic, the bringing of numbers of different denominations into one denomination; as the reduction of pounds, ounces, pennyweights and grains to grains, or the reduction of grains to pounds; the reduction of days and hours to minutes, or of minutes to hours and days. The change of numbers of a higher denomination into a lower, as of pounds into pence or farthings, is called reduction descending; the change of numbers of a lower denomination into a higher, as of cents into dimes, dollars or eagles, is called reduction ascending. Hence the rule for bringing sums of different denominations into one denomination, is called reduction
5. In algebra, reduction of equations is the clearing of them of all superfluous quantities, bringing them to their lowest terms and separating the known from the unknown, till the unknown quantity alone is found on one side, and the known ones of the other.
6. reduction of a figure, men, etc. is the making of a copy of it on a smaller or larger scale, preserving the form and proportions.
7. In surgery, the operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured bone to its former place.
8. In metallurgy, the operation of bringing metallic substances which have been changed, or divested of their metallic form, into their natural and original state of metals. This is called also revivification.
REDUC'TIVE, adjective Having the power of reducing.
REDUC'TIVE, noun That which has the power of reducing.
REDUC'TIVELY, adverb By reduction; by consequence.
REDUND'ANCE,
REDUND'ANCY, noun [Latin redundantia, red-undo. See Redound.]
1. Excess or superfluous quantity; superfluity; superabundance; as a redundancy of bile.
Labor throws off redundancies.
2. In discourse, superfluity of words.
REDUND'ANCY, n. [L. redundantia, red-undo. See Redound.]
1. Excess or superfluous quantity; superfluity; superabundance; as a redundancy of bile.Labor throws off redundancies.2. In discourse, superfluity of words.REDUND'ANT, adjective
1. Superfluous; exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as a redundant quantity of bile or food.
Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh.
Redundant words, in writing or discourse, are such as are synonymous with others used, or such as add nothing to the sense or force of the expression.
2. Using more words or images than are necessary or useful.
Where an author is redundant mark those paragraphs to be retrenched.
3. In music, a redundant chord is one which contains a greater number of tones, semitones or lesser intervals, than it does in its natural state, as from fa to sol sharp. It is called by some authors, a chord extremely sharp.
REDUND'ANTLY, adverb With superfluity or excess; superfluously; superabundantly.
REDU'PLICATE, verb transitive [Latin reduplico; re and duplico. See Duplicate.]
To double.
REDUPLICATE, adjective Double.
REDUPLICA'TION, noun The act of doubling.
REDU'PLICATIVE, adjective Double.
RED'WING, noun [red and wing.] A bird of the Turdus.
REE,
RE, noun A small Portuguese coin or money of account, value about one mill and a fourth, American money.
REE, verb transitive [This belongs to the root of rid, riddle, which see.]
To riddle; to sift; that is, to separate or throw off. [Not in use or local.]
REECH'Y, adjective [a mis-spelling of reeky. See Reek.]
Tarnished with smoke; sooty; foul; as a reechy neck.
REED, noun
1. The common name of many aquatic plants; most of them large grasses, with hollow jointed stems, such as the common reed of the genus Arundo, the bamboo, etc. The bur-reed is of the genus Sparganium; the Indian Flowering reed of the genus Canna.
2. A musical pipe; reeds being anciently used for instruments of music.
3. A little tube through which a hautboy, bassoon or clarinet is blown.
4. An arrow, as made of a reed headed.
5. Thatch.
REE'DED, adjective
1. Covered with reeds.
2. Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.
REEDEN, adjective ree'dn. Consisting of a reed or reeds' as reeden pipes.
REE'DGRASS, noun A plant, bur-reed, of the genus Sparganium.
REE'DLESS, adjective Destitute of reeds; as reedless banks.
REE'DMACE, noun A plant of the genus Typha.
REE'DY, adjective Abounding with reeds; as a reedy pool.
REEF, noun
A certain portion of a sail between the top or bottom and a row of eyelet holes, which is folded or rolled up to contract the sail, when the violence of the wind renders it necessary.
REEF, noun
A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water.
REEF, verb transitive [from the noun.] To contract or reduce the extent of a sail by rolling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard.
REE'FED, participle passive Having a portion of the top or bottom folded and made fast to the yard.
REE'FING, participle present tense Folding and making fast to the yard, as a portion of a sail.
REEK, noun
1. Vapor; steam.
2. A rick, which see.
REEK, verb intransitive [Latin fragro. The primary sense is to send out or emit, to extend, to reach.]
To steam; to exhale; to emit vapor; applied especially to the vapor of certain moist substances, rather than to the smoke of burning bodies.
I found me laid in balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun soon dry'd, and on the reeking moisture fed.
Whose blood yet reeks on my avenging sword.
REE'KING, participle present tense Steaming; emitting vapor.
REE'KY, adjective Smoky; soiled with smoke or steam; foul.
REEL, noun [See reel to stagger.]
1. A frame or machine turning on an axis, and on which yarn is extended for winding, either into skeins, or from skeins on to spools and quills. On a reel also seamen wind their log-lines, etc.
2. A kind of dance.
REEL, verb transitive To gather yarn from the spindle.
REEL, verb intransitive
To stagger; to incline or move in walking, first to one side and then to the other; to vacillate.
He with heavy fumes opprest, reel'd from the palace and retir'd to rest.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man.
Psalms 107:27.
RE'ERMOUSE, noun A rearmouse; a bat.
REEVE, noun A steward. obsolete
REEVE, noun A bird, the female of the ruff.
REEVE, verb transitive In seamen's language, to pass the end of a rope through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ring-bolt, cringle, etc.
REFECT', verb transitive [Latin refectus, reficio; re and facio, to make.]
To refresh; to restore after hunger or fatigue. [Not in use.]
REFEC'TION, noun [Latin refectio.]
1. Refreshment after hunger or fatigue.
2. A spare meal or repast.
REFECT'IVE, adjective Refreshing; restoring.
REFECT'IVE, noun That which refreshes.
REFECT'ORY, noun A room of refreshment; properly, a hall or apartment in convents and monasteries, where a moderate repast is taken.
REFEL', verb transitive [Latin refello.] To refute; to disprove; to repress; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister. [Little used.]
REFER', verb transitive [Latin refero; re and fero, to bear.]
1. To direct, leave or deliver over to another person or tribunal for information or decision; as when parties to a suit refer their cause to another court; or the court refers a cause to individuals for examination and report. A person whose opinion is requested, sometimes refers the inquirer to another person or other source of information.
2. To reduce as to the ultimate end.
You profess and practice to refer all things to yourself.
3. To reduce; to assign; as to an order, genus or class. Naturalists are sometimes at a loss to know to what class or genus an animal or plant is to be referred.
To refer one's self, to betake; to apply. [Little used.]
REFER', verb intransitive
1. To respect; to have relation. Many passages of Scripture refer to the peculiar customs of the orientals.
2. To appeal; to have recourse; to apply.
In suits it is good to refer to some friend of trust.
3. To allude; to have respect to by intimation without naming. I refer to a well known fact.
REF'ERABLE, adjective
1. That may be referred; capable of being considered in relation to something else.
2. That may be assigned; that may be considered as belonging to or related to.
It is a question among philosophers, whether all the attractions which obtain between bodies, are referable to one general cause.
REFEREE', noun One to whom a thing is referred; particularly, a person appointed by a court to hear, examine and decide a cause between parties, pending before the court, and make report to the court. In New England, a referee differs from a arbitrator, in being appointed by the court to decide in a cause which is depending before that court. An arbitrator is chosen by parties to decide a cause between them.
REF'ERENCE, noun
1. A sending, dismission or direction to another for information.
2. Relation; respect; view towards.
The christian religion commands sobriety, temperance and moderation, in reference to our appetites and passions.
3. Allusion to. In his observations he had no reference to the case which has been stated.
4. In law, the process of assigning a cause depending in court, for a hearing and decision, to persons appointed by the court.
REFEREND'ARY, noun
1. One to whose decision a cause is referred. [Not in use.]
2. An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions.
REFER'MENT, noun Reference for decision. [Not used.]
REFER'RED, participle passive Dismissed or directed to another; assigned, as to a class, order or cause; assigned by a court to persons appointed to decide.
REFER'RIBLE, adjective That may be referred; referable.
REFER'RING, participle present tense Dismissing or directing to another for information; alluding; assigning, as to a class, order, cause, etc.; or assigning to private persons for decision.
REFI'NE, verb transitive
1. To purify; in a general sense; applied to liquors, to depurate; to defecate; to clarify; to separate, as liquor, from all extraneous matter. In this sense, the verb is used with propriety, but it is customary to use fine.
2. Applied to metals, to separate the metallic substance from all other matter, whether another metal or alloy, or any earthy substance; in short, to detach the pure metal from all extraneous matter.
I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined. Zechariah 13:9.
3. To purify, as manners, from what is gross, clownish or vulgar; to polish; to make elegant. We expect to see refined manners in courts.
4. To purify, as language, by removing vulgar words and barbarisms.
5. To purify, as taste; to give a nice and delicate perception of beauty and propriety in literature and the arts.
6. To purify, as the mind or moral principles; to give or implant in the mind a nice perception of truth, justice and propriety in commerce and social intercourse. This nice perception of what is right constitutes rectitude of principle, or moral refinement of mind; and a correspondent practice of social duties, constitutes rectitude of conduct or purity of morals. Hence we speak of a refined mind, refined morals, refined principles.
To refine the heart or soul, to cleanse it from all carnal or evil affections and desires and implant in it holy or heavenly affections.
REFI'NE, verb intransitive
1. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or in any thing that constitutes excellence.
Chaucer refined on Boccace and mended his stories.
Let a lord but own the happy lines, how the wit brightens, how the sense refines!
2. to become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
So the pure limpid stream, when foul with stains, works itself clear, and as it runs, refines.
3. To affect nicety. Men sometimes refine in speculation beyond the limits of practical truth.
He makes another paragraph about our refining in controversy.
REFI'NED, participle passive Purified; separated from extraneous matter; assayed, as metals; clarified, as liquors; polished; separated from what is coarse, rude or improper.
REFI'NEDLY, adverb With affected nicety or elegance.
REFI'NEDNESS, noun State of being refined; purity; refinement; also, affected purity.
REFI'NEMENT, noun
1. The act of purifying by separating from a substance all extraneous matter; a clearing from dross, dregs or recrement; as the refinement of metals or liquors.
2. The state of being pure.
The more bodies are of a kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement the more diffusive are they.
3. Polish of language; elegance; purity.
From the civil war to this time, I doubt whether the corruptions in our language have not equaled its refinements.
4. Polish of manners; elegance; nice observance of the civilities of social intercourse and of graceful decorum. refinement of manners is often found in persons of corrupt morals.
5. Purity of taste; nice perception of beauty and propriety in literature and the arts.
6. Purity of mind and morals; nice perception and observance of rectitude in moral principles and practice.
7. Purity of heart; the state of the heart purified from sensual and evil affections. This refinement is the effect of christian principles.
8. Artificial practice; subtilty; as the refinements of cunning.
9. Affectation of nicety, or of elegant improvement; as the refinements of reasoning or philosophy.
REFI'NER, noun
1. One that refines metals or other things.
2. An improver in purity and elegance; as a refiner of language.
3. An inventor of superfluous subtilities; one is who over nice in discrimination, in argument, reasoning, philosophy, etc.
REFI'NERY, noun The place and apparatus for refining metals.
REFI'NING, participle present tense Purifying; separating from alloy or any extraneous matter; polishing; improving in accuracy, delicacy or purity.
REFIT', verb transitive [re and fit.] To fit or prepare again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit ships of war.
REFIT'TED, participle passive Prepared again; repaired.
REFIT'TING, participle present tense Repairing after damage or decay.
REFLECT', verb transitive [Latin reflecto; re and flecto, to bend.]
To throw back; to return. In the rainbow, the rays of light are reflected as well as refracted.
Bodies close together reflect their own color.
REFLECT', verb intransitive
1. To throw back light; to return rays or beams; as a reflecting mirror or gem.
2. To bend back.
3. To throw or turn back the thoughts upon the past operations of the mind or upon past events. We reflect with pleasure on a generous or heroic action; we reflect with pain on our follies and vices; we reflect on our former thoughts, meditations and opinions.
4. To consider attentively; to revolve in the mind; to contemplate; as, I will reflect on this subject.
And as I much reflected, much I mourn'd.
In every action, reflect upon the end.
[To reflect on things future, is not strictly possible, yet the word is often used as synonymous with meditate and contemplate.]
5. To bring reproach.
Errors of wives reflect on husband still.
To reflect on, to cast censure or reproach.
I do not reflect in the least on the memory of his late majesty.
REFLECT'ED, participle passive Thrown back; returned; as reflected light.
REFLECT'ENT, adjective Bending or flying back; as the ray descendent, and ray reflectent
REFLECT'IBLE, adjective That may be reflected or thrown back.
REFLECT'ING, participle present tense
1. Throwing back.
2. Turning back, as thoughts upon themselves or upon past events.
3. reflecting on, casting censure or reproach.
REFLECT'INGLY, adverb With reflection; with censure.
REFLEC'TION, noun [from reflect.]
1. The act of throwing back; as the reflection of light or colors. The angle of incidence and the angle of reflection are always equal.
2. The act of bending back.
3. That which is reflected.
As the sun in water we can bear, yet not the sun, but his reflection there.
4. The operation of the mind by which it turns its views back upon itself and its operations; the review or consideration of past thoughts, opinions or decisions of the mind, or of past events.
5. Thought thrown back on itself, on the past or on the absent; as melancholy reflections; delightful reflections.
Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate, at the same time afflicted and encouraged him.
6. The expression of thought.
7. Attentive consideration; meditation; contemplation.
This delight grows and improves under thought and reflection
8. Censure; reproach cast.
He died, and oh! may no reflection shed its pois'nous venom on the royal dead.
REFLECT'IVE, adjective
1. Throwing back images; as a reflective mirror.
In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms impair'd -
2. Considering the operation of the mind, or things past; as reflective reason.
REFLECT'OR, noun
1. One who reflects or considers.
2. That which reflects.
RE'FLEX, adjective [Latin reflexus.]
1. Directed back; as a reflex act of the soul, the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions.
2. Designating the parts of a painting illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
3. In botany, bent back; reflected.
REFLEX', noun Reflection. [Not used.]
REFLEX', verb transitive
1. To reflect.
2. To bend back; to turn back. [Little used.]
REFLEXIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of being reflexible or capable of being reflected; as the reflexibility of the rays of light.
REFLEX'IBLE, adjective Capable of being reflected or thrown back.
The light of the sun consists of rays differently refrangible and reflexible
REFLEX'ION. [See Reflection.]
REFLEX'ITY, noun Capacity of being reflected.
REFLEX'IVE, adjective Having respect to something past.
Assurance reflexive cannot be a divine faith.
REFLEX'IVELY, adverb In a direction backward.
RE'FLOAT, noun [re and float.] Reflux; ebb; a flowing back. [Little used.]
REFLORES'CENCE, noun [re and florescence.] A blossoming anew.
REFLOURISH, verb intransitive reflur'ish. [re and flourish.] To flourish anew.
REFLOUR'ISHING, participle present tense Flourishing again.
REFLOW, verb intransitive [re and flow.] To flow back; to ebb.
REFLOWING, participle present tense Flowing backing; ebbing.
REFLUCTUA'TION, noun A flowing back.
REF'LUENCE,
REF'LUENCY, noun [from refluent.] A flowing back.
REF'LUENCY, n. [from refluent.] A flowing back.
REF'LUENT, adjective [Latin refluens; re and fluo.]
1. Flowing back; ebbing; as the refluent tide.
2. Flowing back; returning, as a fluid; as refluent blood.
RE'FLUX, noun [Latin refluxus.] A flowing back; the returning of a fluid; as the flux and reflux of the tides; the flux and reflux of Euripus.
REFO'CILLATE, verb transitive [Latin refocillo; re and the root of focus.] To refresh; to revive; to give new vigor to. [Little used.]
REFOCILLA'TION, noun The act of refreshing or giving new vigor; restoration of strength by refreshment. [Little used.]
REFOMENT', verb transitive [re and foment.]
1. To foment anew; to warm or cherish again.
2. To excite anew.
REFOMENT'ED, participle passive Fomented or incited anew.
REFOMENT'ING, participle present tense Fomenting anew; exciting again.
REFORM', verb transitive [Latin reformo; re and formo, to form.]
1. To change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; to restore to a former good state, or to bring from a bad to a good state; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age, but that of a good one will not reform it.
2. To change from bad to good; to remove that which is bad or corrupt; as, to reform abuses; to reform the vices of the age.
REFORM', verb intransitive To abandon that which is evil or corrupt, and return to a good state; to be amended or corrected. A man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform
RE'-FORM, verb transitive [re and form; with the accent on the first syllable.] To form again; to create or shape anew.
REFORM', noun Reformation; amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt or depraved; as the reform of parliamentary elections; reform of government.
REF'ORMATION, noun
1. The act of reforming; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of any thing vicious or corrupt; as the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses.
Satire lashes vice into reformation
2. By way of eminence, the change of religion from the corruptions of popery to its primitive purity, begun by Luther, adjective D. 1517.
REFORM'ED, participle passive Corrected; amended; restored to a good state; as a reformed profligate; the reformed church.
RE'-FORMED, participle passive Formed anew.
REFORM'ER, noun
1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; as a reformer of manners or of abuses.
2. One of those who commenced the reformation of religion from popish corruption; as Luther, Melancthon, Zuinglius and Calvin.
REFORM'ING, participle present tense Correcting what is wrong; amending; restoring to a good state.
RE'FORMING, participle present tense Forming anew.
REFORM'IST, noun
1. One who is of the reformed religion.
2. One who proposes or favors a political reform.
REFORTIFICA'TION, noun A fortifying a second time.
REFOR'TIFY, verb transitive [re and fortify.] To fortify anew.
REFOS'SION, noun The act of digging up.
REFOUND', verb transitive [re and found.] To found or cast anew.
REFRACT', v.t. [L. refractus, refringo; re and frango, to break.]
To break the natural course of the rays of light; to cause to deviate from a direct course. A dense medium refracts the rays of light, as they pass into it from a rare medium.REFRACTA'RIAS, noun A mineral.
REFRACT'ED, participle passive
1. Turned from a direct course, as rays of light.
2. adjective In botany, bent back at an acute angle; as a refracted corol.
REFRACT'ING, participle present tense
1. Turning from a direct course.
2. adjective That turns rays from a direct course; as a refracting medium.
REFRAC'TION, noun The deviation of a moving body, chiefly rays of light, from a direct course. This is occasioned by the different densities of the mediums through which light passes.
Refraction out of a rarer medium into a denser, is made towards the perpendicular.
Refraction may be caused by a body's falling obliquely out of one medium into another.
Refraction double, the separation of a ray of light into two separate parts, by passing through certain transparent mediums, as the Iceland crystal. All crystals, except those whose primitive form is either a cube or a regular octahedron, exhibit double refraction
REFRACT'IVE, adjective That refracts or has power to refract or turn from a direct course; as refractive densities.
REFRACT'ORINESS, noun [from refractory.]
Perverse or sullen obstinacy in opposition or disobedience.
I never allowed any man's refractoriness against the privileges and orders of the house.
REFRACT'ORY, adjective [Latin refractarius, from refragor, to resist; re and fragor, from frango.]
1. Sullen or perverse in opposition or disobedience; obstinate in non-compliance; as a refractory child; a refractory servant.
Raging appetites that are most disobedient and refractory
2. Unmanageable; obstinately unyielding; as a refractory beast.
3. Applied to metals, difficult of fusion; not easily yielding to the force of heat.
REFRACT'ORY, noun
1. A person obstinate in opposition or disobedience.
2. Obstinate opposition. [Not used.]
REFRA'GABLE, adjective [Latin refragor; re and frango.]
That may be refuted that is, broken.
REFRA'IN, verb transitive [Latin refaeno; re and fraeno, to curb; fraenum, a rein. See Rein.]
To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
My son - refrain thy foot from their path. Proverbs 1:15.
Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by. Genesis 45:1.
REFRA'IN, verb intransitive To forbear; to abstain; to keep one's self from action or interference.
Refrain from these men and let them alone. Acts 5:38.
REFRA'IN, noun The burden of a song; a kind of musical repetition.
REFRA'INED, participle passive Held back; restrained.
REFRA'INING, participle present tense Holding back; forbearing.
REFRA'ME, verb transitive [re and frame.] To frame again.
REFRANGIBIL'ITY, noun [from refrangible.]
The disposition of rays of light to be refracted or turned out of a direct course, in passing out of one transparent body or medium into another.
REFRAN'GIBLE, adjective [Latin re and frango, to break.]
Capable of being refracted or turned out of a direct course in passing from one medium to another; as rays of light.
REFRENA'TION, noun [See refrain.] The act of restraining. [Not used.]
REFRESH', verb transitive [See Fresh.]
1. To cool; to allay heat.
A dew coming after a heat refresheth.
2. To give new strength to; to invigorate; to relieve after fatigue; as, to refresh the body. A man or a beast is refreshed by food and rest. Exodus 23:12.
3. To revive; to reanimate after depression; to cheer; to enliven.
For they have refreshed my spirit and yours. 1 Corinthians 16:18.
4. To improve by new touches any thing impaired.
The rest refresh the scaly snakes.
5. To revive what is drooping; as, rain refreshes the plants.
REFRESH', noun Act of refreshing. [Not used.]
REFRESH'ED, participle passive Cooled; invigorated; revived; cheered.
REFRESH'ER, noun He or that which refreshes, revives or invigorates.
REFRESH'ING, participle present tense or adjective Cooling; invigorating; reviving; reanimating.
REFRESH'ING, noun Refreshment; relief after fatigue or suffering.
REFRESH'MENT, noun
1. Act of refreshing; or new strength or vigor received after fatigue; relief after suffering; applied to the body.
2. New life or animation after depression; applied to the mind or spirits.
3. That which gives fresh strength or vigor, as food or rest.
REFRET', noun The burden of a song.
REFRIG'ERANT, adjective [See Refrigerate.]
Cooling; allaying heat.
REFRIG'ERANT, noun Among physicians, a medicine which abates heat and refreshes the patient.
REFRIG'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin refrigero; re and frigus, cold.] To cool; to allay the heat of; to refresh.
REFRIG'ERATED, participle passive Cooled.
REFRIG'ERATING, participle present tense Allaying heat; cooling.
REFRIGERA'TION, noun The act of cooling; the abatement of heat; state of being cooled.
REFRIG'ERATIVE, adjective Cooling.
REFRIG'ERATIVE, noun A remedy that allays heat.
REFRIG'ERATORY, adjective Cooling; mitigating heat.
REFRIG'ERATORY, noun
1. In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, through which the worm passes; by which means the vapors are condensed as they pass through the worm.
2. Any thing internally cooling.
REFRIGE'RIUM, noun [Latin] Cooling refreshment; refrigeration. [Not in use.]
REFT, participle passive of reave.
1. Deprived; bereft. [Not in use.]
2. preterit tense of reave. Took away. [Not in use.]
REFT, noun A chink. [See rift.]
REF'UGE, noun [Latin refugium, refugio; re and fugio, to flee.]
1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress.
- Rocks, dens and caves, but I in none of these find place or refuge
We have made lies our refuge Isaiah 28:15.
- We might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us. Hebrews 6:18.
2. That which shelters or protects from danger, distress or calamity; a strong hold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; any place inaccessible to an enemy.
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats. Psalms 104:18.
The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed. Psalms 9:9.
3. An expedient to secure protection or defense.
This last old man - their latest refuge was to send to him.
4. Expedient, in general.
Light must be supplied, among graceful refuges, by terracing any story in danger of darkness.
Cities of refuge among the Israelites, certain cities appointed to secure the safety of such persons as might commit homicide without design. Of these there were three on each side of Jordan. Joshua 20:2.
REF'UGE, verb transitive To shelter; to protect.
REFUGEE', noun
1. One who flies to a shelter or place of safety.
2. One who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign country for safety; as the French refugees, who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantz, and settled in Flanders and America; the refugees from Hispaniola, in 1792; and the American refugees, who left their country at the revolution.
REFUL'GENCE,
REFUL'GENCY, noun [Latin refulgens, refulgeo; re and fulgeo, to shine.] A flood of light; splendor.
REFUL'GENCY, n. [L. refulgens, refulgeo; re and fulgeo, to shine.] A flood of light; splendor.
REFUL'GENT, adjective Casting a bright light; shining; splendid; as refulgent beams; refulgent light; refulgent arms.
A conspicuous and refulgent truth.
REFUL'GENTLY, adverb With a flood of light; with great brightness.
REFUND', verb transitive [Latin refundo; re and fundo, to pour.]
1. To pour back.
Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object. [Unusual or obsolete.]
2. To repay; to return in payment or compensation for what has been taken; to restore; as, to refund money taken wrongfully; to refund money advanced with interest; to refund the amount advanced.
REFUND'ED, participle passive Poured back; repaid.
REFUND'ING, participle present tense Pouring back; returning by payment or compensation.
REFU'SABLE, adjective s as z. [from refuse.] That may be refused.
REFU'SAL, noun s as z.
1. The act of refusing; denial of any thing demanded, solicited or offered for acceptance. The first refusal is not always proof that the request will not be ultimately granted.
2. The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; pre-emption. We say, a man has the refusal of a farm or a horse, or the refusal of an employment.
REFU'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin recuso; re and the root of causor, to accuse; causa, cause. The primary sense of causor is to drive, to throw or thrust at, and recuso is to drive back, to repel or repulse, the sense of refuse ]
1. To deny a request, demand, invitation or command; to decline to do or grant what is solicited, claimed or commanded.
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Numbers 20:21.
2. To decline to accept what is offered; as, to refuse an office; to refuse an offer.
If they refuse to take the cup at thy hand - Jeremiah 25:28.
3. To reject; as, to refuse instruction or reproof.
Proverbs 10:1.
The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner. Psalms 118:22.
[Note - refuse expenses rejection more strongly than decline.]
REFU'SE, verb intransitive s as z. To decline to accept; not to comply.
Too proud to ask, to humble too refuse
REF'USE, adjective
Literally, refused; rejected; hence, worthless; of no value; left as unworthy of reception; as the refuse parts of stone or timber.
Please to bestow on him the refuse letters.
REF'USE, noun That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste matter.
REFU'SE, noun Refusal. obsolete
REFU'SED, participle passive Denied; rejected; not accepted.
REFU'SER, noun One that refuses or rejects.
REFU'SING, participle present tense Denying; declining to accept; rejecting.
REFU'TABLE, adjective [from refute.] That may be refuted or disproved; that may be proved false or erroneous.
REFU'TAL, noun Refutation. [Not used.]
REFUTA'TION, noun [Latin refutatio. See Refute.]
The act or process of refuting or disproving; the act of proving to be false or erroneous; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory, by argument or countervailing proof.
REFU'TE, verb transitive [Latin refuto; re and futo, obsolete The primary sense of futo, is to drive or thrust, to beat back.]
To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute. We say, to refute arguments, to refute testimony, to refute opinions or theories, to refute a disputant.
There were so many witnesses to these two miracles, that it is impossible to refute such multitudes.
REFU'TED, participle passive Disproved; proved to be false or erroneous.
REFU'TER, noun One that refutes.
REFU'TING, participle present tense Proving to be false or erroneous; confuting.
REGA'IN, verb transitive [re and gain.]
To gain anew; to recover what has escaped or been lost.
REGA'INED, participle passive Recovered; gained anew.
REGA'INING, participle present tense Gaining anew; recovering.
RE'GAL, adjective [Latin regalis, from rex, Latin rectus. See Reck and Reckon.]
Pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as a regal title; regal authority; regal state, pomp or splendor; regal power or sway. But we say, a royal or kingly government, not a regal one. We never say, a regal territory, regal dominions, regal army, or regal navy. regal expresses what is more personal.
RE'GAL, noun A musical instrument.
REGA'LE, noun The prerogative of monarchy.
REGA'LE, noun [See the verb, below.] A magnificent entertainment or treat given to embassadors and other persons of distinction.
REGA'LE, verb transitive [Eng. gale, gallant, jolly; Gr.]
To refresh; to entertain with something that delights; to gratify, as the senses; as, to regale the taste, the eye or the ear. The birds of the forest regale us with their songs.
REGA'LE, verb transitive To feast; to fare sumptuously.
REGA'LED, participle passive Refreshed; entertained; gratified.
REGA'LEMENT, noun Refreshment; entertainment; gratification.
REGA'LIA, noun [Latin from rex, king.]
1. Ensigns of royalty; the apparatus of a coronation; as the crown, scepter, etc.
2. In law, the rights and prerogatives of a king.
REGA'LING, participle present tense Refreshing; entertaining; gratifying.
REGAL'ITY, noun [from Latin regalis.] Royalty; sovereignty; kingship.
He came partly in by the sword and had high courage in all points of regality
RE'GALLY, adverb In a royal manner.
REG'ARD, verb transitive
1. To look towards; to point or be directed.
It is a peninsula which regardeth the main land.
2. To observe; to notice with some particularity.
If much you note him, you offend him; feed and regard him not.
3. To attend to with respect and estimation; to value.
This aspect of mine, the best regarded virgins of your clime have lov'd.
4. To attend to as a thing that affects our interest or happiness; to fix the mind on as a matter of importance. He does not regard the pain he feels. He does not regard the loss he has suffered. He regards only the interest of the community.
5. To esteem; to hold in respect and affection. The people regard their pastor, and treat him with great kindness. 2 Kings 3:14.
6. To keep; to observe with religious or solemn attention.
He that regardeth the day, regardeth it to the Lord.
Romans 14:6.
7. To attend to as something to influence our conduct.
He that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Ecclesiastes 11:4.
8. To consider seriously; to lay to heart.
They regard not the work of the Lord. Isaiah 5:12.
9. To notice with pity or concern. Deuteronomy 28:50.
10. To notice favorably or with acceptance; to hear and answer.
He will regard the prayer of the destitute. Psalms 102:17.
11. To love and esteem; to practice; as, to regard iniquity in the heart. Psalms 66:18.
12. To respect; to have relation to. The argument does not regard the question.
To regard the person, to value for outward honor, wealth or power. Matthew 22:16.
REG'ARD, noun
1. Look; aspect directed to another.
But her with stern regard he thus repell'd.
[Nearly or quite obsolete.]
2. Attention of the mind; respect in relation to something. He has no regard to the interest of society; his motives are wholly selfish.
3. Respect; esteem; reverence; that view of the mind which springs from value, estimable qualities, or any thing that excites admiration.
With some regard to what is just and right they'll lead their lives.
To him they had regard because of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. Acts 8:11.
4. Respect; account.
Change was thought necessary, in regard of the injury the church received by a number of things then in use.
5. Relation; reference.
To persuade them to pursue and preserve in virtue, in regard to themselves; in justice and goodness, in regard to their neighbors; and piety towards God.
6. Note; eminence; account.
Mac Ferlagh was a man of meanest regard among them.
7. Matter demanding notice.
8. Prospect; object of sight. [Not proper nor in use.]
9. In the forest laws, view; inspection.
Court of regard or survey of dogs, a forest court in England, held every third year for the lawing or expeditation of mastifs, that is, for cutting off the claws and ball of the fore feet, to prevent them from running after deer.
REG'ARDABLE, adjective Observable; worthy of notice.
REG'ARDANT, adjective
1. In law, a villain regardant is one annexed to the manor or land.
2. In heraldry, looking behind, as a lion or other beast.
REG'ARDED, participle passive Noticed; observed; esteemed; respected.
REG'ARDER, noun
1. One that regards.
2. In law, the regarder of the forest is an officer whose business is to view the forest, inspect the officers, and inquire of all offenses and defaults.
REG'ARDFUL, adjective Taking notice; heedful; observing with care; attentive.
Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God on his heart.
REG'ARDFULLY, adverb
1. Attentively; heedfully.
2. Respectfully.
REG'ARDING, participle present tense
1. Noticing; considering with care; attending to; observing; esteeming; caring for.
2. Respecting; concerning; relating to.
REG'ARDLESS, adjective
1. Not looking or attending to; heedless; negligent; careless; as regardless of life or of health; regardless of danger; regardless of consequences.
Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat.
2. Not regarded; slighted.
REG'ARDLESSLY, adverb Heedlessly; carelessly; negligently.
REG'ARDLESSNESS, noun Heedlessness; inattention; negligence.
REGA'TA,
REGATH'ER, verb transitive To gather or collect a second time.
REGATH'ERED, participle passive Collected again.
REGATH'ERING, participle present tense Gathering a second time.
REGAT'TA, noun In Venice, a grand rowing match in which many boats are rowed for a prize.
REG'EL,
RE'GENCY, noun [Latin regens, from rego, to govern.]
1. Rule' authority; government.
2. Vicarious government.
3. The district under the jurisdiction of a vicegerent.
4. The body of men entrusted with vicarious government; as a regency constituted during a king's minority, insanity, or absence from the kingdom.
REGEN'ERACY, noun [See Regenerate.] The state of being regenerated.
REGEN'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin regenero; re and genero. See Generate.]
1. To generate or produce anew; to reproduce.
Through all the soil a genial ferment spreads, regenerates the plants and new adorns the meads.
2. In theology, to renew the heart by a change of affections; to change the heart and affections from natural enmity to the love of God; to implant holy affections in the heart.
REGEN'ERATE, adjective [Latin regeneratus.]
1. Reproduced.
2. Born anew; renovated in heart; changed from a natural to a spiritual state.
REGEN'ERATED, participle passive
1. Reproduced.
2. Renewed; born again.
REGEN'ERATENESS, noun The state of being regenerated.
REGEN'ERATING, participle present tense
1. Reproducing.
2. Renovating the nature by the implantation of holy affections in the heart.
REGENERA'TION, noun
1. Reproduction; the act of producing anew.
2. In theology, new birth by the grace of God; that change by which the will and natural enmity of man to God and his law are subdued, and a principle of supreme love to God and his law, or holy affections, are implanted in the heart.
He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. Titus 3:5.
REGEN'ERATORY, adjective Renewing; having the power to renew; tending to reproduce or renovate.
RE'GENT, adjective [Latin regens, from rego, to rule.
1. Ruling; governing; as a regent principle.
2. Exercising vicarious authority.
Queen regent a queen who governs; opposed to queen consort.
RE'GENT, noun
1. A governor; a ruler; in a general sense; as Uriel, regent of the sun.
2. One invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence or disability of the king.
3. In colleges, a teacher of arts and sciences, having pupils under his care, generally of the lower classes; those who instruct the higher classes being called professors.
4. In English universities, a master of arts under five years standing, and a doctor under two.
5. In the state of New york, the member of a corporate body which is invested with the superintendence of all the colleges, academies and schools in the state. This board consists of twenty one members, who are called 'the regents of the university of the state of New York.' They are appointed and removable by the legislature. They have power to grant acts of incorporation for colleges, to visit and inspect all colleges, academies and schools, and to make regulations for governing the same.
RE'GENTESS, noun A protectress of a kingdom.
RE'GENTSHIP, noun
1. The power of governing, or the office of a regent.
2. Deputed authority.
REGERM'INATE, verb intransitive [re and germinate.]
To germinate again.
Perennial plants regerminate several years successively.
REGERM'INATING, participle present tense Germinating anew.
REGERMINA'TION, noun A sprouting or germination anew.
REGEST', noun A register. [Not in use.]
REG'IBLE, adjective Governable. [Not in use.]
REGIMENT'AL, adjective Belonging to a regiment; as regimental officers; regimental clothing.
REGIMENT'ALS, noun plural The uniform worn by the troops of a regiment.
REGION, noun re'jun. [Latin regio, rego.]
1. A tract of land or space of indefinite extent, usually a tract of considerable extent. It is sometimes nearly synonymous with country; as all the region of Argob. Deuteronomy 3:4.
He had dominion over all the region on this side the river. 1 Kings 4:11.
So we speak of the airy region the etherial regions, the upper regions, the lower regions.
2. The inhabitants of a region or district of country. Matthew 3:5.
3. A part of the body; as the region of the heart or liver.
4. Place; rank.
He is of too high a region [Unusual.]
REGISTRA'TION, noun The act of inserting in a register.
REGORGE, verb transitive regorj'.
1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back or out again.
2. To swallow again.
3. To swallow eagerly.
REGRA'DE, verb intransitive [Latin regredior; re and gradior, to go.] To retire; to go back. [Not used.]
REGR'AFT, verb transitive [re and graft.] To graft again.
REGR'AFTED, participle passive Grafted again.
REGR'AFTING, participle present tense Grafting anew.
REGR'ANT, verb transitive [re and grant.] To grant back.
REGR'ANT, noun The act of granting back to a former proprietor.
REGR'ANTED, participle passive Granted back.
REGR'ANTING, participle present tense Granting back.
REGRA'TE, verb transitive
1. To offend; to shock. [Little used.]
2. To buy provisions and sell them again in the same market or fair; a practice which, by raising the price is a public offense and punishable. Regrating differs from engrossing and monopolizing, which signify the buying the whole of certain articles, or large quantities, and from forestalling, which signifies the purchase of provisions on the way, before they reach the market.
REGRA'TER, noun One who buys provisions and sells them in the same market or fair.
REGRA'TING, participle present tense Purchasing provisions and selling them in the same market.
REGREE'T, verb transitive [re and greet.] To greet again; to resalute.
REGREET, noun A return or exchange of salutation.
REGREE'TED, participle passive Greeting again or in return.
REGREE'TING, participle present tense Greeting again; resaluting.
RE'GRESS, noun [Latin regressus, regredior.]
1. Passage back; return; as ingress and regress
2. The power of returning or passing back.
REGRESS', verb intransitive To go back; to return to a former place or state.
REGRES'SION, noun The act of passing back or returning.
REGRESS'IVE, adjective Passing back; returning.
REGRESS'IVELY, adverb In a backward way or manner; by return.
REGRET', noun
1. Grief; sorrow; pain of mind. We feel regret at the loss of friends, regret for our own misfortunes, or for the misfortunes of others.
Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
Her piety itself would blame, if her regrets should waken thine.
2. Pain of conscience; remorse; as a passionate regret at sin.
3. Dislike; aversion. [Not proper nor in use.]
REGRET', verb transitive
1. To grieve at; to lament; to be sorry for; to repent.
Calmly he look'd on either life, and here saw nothing to regret or there to fear.
2. To be uneasy at. [Not proper nor in use.]
REGRET'FUL, adjective Full of regret.
REGRET'FULLY, adverb With regret.
REGRET'TED, participle passive Lamented.
REGRET'TING, participle present tense Lamenting; grieving at; repenting.
REGUERDON, noun regerd'on. [See Reward.]
A reward; a recompense. [Not in use.]
REGUERDON, verb transitive regerd'on. To reward. [Not in use.]
REG'ULAR, adjective [Latin regularis, from regula, a rule, from rego, to rule.]
1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law or principle, to a prescribed mode or to established customary forms; as a regular epic poem; a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular plan; a regular building.
2. Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in a course or practice; as regular in diet; regular in attending on divine worship.
3. In geometry, a regular figure is one whose sides and angles are equal, as a square, a cube, or an equilateral triangle. regular figures of more than three or four sides are usually called regular polygons.
4. Instituted or initiated according to established forms or discipline; as a regular physician.
5. Methodical; orderly; as a regular kind of sensuality or indulgence.
6. Periodical; as the regular return of day and night; a regular trade wind or monsoon.
7. Pursued with uniformity or steadiness; as a regular trade.
8. Belonging to a monastic order; as regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy.
Regular troops, troops of a permanent army; opposed to militia.
REG'ULAR, noun
1. In a monastery, one who has taken the vows, and who is bound to follow the rules of the order.
2. A soldier belonging to a permanent army.
REGULAR'ITY, noun
1. Agreeableness to a rule or to established order; as the regularity of legal proceedings.
2. Method; certain order. regularity is the life of business.
3. Conformity to certain principles; as the regularity of a figure.
4. Steadiness or uniformity in a course; as the regularity of the motion of a heavenly body. There is no regularity in the vicissitudes of the weather.
REG'ULARLY, adverb
1. In a manner accordant to a rule or established mode; as a physician or lawyer regularly admitted to practice; a verse regularly formed.
2. In uniform order; at certain intervals or periods; as day and night regularly returning.
3. Methodically; in due order; as affairs regularly performed.
REG'ULATE, verb transitive
1. To adjust by rule, method or established mode; as, to regulate weights and measures; to regulate the assize of bread; to regulate our moral conduct by the laws of God and of society; to regulate our manners by the customary forms.
2. To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
3. To subject to rules or restrictions; as, to regulate trade; to regulate diet.
REG'ULATED, participle passive Adjusted by rule, method or forms; put in good order; subjected to rules or restrictions.
REG'ULATING, participle present tense Adjusting by rule, method or forms; reducing to order; subjecting to rules or restrictions.
REGULA'TION, noun
1. The act of regulating or reducing to order.
2. A rule or order prescribed by a superior for the management of some business, or for the government of a company or society.
REG'ULATOR, noun
1. One who regulates.
2. The small spring of a watch, which regulates its motions by retarding or accelerating them.
3. Any part of a machine which regulates its movements.
REG'ULINE, adjective [See Regulus.] Pertaining to regulus or pure metal.
Bodies which we can reduce to the metallic or reguline state.
REG'ULIZE, verb transitive To reduce to regulus or pure metal; to separate pure metal from extraneous matter.
REG'ULUS, noun [Latin a petty king.]
In chimistry, the finer or pure part of a metallic substance, which, in the melting of ores, falls to the bottom of the crucible.
REGURG'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin re and gurges.]
To throw or pour back as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.
REGURG'ITATE, verb intransitive To be thrown or poured back.
REGURG'ITATED, participle passive Thrown or poured back.
REGURG'ITATING, participle present tense Throwing or pouring back.
REGURGITA'TION, noun
1. The act of pouring back.
2. The act of swallowing again; reabsorption.
REHABIL'ITATE, verb transitive
To restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent to a former right, rank or privilege lost or forfeited; a term of the civil and canon law.
REHABIL'ITATED, participle passive Restored to a former rank, right privilege or capacity; reinstated.
REHABIL'ITATING, participle present tense Restoring to a former right, rank, privilege or capacity; reinstating.
REHABILITA'TION, noun The act of reinstating in a former rank or capacity; restoration to former rights.
REHE'AR, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive reheard. [re and hear.]
To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in the court of king's bench.
REHE'ARD, participle passive Heard again.
REHE'ARING, participle present tense Hearing a second time.
REHE'ARING, noun
1. A second hearing.
2. In law, a second hearing or trial.
REHEARSAL, noun rehers'al. [from rehearse.]
1. Recital; repetition of the words of another or of a written work; as the rehearsal of the Lord's prayer.
2. Narration; a telling or recounting, as of particulars in detail; as the rehearsal of a soldier's adventures.
3. The recital of a place before the public exhibition of it; as the rehearsal of a comedy.
REHEARSE, verb transitive rehers.'
1. To recite; to repeat the words of a passage or composition; to repeat the words of another.
When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul. 1 Samuel 17:31.
2. To narrate or recount events or transactions.
There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord. Judges 5:11. Acts 11:4.
3. To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.
REHEARSED, participle passive rehers'ed. Recited; repeated; as words; narrated.
REHEARSER, noun rehers'er. One who recites or narrates.
REHEARSING, participle present tense rehers'ing. Reciting; repeating words; recounting; telling; narrating.
RE'IGLE, noun A hollow cut or channel for guiding any thing; as the reigle of a side post for a flood gate.
REIGN, verb intransitive rane. [Latin regno, a derivative of rego, regnum.]
1. To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to rule; to exercise government, as a king or emperor; or to hold the supreme power. George the third reigned over Great Britain more than fifty years.
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness. Isaiah 32:1.
2. To be predominant; to prevail.
Pestilent diseases which commonly reign in summer or autumn.
3. To rule; to have superior or uncontrolled dominion. Romans 6:12.
[This word is never applied to the exercise of supreme power by a legislative body or the executive administration, in the United States.]
REIGN, noun rane. [Latin regnum.]
1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty.
He who like a father held his reign
2. The time during which a king, queen or emperor possesses the supreme authority. The Spanish armada was equipped to invade England in the reign of queen Elizabeth. Magna Charta was obtained in the reign of king John.
3. Kingdom; dominion.
Saturn's sons received the threefold reign of heav'n, of ocean, and deep hell beneath.
4. Power; influence.
5. Prevalence.
REIGNING, participle present tense ra'ning.
1. Holding or exercising supreme power; ruling; governing as king, queen or emperor.
2. adjective Predominating; prevailing; as a reigning vice or disease.
REIMBARK. [See Re-embark.]
REIMBOD'Y, verb intransitive [re and imbody or embody.]
To imbody again; to be formed into a body anew.
REIMBURS'ABLE, adjective That may be repaid.
A loan has been made of two million of dollars, reimbursable in ten years.
REIMBURSE, verb transitive reimburs'.
To refund; to replace in a treasury or in a private coffer, an equivalent to the sum taken from it, lost or expended; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war or a canal. The word is used before the person expending, or the treasury from which the advances are made, or before the expenses. We say, to reimburse the individual, to reimburse the treasury, or to reimburse the expenses. To reimburse the person, is to repay to him his losses, expenses or advances; to reimburse the treasury, is to refund to it the sum drawn from it; to reimburse losses or expenses, is to repay them or make them good.
REIMBURS'ED, participle passive Repaid; refunded; made good, as loss or expense.
REIMBURSEMENT, noun reimburs'ment. The act of repaying or refunding; repayment; as the reimbursement of principal and interest.
REIMBURS'ER, noun One who repays or refunds what has been lost or expended.
REIMBURS'ING, participle present tense Repaying; refunding; making good, as loss or expense.
REIMPLANT', verb transitive [re and implant.] To implant again.
REIMPLANT'ED, participle passive Implanted anew.
REIMPLANT'ING, participle present tense Implanting again.
REIMPORTU'NE, verb transitive [re and importune.] To importune again.
REIMPORTU'NED, participle passive Importuned again.
REIMPORTU'NING, participle present tense Importuning again.
REIMPREG'NATE, verb transitive [re and impregnate.]
To impregnate again.
REIMPREG'NATED, participle passive Impregnated again.
REIMPREG'NATING, participle present tense Impregnating again.
REIMPRESS', verb transitive [re and impress.] To impress anew.
REIMPRESS'ED, participle passive Impressed again.
REIMPRESS'ING, participle present tense Impressing again.
REIMPRES'SION, noun A second or repeated impression.
REIMPRINT', verb transitive [re and imprint.] To imprint again.
REIMPRINT'ED, participle passive Imprinted again.
REIMPRINT'ING, participle present tense Imprinting anew.
REIN, noun [Latin retina, retinaculum. If contracted from the Latin, it is from retineo, otherwise from the root of arrest.]
1. The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider of a horse restrains and governs him.
2. The instrument of curbing, restraining or governing; government.
To give the reins, to give license; to leave without restraint.
To take the reins, to take the guidance or government.
REIN, verb transitive
1. To govern by a bridle.
2. To restrain; to control.
REINDEER, noun
A species of the cervine genus; more correctly written ranedeer, or rather rane, which is the true name.
REINFECT', verb intransitive [re and infect.] To infect again.
REINFECT'ED, participle passive Infected again.
REINFECT'ING, participle present tense Infecting again.
REINFEC'TIOUS, adjective Capable of infecting again.
REINFORCE, verb transitive [re and enforce.] To give new force to; to strengthen by new assistance or support. [It is written also re-enforce; but reinforce seems now to be the most common.]
REINFORCED, participle passive Strengthened by additional force.
REINFORCEMENT, noun New force added; fresh supplies of strength; particularly, additional troops or ships.
REINFORCING, participle present tense Adding fresh force to.
REINGRA'TIATE, verb transitive To ingratiate again.
REINGRA'TIATE, verb transitive [re and ingratiate.] To ingratiate again; to recommend again to favor.
REINGRA'TIATED, participle passive Reinstated in favor.
REINGRA'TIATING, participle present tense Ingratiating again.
REINHAB'IT, verb transitive [re and inhabit.] To inhabit again.
REINHAB'ITED, participle passive Inhabited again.
REINHAB'ITING, participle present tense Inhabiting a second time.
REINLESS, adjective Without rein; without restraint; unchecked.
REINLIST', verb transitive or i. [re and inlist.] To inlist again.
[It is written also re-enlist.]
REINLIST'ED, participle passive Inlisted anew.
REINLIST'ING, participle present tense Inlisting anew.
REINLIST'MENT, noun The act of inlisting anew; the act of engaging again in military service.
REINQUI'RE, verb transitive To inquire a second time.
REINS, noun plural [Latin ren, renes.]
1. The kidneys; the lower part of the back.
2. In Scripture, the inward parts; the heart, or seat of the affections and passions. Psalms 73:21.
REINSERT', verb transitive [re and insert.] To insert a second time.
REINSERT'ED, participle passive Inserted again.
REINSERT'ING, participle present tense Inserting again.
REINSER'TION, noun A second insertion.
REINSPECT', verb transitive [re and inspect.] To inspect again, as provisions.
REINSPEC'TION, noun The act of inspecting a second time.
REINSPI'RE, verb transitive [re and inspire.] To inspire anew.
REINSPI'RED, participle passive Inspired again.
REINSPI'RING, participle present tense Inspiring again.
REINSTALL', verb transitive [re and install.] To install again; to seat anew.
REINSTALL'ED, participle passive Installed anew.
REINSTALL'ING, participle present tense Installing again.
REINSTALL'MENT, noun A second installment.
REINSTA'TE, verb transitive [re and instate.] To place again in possession or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one has been removed; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom; to reinstate one in the affections of his family.
REINSTA'TED, participle passive Replaced in possession or in a former state.
REINSTA'TEMENT, noun The act of putting in a former state; re-establishment.
REINSTA'TING, participle present tense Replacing in a former state; putting again in possession.
REINSU'RANCE, noun [re and insurance. See Sure.]
An insurance of property already insured; a second insurance of the same property. Such reinsurance is permitted by the French commercial code; but in England is prohibited by statute, except when the first underwriter is insolvent.
REINSU'RE, verb transitive [re and insure.] To insure the same property a second time by other underwriters.
The insurer may cause the property insured to be reinsured by other persons.
REINSU'RED, participle passive Insured a second time by other persons.
REINSU'RING, participle present tense Insuring a second time by other persons.
REIN'TEGRATE, verb transitive [Latin redintegro; red, re, and integro, from integer.]
To renew with regard to any state or quality; to restore. [Little used.]
REINTER'ROGATE, verb transitive [re and interrogate.]
To interrogate again; to question repeatedly.
REINTHRO'NE, verb transitive [re and inthrone. See Enthrone.]
To replace on the throne.
REINTHRO'NED, participle passive Placed again on the throne.
REINTHRO'NING, participle present tense Replacing on the throne.
REINTHRO'NIZE, verb transitive To reinthrone. [Not in use.]
REINVEST', verb transitive [re and invest.] To invest anew.
REINVEST'ED, participle passive Invested again.
REINVEST'ING, participle present tense Investing anew.
REINVEST'MENT, noun The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment.
REINVIG'ORATE, verb transitive To revive vigor in; to reanimate.
REIT, noun Sedge; sea weed.
REIT'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin re and itero.]
To repeat; to repeat again and again; as reiterated crimes; to reiterate requests.
REIT'ERATED, participle passive Repeated again and again.
REIT'ERATING, participle present tense Repeating again and again.
REITERA'TION, noun Repetition.
REJECT', verb transitive [Latin rejicio, rejectus, re and jacio, to throw.]
1. To throw away, as any thing useless or vile.
2. To cast off.
Have I rejected those that me ador'd?
3. To cast off; to forsake. Jeremiah 7:29.
4. To refuse to receive; to slight; to despise.
Because thou has rejected knowledge, I will reject thee. Hosea 4. 1 Samuel 15:23.
5. To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.
6. To refuse to accept; as, to reject an offer.
REJECT'ABLE, adjective That may be rejected.
REJECTAMENT'A, noun [from Latin rejecto.] Things thrown out or away. [Ill formed.]
REJECTA'NEOUS, adjective [from the Latin ] Not chosen or received; rejected.
REJECT'ED, participle passive Thrown away; cast off; refused; slighted.
REJECT'ER, noun One that rejects or refuses.
REJECT'ING, participle present tense Throwing away; casting off; refusing to grant or accept; slighting.
REJEC'TION, noun [Latin rejectio.] The act of throwing away; the act of casting off or forsaking; refusal to accept or grant.
REJECT'IVE, adjective That rejects, or tends to cast off.
REJECT'MENT, noun Matter thrown away.
REJOICE, verb intransitive rejois'.
To experience joy and gladness in a high degree; to be exhilarated with lively and pleasurable sensations; to exult.
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Proverbs 29:2.
I will rejoice in thy salvation. Psalms 9:14.
REJOICE, verb transitive rejois'. To make joyful; to gladden; to animate with lively pleasurable sensations; to exhilarate.
Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father. Proverbs 29:3.
While she, great saint, rejoices heaven.
REJOIC'ED, participle passive Made glad; exhilarated.
REJOIC'ER, noun One that rejoices.
REJOIC'ING, participle present tense Animating with gladness; exhilarating; feeling joy.
REJOIC'ING, participle present tense Animating with gladness; exhilarating; feeling joy.
REJOIC'ING, noun
1. The act of expressing joy and gladness.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous. Psalms 118:15.
2. The subject of joy.
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart. Psalms 119:111.
3. The experience of joy. Galatians 6:4.
REJOIC'INGLY, adverb With joy or exultation.
REJOIN', verb transitive [re and join.]
1. To join again; to unite after separation.
2. To meet one again.
REJOIN', verb intransitive
1. To answer to a reply.
2. In law pleadings, to answer, as the defendant to the plantif's replication.
REJOIND'ER, noun
1. An answer to a reply; or in general, an answer.
2. In law pleadings, the defendants's answer to the plantif's replication.
REJOIN'ED, participle passive Joined again; reunited.
REJOIN'ING, participle present tense Joining again; answering a plaintiff's replication.
REJOINT', verb transitive [re and joint.] To reunite joints.
REJOLT, noun [re and jolt.] A reacting jolt or shock. [Not used.]
REJOURN, verb transitive rejurn'. [See Adjourn.]
To adjourn to another hearing or inquiry. [Not used.]
REJUDGE, verb transitive rejuj'. [re and judge.] To judge again; to re-examine; to review; to call to a new trial and decision.
REJUDGE his acts, and dignify disgrace.
REJUDG'ED, participle passive Reviewed; judged again.
REJUDG'ING, participle present tense Judging again.
REJUVENES'CENCE, 'CENCY, noun [Latin re and juvenescens; juvenis, a youth.]
A renewing of youth; the state of being young again.
REKIN'DLE, verb transitive [re and kindle.]
1. To kindle again; to set on fire anew.
2. To inflame again; to rouse anew.
REKIN'DLED, participle passive Kindled again; inflamed anew.
REKIN'DLING, participle present tense Kindling again; inflaming anew.
RELA'ID, participle passive Laid a second time.
RELAND', verb transitive [re and land.] To land again; to put on land what had been shipped or embarked.
RELAND', verb intransitive To go on shore after having embarked.
RELAND'ED, participle passive Put on shore again.
RELAND'ING, participle present tense Landing again.
RELAPSE, verb intransitive relaps'. [Latin relapsus, relabor, to slide back; re and labor, to slide.]
1. To slip or slide back; to return.
2. To fall back; to return to a former state or practice; as, to relapse into vice or error after amendment.
3. To fall back or return from recovery or a convalescent state; as, to relapse into a fever.
RELAPSE, noun relaps'. A sliding or falling back, particularly into a former bad state, either of body or of morals; as a relapse into a disease from a convalescent state; a relapse into a vicious course of life. [In the sense of a person relapsing, not used.]
RELAPS'ER, noun One that relapses into vice or error.
RELAPS'ING, participle present tense Sliding or falling back, as into disease or vice.
RELA'TE, verb transitive [Latin relatus, refero; re and fero, to produce.]
1. To tell; to recite; to narrate the particulars of an event; as, to relate the story of Priam; to relate the adventures of Don Quixote.
2. To bring back; to restore. [Not in use.]
3. To ally by connection or kindred.
To relate one's self, to vent thoughts in words.
RELA'TE, verb intransitive To have reference or respect; to regard.
All negative words relate to positive ideas.
RELA'TED, participle passive
1. Recited; narrated.
2. adjective Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as a person related in the first or second degree.
RELA'TER, noun One who tells, recites or narrates; a historian.
RELA'TING, participle present tense
1. Telling; reciting; narrating.
2. adjective Having relation or reference; concerning.
RELA'TION, noun [Latin relatio, refero.]
1. The act of telling; recital; account; narration; narrative of facts; as a historical relation We listened to the relation of his adventures.
2. Respect; reference; regard.
I have been importuned to make some observations on this art, in relation to its agreement with poetry.
3. Connection between things; mutual respect, or what one thing is with regard to another; as the relation of a citizen to the state; the relation of a subject to the supreme authority; the relation of husband and wife, or of master and servant; the relation of a state of probation to a state of retribution.
4. Kindred; alliance; as the relation of parents and children.
Relations dear, and all the charities of father, son and brother, first were known.
5. A person connected by consanguinity or affinity; a kinsman or kinswoman. He passed a month with his relations in the country.
6. Resemblance of phenomena; analogy.
7. In geometry, ratio; proportion.
RELA'TIONAL, adjective Having relation or kindred.
We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems.
RELA'TIONSHIP, noun The state of being related by kindred, affinity or other alliance.
[This word is generally tautological and useless.]
REL'ATIVE, adjective [Latin relativus.]
1. Having relation; respecting. The arguments may be good, but they are not relative to the subject.
2. Not absolute or existing by itself; considered as belonging to or respecting something else.
Every thing sustains both an absolute and a relative capacity; an absolute, as it is such a thing, endued with such a nature; and a relative as it is a part of the universe, and so stands in such a relation to the whole.
3. Incident to man in society; as relative rights and duties.
4. Particular; positive. [Not in use.]
Relative made, in music, the mode which the composer interweaves with the principal mode in the flow of the harmony.
Relative terms, in logic, terms which imply relation, as guardian and ward; master and servant; husband and wife.
Relative word, in grammar, a word which relates to another word, called its antecedent, or to a sentence or member of a sentence, or to a series of sentences.
REL'ATIVE, noun
1. A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
Confining our care either to ourselves and relatives.
2. That which has relation to something else.
3. In grammar, a word which relates to or represents another word, called its antecedent, or to a sentence or member of a sentence, or to a series of sentences, which constitutes its antecedent. 'He seldom lives frugally, who lives by chance.' Here who is the relative which represents he, the antecedent.
'Judas declared him innocent, which he could not be, had he deceived his disciples.' Here which refers to innocent, an adjective, as its antecedent.
'Another reason that makes me doubt of any innate practical principles is, that I think there cannot any one moral rule be proposed, whereof a man may not justly demand a reason; which would be perfectly ridiculous and absurd, if they were innate, or so much as self-evident, which every innate principle must needs be.'
If we ask the question, what would be ridiculous and absurd, the answer must be, whereof a man may justly demand a reason, and this part of the sentence is the antecedent to which. Self-evident is the antecedent to which, near the close of the sentence.
REL'ATIVELY, adverb In relation or respect to something else; not absolutely.
Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively
REL'ATIVENESS, noun The state of having relation.
RELA'TOR, noun , In law, one who brings an information in the nature of a quo warranto.
RELAX', verb transitive [Latin relaxo; re and laxo, to slacken.]
1. To slacken; to make less tense or rigid; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews; to relax the reins in riding.
2. To loosen; to make less close or firm; as, to relax the joints.
3. To make less severe or rigorous; to remit or abate in strictness; as, to relax a law or rule of justice; to relax a demand.
4. To remit or abate in attention, assiduity or labor; as, to relax study; to relax exertions or efforts.
5. To unbend; to ease; to relieve from close attention; as, conversation relaxes the student or the mind.
6. To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, medicines relax the bowels.
7. To open; to loose.
8. To make languid.
RELAX', verb intransitive
1. To abate in severity; to become more mild or less rigorous.
In others she relax'd again, and govern'd with a looser rein.
2. To remit in close attention. It is useful for the student to relax often, and give himself to exercise and amusements.
RELAX', noun Relaxation. [Not used.]
RELAX'ABLE, adjective That may be remitted.
RELAXA'TION, noun [Latin relaxatio.]
1. The act of slackening or remitting tension; as a relaxation of the muscles, fibers or nerves; a relaxation of the whole system.
2. Cessation of restraint.
3. Remission or abatement of rigor; as a relaxation of the law.
4. Remission of attention or application; as a relaxation of mind, study or business.
5. An opening or loosening.
RELAX'ATIVE, adjective Having the quality of relaxing. [See Laxative.]
RELAX'ED, participle passive Slackened; loosened; remitted or abated in rigor or in closeness; made less vigorous; languid.
RELAX'ING, participle present tense Slackening; loosening; remitting or abating in rigor, severity or attention; rendering languid.
RELA'Y, noun
1. A supply of horses placed on the road to be in readiness to relieve others, that a traveler may proceed without delay.
2. Hunting dogs kept in readiness at certain places to pursue the game, when the dogs that have been in pursuit are weary.
RELA'Y, verb transitive [re and lay.] To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.
RELA'YING, participle present tense Laying a second time.
RELE'ASE, verb transitive
1. To set free from restraint of any kind, either physical or moral; to liberate from prison, confinement or servitude.
Matthew 15:1. Mark 15:9.
2. To free from pain, care, trouble, grief, etc.
3. To free from obligation or penalty; as, to release one from debt, from a promise or covenant.
4. To quit; to let go, as a legal claim; as, to release a debt or forfeiture. Deuteronomy 15:1.
5. To discharge or relinquish a right to lands or tenements, by conveying it to another that has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; when one co-parcener releases his right to the other; or the mortgagee releases his claim to the mortgager.
6. To relax. [Not in use.]
RELE'ASE, noun
1. Liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.
2. Liberation from care, pain or any burden.
3. Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty or claim of any kind; acquittance.
4. In law, a release or deed of release is a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim. The efficient words in such an instrument are, 'remised, released, and forever quitclaimed.'
RELE'ASED, participle passive Set free from confinement; freed from obligation or liability; freed from pain; quitclaimed.
RELE'ASEMENT, noun The act of releasing from confinement or obligation.
RELE'ASER, noun One who releases.
RELE'ASING, participle present tense Liberating from confinement or restraint; freeing from obligation or responsibility, or from pain or other evil; quitclaiming.
REL'EGATE, verb transitive [Latin relego; re and lego, to send.] To banish; to send into exile.
REL'EGATED, participle passive Sent into exile.
REL'EGATING, participle present tense Banishing.
RELEGA'TION, noun [Latin relegatio.] The act of banishment; exile.
RELENT', verb intransitive [Latin blandus, which unites the Latin blandus with lentus. The English is from re and Latin lentus, gentle, pliant, slow, the primary sense of which is soft or yielding. The Latin lenis is probably of the same family. See Bland.]
1. To soften; to become less rigid or hard; to give.
In some houses, sweetmeats will relent more than in others.
When op'ning buds salute the welcome day, and earth relenting feels the genial ray.
[This sense of the word is admissible in poetry, but is not in common use.]
2. To grow moist; to deliquesce; applied to salts; as the relenting of the air.
Salt of tartar - placed in a cellar, will begin to relent
[This sense is not in use.]
3. To become less intense. [Little used.]
4. To soften in temper; to become more mild and tender; to feel compassion. [This is the usual sense of the word.]
Can you behold my tears, and not once relent?
RELENT', verb transitive
1. To slacken.
And oftentimes he would relent his pace. obsolete
2. To soften; to mollify. obsolete
RELENT', participle passive Dissolved. obsolete
RELENT', noun Remission; stay. obsolete
RELENT'ING, participle present tense Softening in temper; becoming more mild or compassionate.
RELENT'ING, noun The act of becoming more mild or compassionate.
RELENT'LESS, adjective Unmoved by pity unpitying; insensible to the distress of others; destitute of tenderness; as a pray to relentless despotism.
For this th' avenging pow'r employs his darts,
Thus will persist relentless in his ire.
Relentless thoughts, in Milton, may signify unremitted, intently fixed on disquieting objects.
[This sense of the word is unusual and not to be countenanced.]
RELESSEE', noun [See Release.] The person to whom a release is executed.
RELESSOR', noun The person who executes a release.
There must be a privity of estate between the relessor and release.
REL'EVANCE,
REL'EVANCY, noun [See Relevant.]
1. The state of being relevant, or of affording relief or aid.
2. Pertinence; applicableness.
3. In Scots law, sufficiency to infer the conclusion.
REL'EVANCY, n. [See Relevant.]
1. The state of being relevant, or of affording relief or aid.2. Pertinence; applicableness.3. In Scots law, sufficiency to infer the conclusion.REL'EVANT, adjective [Latin relever, to relieve, to advance, to raise; re and lever, to raise.]
1. Relieving; lending aid or support.
2. Pertinent; applicable. The testimony is not relevant to the case. The argument is not relevant to the question. [This is the sense in which the word is now generally used.]
3. Sufficient to support the cause.
RELEVA'TION, noun A raising or lifting up. [Not in use.]
RELI'ANCE, noun [from rely.] Rest or repose of mind, resulting from a full belief of the veracity or integrity of a person, or of the certainty of a fact; trust; confidence; dependence. We may have perfect reliance on the promises of God; we have reliance on the testimony of witnesses; we place reliance on men of known integrity, or on the strength and stability of government.
REL'IC, noun [Latin reliquiae, from relinquo, to leave; re and linquo.]
1. That which remains; that which is left after the loss or decay of the rest; as the relics of a town; the relics of magnificence; the relics of antiquity. The relics of saints, real or pretended, are held in great veneration by the catholics.
2. The body of a deceased person; a corpse. [Usually in the plural.]
REL'ICT, noun [Latin relictus, relicta, from relinquo, to leave.]
A widow; a woman whose husband is dead.
RELIE'F, noun
1. The removal, in whole or in part, of any evil that afflicts the body of mind; the removal or alleviation of pain, grief, want, care, anxiety, toil or distress, or of any thing oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained. Rest gives relief to the body when weary; an anodyne gives relief from pain; the sympathy of friends affords some relief to the distressed; a loan of money to a man embarrassed may afford him a temporary relief; medicines which will not cure a disease, sometimes give a partial relief A complete relief from the troubles of life is never to be expected.
2. That which mitigates or removes pain, grief or other evil.
3. The dismission of a sentinel from his post, whose place is supplied by another soldier; also, the person who takes his place.
4. In sculpture, etc. the projecture or prominence of a figure above or beyond the ground or plane on which it is formed. relief is of three kinds; high relief [alto relievo; ] low relief [basso relievo; ] and demi relief [demi relievo.] The difference is in the degree of projecture. High relief is formed from nature, as when a figure projects as much as the life. Low relief is when the figure projects but little, as in medals, festoons, foliages and other ornaments. Demi relief is when one half of the figure rises from the plane.
5. In painting, the appearance of projection, or the degree of boldness which a figure exhibits to the eye at a distance.
6. In feudal law, a fine or composition which the heir of a tenant, holding by knight's service or other tenure, paid to the lord at the death of the ancestor, for the privilege of taking up the estate which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant. This relief consisted of horses, arms, money and the like, the amount of which was originally arbitrary, but afterwards fixed at a certain rate by law. It is not payable, unless the heir at the death of his ancestor had attained to the age of twenty one years.
7. A remedy, partial or total, for any wrong suffered; redress; indemnification. He applied to chancery, but could get no relief He petitioned the legislature and obtained relief
8. The exposure of any thing by the proximity of something else.
RELI'ER, noun [from rely.] One who relies, or places full confidence in.
RELIE'VABLE, adjective Capable of being relieved; that may receive relief.
RELIE'VE, verb transitive [Latin relevo. See Relief.]
1. To free, wholly or partially, from pain, grief, want, anxiety, care, toil, trouble, burden, oppression or any thing that is considered to be an evil; to ease of any thing that pains the body or distresses the mind. Repose relieves the wearied body; a supply of provisions relieves a family in want; medicines may relieve the sick man, even when they do not cure him. We all desire to be relieved from anxiety and from heavy taxes. Law or duty, or both, require that we should relieve the poor and destitute.
2. To alleviate or remove; as when we say, to relieve pain or distress; to relieve the wants of the poor.
3. To dismiss from a post or station, as sentinels, a guard or ships, and station others in their place. Sentinels are generally relieved every two hours; a guard is usually relieved once in twenty four hours.
4. To right; to ease of any burden, wrong or oppression by judicial or legislative interposition, by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses and the like.
5. To abate the inconvenience of any thing by change, or by the interposition of something dissimilar. The moon relieves the luster of the sun with a milder light.
The poet must not encumber his poem with, too much business, but sometimes relieve the subject with a moral reflection.
6. To assist; to support.
Parallels or like relations alternately relieve each other; when neither will pass asunder, yet are they plausible together.
RELIE'VED, participle passive
1. Freed from pain or other evil; eased or cured; aided; succored; dismissed from watching.
2. Alleviated or removed; as pain or distress.
RELIE'VER, noun One that relieves; he or that which gives ease.
RELIE'VING, participle present tense Removing pain or distress, or abating the violence of it; easing; curing; assisting; dismissing from a post, as a sentinel; supporting.
RELIE'VO, noun Relief; prominence of figures in statuary, architecture, etc.; apparent prominence of figures in painting.
RELIGHT, verb transitive reli'te. [re and light.]
1. To light anew; to illuminate again.
2. To rekindle; to set on fire again.
RELIGHTED, participle passive Lighted anew; rekindled.
RELIGHTING, participle present tense Lighting again; rekindling.
RELIGION, noun relij'on. [Latin religio, from religo, to bind anew; re and ligo, to bind. This word seems originally to have signified an oath or vow to the gods, or the obligation of such an oath or vow, which was held very sacred by the Romans.]
1. religion in its most comprehensive sense, includes a belief in the being and perfections of God, in the revelation of his will to man, in man's obligation to obey his commands, in a state of reward and punishment, and in man's accountableness to God; and also true godliness or piety of life, with the practice of all moral duties. It therefore comprehends theology, as a system of doctrines or principles, as well as practical piety; for the practice of moral duties without a belief in a divine lawgiver, and without reference to his will or commands, is not religion
2. religion as distinct from theology, is godliness or real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men, in obedience to divine command, or from love to God and his law. James 1:26.
3. religion as distinct from virtue, or morality, consists in the performance of the duties we owe directly to God, from a principle of obedience to his will. Hence we often speak of religion and virtue, as different branches of one system, or the duties of the first and second tables of the law.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion
4. Any system of faith and worship. In this sense, religion comprehends the belief and worship of pagans and Mohammedans, as well as of christians; any religion consisting in the belief of a superior power or powers governing the world, and in the worship of such power or powers. Thus we speak of the religion of the Turks, of the Hindoos, of the Indians, etc. as well as of the christian religion We speak of false religion as well as of true religion
5. The rites of religion; in the plural.
RELIG'IONARY, adjective Relating to religion; pious. [Not used.]
RELIG'IONIST, noun A bigot to any religious persuasion.
RELIG'IOUS, adjective [Latin religiosus.]
1. Pertaining or relating to religion; as a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects.
2. Pious; godly; loving and reverencing the Supreme Being and obeying his precepts; as a religious man.
3. Devoted to the practice of religion; as a religious life.
4. Teaching religion; containing religious subject or the doctrines and precepts of religion, or the discussion of topics of religion; as a religious book.
5. Exact; strict; such as religion requires; as a religious observance of vows or promises.
6. Engaged by vows to a monastic life; as a religious order or fraternity.
7. Appropriated to the performance of sacred or religious duties; as a religious house.
RELIG'IOUS, noun A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concerns and devoted to a life of piety and devotion; a monk or friar; a nun.
RELIG'IOUSLY, adverb
1. Piously; with love and reverence to the Supreme Being; in obedience to the divine commands.
2. According to the rites of religion.
3. Reverently; with veneration.
4. Exactly; strictly; conscientiously; as a vow or promise religiously observed.
RELIG'IOUSNESS, noun The quality or state of being religious.
RELIN'QUISH, verb transitive [Latin relinquo, re and linquo, to leave, to fail or faint; from the same root as liqueo, liquo, to melt or dissolve, deliquium, a fainting. Hence the sense is to withdraw or give way; to relinquish is to recede from.]
1. To withdraw from; to leave; to quit. It may be to forsake or abandon, but it does not necessarily express the sense of the latter. A man may relinquish an enterprise for a time, or with a design never to resume it. In general, to relinquish is to leave without the intention of resuming, and equivalent to forsake, but is less emphatical than abandon and desert.
They placed Irish tenants on the lands relinquished by the English.
2. To forbear; to withdraw from; as, to relinquish the practice of intemperance; to relinquish the rites of a church.
3. To give up; to renounce a claim to; as, to relinquish a debt.
To relinquish back, or to, to give up; to release; to surrender; as, to relinquish a claim to another.
RELIN'QUISHED, participle passive Left; quitted; given up.
RELIN'QUISHER, noun One who leaves or quits.
RELIN'QUISHING, participle present tense Quitting; leaving; giving up.
RELIN'QUISHMENT, noun The act of leaving or quitting; a forsaking; the renouncing a claim to.
REL'IQUARY, noun [Latin relinquo.]
A depository for relics; a casket in which relics are kept.
RELIQ'UIDATE, verb transitive [re and liquidate.]
To liquidate anew; to adjust a second time.
RELIQ'UIDATED, participle passive Liquidated again.
RELIQ'UIDATING, participle present tense Liquidating again.
RELIQUIDA'TION, noun A second or renewed liquidation; a renewed adjustment.
REL'ISH, noun
1. Taste; or rather, a pleasing taste; that sensation of the organs which is experienced when we take food or drink of an agreeable flavor. Different persons have different relishes. relish is often natural, and often the effect of habit.
2. Liking; delight; appetite.
We have such a relish for faction, as to have lost that of wit.
3. Sense; the faculty of perceiving excellence; taste; as a relish for fine writing, or a relish of fine writing. Addison uses both of and for after relish
4. That which gives pleasure; the power of pleasing.
When liberty is gone, life grows insipid and has lost its relish
5. Cast; manner.
It preserves some relish of old writing.
6. Taste; a small quantity just perceptible.
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them.
REL'ISH, verb transitive
1. To give an agreeable taste to.
A sav'ry bit that serv'd to relish wine.
2. To like the taste of; as, to relish venison.
3. To be gratified with the enjoyment or use of.
He knows how to prize his advantages and to relish the honors which he enjoys.
Men of nice palates would not relish Aristotle, as dressed up by the schoolmen.
REL'ISH, verb intransitive
1. To have a pleasing taste. The greatest dainties do not always relish
2. To give pleasure.
Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits.
3. To have a flavor.
A theory which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature.
REL'ISHABLE, adjective Gustable; having an agreeable taste.
REL'ISHED, participle passive Giving an agreeable taste; received with pleasure.
RELIVE, verb intransitive reliv'. [re and live.] To live again; to revive.
RELIVE, verb transitive reliv'. To recall to life. [Not in use.]
RELOAN, verb transitive [re and loan.] To loan again; to lend what has been lent and repaid.
RELOAN, noun A second lending of the same money.
RELOANED, participle passive Loaned again.
RELOANING, participle present tense Loaning again.
RELOVE, verb transitive [re and love.] To love in return. [Not in use.]
RELU'CENT, adjective [Latin relucens, relucco; re and lucco, to shine.]
Shining; transparent; clear; pellucid; as a relucent stream.
RELUCT', verb intransitive [Latin reluctor; re and luctor, to struggle.] To strive or struggle against. [Little used.]
RELUCT'ANCE,
RELUCT'ANCY, noun [literally a straining or striving against.]
Unwillingness; great opposition of mind; repugnance; with to or against; as, to undertake a war with reluctance He has a great reluctance to this measure.
Bear witness, heav'n with what reluctancy her helpless innocence I doom to die.
RELUCT'ANCY, n. [literally a straining or striving against.]
Unwillingness; great opposition of mind; repugnance; with to or against; as, to undertake a war with reluctance. He has a great reluctance to this measure.Bear witness, heav'n with what reluctancy her helpless innocence I doom to die.RELUCT'ANT, adjective
1. Striving against; unwilling; much opposed in heart.
Reluctant now I touch'd the trembling string.
2. Unwilling; acting with slight repugnance; coy.
3. Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as reluctant obedience.
RELUCT'ANTLY, adverb With opposition of heart; unwillingly. What is undertaken reluctantly is seldom well performed.
RELUCT'ATE, verb transitive To resist; to struggle against.
RELUCTA'TION, noun Repugnance; resistance.
RELUCT'ING, participle present tense
1. Striving to resist.
2. adjective Averse; unwilling.
RELU'ME, verb transitive [Latin re and lumen, light.] To rekindle; to light again.
RELU'MED, participle passive Rekindled; lighted again.
RELU'MINE, verb transitive [re and lumino; re and lumen, light, from lucco, to shine.]
1. To light anew; to rekindle.
2. To illuminate again.
RELU'MINED, participle passive Rekindled; illuminated anew.
RELU'MING, participle present tense Kindling or lighting anew.
RELU'MINING, participle present tense Rekindling; enlightening anew.
RELY', verb intransitive [re and lie, or from the root of lie, lay.]
To rest on something, as the mind when satisfied of the veracity, integrity or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence in; to trust in; to depend; with on. We rely on the promise of a man who is known to be upright; we rely on the veracity or fidelity of a tried friend; a prince relies on the affections of his subjects for support, and on the strength of his army for success in war; above all things, we rely on the mercy and promises of God. That which is the ground of confidence, is a certainty or full conviction that satisfies the mind and leaves it at rest, or undisturbed by doubt.
Because thou has relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the Lord thy God - 2 Chronicles 16:8.
RELY'ING, participle present tense Reposing on something, as the mind; confiding in; trusting in; depending.
REMA'DE, preterit tense and participle passive of remake.
REMA'IN, verb intransitive [Latin remaneo; re and maneo, Gr.]
1. To continue; to rest or abide in a place for a time indefinite. They remained a month in Rome. We remain at an inn for a night, for a week, or a longer time.
Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown. Genesis 38:11.
2. To be left after others have withdrawn; to rest or abide in the same place when others remove, or are lost, destroyed or taken away.
Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. Genesis 7:23.
3. To be left after a part or others have past. Let our remaining time or years be employed in active duties.
4. To continue unchanged, or in a particular state. He remains stupid; he remains in a low state of health.
5. Not to be lost; not to escape; not to be forgotten.
All my wisdom remained with me.
6. To be left, out of a greater number or quantity. Part of the debt is paid; that which remains will be on interest.
That which remaineth over, lay up for you to be kept till the morning. Exodus 16:23.
7. To be left as not included or comprised. There remains one argument which has not been considered.
That an elder brother has power over his brethren, remains to be proved.
8. To continue in the same state.
Children thou art, childless remain
REMA'IN, verb transitive To await; to be left to; as, the easier conquest now remains thee. [This is elliptical for remains to thee. remain is not properly a transitive verb.]
REMA'IN, noun That which is left; a corpse; also, abode. [Not used.]
REMA'INDER, noun
1. Any thing left after the separation and removal of a part.
If these decoctions be repeated till the water comes off clear, the remainder yields no salt.
The last remainders of unhappy Troy.
2. Relics; remains; the corpse of a human being. [Not now used.]
3. That which is left after a part is past; as the remainder of the day or week; the remainder of the year; the remainder of life.
4. The sum that is left after subtraction or after any deduction.
5. In law, an estate limited to take effect and be enjoyed after another estate is determined. A grants land to B for twenty years; remainder to D in fee. If a man by deed or will limits his books or furniture to A for life, with remainder to B, this remainder is good.
A writ of formedon in remainder is a writ which lies where a man gives lands to another for life or in tail, with remainder to a third person in tail or in fee, and he who has the particular estate dies without issue heritable, and a stranger intrudes upon him in remainder and keeps him out of possession; in this case, the remainder-man shall have his writ of formedon in the remainder
REMA'INDER, adjective Remaining; refuse; left; as the remainder biscuit; the remainder viands. obsolete
REMA'INING, participle present tense Continuing; resting; abiding for an indefinite time; being left after separation and removal of a part, or after loss or destruction, or after a part is passed, as of time.
REMA'INS, noun plural
1. That which is left after a part is separated, taken away or destroyed; as the remains of a city or house demolished.
2. A dead body; a corpse.
The singular, remain, in the like sense, and in the sense of abode, is entirely obsolete.
REMA'KE, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive remade. [re and make.] To make anew.
REM'AND, verb transitive [Latin re and mando.]
To call or send back him or that which is ordered to a place; as, to remand an officer from a distant place; to remand an envoy from a foreign court.
REM'ANDED, participle passive Called or sent back.
REM'ANDING, participle present tense Calling or sending back.
REM'ANENT, noun [Latin remanens.] The part remaining. [Little used. It is contracted into remnant.]
REM'ANENT, adjective Remaining. [little used.]
REM'ARK, noun Notice or observation, particularly notice or observation expressed in words or writing; as the remarks of an advocate; the remarks made in conversation; the judicious or the uncandid remarks of a critic. A remark is not always expressed, for we say, a man makes his remarks on a preacher's sermon while he is listening to it. In this case the notice is silent, a mere act of the mind.
REM'ARK, verb transitive
1. To observe; to note in the mind; to take notice of without expression. I remarked the manner of the speaker; I remarked his elegant expressions.
2. To express in words or writing what one thinks or sees; to express observations; as, it is necessary to repeat what has been before remarked.
3. To mark; to point out; to distinguish. [Not in use.]
His manacles remark him.
REM'ARKABLE, adjective
1. Observable; worthy of notice.
'Tis remarkable that they talk most, who have the least to say.
2. Extraordinary; unusual; that deserves particular notice, or that may excite admiration or wonder; as the remarkable preservation of lives in shipwreck. The dark day in May, 1790, was a remarkable phenomenon.
REM'ARKABLENESS, noun Observableness; worthiness of remark; the quality of deserving particular notice.
REM'ARKABLY, adverb
1. In a manner or degree worthy of notice; as, the winters of 1825, 1826 and 1828 were remarkably free from snow. The winter of 1827 was remarkable for a great quantity of snow.
2. In an extraordinary manner.
REM'ARKED, participle passive Noticed; observed; expressed in words or writing.
REM'ARKER, noun An observer; one who makes remarks.
REM'ARKING, participle present tense Observing; taking notice of; expressing in words or writing.
REMAR'RIED, participle passive Married again or a second time.
REMAR'RY, verb transitive [re and marry.] To marry again or a second time.
REMAR'RYING, participle present tense Marrying again or a second time.
REMAS'TICATE, verb transitive [re and masticate.] To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as in chewing the cud.
REMAS'TICATED, participle passive Chewed again or repeatedly.
REMAS'TICATING, participle present tense Chewing again or over and over.
REMASTICA'TION, noun The act of masticating again or repeatedly.
REME'DIABLE, adjective [from remedy.] That may be remedied or cured. The evil is believed to be remediable
REME'DIAL, adjective [Latin remedialis.] Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal of an evil.
The remedial part of law is so necessary a consequence of the declaratory and directory, that laws without it must be very vague and imperfect. Statutes are declaratory of remedial
REME'DIATE, in the sense of remedial, is not in use.
REM'EDIED, participle passive [from remedy.] Cured; healed; repaired.
REMED'ILESS, adjective [In modern books, the accent is placed on the first syllable, which would be well if there were no derivatives; but remedilessly, remedilessness, require the accent on the second syllable.]
1. Not admitting a remedy; incurable; desperate; as a remediless disease.
2. Irreparable; as, a loss or damage is remediless
3. Not admitting change or reversal; as a remediless doom.
4. Not admitting recovery; as a remediless delusion.
REMED'ILESSLY, adverb In a manner or degree that precludes a remedy.
REMED'ILESSNESS, noun Incurableness.
REM'EDY, noun [Latin remedium; re and medeor, to heal.]
1. That which cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; with for; as a remedy for the gout.
2. That which counteracts an evil of any kind; with for, to or against; usually with for. Civil government is the remedy for the evils of natural liberty. What remedy can be provided for extravagance in dress? The man who shall invent an effectual remedy for intemperance, will deserve every thing from his fellow men.
3. That which cures uneasiness.
Our griefs how swift, our remedies how slow.
4. That which repairs loss or disaster; reparation.
In the death of a man there is no remedy
REM'EDY, verb transitive
1. To cure; to heal; as, to remedy a disease.
2. To cure; to remove, as an evil; as, to remedy grief; to remedy the evils of a war.
3. To repair; to remove mischief; in a very general sense.
REM'EDYING, participle present tense Curing; healing; removing; restoring from a bad to a good state.
REMELT', verb transitive [re and melt.] To melt a second time.
REMELT'ED, participle passive Melted again.
REMELT'ING, participle present tense Melting again.
REMEM'BER, verb transitive [Low Latin rememoror; re and memoror. See Memory.]
1. To have in the mind an idea which had been in the mind before, and which recurs to the mind without effort.
We are said to remember any thing, when the idea of it arises in the mind with the consciousness that we have had this idea before.
2. When we use effort to recall an idea, we are said to recollect it. This distinction is not always observed. Hence remember is often used as synonymous with recollect, that is, to call to mind. We say, we cannot remember a fact, when we mean, we cannot recollect it.
Remember the days of old. Deuteronomy 32:7.
3. To bear or keep in mind; to attend to.
Remember what I warn thee; shun to taste.
4. To preserve the memory of; to preserve from being forgotten.
Let them have their wages duly paid, and something over to remember me.
5. To mention. [Not in use.]
6. To put in mind; to remind; as, to remember one of his duty. [Not in use.]
7. To think of and consider; to meditate. Psalms 63:6.
8. To bear in mind with esteem; or to reward. Ecclesiastes 9:15.
9. To bear in mind with praise or admiration; to celebrate. 1 Chronicles 16:12.
10. To bear in mind with favor, care, and regard for the safety or deliverance of any one. Psalms 74:2. Genesis 8:1. Genesis 19:29.
11. To bear in mind with intent to reward or punish.
John 10:1. Jeremiah 31:20.
12. To bear in mind with confidence; to trust in. Psa 20.
13. To bear in mind with the purpose of assisting or relieving. Galatians 2:10.
14. To bear in mind with reverence; to obey.
Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Ecclesiastes 12:1.
15. To bear in mind with regard; to keep as sacred; to observe.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Exodus 20:8.
To remember mercy, is to exercise it. Habakkuk 3:2.
REMEM'BERED, participle passive Kept in mind; recollected.
REMEM'BERER, noun One that remembers.
REMEM'BERING, participle present tense Having in mind.
REMEM'BRANCE, noun
1. The retaining or having in mind an idea which had been present before, or an idea which had been previously received from an object when present, and which recurs to the mind afterwards without the presence of its object. Technically, remembrance differs from reminiscence and recollection, as the former implies that an idea occurs to the mind spontaneously, or without much mental exertion. The latter imply the power or the act of recalling ideas which do not spontaneously recur to the
mind.
The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance Psalms 112:6.
Remembrance is when the same idea recurs, without the operation of the like object on the external sensory.
2. Transmission of a fact from one to another.
Titan among the heav'ns th' immortal fact display'd, lest the remembrance of his grief should fall.
3. Account preserved; something to assist the memory.
Those proceedings and remembrances are in the Tower.
4. Memorial.
But in remembrance of so brave a deed, a tomb and funeral honors I decreed.
5. A token by which one is kept in the memory.
Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.
6. Notice of something absent.
Let your remembrance still apply to Banquo.
7. Power of remembering; limit of time within which a fact can be remembered; as when we say, an event took place before our remembrance or since our remembrance
8. Honorable memory. [Not in use.]
9. Admonition.
10. Memorandum; a note to help the memory.
REMEM'BRANCER, noun
1. One that reminds, or revives the remembrance of any thing.
God is present in the consciences of good and bad; he is there a remembrancer to call our actions to mind.
2. An officer in the exchequer of England, whose business is to record certain papers and proceedings, make out processes, etc.; a recorder. The officers bearing this name were formerly called clerks of the remembrance.
REMEM'ORATE, verb intransitive [Latin rememoratus, rememoror.]
To remember; to revive in the memory. [Not in use.]
REMEMORA'TION, noun Remembrance. [Not in use.]
REMER'CIE,
REMER'CY, verb transitive To thank. [Not in use.]
REMER'CY, v.t. To thank. [Not in use.]
REM'IGRATE, verb intransitive [Latin remigro; re and migro, to migrate.]
To remove back again to a former place or state; to return. [See Migrate.]
REMIGRA'TION, noun Removal back again; a migration to a former place.
REMIND, verb transitive [re and mind.]
1. To put in mind; to bring to the remembrance of; as, to remind a person of his promise.
2. To bring to notice or consideration. The infirmities of old age remind us of our mortality.
REMINDED, participle passive Put in mind.
REMINDING, participle present tense Putting in mind; calling attention to.
REMINIS'CENCE, noun [Latin reminiscens, reminiscor, Gr. See Memory.]
1. That faculty of the mind by which ideas formerly received into it, but forgotten, are recalled or revived in the memory.
2. Recollection; recovery of ideas that had escaped from the memory.
REMINISCEN'TIAL, adjective Pertaining to reminiscence or recollection.
REMI'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin remissus, remitto; re and mitto, to send.]
To give or grant back; to release a claim; to resign or surrender by deed. A B hath remised, released, and forever quitclaimed to B C, all his right to the manor of Dale.
REMI'SED, participle passive Released.
REMI'SING, participle present tense Surrendering by deed.
REMISS', adjective [Latin remissus, supra.]
1. Slack; dilatory; negligent; not performing duty or business; not complying with engagements at all, or not in due time; as to be remiss in attendance on official duties; remiss in payment of debts.
2. Slow; slack; languid.
3. Not intense.
These nervous, bold; those languid and remiss
REMISS'IBLE, adjective That may be remitted or forgiven.
REMIS'SION, noun [Latin remissio, from remitto, to send back.]
1. Abatement; relaxation; moderation; as the remission of extreme rigor.
2. Abatement; diminution of intensity; as the remission of the sun's heat; the remission of cold; the remission of close study or of labor.
3. Release; discharge or relinquishment of a claim or right; as the remission of a tax or duty.
4. In medicine, abatement; a temporary subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as distinguished from intermission, in which the disease leaves the patient entirely for a time.
5. Forgiveness; pardon; that is, the giving up of the punishment due to a crime; as the remission of sins. Matthew 26:28. Hebrews 9:22.
6. The act of sending back. [Not in use.]
REMISS'LY, adverb
1. Carelessly; negligently; without close attention.
2. Slowly; slackly; not vigorously; not with ardor.
REMISS'NESS, noun Slackness; slowness; carelessness; negligence; want of ardor or vigor; coldness; want of ardor; want of punctuality; want of attention to any business, duty or engagement in the proper time or with the requisite industry.
REMIT', verb transitive [Latin remitto, to send back; re and mitto, to send.]
1. To relax, as intensity; to make less tense or violent.
So willingly doth God remit his ire.
2. To forgive; to surrender the right of punishing a crime; as, to remit punishment.
3. To pardon, as a fault or crime.
Whose soever sins ye remit they are remitted to them.
John 20:23.
4. To give up; to resign.
In grievous and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince.
5. To refer; as a clause that remitted all to the bishop's discretion.
6. To send back.
The pris'ner was remitted to the guard.
7. To transmit money, bills or other thing in payment for goods received. American merchants remit money, bills of exchange or some species of stock, in payment for British goods.
8. To restore.
In this case, the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right.
REMIT', verb intransitive
1. To slacken; to become less intense or rigorous.
When our passions remit the vehemence of our speech remits too.
So we say, cold or heat remits.
2. To abate in violence for a time, without intermission; as, a fever remits at a certain hour every day.
REMIT'MENT, noun
1. The act of remitting to custody.
2. Forgiveness; pardon.
REMIT'TAL, noun A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as the remittal of the first fruits.
REMIT'TANCE, noun
1. In commerce, the act of transmitting money, bills or the like, to a distant place, in return or payment for goods purchased.
2. The sum or thing remitted in payment.
REMIT'TED, participle passive Relaxed; forgiven; pardoned; sent back; referred; given up; transmitted in payment.
REMIT'TER, noun
1. One who remits, or makes remittance for payment.
2. In law, the restitution of a more ancient and certain right to a person who has right to lands, but is out of possession and hath afterwards the freehold cast upon him by some subsequent defective title, by virtue of which he enters.
3. One that pardons.
REM'NANT, noun [contracted from remanent. See Remain.]
1. Residue; that which is left after the separation, removal or destruction of a part.
The remnant that are left of the captivity. Nehemiah 1:3.
2. That which remains after a part is done, performed, told or passed.
The remnant of my tale is of a length to tire your patience.
Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts.
REM'NANT, adjective Remaining; yet left.
And quiet dedicate her remnant life to the just duties of a humble wife. [Little used.]
REMOD'EL, verb transitive [re and model.] To model or fashion anew.
REMOD'ELED, participle passive Modeled anew.
REMOD'ELING, participle present tense Modeling again.
REMOLD, verb transitive [re and mold.] To mold or shape anew.
REMOLDED, participle passive Molded again.
REMOLDING, participle present tense Molding anew.
REMOLTEN, a or participle passive [re and molten, from melt.] Melted again.
REMON'STRANCE, noun
1. Show; discovery. [Not in use.]
2. Expostulation; strong representation of reasons against a measure, either public or private, and when addressed to a public body, a prince or magistrate, it may be accompanied with a petition or supplication for the removal or prevention of some evil or inconvenience. A party aggrieved presents a remonstrance to the legislature.
3. Pressing suggestions in opposition to a measure or act; as the remonstrances of conscience or of justice.
4. Expostulatory counsel or advice; reproof.
REMON'STRANT, adjective Expostulatory; urging strong reasons against an act.
REMON'STRANT, noun One who remonstrates. The appellation of remonstrants is given to the Arminians who remonstrated against the decisions of the Synod of Dort, in 1618.
REMON'STRATE, verb intransitive [Latin remonstro; re and monstro, to show. See Muster.]
1. To exhibit or present strong reasons against an act, measure of any course of proceedings; to expostulate. Men remonstrate by verbal argument, or by a written exposition of reasons.
2. To suggest urgent reasons in opposition to a measure. conscience remonstrates against a profligate life.
REMON'STRATE, verb transitive To show by a strong representation of reasons.
REMON'STRATING, participle present tense Urging strong reasons against a measure.
REMONSTRA'TION, noun The act of remonstrating. [Little used.]
REMON'STRATOR, noun One who remonstrates.
REM'ORA, noun [Latin from re and moror, to delay.]
1. Delay; obstacle; hinderance. [Not in use.]
2. The sucking fish, a species of Echeneis, which is said to attach itself to the bottom or side of a ship and retard its motion.
REM'ORATE, verb transitive [Latin remoror.] To hinder; to delay. [Not in use.]
REMORD', verb transitive [Latin remordeo; re and mordeo, to gnaw.]
To rebuke; to excite to remorse. [Not in use.]
REMORD', verb intransitive To feel remorse. [Not in use.]
REMORD'ENCY, noun Compunction; remorse.
REMORSE, noun remors'. [Latin remorsus, from remordeo.]
1. The keen pain or anguish excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed.
2. Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.
Curse on th' unpard'ning prince, whom tears can draw to no remorse
[This sense is nearly or quite obsolete.]
REMORS'ED, adjective Feeling remorse or compunction. [Not used.]
REMORSEFUL, adjective remors'ful.
1. Full of remorse.
2. Compassionate; feeling tenderly. [Not in use.]
3. Pitiable. [Not in use.]
REMORSELESS, adjective remors'less. Unpitying; cruel; insensible to distress; as the remorseless deep.
REMORSELESS adversaries.
REMORSELESSLY, adverb remors'lessly. Without remorse.
REMORSELESSNESS, noun remors'lessness. Savage cruelty; insensibility to distress.
REMO'TE, adjective [Latin remotus, removeo; re and moveo, to move.]
1. Distant in place; not near; as a remote country; a remote people.
Give me a life remote from guilty courts.
2. Distant in time, past or future; as remote antiquity. Every man is apt to think the time of his dissolution to be remote
3. Distant; not immediate.
It is not all remote and even apparent good that affects us.
4. Distant; primary; not proximate; as the remote causes of a disease.
5. Alien; foreign; not agreeing with; as a proposition remote from reason.
6. Abstracted; as the mind placed by thought amongst or remote from all bodies.
7. Distant in consanguinity or affinity; as a remote kinsman.
8. Slight; inconsiderable; as a remote analogy between cases; a remote resemblance is form or color.
REMO'TELY, adverb
1. At a distance in space or time; not nearly.
2. At a distance in consanguinity or affinity.
3. Slightly; in a small degree; as, to be remotely affected by an event.
REMO'TENESS, noun
1. State of being distant in space or time; distance; as the remoteness of a kingdom or of a star; the remoteness of the deluge from our age; the remoteness of a future event, of an evil or of success.
2. Distance in consanguinity or affinity.
3. Distance in operation or efficiency; as the remoteness of causes.
4. Slightness; smallness; as remoteness of resemblance.
REMO'TION, noun The act of removing; the state of being removed to a distance. [Little used.]
REMOUNT', verb transitive To mount again; as, to remount a horse.
REMOUNT', verb intransitive To mount again; to reascend.
REMOVABIL'ITY, noun The capacity of being removable from an office or station; capacity of being displaced.
REMOVABLE, adjective [from remove.]
1. That may be removed from an office or station.
Such curate is removable at the pleasure of the rector of the mother church.
2. That may be removed from one place to another.
REMOVAL, noun
1. The act of moving from one place to another for residence; as the removal of a family.
2. The act of displacing from an office or post.
3. The act of curing or putting away; as the removal of a disease.
4. The state of being removed; change of place.
5. The act of putting an end to; as the removal of a grievance.
REMOVE, verb transitive [Latin removeo; re and moveo, to move.]
1. To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner; as, to remove a building.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deuteronomy 19:14.
2. To displace from an office.
3. To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy; as, to remove a disease or complaint.
REMOVE sorrow from thine heart. Ecclesiastes 11:10.
4. To carry from one court to another; as, to remove a cause or suit by appeal.
5. To take from the present state of being; as, to remove one by death.
REMOVE, verb intransitive
1. To change place in any manner.
2. To go from one place to another.
3. To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia.
REMOVE, noun
1. Change of place.
2. Translation of one to the place of another.
3. State of being removed.
4. Act of moving a man in chess or other game.
5. Departure; a going away.
6. The act of changing place; removal.
7. A step in any scale of gradation.
A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
8. Any indefinite distance; as a small or great remove
9. The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet.
10. A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains.
11. Susceptibility of being removed. [Not in use.]
REMOVED, participle passive
1. Changed in place; carried to a distance; displaced from office; placed far off.
2. adjective Remote; separate from others.
REMOVEDNESS, noun State of being removed; remoteness.
REMOVER, noun One that removes; as a remover of landmarks.
REMOVING, participle present tense changing place; carrying or going from one place to another; displacing; banishing.
REMUNERABIL'ITY, noun the capacity of being rewarded.
REMU'NERABLE, adjective [from remunerate.] That may be rewarded; fit or proper to be recompensed.
REMU'NERATE, verb transitive [Latin remunero; re and munero, from munus, a gift.]
to reward; to recompense; to requite; in a good sense; to pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense or other sacrifice; as, to remunerate the troops of an army for their services and sufferings; to remunerate men for labor. the pious usfferer in this life will be remunerated in the life to come.
REMU'NERATED, participle passive Rewarded; compensated.
REMU'NERATING, participle present tense Rewarding; recompensing.
REMUNERA'TION, noun
1. Reward; recompense; the act of paying an equivalent for services, loss or sacrifices.
2. The equivalent given for services, loss or sufferings.
REMU'NERATIVE, adjective Exercised in rewarding; that bestows rewards; as remunerative justice.
REMU'NERATORY, adjective Affording recompense; rewarding.
REMUR'MUR, verb transitive [Latin remurmuro; re and murmuro.]
to utter back in murmurs; to return in murmurs; to repeat in low hoarse sounds.
The trembling trees in every plain and wood, her fate remurmur to the silver flood.
REMUR'MUR, verb intransitive to murmur back; to return or echo in low rumbling sounds.
The realms of Mars remurmur'd all around.
REMUR'MURED, participle passive Uttered back in murmurs.
REMUR'MURING, participle present tense uttering back in low sounds.
RE'NAL, adjective [Latin renalis, from renes, the kidneys.]
Pertaining to the kidneys or reins; as the renal arteries.
REN'ARD, noun a fox; a name used in fables, but not in common discourse.
RENAS'CENCY, noun The state of springing or being produced again.
RENAS'CENT, adjective [Latin renascens, renascor; re and nascor, to be born.]
Springing or rising into being again; reproduced.
RENAS'CIBLE, adjective That may be reproduced; that may spring again into being.
RENAV'IGATE, verb transitive [re and navigate.] To navigate again; as, to renavigate the Pacific ocean.
RENAV'IGATED, participle passive Navigated again; sailed over anew.
RENAV'IGATING, participle present tense Navigating again.
RENCOUN'TER, noun Literally, a meeting of two bodies. Hence,
1. A meeting in opposition or contest.
The jostling chiefs in rude rencounter join.
2. A casual combat; a sudden contest or fight without premeditation; as between individuals or small parties.
3. A casual action; an engagement between armies or fleets.
The confederates should - outnumber the enemy in all rencounters and engagements.
4. Any combat, action or engagement.
RENCOUN'TER, verb transitive
1. To meet unexpectedly without enmity or hostility. [This use is found in some recent publications, but is not common.]
2. To attack hand to hand.
RENCOUN'TER, verb intransitive
1. To meet an enemy unexpectedly.
2. To clash; to come in collision.
3. To skirmish with another.
4. To fight hand to hand.
REND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive rent. [Eng. cranny, Latin crena, Gr.]
1. To separate any substance into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.
An empire from its old foundation rent.
I rend my tresses, and by breast I wound.
Neither rend your clothes, lest ye die. Leviticus 10:6.
2. To separate or part with violence.
I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. 1 Kings 11:11.
To rend the heart, in Scripture, to have bitter sorrow for sin. Joel 2:13.
To rend the heavens, to appear in majesty. Isaiah 64:1.
REND differs somewhat from lacerate. We never say, to lacerate a rock or a kingdom, when we mean to express splitting or division. Lacerate is properly applicable to the tearing off of small pieces of a thing, as to lacerate the body with a whip or scourge; or to the tearing of the flesh or other thing without entire separation.
REND'ER, noun [from rend.] One that tears by violence.
REN'DER, verb transitive [This is probably the Latin reddo, with a casually inserted.]
1. To return; to pay back.
See that none render evil for evil to any man. 1 Thessalonians 5:15.
2. To inflict, as a retribution.
I will render vengeance to my enemies. Deuteronomy 32:41.
3. To give on demand; to give; to assign.
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason. Proverbs 26:16.
4. To make or cause to be, by some influence upon a thing, or by some change; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render him solicitous or cautious; to render a fortress more secure or impregnable; to render a ferocious animal more mild and tractable.
5. To translate, as from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English. We say, to render a word, a sentence a book, or an author into a different language.
6. To surrender; to yield or give up the command or possession of; as, to render one's self to his enemies.
[Less used than surrender.]
7. To afford; to give for use or benefit.
Washington rendered great service to his country.
8. To represent; to exhibit.
He did render him the most unnatural that liv'd amongst men. [Not in use.]
To render back, to return; to restore.
REN'DER, noun
1. A surrender; a giving up.
2. A return; a payment of rent.
In those early times, the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the domains.
3. An account given.
REN'DERABLE, adjective That may be rendered.
REN'DERED, participle passive Returned; paid back; given; assigned; made; translated; surrendered; afforded.
REN'DERING, participle present tense Returning; giving back; assigning; making; translating; surrendering; affording.
REN'DERING, noun Version; translation.
REN'DEZVOUS, noun [This word is anglicized, and may well be pronounced as an English word.]
1. A place appointed for the assembling of troops, or the place where they assemble; or the port or place where ships are ordered to join company.
2. A place of meeting, or a sign that draws men together. [Rarely used.]
3. An assembly; a meeting. [Rarely used.]
REN'DEZVOUS, verb intransitive To assemble at a particular place, as troops.
The place where the Gauls and Bruti had rendezvoused.
REN'DEZVOUS, verb transitive To assemble or bring together at a certain place.
REN'DEZVOUSING, participle present tense Assembling at a particular place.
REN'DIBLE, adjective
1. That may be yielded or surrendered.
2. That may be translated. [little used in either sense.]
RENDI'TION, noun [from render.]
1. The act of yielding possession; surrender.
2. Translation.
REN'EGADE,
RENEGA'DO, noun [Latin re and nego, to deny.]
1. An apostate from the faith.
2. One who deserts to an enemy; a deserter.
3. A vagabond. [This is the sense in which this word is mostly used in popular language.]
RENEGA'DO, n. [L. re and nego, to deny.]
1. An apostate from the faith.2. One who deserts to an enemy; a deserter.3. A vagabond. [This is the sense in which this word is mostly used in popular language.]RENE'GE, verb transitive [Latin renego.] To deny; to disown. obsolete
RENE'GE, verb intransitive To deny. obsolete
RENERVE, verb transitive renerv'. [re and nerve.] To nerve again; to give new vigor to.
RENERV'ED, participle passive Nerved anew.
RENERV'ING, participle present tense Giving new vigor to.
RENEW', verb transitive [Latin renovo; re and novo, or re and new.]
1. To renovate; to restore to a former state, or to a good state, after decay or depravation; to rebuild; to repair.
Asa renewed the altar of the Lord. 2 Chronicles 15:8.
2. To re-establish; to confirm.
Let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there. 1 Samuel 11:14.
3. To make again; as, to renew a treaty or covenant.
4. To repeat; as, to renew expressions of friendship; to renew a promise; to renew an attempt.
5. To revive; as, to renew the glories of an ancestor or of a former age.
6. To begin again.
The last great age renews its finish'd course.
7. To make new; to make fresh or vigorous; as, to renew youth; to renew strength; to renew the face of the earth.
Psalms 103:5. Isaiah 40:31. Psalms 104:30.
8. In theology, to make new; to renovate; to transform; to change from natural enmity to the love of God and his law; to implant holy affections in the heart; to regenerate.
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:1. Ephesians 4:23.
RENEW'ABLE, adjective That may be renewed; as a lease renewable at pleasure.
RENEW'AL, noun
1. The act of renewing; the act of forming anew; as the renewal of a treaty.
2. Renovation; regeneration.
3. Revival; restoration to a former or to a good state.
RENEW'ED, participle passive Made new again; repaired; re-established; repeated; revived; renovated; regenerated.
RENEW'EDNESS, noun State of being renewed.
RENEW'ER, noun One who renews.
RENEW'ING, participle present tense
1. Making new again; repairing; re-establishing; repeating; reviving; renovating.
2. adjective Tending or adapted to renovate.
RENEW'ING, noun The act of making new; renewal.
REN'IFORM, adjective [Latin renes, the kidneys, and form.]
Having the form or shape of the kidneys.
REN'ITENCE,
REN'ITENCY, noun [Latin renitens, renitor, to resist; re and nitor, to struggle or strive.]
1. The resistance of a body to pressure; the effort of matter to resume the place or form from which it has been driven by the impulse of other matter; the effect of elasticity.
2. Moral resistance; reluctance.
We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants.
REN'ITENCY, n. [L. renitens, renitor, to resist; re and nitor, to struggle or strive.]
1. The resistance of a body to pressure; the effort of matter to resume the place or form from which it has been driven by the impulse of other matter; the effect of elasticity.2. Moral resistance; reluctance.We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants.REN'ITENT, adjective Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force.
REN'NET, noun
The concreted milk found in the stomach of a sucking quadruped, particularly of the calf. It is also written runnet, and this is the preferable orthography.
REN'NETING, noun A kind of apple.
RENOUNCE, verb transitive renouns'. [Latin renuncio; re and nuncio, to declare, from the root of nomen, name.]
1. To disown; to disclaim; to reject; as a title or claim; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to; as, to renounce a title to land or a claim to reward; to renounce all pretensions to applause.
2. To deny; to cast off; to reject; to disclaim; as an obligation or duty; as, to renounce allegiance.
3. To cast off or reject, as a connection or possession; to forsake; as, to renounce the world and all its cares.
We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. 2 Corinthians 4:2.
RENOUNCE, verb intransitive renouns'. To declare a renunciation.
He of my sons who falls to make it good, by one rebellious act renounces to my blood. [Not in use.]
RENOUNCE, noun renouns'. The declining to follow suit, when it can be done.
RENOUN'CED, participle passive Disowned; denied; rejected; disclaimed.
RENOUNCEMENT, noun renouns'ment. The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation.
RENOUN'CER, noun One who disowns or disclaims.
RENOUN'CING, participle present tense Disowning; disclaiming; rejecting.
RENOUN'CING, noun The act of disowning, disclaiming, denying or rejecting.
REN'OVATE, verb transitive [Latin renovo; re and novo, to make new; novus, new.]
To renew; to restore to the first state, or to a good state, after decay, destruction or depravation. It is synonymous with renew, except in its fourth definition, supra.
REN'OVATED, participle passive Renewed; made new, fresh or vigorous.
REN'OVATING, participle present tense Renewing.
RENOVA'TION, noun [Latin renovatio.]
1. The act of renewing; a making new after decay, destruction or depravation; renewal; as the renovation of the heart by grace.
There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world.
2. A state of being renewed.
RENOWN', noun
Fame; celebrity; exalted reputation derived from the extensive praise of great achievements or accomplishments.
Giants of old, men of renown Genesis 6:4. Numbers 16:2.
RENOWN', verb transitive To make famous.
Soft elocution does thy style renown
A bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown
[This verb is nearly or quite obsolete.]
RENOWN'ED, adjective Famous; celebrated for great and heroic achievements, for distinguished qualities or for grandeur; eminent; as renowned men; a renowned king; a renowned city.
RENOWN'EDLY, adverb With fame or celebrity.
RENOWN'LESS, adjective Without renown; inglorious.
RENT, participle passive of rend. Torn asunder; split or burst by violence; torn.
RENT, noun [from rend.
1. A fissure; a break or breach made by force; as a rent made in the earth, in a rock or in a garment.
2. A schism; a separation; as a rent in the church.
RENT, verb transitive To tear. [See Rend.]
RENT, verb intransitive To rant. [Not in use.]
RENT, noun
A sum of money, or a certain amount of other valuable thing, issuing yearly from lands or tenements; a compensation or return, in the nature of an acknowledgment, for the possession of a corporeal inheritance.
RENTs, at common law, are of three kinds; rent-service, rent-charge, and rent-seek. Rent-service is when some corporal service is incident to it, as by fealty and a sum of money; rent-charge is when the owner of the rent has no future interest or reversion expectant in the land, but the rent is reserved in the deed by a clause of distress for rent in arrear; rent-seek, dry rent is rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress. There are also rents of assize, certain established rents of free-holders and copy-holders of manors, which cannot be varied; called also quit-rents. These when payable in silver, are called white rents, in contradistinction to rents reserved in work or the baser metals, called black rents, or black mail. Rack-rent is a rent of the full value of the tenement, or near it. A fee farm rent is a rent-charge issuing out of an estate in fee, of at least one fourth of the value of the lands at the time of its reservation.
RENT, verb transitive
1. To lease; to grant the possession and enjoyment of lands or tenements for a consideration in the nature of rent The owner of an estate or house rents it to a tenant for a term of years.
2. To take and hold by lease the possession of land or a tenement, for a consideration in the nature of rent The tenant rents his estate for a year.
RENT, verb intransitive To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate or a tenement rents for five hundred dollars a year.
RENT'ABLE, adjective That may be rented.
RENT'AGE, noun Rent. [Not used.]
RENT'AL, noun A schedule or account of rents.
RENT'ED, participle passive Leased on rent.
RENT'ER, noun One who leases an estate; more generally, the lessee or tenant who takes an estate or tenement on rent.
RENT'ER, verb transitive [Latin retracho, retrahere; re and traho, to draw.]
1. To fine-draw; to sew together the edges of two pieces of cloth without doubling them, so that the seam is scarcely visible.
2. In tapestry, to work new warp into a piece of damaged tapestry, and on this to restore the original pattern or design.
3. To sew up artfully, as a rent.
REN'TERED, participle passive Fine-drawn; sewed artfully together.
REN'TERER, noun a Fine-drawer.
REN'TERING, participle present tense Fine-drawing; sewing artfully together.
RENT'ING, participle present tense Leasing on rent; taking on rent.
RENT'ROLL, noun [rent and roll.] A rental; a list or account of rents or income.
RENUNCIA'TION, noun [Latin renunciatio.] The act of renouncing; a disowning; rejection. [See Renounce.]
RENVERSE, verb transitive renvers'. To reverse. [Not used.]
RENVERSE, adjective renvers'. In heraldry, inverted; set with the head downward or contrary to the natural posture.
RENVERSEMENT, noun renvers'ment. The act of reversing. [Not in use.]
REOBTA'IN, verb transitive [re and obtain.] To obtain again.
REOBTA'INABLE, adjective That may be obtained again.
REOBTA'INED, participle passive Obtained again.
REOBTA'INING, participle present tense Obtaining again.
REOPPO'SE, verb transitive s as z. To oppose again.
REORDA'IN, verb transitive [re and ordain.]
To ordain again, as when the first ordination is defective.
REORDA'INED, participle passive Ordained again.
REORDA'INING, participle present tense Ordaining again.
REORDINA'TION, noun A second ordination.
REORGANIZA'TION, noun The act of organizing anew; as repeated reorganization of the troops.
REOR'GANIZE, verb transitive [re and organize.] To organize anew; to reduce again to a regular body, or to a system; as, to reorganize a society or an army.
REOR'GANIZED, participle passive Organized anew.
REOR'GANIZING, participle present tense Organizing anew.
REPAC'IFIED, participle passive Pacified or appeased again.
REPAC'IFY, verb transitive [re and pacify.] To pacify again.
REPAC'IFYING, participle present tense Pacifying again.
REPACK', verb transitive [re and pact.] To pack a second time; as, to repack beef or pork.
REPACK'ED, participle passive Packed again.
REPACK'ER, noun One that repacks.
REPACK'ING, participle present tense Packing anew.
REPAND', adjective [Latin repandus.] In botany, a repand leaf is one, the rim of which is terminated by angles having sinuses between them, inscribed in the segment of a circle; or which has a bending or waved margin, without any angles; of which is bordered with numerous minute angles and small segments of circles alternately.
REPAND'OUS, adjective [supra.] Bent upwards; convexedly crooked.
REP'ARABLE, adjective [Latin reparabilis. See Repair.]
1. That may be repaired or restored to a sound or good state; as, a house or wall is not reparable
2. That may be retrieved or made good; as, the loss is reparable
3. That may be supplied by an equivalent; as a reparable injury.
REP'ARABLY, adverb In a manner admitting of restoration to a good state, or of amends, supply or indemnification.
REPARA'TION, noun
1. That act of repairing; restoration to soundness or a good state; as the reparation of a bridge or of a highway.
2. Supply of what is wasted; as the reparation of decaying health or strength after disease or exhaustion.
3. Amends; indemnification for loss or damage. A loss may be too great for reparation
4. Amends; satisfaction for injury.
I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.
REPAR'ATIVE, adjective That repairs; restoring to a sound or good state; that amends defect or makes good.
REPAR'ATIVE, noun That which restores to a good state; that which makes amends.
REPARTEE', noun
A smart, ready and witty reply.
Cupid was as bad as he; hear but the youngster's repartee
REPARTEE', verb intransitive To make smart and witty replies.
REP'ASS, verb transitive
To pass again; to pass or travel back; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.
REP'ASS, verb intransitive To pass or go back; to move back; as troops passing and repassing before our eyes.
REP'ASSED, participle passive Passed or traveled back.
REP'ASSING, participle present tense Passing back.
REP'AST, noun [Latin re and pasco, to feed.]
1. The act of taking food; or the food taken; a meal.
From dance to sweet repast they turn.
A repast without luxury.
2. Good; victuals.
Go, and get me some repast
REP'AST, verb transitive To feed; to feast.
REP'ASTURE, noun Food; entertainment. [not in use.]
REPE'AL, verb transitive [Latin appello; ad and pello.]
1. To recall. [Obsolete as it respects persons.]
2. To recall, as a deed, will, law or statute; to revoke; to abrogate by an authoritative act, or by the same power that made or enacted; as, the legislature may repeal at one session, a law enacted at a preceding one.
REPE'AL, noun
1. Recall from exile. [Not in use.]
2. Revocation; abrogation; as the repeal of a statute.
REPEALABIL'ITY, noun The quality of being repealable.
REPEA'LABLE, adjective Capable of being repealed; revocable by the same power that enacted. It is held as a sound principle, that charters or grants which vest rights in individuals or corporations, are not repealable without the consent of the grantees, unless a clause reserving the right is inserted in the act.
REPE'ALED, participle passive Revoked; abrogated.
REPE'ALER, noun One that repeals.
REPE'ALING, participle present tense Revoking; abrogating.
REPE'AT, verb transitive [Latin repeto; re and peto, to make at or drive towards. this verb ought to be written repete, in analogy with compete, and with repetition.]
1. To do, make, attempt or utter again; to iterate; as, to repeat an action; to repeat an attempt or exertion; to repeat a word or discourse; to repeat a song; to repeat an argument.
2. To try again.
I the danger will repeat
3. to recite; to rehearse.
He repeated some lines of Virgil.
To repeat signals, in the navy, is to make the same signal which the admiral or commander has made, or to make a signal again.
REPE'AT, noun
1. In music, a mark directing a part to be repeated in performance.
2. Repetition.
REPE'ATED, participle passive done, attempted or spoken again; recited.
REPE'ATEDLY, adverb More than once; again and again, indefinitely. He has been repeatedly warned of his danger.
REPE'ATER, noun
1. One that repeats; one that recites or rehearses.
2. A watch that strikes the hours at will, by the compression of a spring.
REPE'ATING, participle present tense Doing or uttering again.
REPEDA'TION, noun [Low Latin repedo; re and pes, the foot.] A stepping or going back. [Not in use.]
REPEL', verb transitive [Latin repello; re and pello, to drive.]
1. to drive back; to force to return; to check advance; as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
Hippomedon repell'd the hostile tide.
And virtue may repel though not invade.
2. To resist; to oppose; as, to repel an argument.
REPEL', verb intransitive
1. To act with force in opposition to force impressed. Electricity sometimes attracts and sometimes repels.
2. In medicine, to check an afflux to a part of the body.
REPEL'LED, participle passive Driven back; resisted.
REPEL'LENCY, noun
1. The principle of repulsion; the quality of a substance which expands or separates particles and enlarges the volume; as the repellency of heat.
2. The quality that repels, drives back or resists approach; as the repellency of the electric fluid.
3. Repulsive quality.
REPEL'LENT, adjective Driving back; able or tending to repel.
REPEL'LENT, noun In medicine, a medicine which drives back morbid humors into the mass of the blood, from which they were unduly secreted; or which prevents such an afflux of fluid to a part, as would raise it to a tumor; a discutient.
REPEL'LER, noun He or that which repels.
REPEL'LING, participle present tense Driving back; resisting advance or approach effectually.
RE'PENT, adjective [Latin repo, to creep.] Creeping; as a repent root.
REPENT', verb intransitive [Latin re and paeniteo, from paena, pain. Gr. See Pain.]
1. To feel pain, sorrow or regret for something done or spoken; as, to repent that we have lost much time in idleness or sensual pleasure; to repent that we have injured or wounded the feelings of a friend. A person repents only of what he himself has done or said.
2. To express sorrow for something past.
Enobarbus did before thy face repent
3. To change the mind in consequence of the inconvenience or injury done by past conduct.
Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return. Exodus 13:17.
4. Applied to the Supreme Being, to change the course of providential dealings. Genesis 6:7. Psalms 106:45.
5. In theology, to sorrow or be pained for sin, as a violation of God's holy law, a dishonor to his character and government, and the foulest ingratitude to a Being of infinite benevolence.
Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13:3. Acts 3:19.
REPENT', verb intransitive
1. To remember with sorrow; as, to repent rash words; to repent an injury done to a neighbor; to repent follies and vices. [See Repentance.]
2. With the reciprocal pronoun.
No man repented him of his wickedness. Jeremiah 8:6.
[This form of expression is now obsolete.]
REPENT'ANCE, noun
1. Sorrow for any thing done or said; the pain or grief which a person experiences in consequence of the injury or inconvenience produced by his own conduct.
2. In theology, the pain, regret or affliction which a person feels on account of his past conduct, because it exposes him to punishment. This sorrow proceeding merely from the fear of punishment, is called legal repentance as being excited by the terrors of legal penalties, and it may exist without an amendment of life.
3. Real penitence; sorrow or deep contrition for sin, as an offense and dishonor to God, a violation of his holy law, and the basest ingratitude towards a Being of infinite benevolence. This is called evangelical repentance and is accompanied and followed by amendment of life.
Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.
Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2 Corinthians 7:9. Matthew 3:8.
Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice, from conviction that it has offended God.
REPENT'ANT, adjective
1. Sorrowful for past conduct or words.
2. Sorrowful for sin.
3. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as repentant tears; repentant ashes; repentant sighs.
REPENT'ANT, noun
1. One who repents; a penitent.
2. One that expresses sorrow for sin.
REPENT'ER, noun One that repents.
REPENT'ING, participle present tense Grieving for what is past; feeling pain or contrition for sin.
REPENT'ING, noun Act of repenting Hosea 11:8.
REPENT'INGLY, adverb With repentance.
REPEOPLE, verb transitive [re and people.]
To people anew; to furnish again with a stock of people. The world after the flood was repeopled by the descendants of one family.
REPEOPLED, participle passive Stocked anew with inhabitants.
REPEOPLING, participle present tense Furnishing again with a stock of inhabitants.
REPEOPLING, noun [supra.] The act of furnishing again with inhabitants.
REPERCUSS', verb transitive [Latin repercutio; re and percutio; per and quatio, to shake, to beat.] To beat back.
REPERCUS'SION, noun [Latin repercussio.]
1. The act of driving back; reverberation; as the repercussion of sound.
2. In music, frequent repetition of the same sound.
REPERCUSS'IVE, adjective
1. Driving back; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate; as repercussive rocks.
2. Repellent; as a repercussive medicine. [Not in use.]
3. Driven back; reverberated.
REPERCUSS'IVE, noun A repellent. obsolete
REPERTI'TIOUS, adjective [from Latin repertus, reperio.] Found; gained by finding. [Not in use.]
REP'ERTORY, noun [Latin repertorium, from reperio, to find again; re and aperio, to uncover.]
1. A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a common-place book, etc.
2. A treasury; a magazine.
REPETEND; , noun [Latin repetendus, repeto.] The parts of decimals continually repeated.
REPETI'TION, noun [Latin repetitio. See Repeat.]
1. The act of doing or uttering a second time; iteration of the same act, or of the same words or sounds.
2. The act of reciting or rehearsing; the act of reading over.
3. Recital.
4. Recital from memory, as distinct from reading.
5. In music, the art of repeating, singing or playing the same part a second time.
6. In rhetoric, reiteration, or a repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.
REPETI'TIONAL,
REPETI'TIONARY, adjective Containing repetition. [Little used.]
REPETI'TIONARY, a. Containing repetition. [Little used.]
REPI'NE, verb intransitive [re and pine.]
1. To fret one's self; to be discontented; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; with at or against. It is our duty never to repine at the allotments of Providence.
2. To complain discontentedly; to murmur.
Multitudes repine at the want of that which nothing but idleness hinders them from enjoying.
3. To envy.
REPI'NER, noun One that repines or murmurs.
REPI'NING, participle present tense
1. Fretting one's self; feeling discontent that preys on the spirits; complaining; murmuring.
2. adjective Disposed to murmur or complain; as a repining temper.
REPI'NING, noun The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.
REPI'NINGLY, adverb With murmuring or complaint.
REPLA'CE, verb transitive
1. To put again in the former place; as, to replace a book.
The earl - was replaced in his government.
2. To put in a new place.
3. To repay; to refund; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed
4. To put a competent substitute in the place of another displaced or of something lost. The paper is lost and cannot be replaced.
REPLA'CED, participle passive Put again in a former place; supplied by a substitute. Thus in petrification, the animal or vegetable substance gradually wastes away, and is replaced by silex.
REPLA'CEMENT, noun The act of replacing.
REPLA'CING, participle present tense Putting again in a former place; supplying the place of with a substitute.
REPLA'IT, verb transitive [re and plait.] To plait or fold again; to fold one part over another again and again.
REPLA'ITED, participle passive Folded again or often.
REPLA'ITING, participle present tense Folding again or often.
REPLANT', verb transitive To plant again.
REPLANT'ABLE, adjective That may be planted again.
REPLANTA'TION, noun The act of planting again.
REPLANT'ED, participle passive Planted anew.
REPLANT'ING, participle present tense Planting again.
REPLE'AD, verb transitive [re and plead.] To plead again.
REPLE'ADER, noun In law, a second pleading or course of pleadings; or the power of pleading again.
Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo.
REPLEN'ISH, verb transitive [Latin re and plenus, full.]
1. To fill; to stock with numbers or abundance. The magazines are replenished with corn. The springs are replenished with water.
Multiply and replenish the earth. Genesis 1:28.
2. To finish; to complete. [Not in use.]
REPLEN'ISH, verb intransitive To recover former fullness.
REPLEN'ISHED, participle passive Filled; abundantly supplied.
REPLEN'ISHING, participle present tense Filling; supplying with abundance.
REPLE'TE, adjective [Latin repletus; re and pleo, to fill.] Completely filled; full.
His words replete with guile.
REPLE'TION, noun [Latin repletio.]
1. The state of being completely filled; or superabundant fullness.
2. In medicine, fullness of blood; plethorn.
REPLE'TIVE, adjective Filling; replenishing.
REPLEV'IABLE, adjective [See Replevy.] In law, that may be replevied.
REPLEV'IED, participle passive Taken by a writ of replevin.
REPLEV'IN, noun [See Replevy.]
1. An action or remedy granted on a distress, by which a person whose cattle or goods are distrained, has them returned to his own possession upon giving security to try the right of taking in a suit at law, and if that should be determined against him, to return the cattle or goods into the possession of the distrainor.
2. The writ by which a distress is replevied.
REPLEV'ISABLE, adjective That may be replevied; but little used, being superseded by repleviable.
REPLEV'Y, verb transitive [re and pledge. Law Latin replegiabilis and replegiare.]
1. To take back, by a writ for that purpose cattle or goods that have been distrained, upon giving security to try the right of distraining in a suit at law, and if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the cattle or goods into the hands of the distrainor. In this case, the person whose goods are distrained becomes the plaintiff, and the person distraining the defendant or avowant.
2. To bail.
REPLEV'YING, participle present tense Retaking a distress. [See Replevy.]
REPLICA'TION, noun [Latin replicatio. See Reply.]
1. An answer; a reply. Particularly,
2. In law pleadings, the reply of the plaintiff to the defendant's plea.
3. Return or repercussion of sound. [Not used.]
REPLI'ER, noun One who answers; he that speaks or writes in return to something spoken or written.
REPLY', verb intransitive [Latin replico; re and plico, to fold, that is, to turn or send to. See apply, Employ and Ply.]
1. To answer; to make a return in words or writing to something said or written by another.
O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Romans 9:1.
2. In law, to answer a defendant's plea. The defendant pleads in bar to the plaintiff's declaration; the plaintiff replies to the defendant's plea in bar.
REPLY', verb transitive To return for an answer. He knows not what to reply
REPLY', noun
1. An answer; that which is said or written in answer to what is said or written by another.
2. A book or pamphlet written in answer to another.
REPLY'ING, participle present tense Answering either in words or writing.
REPOL'ISH, verb transitive To polish again.
REPOL'ISHED, participle passive Polished again.
REPOL'ISHING, participle present tense Polishing anew.
REPORT, verb transitive [Latin reporto, to carry back; re and porto, to bear.]
1. To bear or bring back an answer, or to relate what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained. The committee reported the whole number of votes.
2. To give an account of; to relate; to tell.
They reported his good deeds before me. Nehemiah 6:13. Acts 4:23.
3. To tell or relate from one to another; to circulate publicly, as a story; as in the common phrase, it is reported.
It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel. Nehemiah 6:13.
In this form of expression, it refers to the subsequent clause of the sentence; 'that thou and the Jews think to rebel, is reported.'
4. To give an official account or statement; as, the secretary of the treasury reports to congress annually the amount of revenue and expenditure.
5. To give an account or statement of cases and decisions in a court of law or chancery.
6. To return, as sound; to give back.
To be reported, or usually, to be reported of, to be well or ill spoken of; to be mentioned with respect or reproach.
Acts 16. Romans 3:8
REPORT, verb intransitive To make a statement of facts. The committee will report at twelve o'clock.
REPORT, noun
1. An account returned; a statement or relation of facts given in reply to inquiry, or by a person authorized to examine and make return to his employer.
From Thetis sent as spies to make report
2. Rumor; common fame; story circulated. report though often originating in fact, soon becomes incorrect, and is seldom deserving of credit. When we have no evidence but popular report it is prudent to suspend our opinions in regard to the facts.
3. Repute; public character; as evil report and good report 2 Corinthians 6:8.
Cornelius was of good report among the Jews. Acts 10:22.
4. Account; story; relation.
It was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. 1 Kings 10:6.
5. Sound; noise; as the report of a pistol or cannon.
6. An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of a case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, etc. The books containing such statements are also called reports.
7. An official statement of facts, verbal or written; particularly, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors; as the reports of the heads of departments to congress, of a master in chancery to the court, of committees to a legislative body and the like.
REPORTED, participle passive Told, related or stated in answer to inquiry or direction; circulated in popular rumors; reputed; stated officially.
REPORTER, noun
1. One that gives an account, verbal or written, official or unofficial.
2. An officer or person who makes statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates.
REPORTING, participle present tense Giving account; relating; presenting statements of facts or of adjudged cases in law.
REPORTINGLY, adverb By report or common fame.
REPO'SAL, noun s as z. [from repose.] The act of reposing or resting.
REPO'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin repono, reposui.]
1. To lay at rest.
- After the toil of battle, to repose your wearied virtue.
2. To lay; to rest, as the mind, in confidence or trust; as, to repose trust or confidence in a person's veracity.
3. To lay up; to deposit; to lodge; as pebbles reposed in cliffs.
4. To place in confidence.
REPO'SE, verb intransitive
1. To lie at rest; to sleep.
Within a thicket I repos'd.
2. To rest in confidence. I repose on the faith and honor of a friend.
3. To lie; to rest; as trap reposing on sand.
REPO'SE, noun
1. A lying at rest.
2. Sleep; rest; quiet.
3. Rest of mind; tranquility; freedom from uneasiness.
4. Cause of rest.
5. In poetry, a rest; a pause.
6. In painting, harmony of colors, as when nothing glaring appears.
REPO'SED, participle passive Laid at rest; placed in confidence.
REPO'SEDNESS, noun State of being at rest.
REPO'SING, participle present tense Laying at rest; placing in confidence; lying at rest; sleeping.
REPOS'IT, verb transitive [Latin repositus, repono.] To lay up; to lodge, as for safety or preservation.
Others reposit their young in holes.
REPOS'ITED, participle passive Laid up; deposited for safety or preservation.
REPOS'ITING, participle present tense Laying up or lodging for safety or preservation.
REPOSI'TION, noun The act of replacing; as the reposition of a bone.
REPOS'ITORY, noun [Latin repositorium, from repono.]
A place where things are or may be deposited for safety or preservation. A granary is a repository for corn, an arsenal for arms. The mind or memory is called the repository of ideas.
REPOSSESS', verb transitive [re and possess.] To possess again.
Nor shall my father repossess the land.
To repossess one's self, to obtain possession again.
REPOSSESS'ED, participle passive Possessed again.
REPOSSESS'ING, participle present tense Possessing again; obtaining possession again.
REPOSSES'SION, noun The act of possessing again; the state of possessing again.
REPOUR, verb transitive [re and pour.] To pour again.
REPREHEND', verb transitive [Latin reprehendo; re and prehendo, to seize.]
1. To chide; to reprove.
Pardon me for reprehending thee.
2. To blame; to censure.
I nor advise, nor reprehend the choice.
3. To detect of fallacy.
This color will be reprehended or encountered, by imputing to all excellencies in compositions a kind of poverty. [Not in use.]
4. To accuse; to charge with a fault; with of; as Aristippus, being reprehended of luxury.
REPREHEND'ED, participle passive Reproved; blamed.
REPREHEND'ER, noun One that reprehends; one that blames or reproves.
REPREHEND'ING, participle present tense Reproving; blaming.
REPREHEN'SIBLE, adjective [Latin reprehensus.]
Blamable; culpable; censurable; deserving reproof; applied to persons or things; as a reprehensible person; reprehensible conduct.
REPREHEN'SIBLENESS, noun Blamableness; culpableness.
REPREHEN'SIBLY, adverb Culpably; in a manner to deserve censure or reproof.
REPREHEN'SION, noun [Latin reprehensio.]
Reproof; censure; open blame. Faults not punishable, may deserve reprehension
REPREHEN'SIVE, adjective Containing reproof.
REPREHEN'SORY, adjective Containing reproof.
REPRESENT', verb transitive s as z. [Latin repraesento; re and Low Latin praesenter, from praesens, present.]
1. To show or exhibit by resemblance.
Before him burn seven lamps, as in a zodiac, representing the heavenly fires.
2. To describe; to exhibit to the mind in words.
The managers of the bank at Genoa have been represented as a second kind of senate.
3. To exhibit; to show by action; as a tragedy well represented.
4. To personate; to act the character or to fill the place of another in a play; as, to represent the character of king Richard.
5. To supply the place of; to act as a substitute for another. The parliament of Great Britain represents the nation. The congress of the United States represents the people or nation. The senate is considered as representing the states in their corporate capacity.
6. To show by arguments, reasoning or statement of facts. the memorial represents the situation of the petitioner. represent to your son the danger of an idle life or profligate company.
7. To stand in the place of, in the right of inheritance.
All the branches inherit the same share that their root, whom they represent would have done.
REPRESENT'ANCE, noun Representation; likeness. [Not used.]
REPRESENT'ANT, noun A representative. [Not in use.]
REPRESENTA'TION, noun
1. The act of representing, describing or showing.
2. That which exhibits by resemblance; image, likeness, picture or statue; as representations of God.
3. Any exhibition of the form or operations of a thing by something resembling it. A map is a representation of the world or a part of it. The terrestrial globe is a representation of the earth. An orrery is a representation of the planets and their revolutions.
4. Exhibition, as of a play on the stage.
5. Exhibition of a character in theatrical performance.
6. Verbal description; statement of arguments or facts in narration, oratory, debate, petition, admonition, etc.; as the representation of a historian, of a witness or an advocate.
7. The business of acting as a substitute for another; as the representation of a nation in a legislative body.
8. Representatives, as a collective body. It is expedient to have an able representation in both houses of congress.
9. Public exhibition.
10. The standing in the place of another, as an heir, or in the right of taking by inheritance.
REPRESENT'ATIVE, adjective
1. Exhibiting a similitude.
They own the legal sacrifices, though representative to be proper and real.
2. Bearing the character or power of another; as a council representative of the people.
REPRESENT'ATIVE, noun
1. One that exhibits the likeness of another.
A statue of Rumor, whispering an idiot in the ear, who was the representative of credulity.
2. In legislative or other business, an agent, deputy or substitute who supplies the place of another or others, being invested with his or their authority. An attorney is the representative of his client or employer. A member of the house of commons is the representative of his constituents and of the nation. In matters concerning his constituents only, he is supposed to be bound by their instructions, but in the enacting of laws for the nation, he is supposed not to be bound by their instructions, as he acts for the whole nation.
3. In law, one that stands in the place of another as heir, or in the right of succeeding to an estate of inheritance, or to a crown.
4. That by which any thing is exhibited or shown.
This doctrine supposes the perfections of God to be the representatives to us of whatever we perceive in the creatures.
REPRESENT'ATIVELY, adverb
1. In the character of another; by a representative.
2. By substitution; by delegation of power.
REPRESENT'ATIVENESS, noun The state or quality of being representative.
Dr. Burnet observes that every thought is attended with consciousness and representativeness
REPRESENT'ED, participle passive Shown; exhibited; personated; described; stated; having substitutes.
REPRESENT'ER, noun
1. One who shows, exhibits or describes.
2. A representative; one that acts by deputation. [Little used.]
REPRESENT'ING, participle present tense Showing; exhibiting; describing; acting in another's character; acting in the place of another.
REPRESENT'MENT, noun Representation; image; an idea proposed as exhibiting the likeness of something.
REPRESS', verb transitive [Latin repressus, reprimo; re and premo, to press.]
1. To crush; to quell; to put down; to subdue; to suppress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.
2. To check; to restrain.
Such kings favor the innocent, repress the bold.
REPRESS', noun The act of subduing. [Not in use.]
REPRESS'ED, participle passive Crushed; subdued.
REPRESS'ER, noun One that crushes or subdues.
REPRESS'ING, participle present tense Crushing; subduing; checking.
REPRES'SION, noun
1. The act of subduing; as the repression of tumults.
2. Check; restraint.
REPRESS'IVE, adjective Having power to crush; tending to subdue or restrain.
REPRIE'VAL, noun Respit; reprieve. [Not in use.]
REPRIE'VE, verb transitive [I know not the origin of this word.]
1. To respit after sentence of death; to suspend or delay the execution of for a time; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.
He reprieves the sinner from time to time.
2. To grant a respit to; to relieve for a time for any suffering.
Company, though it may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet cannot secure a man from his conscience.
REPRIE'VE, noun
1. The temporary suspension of the execution of sentence of death on a criminal.
2. Respit; interval of ease or relief.
All that I ask is but a short reprieve till I forgot to love, and learn to grieve.
REPRIE'VED, participle passive Respited; allowed a longer time to live than the sentence of death permits.
REPRIE'VING, participle present tense Respiting; suspending the execution of for a time.
REP'RIMAND, verb transitive [If this word is from Latin reprimo, it must be formed from the participle reprimendus.]
1. To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault.
Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius, for traveling into Egypt without his permission.
2. To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence. The court ordered the officer to be reprimanded.
REP'RIMAND, noun Severe reproof for a fault; reprehension, private or public.
REP'RIMANDED, participle passive Severely reproved.
REP'RIMANDING, participle present tense Reproving severely.
REPRINT', verb transitive [re and print.]
1. To print again; to print a second or any new edition.
2. To renew the impression of any thing.
The business of redemption is - to reprint God's image on the soul.
REPRINT'ED, participle passive Printed anew; impressed again.
REPRINT'ING, participle present tense Printing again; renewing an impression.
REPRI'SAL, noun s as z. [Latin prendo.]
1. The seizure or taking of any thing from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnification for something taken or detained by him.
2. That which is taken from an enemy to indemnify an owner for something of his which the enemy has seized. Reprisals may consist of persons or of goods. Letters of marque and reprisal may be obtained in order to seize the bodies or goods of the subjects of an offending state, until satisfaction shall be made.
3. Recaption; a retaking of a man's own goods or any of his family, wife, child or servant, wrongfully taken from him or detained by another. In this case, the owner may retake the goods or persons wherever he finds them.
Letters of marque and reprisal a commission granted by the supreme authority of a state to a subject, empowering him to pass the frontiers [marque, ] that is, enter an enemy's territories and capture the goods and persons of the enemy, in return for goods or persons taken by him.
4. The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation of an act of inhumanity.
REPRI'SE, noun s as z. A taking by way of retaliation. obsolete
REPRI'SE, verb transitive s as z.
1. To take again. obsolete
2. To recompense; to pay. obsolete
REPRI'ZES, noun plural In law, yearly deductions out of a manor, as rent-charge, rent-seek, etc.
REPROACH, verb transitive [Latin prox, in proximus.]
1. To censure in terms of opprobrium or contempt.
Mezentius with his ardor warm'd his fainting friends, reproach'd their shameful flight, repell'd the victors.
2. To charge with a fault in severe language.
That shame there sit not, and reproach us as unclean.
3. To upbraid; to suggest blame for any thing. A man's conscience will reproach him for a criminal, mean or unworthy action.
4. To treat with scorn or contempt. Luke 6:22.
REPROACH, noun
1. Censure mingled with contempt or derision; contumelious or opprobrious language towards any person; abusive reflections; as foul-mouthed reproach
2. Shame; infamy; disgrace.
Give not thine heritage to reproach Joel 2:17. Isaiah 4:1.
3. Object of contempt, scorn or derision.
Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we may be no more a reproach Nehemiah 2:17.
4. That which is the cause of shame or disgrace. Genesis 30:23.
REPROACHABLE, adjective
1. Deserving reproach.
2. Opprobrious; scurrilous. [Not proper.]
REPROACHED, participle passive Censured in terms of contempt; upbraided.
REPROACHFUL, adjective
1. Expressing censure with contempt; scurrilous; opprobrious; as reproachful words.
2. Shameful; bringing or casting reproach; infamous; base; vile; as reproachful conduct; a reproachful life.
REPROACHFULLY, adverb
1. In terms of reproach; opprobriously; scurrilously
1 Timothy 5:14.
2. Shamefully; disgracefully; contemptuously.
REPROBATE, adjective [Latin reprobatus, reprobo, to disallow; re and probo, to prove.]
1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.
REPROBATE silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jeremiah 6:30.
2. Abandoned in sin; lost to virtue or grace.
They profess that they know God, but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate Titus 1:16.
3. Abandoned to error, or in apostasy. 2 Timothy 3:8.
REP'ROBATE, noun A person abandoned to sin; one lost to virtue and religion.
I acknowledge myself a reprobate a villain, a traitor to the king.
REP'ROBATE, verb transitive
1. To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to disallow; to reject. It expresses more than disapprove or disallow. We disapprove of slight faults and improprieties; we reprobate what is mean or criminal.
2. In a milder sense, to disallow.
Such an answer as this, is reprobated and disallowed of in law.
3. To abandon to wickedness and eternal destruction.
4. To abandon to his sentence, without hope of pardon.
Drive him out to reprobated exile.
REP'ROBATED, participle passive Disapproved with abhorrence; rejected; abandoned to wickedness or to destruction.
REP'ROBATENESS, noun The state of being reprobate.
REP'ROBATER, noun One that reprobates.
REP'ROBATING, participle present tense Disapproving with extreme dislike; rejecting; abandoning to wickedness or to destruction.
REPROBA'TION, noun [Latin reprobatio.]
1. The act of disallowing with detestation, or of expressing extreme dislike.
2. The act of abandoning or state of being abandoned to eternal destruction.
When a sinner is so hardened as to feel no remorse or misgiving of conscience, it is considered as a sign of reprobation
3. A condemnatory sentence; rejection.
Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin.
REPROBA'TIONER, noun One who abandons others to eternal destruction.
REPRODU'CE, verb transitive [re and produce.] To produce again; to renew the production of a thing destroyed. Trees are reproduced by new shoots from the roots or stump; and certain animals, as the polype, are reproduced from cuttings.
REPRODU'CED, participle passive Produced anew.
REPRODU'CER, noun One or that which reproduces.
REPRODU'CING, participle present tense Producing anew.
REPRODUC'TION, noun The act or process of reproducing that which has been destroyed; as the reproduction of plants or animals from cuttings or slips. The reproduction of several parts of lobsters and crabs is one of the greatest curiosities in natural history.
REPROOF', noun [from reprove.
1. Blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; reprehension.
Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
He that hateth reproof is brutish. Proverbs 12:1.
2. Blame cast; censure directed to a person.
REPROVABLE, adjective [from reprove.] Worthy of reproof; deserving censure; blamable.
REPROVE, verb transitive [Latin reprobo; re and probo, to prove.]
1. To blame; to censure.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices - Psalms 50:8.
2. To charge with a fault to the face; to chide; to reprehend. Luke 3:19.
3. To blame for; with of; as, to reprove one of laziness.
4. To convince of a fault, or to make it manifest. John 16:8.
5. To refute; to disprove. [Not in use.]
6. To excite a sense of guilt. The heart or conscience reproves us.
7. To manifest silent disapprobation or blame.
The vicious cannot bear the presence of the good, whose very looks reprove them, and whose life is a severe, though silent admonition.
REPROVED, participle passive Blamed; reprehended; convinced of a fault.
REPROVER, noun One that reproves; he or that which blames. Conscience is a bold reprover
REPROVING, participle present tense Blaming; censuring.
REPRU'NE, verb transitive [re and prune.] To prune a second time.
REP'TILE, adjective [Latin reptilis, from repo, to creep, Gr. See Creep.]
1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or with many small feet.
2. Groveling; low; vulgar; as a reptile race or crew; reptile vices.
REP'TILE, noun
1. An animal that moves on its belly, or by means of small short legs, as earth-worms, caterpillars, snakes and the like.
In zoology, the reptiles constitute an order of the class Amphibian, including all such as are furnished with limbs or articulated extremities, as tortoises, lizards and frogs.
2. A groveling or very mean person; a term of contempt.
REPUB'LICAN, adjective
1. Pertaining to a republic; consisting of a commonwealth; as a republican constitution or government.
2. Consonant to the principles of a republic; as republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.
REPUB'LICAN, noun One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
REPUB'LICANISM, noun
1. A republican form or system of government.
2. Attachment to a republican form of government.
REPUB'LICANIZE, verb transitive To convert to republican principles; as, to republicanize the rising generation.
REPUBLICA'TION, noun [re and publication.]
1. A second publication, or a new publication of something before published.
2. A second publication, as of a former will, renewal.
If there be many testaments, the last overthrows all the former; but the republication of a former will, revokes one of a later date, and establishes the first.
REPUB'LISH, verb transitive [re and publish.]
1. To publish a second time, or to publish a new edition of a work before published.
2. To publish anew.
Unless, subsequent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republishes his will.
REPUB'LISHED, participle passive Published anew.
REPUB'LISHER, noun One who republishes.
REPUB'LISHING, participle present tense Publishing again.
REPUDIA'TION, noun [Latin repudiatio.]
1. Rejection.
2. Divorce; as the repudiation of a wife.
REPUGN, noun repu'ne. [Latin repugno; re and pugno.
To oppose; to resist. [Not used.]
REPUG'NANCE,
REPUG'NANCY, noun [Latin repugnantia, from repugno, to resist; re and pugno, to fight.]
1. Opposition of mind; reluctance; unwillingness.
2. Opposition or struggle of passions; resistance.
3. Opposition of principles or qualities; inconsistency; contrariety.
But where difference is without repugnancy, that which hath been can be no prejudice to that which is.
REPUG'NANCY, n. [L. repugnantia, from repugno, to resist; re and pugno, to fight.]
1. Opposition of mind; reluctance; unwillingness.2. Opposition or struggle of passions; resistance.3. Opposition of principles or qualities; inconsistency; contrariety.But where difference is without repugnancy, that which hath been can be no prejudice to that which is.REPUG'NANT, adjective [Latin repugnans.]
1. Opposite; contrary; inconsistent; properly followed by to. Every sin is repugnant to the will of God. Every thing morally wrong, is repugnant both to the honor, as well as to the interest of the offender.
2. Disobedient; not obsequious. [Not in use.]
REPUG'NANTLY, adverb With opposition; in contradiction.
REPUL'LULATE, verb intransitive [Latin re and pullulo, to bud.] To bud again.
REPULLULA'TION, noun The act of budding again.
REPULSE, noun repuls'. [Latin repulsa, from repello; re and pello, to drive.]
1. A being checked in advancing, or driven back by force. The enemy met with a repulse and retreated.
2. Refusal; denial.
REPULSE, verb transitive repuls'. [Latin repulsus, repello.]
To repel; to beat or drive back as, to repulse an assailant or advancing enemy.
REPULS'ED, participle passive Repelled; driven back.
REPULS'ER, noun One that repulses or drives back.
REPULS'ING, participle present tense Driving back.
REPUL'SION, noun
1. In physics, the power of repelling or driving off; that property of bodies which causes them to recede from each other or avoid coming in contact.
2. The act of repelling.
REPULS'IVE, adjective
1. Repelling; driving off, or keeping from approach. The repulsive power of the electric fluid is remarkable.
2. Cold; reserved; forbidding; as repulsive manners.
REPULS'IVENESS, noun The quality of being repulsive or forbidding.
REPULS'ORY, adjective Repulsive; driving back.
REPUR'CHASE, verb transitive [re and purchase.] To buy again; to buy back; to regain by purchase or expense.
REPUR'CHASE, noun The act of buying again; the purchase again of what has been sold.
REPUR'CHASED, participle passive Bought back or again; regained by expense; as a throne repurchased with the blood of enemies.
REPUR'CHASING, participle present tense Buying back or again; regaining by the payment of a price.
REP'UTABLE, adjective [from repute.]
1. Being in good repute; held in esteem; as a reputable man or character; reputable conduct. It expresses less than respectable and honorable, denoting the good opinion of men, without distinction or great qualities.
2. Consistent with reputation; not mean or disgraceful. It is evidence of extreme depravity that vice is in any case reputable
In the article of danger, it is as reputable to elude an enemy as to defeat one.
REPUTA'TION, noun [Latin reputatio.]
1. Good name; the credit, honor or character which is derived from a favorable public opinion or esteem. reputation is a valuable species of property or right, which should never be violated. With the loss of reputation a man and especially a woman, loses most of the enjoyments of life.
The best evidence of reputation is a man's whole life.
2. Character by report; in a good or bad sense; as, a man has the reputation of being rich or poor, or of being a thief.
REQUEST', noun [Latin requisitus, requiro; re and quaero, to seek. See Quest, Question.]
1. The expression of desire to some person for something to be granted or done; an asking; a petition.
Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen. Esther 7:2.
2. Prayer; the expression of desire to a superior or to the Almighty. Philippians 4:6.
3. The thing asked for or requested.
I will both hear and grant you your requests.
He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. Psalms 104:1.
4. A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or pursued.
Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now.
In request in demand; in credit or reputation.
Coriolanus being now in no request
REQUEST expresses less earnestness than entreaty and supplication, and supposes a right in the person requested to deny or refuse to grant. In this it differs from demand.
REQUEST', verb transitive
1. To ask; to solicit; to express desire for.
The weight of the golden ear-rings which he requested, was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold. Judges 8:24.
2. To express desire to; to ask. We requested a friend to accompany us.
Court of requests, in England, a court of equity for the relief of such persons as addressed his majesty by supplication.
3. A court of conscience for the recovery of small debts, held by two aldermen and four commoners, who try causes by the oath of parties and of other witnesses.
REQUEST'ED, participle passive Asked; desired; solicited.
REQUEST'ER, noun One who requests; a petitioner.
REQUEST'ING, participle present tense Asking; petitioning.
REQUICK'EN, verb transitive [re and quicken.] To reanimate; to give new life to.
REQUICK'ENED, participle passive Reanimated.
REQUICK'ENING, participle present tense Reanimating; invigorating.
RE'QUIEM, noun [Latin]
1. In the Romish church, a hymn or mass sung for the dead, for the rest of his soul; so called from the first word.
2. Rest; quiet; peace. [Not in use.]
REQUI'ETORY, noun [Low Latin requietorium.] A sepulcher. [Not in use.]
REQUI'RABLE, adjective [from require.] That may be required; fit or proper to be demanded.
REQUI'RE, verb transitive [Latin requiro; re and quaero, to seek. See Query.]
1. To demand; to ask, as of right and by authority. We require a person to do a thing, and we require a thing to be done.
Why then doth my lord require this thing? 1 Chronicles 21:3.
2. To claim; to render necessary; as a duty or any thing indispensable; as, the law of God requires strict obedience.
3. To ask as a favor; to request.
I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way. Ezra 8:22.
[In this sense, the word is rarely used.]
4. To call to account for.
I will require my flock at their hand. Ezekiel 34:10.
5. To make necessary; to need; to demand.
The king's business required haste. 1 Samuel 21:8.
6. To avenge; to take satisfaction for. 1 Samuel 20:16.
REQUI'RED, participle passive Demanded; needed; necessary.
REQUI'REMENT, noun Demand; requisition.
This ruler was one of those who believe that they can fill us every requirement contained in the rule of righteousness.
The Bristol water is of service where the secretions exceed the requirements of health.
REQUI'RER, noun One who requires.
REQUI'RING, participle present tense Demanding; needing;
REQ'UISITE, adjective s as z. [Latin requiitus, from requiro.]
Required by the nature of things or by circumstances; necessary; so needful that it cannot be dispensed with. Repentance and faith are requisite to salvation. Air is requisite to support life. Heat is requisite to vegetation.
REQ'UISITE, noun That which is necessary; something indispensable. Contentment is a requisite to a happy life.
God on his part has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know.
REQ'UISITELY, adverb Necessarily; in a requisite manner.
REQ'UISITENESS, noun The state of being requisite or necessary; necessity.
REQUISI'TION, noun [See Require.]
Demand; application made as of right. Under the old confederation of the American states, congress often made requisitions on the states for money to supply the treasury; but they had no power to enforce their requisitions, and the states neglected or partially complied with them.
REQUIS'ITIVE, adjective Expressing or implying demand.
REQUIS'ITORY, adjective Sought for; demanded. [Little used.]
REQUI'TAL, noun [from requite.]
1. Return for any office, good or bad; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation or punishment, as the requital of evil deeds.
2. Return; reciprocal action.
No merit their aversion can remove, nor ill requital can efface their love.
REQUI'TE, verb transitive [from quit, Latin cedo.]
1. To repay either good or evil; in a good sense, to recompense; to return an equivalent in good; to reward.
I also will requite you this kindness. 2 Samuel 2:6. 1 Timothy 5:4.
In a bad sense, to retaliate; to return evil for evil; to punish.
Joseph will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him. Genesis 50:15.
2. To do or give in return.
He hath requited me evil for good. 1 Samuel 25:21.
REQUI'TED, participle passive Repaid; recompensed; rewarded.
REQUI'TER, noun One who requites.
REQUI'TING, participle present tense Recompensing; rewarding; giving in return.
RESA'IL, v. or i. [re and sail.] To sail back.
RESA'LE, noun [re and sale.]
1. A sale at second hand.
2. To return a salutation.
RESALU'TE, verb transitive [Latin resaluto; re and saluto, to salute.]
1. To salute or greet anew.
2. To return a salutation.
RESALU'TED, participle passive Saluted again.
RESALU'TING, participle present tense Saluting anew.
RESCIND', verb transitive [Latin rescindo; re and scindo; to cut.]
1. To abrogate; to revoke; to annul; to vacate an act by the enacting authority or by superior authority; as, to rescind a law, a resolution or a vote; to rescind an edict or decree; to rescind a judgment.
2. To cut off. [Not used.]
RESCISSION, noun resizh'on. [Latin rescissus.]
1. The act of abrogating, annulling or vacating; as the rescission of a law, decree or judgment.
2. A cutting off.
RESCIS'SORY, adjective Having power to cut off or to abrogate.
RES'COUS, in law. [See Rescue.]
RESCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin rescribo; re and scribo, to write.]
1. To write back.
2. To write over again.
RE'SCRIPT, noun [Latin rescriptum, rescribo.] The answer of an emperor, when consulted by particular persons on some difficult question. This answer serves as a decision of the question, and is therefore equivalent to an edict or decree.
RESCRIP'TIVELY, adverb By rescript. [Unusual.]
RES'CUABLE, adjective That may be rescued.
RESCUE, verb transitive res'cu.[Latin re and quatio.]
To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger or evil; to liberate from actual restraint, or to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from an officer; to rescue seamen from destruction by shipwreck.
So the people rescued Jonathan that he died not.
1 Samuel 14:30. Psalms 35:17.
Cattle taken by distress contrary to law, may be rescued by the owner, while on their way to the pound.
Estimate the value of one soul rescued from eternal guilt and agony, and destined to grow forever in the knowledge and likeness of God.
RES'CUE, noun [See the Verb.]
1. Deliverance from restraint, violence or danger, by force or by the interference of an agent.
2. In law, rescue or rescous, the forcible retaking of a lawful distress from the distrainor, or from the custody of the law; also, the forcible liberation of a defendant from the custody of the officer, in which cases, the remedy is by writ of rescous. But when the distress is unlawfully taken, the owner may lawfully make rescue
The rescue of a prisoner from the court, is punished with perpetual imprisonment and forfeiture of goods.
RES'CUED, participle passive Delivered from confinement or danger; or forcibly taken from the custody of the law.
RES'CUER, noun One that rescues or retakes.
RES'CUING, participle present tense Liberating from restraint or danger; forcibly taking from the custody of the law.
RESEARCH, noun reserch'. Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as researches of human wisdom.
RESEARCH, verb transitive reserch'.
1. To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently for the truth.
It is not easy to research with due distinction, in the actions of eminent personages, both how much may have been blemished by the envy of others, and what was corrupted by their own felicity. [Unusual.]
2. To search again; to examine anew.
RESEARCHER, noun reserch'er. One who diligently inquires or examines.
RESE'AT, verb transitive [re and seat.] To seat or set again.
RESE'ATED, participle passive Seated again.
RESE'ATING, participle present tense Seating again.
RESEC'TION, noun [Latin resectio, reseco.] The act of cutting or paring off.
RESEE'K, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive resought. [re and seek.]
To seek again.
RESE'IZE, verb transitive [re and seize.]
1. To seize again; to seize a second time.
2. In law, to take possession of lands and tenements which have been disseized.
Whereupon the sheriff is commanded to reseize the land and all the chattels thereon, and keep the same in his custody till the arrival of the justices of assize.
RESE'IZED, participle passive Seized again.
RESE'IZER, noun One who seizes again.
RESE'IZING, participle present tense Seizing again.
RESEIZURE, noun resc'zhur. A second seizure; the act of seizing again.
RESELL', verb transitive To sell again; to sell what has been bought or sold.
RESEM'BLABLE, adjective [See Resemble.] That may be compared. [Not in use.]
RESEM'BLANCE, noun [See Resemble.]
1. Likeness; similitude, either of external form or of qualities. We observe a resemblance between persons, a resemblance in shape, a resemblance in manners, a resemblance in dispositions. Painting and poetry bear a great resemblance to each other, as one object of both is to please.
2. Something similar; similitude; representation.
These sensible things which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual.
Fairest resemblance of thy Maker fair -
RESEM'BLE, verb transitive s as z. [See similar.]
1. To have the likeness of; to bear the similitude of something, either in form, figure or qualities. One man may resemble another in features; he may resemble a third person in temper or deportment.
Each one resembled the children of a king. Judges 8:18.
2. To liken; to compare; to represent as like something else.
The torrid parts of Africa are resembled to a libbard's skin, the distance of whose spots represents the dispersed situation of the habitations.
RESEM'BLED, participle passive Likened; compared.
RESEM'BLING, participle present tense Having the likeness of; likening; comparing.
RESEND', verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive resent. [re and send.]
To send again; to send back. [Not in use.]
RESENT', verb transitive s as z. [Latin sentio.]
1. To take well; to receive with satisfaction. obsolete
2. To take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be in some degree angry or provoked at.
Thou with scorn and anger would'st resent the offer'd wrong.
RESENT'ED, participle passive Taken ill; being in some measure angry at.
RESENT'ER, noun
1. One who resents; one that feels an injury deeply.
2. In the sense of one that takes a thing well. obsolete
RESENT'FUL, adjective Easily provoked to anger; of an irritable temper.
RESENT'ING, participle present tense Taking ill; feeling angry at.
RESENT'INGLY, adverb
1. With a sense of wrong or affront; with a degree of anger.
2. With deep sense or strong perception. obsolete
RESENT'IVE, adjective Easily provoked or irritated; quick to feel an injury or affront.
RESENT'MENT, noun
1. The excitement of passion which proceeds from a sense of wrong offered to ourselves, or to those who are connected with us; anger. This word usually expresses less excitement than anger, though it is often synonymous with it. It expresses much less than wrath, exasperation, and indignation. In this use, resentment is not the sense or perception of injury, but the excitement which is the effect of it.
Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?
2. Strong perception of good. [Not in use.]
RESERVA'TION, noun s as z. [Latin reservo.]
1. The act of reserving or keeping back or in the mind; reserve; concealment or withholding from disclosure; as mental reservation
2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
With reservation of a hundred knights.
In the United States, a tract of land not sold with the rest, is called a reservation
3. Custody; state of being treasured up or kept in store.
4. In law, a clause or part of an instrument by which something is reserved, not conceded or granted; also, a proviso.
Mental reservation is the withholding of expression or disclosure of something that affects a proposition or statement, and which if disclosed, would materially vary its import.
Mental reservations are the refuge of hypocrites.
RESERV'ATIVE, adjective Keeping; reserving.
RESERV'ATORY, noun [from reserve.] A place in which things are reserved or kept.
RESERVE, verb transitive rezerv'. [Latin reservo; re and servo, to keep.]
1. To keep in store for future or other use; to withhold from present use for another purpose. The farmer sells his corn, reserving only what is necessary for his family.
Hast thou seen the treasures of hail, which I have reserved against the day of trouble? Job 38:23.
2. To keep; to hold; to retain.
Will he reserve his anger for ever? Jeremiah 3:5.
3. To lay up and keep for a future time. 2 Peter 2:9.
RESERVE your kind looks and language for private hours.
RESERVE, noun rezerv'.
1. That which is kept for other or future use; that which is retained from present use or disposal.
The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply.
2. Something in the mind withheld from disclosure.
However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations.
3. Exception; something withheld.
Is knowledge so despis'd? or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste?
4. Exception in favor.
Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve
5. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. reserve may proceed from modesty, bashfulness, prudence, prudery or sullenness.
My soul surpris'd, and from her sex disjoin'd, left all reserve and all the sex behind.
6. In law, reservation.
In reserve in store; in keeping for other or future use. He has large quantities of wheat in reserve He has evidence or arguments in reserve
Body of reserve in military affairs, the third or last line of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to sustain the other lines as occasion may require; a body of troops kept for an exigency.
RESERV'ED, participle passive
1. Kept for another or future use; retained.
2. adjective Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward in conversation; not free or frank.
To all obliging, yet reserv'd to all.
Nothing reserv'd or sullen was to see.
RESERV'EDLY, adverb
1. With reserve; with backwardness; not with openness or frankness.
2. Scrupulously; cautiously; coldly.
RESERV'EDNESS, noun Closeness; want of frankness, openness or freedom. A man may guard himself by that silence and reservedness which every one may innocently practice.
RESERV'ER, noun One that reserves.
RESERV'ING, participle present tense Keeping back; keeping for other use or for use at a future time; retaining.
RESERVOIR', noun A place where any thing is kept in store, particularly a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill-wheel and the like; a cistern; a mill-pond; a bason.
RE'SET, noun In Scots law, the receiving and harboring of an outlaw or a criminal.
RESET'TLE, verb transitive [re and settle.]
1. To settle again.
2. To install, as a minister of the gospel.
RESET'TLE, verb intransitive to settle in the ministry a second time; to be installed.
RESET'TLED, participle passive Settled again; installed.
RESET'TLEMENT, noun
1. The act of settling or composing again.
The resettlement of my discomposed soul.
2. The state of settling or subsiding again; as the resettlement of lees.
3. A second settlement in the ministry.
RESET'TLING, participle present tense Settling again; installing.
RESHIP', verb transitive [re and ship.] To ship again; to ship what has been conveyed by water or imported; as coffee and sugar imported into New York, and reshipped for Hamburg.
RESHIP'MENT, noun
1. the act of shipping or loading on board of a ship a second time; the shipping for exportation what has been imported.
2. That which is reshipped.
RESHIP'PED, participle passive Shipped again.
RESHIP'PING, participle present tense Shipping again.
RE'SIANCE, noun [See Resiant.] Residence; abode. obsolete
RE'SIANT, adjective [Latin resideo. See Reside.]
Resident; dwelling; present in a place. obsolete
RESI'DE, verb intransitive s as z. [Latin resideo, resido; re and sedeo, to sit, to settle.]
1. to dwell permanently or for a length of time; to have a settled abode for a time. the peculiar uses of this word are to be noticed. When the word is appliced to the natives of a state, or others who dwell in it as permanent citizens, we use it only with reference to the part of a city or country in which a man dwells. We do not say generally that Englishmen reside in England, but a particular citizen resides in London or York, or at such a house in such a street, in the Strand, etc.
When the word is applied to strangers or travelers, we do not say, a man resides in an inn for a night, but he resided in London or Oxford a month, or a year; or part of his life. A man lodges, stays, remains, abides, for a day or very short time, but reside implies a longer time, though not definite.
2. To sink to the bottom of liquors; to settle. obsolete
[In this sense, subside is now used.]
RES'IDENCE, noun
1. The act of abiding or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year.
The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
2. The place of abode; a dwelling; a habitation.
Caprea had been - the residence of Tiberius for several years.
3. That which falls to the bottom of liquors. obsolete
4. In the canon and common law, the abode of a person or incumbent on his benefice; opposed to non-residence.
RES'IDENT, adjective [Latin residens.]
Dwelling or having an abode in a place for a continuance of time, but not definite; as a minister resident at the court of St. James. A B is now resident in South America.
RES'IDENT, noun
1. One who resides or dwells in a place for some time. A B is now a resident in London.
2. A public minister who resides at a foreign court. It is usually applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of embassadors.
RESIDEN'TIARY, adjective Having residence.
RESIDEN'TIARY, noun An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence.
RESI'DER, noun One who resides in a particular place.
RESI'DING, participle present tense Dwelling in a place for some continuance of time.
RESID'UAL, adjective Remaining after a part is taken.
RESID'UARY, adjective [Latin residuus. See Reside.]
Pertaining to the residue or part remaining; as the residuary advantage of an estate.
Residuary legatee, in law, the legatee to whom is bequeathed the part of goods and estate which remains after deducting all the debts and specific legacies.
RES'IDUE, noun [Latin residuus.]
1. That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed or designated.
The locusts shall eat the residue of that which has escaped. Exodus 10:5.
The residue of them will I deliver to the sword. Jeremiah 15:9.
2. The balance or remainder of a debt or account.
RESID'UUM, noun [Latin]
1. Residue; that which is left after any process of separation or purification.
2. In law, the part of an estate or of goods and chattels remaining after the payment of debts and legacies.
RESIE'GE, verb transitive [re and siege.] To seat again; to reinstate. obsolete
RESIGN, verb transitive rezi'ne. [Latin resigno; re and signo, to sign. The radical sense of sign is to send, to drive, hence to set. To resign is to send, to drive, hence to set. To resign is to send back or send away.]
1. To give up; to give back, as an office or commission, to the person or authority that conferred it; hence, to surrender an office or charge in a formal manner; as, a military officer resigns his commission; a prince resigns his crown.
Phoebus resigns his darts, and Jove his thunder, to the god of love.
2. To withdraw, as a claim. He resigns all pretensions to skill.
3. To yield; as, to resign the judgment to the direction of others.
4. To yield or give up in confidence.
What more reasonable, than that we should in all things resign ourselves to the will of God?
5. To submit, particularly to Providence.
A firm, yet cautious mind; sincere, though prudent; constant, yet resign'd.
6. To submit without resistance or murmur.
RE'SIGN, verb transitive To sign again.
RESIGN, noun Resignation. obsolete
RESIGNA'TION, noun
1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim or possession; as the resignation of a crown or commission.
2. Submission; unresisting acquiescence; as a blind resignation to the authority of other men's opinions.
3. Quiet submission to the will of Providence; submission without discontent, and with entire acquiescence in the divine dispensations. This is christian resignation
RESIGNED, participle passive
1. Given up; surrendered; yielded.
2. adjective Submissive to the will of God.
RESIGNEDLY, adverb With submission.
RESIGNING, participle present tense Giving up; surrendering; submitting.
RESIGNMENT, noun The act of resigning. obsolete
RES'ILAH, noun An ancient patriarchal coin.
RESIL'IENCE,
RESIL'IENCY, noun s as z. [Latin resiliens, resilio; re and salio, to spring.]
The act of leaping or springing back, or the act of rebounding; as the resilience of a ball or of sound.
RESIL'IENCY, n. s as z. [L. resiliens, resilio; re and salio, to spring.]
The act of leaping or springing back, or the act of rebounding; as the resilience of a ball or of sound.RESIL'IENT, adjective [Latin resiliens.] Leaping or starting back; rebounding.
RESILI'TION, noun [Latin resilio.] The act of springing back; resilience.
RES'IN, noun s as z. [Latin , Gr. to flow.]
An inflammable substance, hard when cool, but viscid when heated, exuding in a fluid state from certain kinds of trees, as pine, either spontaneously or by incision. Resins are soluble in oils and alcohol, and are said to be nothing but oils concreted by combination with oxygen. Resins differ from gums, which are vegetable mucilage; and they are less sweet and odorous than balsams.
RESINIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin resina and fero, to produce.]
Yielding resin; as a resiniferous tree or vessels.
RES'INIFORM, adjective Having the form of resin.
RES'INOUS, adjective Partaking of the qualities of resin; like resin. resinous substances are combustible.
Resinous electricity, is that electricity which is excited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. This is generally negative.
RES'INOUSLY, adverb By means of resin; as resinously electrified.
RES'INOUSNESS, noun The quality of being resinous.
RESIPIS'CENCE, noun [Latin resipisco, from resipio; re and sapio, to taste.]
Properly, wisdom derived from severe experience; hence, repentance. [Little used.]
RESIST, verb transitive rezist'. [Latin resisto; re and sisto, to stand.]
1. Literally, to stand against; to withstand; hence, to act in opposition, or to oppose. a dam or mound resists a current of water passively, by standing unmoved and interrupting its progress. An army resists the progress of an enemy actively, by encountering and defeating it. We resist measures by argument or remonstrance.
Why doth he yet find fault? for who hath resisted his will? Romans 9:19.
2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat or frustrate.
Ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. Acts 7:51.
3. To baffle; to disappoint.
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. James 4:7.
RESIST', verb intransitive to make opposition.
RESIST'ANCE, noun
1. The act of resisting; opposition. resistance is passive, as that of a fixed body which interrupts the passage of a moving body; or active, as in the exertion of force to stop, repel or defeat progress or designs.
2. The quality of not yielding to force or external impression; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as the resistance of a ball which receives the force of another; the resistance of wood to a cutting instrument; the resistance of air to the motion of a cannon ball, or of water to the motion of a ship.
RESIST'ANT, noun he or that which resists.
RESIST'ED, participle passive Opposed; counteracted; withstood.
RESIST'ER, noun One that opposes or withstands.
RESISTIBIL'ITY, noun
1. The quality of resisting.
The name body, being the complex idea of extension and resistibility together in the same subject -
2. Quality of being resistible; as the resistibility of grace.
RESIST'IBLE, adjective That may be resisted; as a resistible force; resistible grace.
RESIST'ING, participle present tense withstanding; opposing.
Resisting medium, a substance which opposes the passage of a body through it.
RESIST'IVE, adjective Having the power to resist.
RESIST'LESS, adjective
1. That cannot be effectually opposed or withstood; irresistible.
Resistless in her love as in her hate.
2. That cannot resist; helpless.
RESIST'LESSLY, adverb So as not to be opposed or denied.
RESOLD, participle passive of resell. Sold a second time, or sold after being bought.
RES'OLUBLE, adjective s as z. [re and Latin solubilis. See Resolve.]
That may be melted or dissolved; as bodies resoluble by fire.
RES'OLUTE, adjective [The Latin resolutus has a different signification. See Resolve.]
Having a fixed purpose; determined; hence, bold; firm; steady; constant in pursuing a purpose.
Edward is at hand, ready to fight; therefore be resolute
RES'OLUTELY, adverb
1. With fixed purpose; firmly; steadily; with steady perseverance. Persist resolutely in a course of virtue.
2. Boldly; firmly.
Some of these facts he examines, some be resolutely denies.
RES'OLUTENESS, noun Fixed purpose; firm determination; unshaken firmness.
RESOLU'TION, noun [Latin resolutio. See Resolve.]
1. The act, operation or process of separating the parts which compose a complex idea or a mixed body; the act of reducing any compound or combination to its component parts; analysis; as the resolution of complex ideas; the resolution of any material substance by chimical operations.
2. The act or process of unraveling or disentangling perplexities, or of dissipating obscurity in moral subjects; as the resolution of difficult questions in moral science.
3. Dissolution; the natural process of separating the component parts of bodies.
4. In music, the resolution of a dissonance, is the carrying of it, according to rule, into a consonance in the subsequent chord.
5. In medicine, the disappearing of any tumor without coming to suppuration; the dispersing of inflammation.
6. Fixed purpose or determination of mind; as a resolution to reform our lives; a resolution to undertake an expedition.
7. The effect of fixed purpose; firmness, steadiness or constancy in execution, implying courage.
They who governed the parliament, had the resolution to act those monstrous things.
8. Determination of a cause in a court of justice; as a judicial resolution
[But this word is now seldom used to express the decision of a judicial tribunal. We use judgment, decision or decree.]
9. The determination or decision of a legislative body, or a formal proposition offered for legislative determination. We call that a resolution which is reduced to form and offered to a legislative house for consideration, and we call it a resolution when adopted. We say, a member moved certain resolutions; the house proceeded to consider the resolutions offered; they adopted or rejected the resolutions.
10. The formal determination of any corporate body, or of any association of individuals; as the resolutions of a town or other meeting.
11. In algebra, the resolution of an equation, is the same as reduction; the bringing of the unknown quantity by itself on one side, and all the known quantities on the other, without destroying the equation, by which is found the value of the unknown quantity.
12. Relaxation; a weakening. obsolete
RESOLU'TIONER, noun One who joins in the declaration of others. [Not in use.]
RES'OLUTIVE, adjective Having the power to dissolve or relax. [Not much used.]
RESOLV'ABLE, adjective That may be resolved or reduced to first principles.
RESOLVE, verb transitive rezolv'. [Latin resolvo; re and solvo, to loose.]
1. To separate the component parts of a compound substance; to reduce to first principles; as, to resolve a body into its component or constituent parts; to resolve a body into its elements.
2. To separate the parts of a complex idea; to reduce to simple parts; to analyze.
3. To separate the parts of a complicated question; to unravel; to disentangle of perplexities; to remove obscurity by analysis; to clear of difficulties; to explain; as, to resolve questions in moral science; to resolve doubts; to resolve a riddle.
4. To inform to free from doubt or perplexity; as, to resolve the conscience.
RESOLVE me, stranger, whence and what you are?
5. To settle in an opinion; to make certain.
Long since we were resolv'd of your truth, your faithful service and your toil in war.
6. To confirm; to fix in constancy.
Quit presently the chapel, or resolve you for more amazement. [Unusual.]
7. To melt; to dissolve.
8. To form or constitute by resolution, vote or determination; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
9. In music, to resolve a discord or dissonance, is to carry it, according to rule, into a consonance in the subsequent chord.
10. In medicine, to disperse or scatter; to discuss; as inflammation or a tumor.
11. To relax; to lay at ease.
12. In algebra, to resolve an equation, is to bring all the known quantities to one side of the equation, and the unknown quantity to the other.
RESOLVE, verb intransitive rezolv'.
1. To fix in opinion or purpose; to determine in mind. He resolved to abandon his vicious course of life.
2. To determine by vote. The legislature resolved to receive no petitions after a certain day.
3. To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.
When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves and turns alkaline.
4. To separate into its component parts, or into distinct principles; as, water resolves into vapor; a substance resolves into gas.
5. To be settled in opinion.
Let men resolve of that as they please. [Unusual.]
RESOLVE, noun rezolv'.
1. Fixed purpose of mind; settled determination; resolution.
He strait revokes his bold resolve
2. Legal or official determination; legislative act concerning a private person or corporation, or concerning some private business. Public acts of a legislature respect the state, and to give them validity, the bills for such acts must pass through all the legislative forms. Resolves are usually private acts, and are often passed with less formality. Resolves may also be the acts of a single branch of the legislature; whereas public acts must be passed by a majority of both branches.
3. The determination of any corporation or association; resolution.
RESOLV'ED, participle passive
1. Separated into its component parts; analyzed.
2. Determined in purpose; as, I am resolved not to keep company with gamesters. This phrase is properly, 'I have resolved; ' as we say, a person is deceased, or has deceased; he is retired, or has retired. In these phrases, the participle is rather an adjective.
3. Determined officially or by vote.
RESOLV'EDLY, adverb With firmness of purpose.
RESOLV'EDNESS, noun Fixedness of purpose; firmness; resolution.
RESOLV'ENT, noun That which has the power of causing solution. In medicine, that which has power to disperse inflammation and prevent the suppuration of tumors; a discutient.
RESOLV'ER, noun One that resolves or forms a firm purpose.
RESOLV'ING, participle present tense Separating into component parts; analyzing; removing perplexities or obscurity; discussing, as tumors; determining.
RESOLV'ING, noun The act of determining or forming a fixed purpose; a resolution.
RES'ONANCE, noun s as z. [Latin resonans.]
1. A resounding; a sound returned from the sides of a hollow instrument of music; reverberated sound or sounds.
2. A sound returned.
RES'ONANT, adjective [Latin resonans; re and sono, to sound.] Resounding; returning sound; echoing back.
RESORB', verb transitive [Latin resorbeo; re and sorbeo, to drink in.] To swallow up.
RESORB'ENT, adjective Swallowing up.
RESORT', verb intransitive s as z.
1. To have recourse; to apply; to betake.
The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.
2. To go; to repair.
The people resort to him again. Mark 10:1. John 18:20.
3. To fall back.
The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother. obsolete
RESORT', noun
1. The act of going to or making application; a betaking one's self; as a resort to other means of defense; a resort to subterfuges for evasion.
2. Act of visiting.
Join with me to forbid him her resort
3. Assembly; meeting.
4. Concourse; frequent assembling; as a place of resort
5. The place frequented; as, alehouses are the resorts of the idle and dissolute.
6. Spring; active power or movement; a Gallicism. [Not in use.]
Last resort ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal.
RESORT'ER, noun One that resorts or frequents.
RESORT'ING, participle present tense Going; having recourse; betaking; frequenting.
RESOUND', verb transitive s as z. [Latin resono; re and sono, to sound.]
1. To send back sound; to echo.
And Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay.
2. To sound; to praise or celebrate with the voice or the sound of instruments.
3. To praise; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.
The man for wisdom; s various arts renown'd, long exercis'd in woes, O muse, resound
RESOUND', verb intransitive
1. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound; as, common fame resounds back to them.
2. To be much and loudly mentioned.
RE'SOUND, verb transitive [re and sound; with the accent on the first syllable.] To sound again.
RESOUND', noun s as z. Return of sound; echo.
RESOUND'ED, participle passive Echoed; returned, as sound; celebrated.
RESOUND'ING, participle present tense Echoing; returning, as sound.
RESOURCE, noun
1. Any source of aid or support; an expedient to which a person may resort for assistance, safety or supply; means yet untried; resort. An enterprising man finds resources in his own mind.
Pallas view'd his foes pursuing and his friends pursu'd, used threat'nings mix'd with prayers, his last resource
2. Resources, in the plural, pecuniary means; funds; money or any property that can be converted into supplies; means of raising money or supplies. Our national resources for carrying on war are abundant. Commerce and manufactures furnish ample resources.
RESOURCELESS, adjective Destitute of resources. [A word not to be countenanced.]
RESOW, verb transitive preterit tense resowed; participle passive resowed or resown. [re and sow.] To sow again.
RESOWED,
RESOWN, participle passive Sown anew.
RESOWN, pp. Sown anew.
RESPE'AK, verb transitive preterit tense respoke; participle passive respoken, respoke. [re and speak.
1. To answer; to speak in return; to reply. [Little used.]
2. To speak again; to repeat.
RESPECT', verb transitive [Latin respecto, or respectus, from respicio; re and specio, to view.]
1. To regard; to have regard to in design or purpose.
In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty, as variety of ground for fruits, trees and herbs.
2. To have regard to, in relation or connection; to relate to. The treaty particularly respects our commerce.
3. To view or consider with some degree of reverence; to esteem as possessed of real worth.
I always loved and respected Sir William.
4. To look towards.
Palladius adviseth the front of his house should so respect the south. [Not in use.]
To respect the person, to suffer the opinion or judgment to be influenced or biased by a regard to the outward circumstances of a person, to the prejudice of right and equity.
Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor. Leviticus 19:15.
Neither doth God respect any person. 2 Samuel 14:14.
RESPECT', noun [Latin respectus.]
1. Regard; attention.
2. That estimation or honor in which men hold the distinguished worth or substantial good qualities of others. It expresses less than reverence and veneration, which regard elders and superiors; whereas respect may regard juniors and inferiors.
RESPECT regards the qualities of the mind, or the actions which characterize those qualities.
Seen without awe, and serv'd without respect
3. That deportment or course of action which proceeds from esteem; regard; due attention; as, to treat a person with respect
These same men treat the sabbath with little respect
4. Good will; favor.
The Lord had respect to Abel and his offering. Genesis 4:4.
5. Partial regard; undue bias to the prejudice of justice; as the phrase, respect of persons. 1 Peter 1:17. James 2:1. Proverbs 24:23.
6. Respected character; as persons of the best respect in Rome.
7. Consideration; motive in reference to something.
Whatever secret respects were likely to move them -
8. Relation; regard; reference; followed by of, but more properly by to.
They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the benefits men received from him, had several titles.
RESPECTABIL'ITY, noun State or quality of being respectable; the state or qualities which deserve or command respect.
RESPECT'ABLE, adjective
1. Possessing the worth or qualities which deserve or command respect; worth of esteem and honor; as a respectable citizen; respectable company.
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable
2. In popular language, this word is much used to express what is moderate in degree of excellence on in number, but not despicable. We say, a respectable discourse or performance, a respectable audience, a respectable number of citizens convened.
RESPECT'ABLENESS, noun Respectability.
RESPECT'ABLY, adverb
1. With respect; more generally, in a manner to merit respect.
2. Moderately, but in a manner not to be despised.
RESPECT'ED, participle passive Held in honorable estimation.
RESPECT'ER, noun One that respects; chiefly used in the phrase, respecter of persons, which signifies a person who regards the external circumstances of others in his judgment, and suffers his opinion to be biased by them, to the prejudice of candor, justice and equity.
I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34.
RESPECT'FUL, adjective Marked or characterized by respect; as respectful deportment.
With humble joy and with respectful fear.
RESPECT'FULLY, adverb With respect; in a manner comporting with due estimation.
RESPECT'FULNESS, noun The quality of being respectful.
RESPECT'ING, participle present tense Regarding; having regard to; relating to. This word, like concerning, has reference to a single word or to a sentence. In the sentence, 'his conduct respecting us is commendable, ' respecting has reference to conduct. But when we say, 'respecting a further appropriation of money, it is to be observed, that the resources of the country are inadequate, ' respecting has reference to the whole subsequent clause or sentence.
RESPECT'IVE, adjective
1. Relative; having relation to something else; not absolute; as the respective connections of society.
2. Particular; relating to a particular person or thing. Let each man retire to his respective place of abode. The officers were found in their respective quarters; they appeared at the head of their respective regiments. Let each give according to his respective proportion.
3. Worthy of respect. [Not in use.]
4. Careful; circumspect; cautious; attentive to consequences; as respective and wary men. [Not in use.]
RESPECT'IVELY, adverb
1. As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each. Let each man respectively perform his duty.
The impressions from the objects of the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind.
2. Relatively; not absolutely.
3. Partially; with respect to private views. obsolete
4. With respect. obsolete
RESPECT'LESS, adjective Having no respect; without regard; without reference. [Little used.]
RESPECT'LESSNESS, noun The state of having no respect or regard; regardlessness. [Little used.]
RESPERSE, verb transitive respers'. [Latin respersus, respergo; re and spargo, to sprinkle.] To sprinkle. [Rarely used.]
RESPER'SION, noun [Latin respersio.] The act of sprinkling.
RES'PIRABLE, adjective [from respire.] That may be breathed; fit for respiration or for the support of animal life; as respirable air. Azotic gas is not respirable
RESPIRA'TION, noun [Latin respiratio.]
1. The act of breathing; the act of inhaling air into the lungs and again exhaling or expelling it, by which animal life is supported. The respiration of fishes, [for these cannot live long without air, ] appears to be performed by the air contained in the water acting on the gills.
2. Relief from toil.
RES'PIRATORY, adjective Serving for respiration; as respiratory organs.
RESPI'RE, verb intransitive [Latin respiro; re and spiro, to breathe.]
1. To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs and exhale it, for the purpose of maintaining animal life.
2. To catch breath.
3. To rest; to take rest from toil.
RESPI'RE, verb transitive To exhale; to breathe out; to send out in exhalations.
RESPI'RED, participle passive Breathed; inhaled and exhaled.
RESPI'RING, participle present tense Breathing; taking breath.
RES'PIT, noun
1. Pause; temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest.
Some pause and respit only I require.
2. In law, reprieve; temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender.
3. Delay; forbearance; prolongation of time for the payment of a debt beyond the legal time.
4. The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury, beyond the proper term.
RES'PIT, verb transitive
1. To relieve by a pause or interval of rest.
To respit his day-labor with repast.
2. To suspend the execution of a criminal beyond the time limited by the sentence; to delay for a time.
3. To give delay of appearance at court; as, to respit a jury.
RES'PITED, participle passive Relieved from labor; allowed a temporary suspension of execution.
RES'PITING, participle present tense Relieving from labor; suspending the execution of a capital offender.
RESPLEN'DENCE,
RESPLEN'DENCY, noun [Latin resplendens, resplendeo; re and splendeo, to shine.]
Brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor.
Son! thou in whom my glory I behold in full resplendence heir of all my might.
RESPLEN'DENCY, n. [L. resplendens, resplendeo; re and splendeo, to shine.]
Brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor.Son! thou in whom my glory I behold in full resplendence, heir of all my might.RESPLEN'DENT, adjective [supra.] Very bright; shining with brilliant luster.
With royal arras and resplendent gold.
RESPLEN'DENTLY, adverb With brilliant luster; with great brightness.
RESPLIT', verb transitive [re and split.] To split again.
RESPOND', verb intransitive [Latin respondeo; re and spondeo, to promise, that is, to sent to. Hence respondeo is to send back.]
1. To answer; to reply.
A new affliction strings a new chord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe.
2. To correspond; to suit.
To every theme responds thy various lay.
3. To be answerable; to be liable to make payment; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages.
RESPOND', verb transitive To answer; to satisfy by payment. The surety was held to respond the judgment of court. The goods attached shall be held to respond the judgment.
RESPOND', noun
1. A short anthem interrupting the middle of a chapter, which is not to proceed till the anthem is ended.
2. An answer. [Not in use.]
RESPOND'ED, participle passive Answered; satisfied by payment.
RESPOND'ENT, adjective Answering; that answers to demand or expectation.
- Wealth respondent to payment and contributions.
RESPOND'ENT, noun
1. One that answers in a suit, particularly a chancery suit.
2. In the schools, one who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province is to refute objections or overthrow arguments.
RESPOND'ING, ppr. Answering; corresponding.
RESPONS'AL, adjective Answerable; responsible. [Not in use.]
RESPONS'AL, noun
1. Response; answer.
2. One who is responsible. [Not in use.]
RESPONSE, noun respons'. [Latin responsum.]
1. An answer or reply; particularly, an oracular answer.
2. The answer of the people or congregation to the priest, in the litany and other parts of divine service.
3. Reply to an objection in a formal disputation.
4. In the Romish church, a kind of anthem sung after the morning lesson.
5. In a fugue, a repetition of the given subject by another part.
RESPONSIBIL'ITY, noun [from responsible.]
1. The state of being accountable or answerable, as for a trust or office, or for a debt.
It is used in the plural; as heavy responsibilities.
2. Ability to answer in payment; means of paying contracts.
RESPONS'IBLE, adjective [from Latin responsus, respondeo.]
1. Liable to account; accountable; answerable; as for a trust reposed, or for a debt. We are all responsible for the talents entrusted to us by our Creator. A guardian is responsible for the faithful discharge of his duty to his ward. The surety is responsible for the debt of his principal.
2. Able to discharge an obligation; or having estate adequate to the payment of a debt. In taking bail, the officer will ascertain whether the proposed surety is a responsible man.
RESPONS'IBLENESS, noun
1. State of being liable to answer, repay or account; responsibility.
2. Ability to make payment of an obligation or demand.
RESPON'SION, noun [Latin responsio.] The act of answering. [Not used.]
RESPONS'IVE, adjective
1. Answering; making reply.
2. Correspondent; suited to something else.
The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
RESPONS'ORY, adjective Containing answer.
RESPONS'ORY, noun A response; the alternate speaking, in church service.
REST, noun [Latin resto, if the latter is a compound of re and sto; but is an original word. See Verb.]
1. Cessation of motion or action of any kind, and applicable to any body or being; as rest from labor; rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind. A body is at rest when it ceases to move; the mind is at rest when it ceases to be disturbed or agitated; the sea is never at rest Hence,
2. Quiet; repose; a state free from motion or disturbance; a state of reconciliation to God.
Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls. Matthew 11:28.
3. Sleep; as, retire to rest
4. Peace; national quiet.
The land had rest eighty years. Judges 3:11. Deuteronomy 12:9.
5. The final sleep, death.
6. A place of quiet; permanent habitation.
Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you. Deuteronomy 12:9.
7. Any place of repose.
In dust, our final rest and native home.
8. That on which any thing leans or lies for support. 1 Kings 6:6.
Their vizors clos'd, their lances in the rest
9. In poetry, a short pause of the voice in reading; a cesura.
10. In philosophy, the continuance of a body in the same place.
11. Final hope.
Sea fights have been final to the war; but this is, when princes set up their rest upon the battle. obsolete
12. Cessation from tillage. Leviticus 25:4.
13. The gospel church or new covenant state in which the people of God enjoy repose, and Christ shall be glorified.
Isaiah 11:2.
14. In music, a pause; an interval during which the voice is intermitted; also, the mark of such intermission.
REST, noun [Latin resto.]
1. That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder.
Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the present comfort of having done our duty, and for the rest it offers us the best security that heaven can give.
2. Others; those not included in a proposition or description. [In this sense, rest is a noun, but with a singular termination expressing plurality.]
Plato and the rest of the philosophers -
Arm'd like the rest the Trojan prince appears.
The election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded. Romans 11:7.
REST, verb intransitive
1. To cease from action or motion of any kind; to stop; a word applicable to any body or being, and to any kind of motion.
2. To cease from labor, work or performance.
God rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Genesis 2:2.
So the people rested on the seventh day. Exodus 16:23.
3. To be quiet or still; to be undisturbed.
There rest if any rest can harbor there.
4. To cease from war; to be at peace.
And the land rested from war. Joshua 11:23.
5. To be quiet or tranquil, as the mind; not to be agitated by fear, anxiety or other passion.
6. To lie; to repose; as, to rest on a bed.
7. To sleep; to slumber.
Fancy then retires into her private cell, when nature rests.
8. to sleep the final sleep; to die or be dead.
Glad I'd lay me down, as in my mother's lap; ther I should rest and sleep secure.
9. To lean; to recline for support; as, to rest the arm on a table. The truth of religion rests on divine testimony.
10. to stand on; to be supported by; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
11. To be satisfied; to acquiesce; as, to rest on heaven's determination.
12. To lean; to trust; to rely; as, to rest on a man's promise.
13. To continue fixed. Isaiah 51:4.
14. To terminate; to come to an end. Ezekiel 16:42.
15. To hang, lie or be fixed.
Over a tent a cloud shall rest by day.
16. To abide; to remain with.
They said, the spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. 2 Kings 2:15. Ecclesiastes 7:9.
17. To be calm or composed in mind; to enjoy peace of conscience.
REST, verb intransitive To be left; to remain. obsolete
REST, verb transitive
1. To lay at rest; to quiet.
Your piety has paid all needful rites, to rest my wandering shade.
2. To place, as on a support. We rest our cause on the truth of the Scripture.
Her weary head upon your bosom rest
RESTAG'NANT, adjective [Latin restagnans.] Stagnant; remaining without a flow or current. [Not much used.]
RESTAG'NATE, verb intransitive [Latin restagno; re and stagno, to stagnate.]
To stand or remain without flowing.
[This word is superseded by stagnate.]
RESTAGNA'TION, noun Stagnation, which see.
REST'ANT, adjective [Latin restans, reto.] In botany, remaining, as footstalks after the fructification has fallen off.
RESTAURA'TION, noun [Latin restauro.] Restoration to a former good state.
[The present orthography is restoration, which see.]
REST'ED, participle passive Laid on for support.
RESTEM', verb transitive [re and stem.] To force back against the current.
REST'FUL, adjective [from rest.] Quiet; being at rest.
REST'FULLY, adverb In a state of rest or quiet.
REST'IF, adjective [Latin resto.]
1. Unwilling to go, or only running back; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; as a restif steed. It seems originally to have been used of horses that would not be driven forward. It is sometimes written restive.
All who before him did ascend the throne, labor'd to draw three restive nations on.
2. Unyielding; as restif stubbornness.
3. Being at rest, or less in action. [Not in use.]
REST'IF, noun A stubborn horse.
REST'IFNESS, noun
1. Obstinate reluctance or indisposition to move.
2. Obstinate unwillingness.
RESTINC'TION, noun [Latin restinctio, restinguo; re and extinguo.]
The act of quenching or extinguishing.
REST'ING, participle present tense Ceasing to move or act; ceasing to be moved or agitated; lying; leaning; standing; depending or relying.
RESTIN'GUISH, verb transitive [Latin restinguo; re and extinguo.] To quench or extinguish.
RES'TITUTE, verb transitive [Latin restituo; re and statuo, to set.]
To restore to a former state. [Not used.]
RESTITU'TION, noun [Latin restitutio.]
1. The act of returning or restoring to a person some thing or right of which he has been unjustly deprived; as the restitution of ancient rights to the crown.
Restitution is made by restoring a specific thing taken away or lost.
2. The act of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage or injury; indemnification.
He restitution to the value makes.
3. The act of recovering a former state or posture. [Unusual.]
Restitution of all things, the putting the world in a holy and happy state. Acts 3:21.
RES'TITUTOR, noun One who makes restitution. [little used.]
RESTIVE, RESTIVENESS. [See Restif.]
RESTIVE, RESTIVENESS [See Restif.]
REST'LESS, adjective
1. Unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as a restless child.
2. Being without sleep; uneasy.
Restless he pass'd the remnant of the night.
3. Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night.
4. Uneasy; unquiet; not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; as a restless prince; restless ambition; restless passions.
5. Uneasy; turbulent; as restless subjects.
6. Unsettled; disposed to wander or to change place or condition.
- restless at home, and ever prone to range.
REST'LESSLY, adverb Without rest; unquietly.
When the mind casts and turns itself restlessly from one thing to another.
REST'LESSNESS, noun
1. Uneasiness; unquietness; a state of disturbance or agitation, either of body or mind.
2. Want of sleep or rest; uneasiness.
3. Motion; agitation; as the restlessness of the magnetic needle.
RESTO'RABLE, noun [from restore.] That may be restored to a former good condition; as restorable land.
RESTO'RAL, noun Restitution. [Not in use.]
RESTORA'TION, noun [Latin restauro.]
1. The act of replacing in a former state.
Behold the different climes agree, rejoicing in thy restoration
So we speak of the restoration of a man to his office, or to a good standing in society.
2. Renewal; revival; re-establishment; as the restoration of friendship between enemies; the restoration of peace after war; the restoration of a declining commerce.
3. Recovery; renewal of health and soundness; as restoration from sickness or from insanity.
4. Recovery from a lapse or any bad state; as the restoration of man from apostasy.
5. In theology, universal restoration the final recovery of all men from sin and alienation from God, to a state of happiness; universal salvation.
6. In England, the return of king Charles II in 1660, and the re-establishment of monarchy.
RESTO'RATIVE, adjective That has power to renew strength and vigor.
RESTO'RATIVE, noun A medicine efficacious in restoring strength and vigor, or in recruiting the vital powers.
RESTO'RE, verb transitive [Latin restauro. This is a compound of re and the root of store, story, history. The primary sense is to set, to lay or to throw, as in Gr. solid.]
1. To return to a person, as a specific thing which he has lost, or which has been taken from him and unjustly detained. We restore lost or stolen goods to the owner.
Now therefore restore to the man his wife. Genesis 20:7.
2. To replace; to return; as a person or thing to a former place.
Pharaoh shall restore thee to thy place. Genesis 40:13.
3. To bring back.
The father banish'd virtue shall restore
4. To bring back or recover from lapse, degeneracy, declension or ruin to its former state.
- Loss of Eden, till one greater man restore it, and regain the blissful seat.
- Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions.
5. To heal; to cure; to recover from disease.
His hand was restored whole like as the other. Matthew 12:13.
6. To make restitution or satisfaction for a thing taken, by returning something else, or something of different value.
He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. Exodus 22:1.
7. To give for satisfaction for pretended wrongs something not taken. Psalms 69:4.
8. To repair; to rebuild; as, to restore and to build Jerusalem. Daniel 9:25.
9. To revive; to resuscitate; to bring back to life.
Whose son he had restored to life. 2 Kings 8:6.
10. To return or bring back after absence. Hebrews 13:19.
11. To bring to a sense of sin and amendment of life.
Galatians 6:1.
12. To renew or re-establish after interruption; as, peace is restored. Friendship between the parties is restored.
13. To recover or renew, as passages of an author obscured or corrupted; as, to restore the true reading.
RE'STORE, verb transitive [re and store.] To store again. The goods taken out were restored.
RESTO'RED, participle passive Returned; brought back; retrieved; recovered; cured; renewed; re-established.
RESTO'REMENT, noun The act of restoring; restoration. [Not used.]
RESTO'RER, noun One that restores; one that returns what is lost or unjustly detained; one who repairs or re-establishes.
RESTO'RING, participle present tense Returning what is lost or taken; bringing back; recovering; curing; renewing; repairing; re-establishing.
RESTRA'IN, verb transitive [Latin restringo; re and stringo, to strain. The letter g appears from the participle to be casual; stringo, for strigo. Hence strictus, strict, stricture. If the two letters st are removed, the word rigo coincides exactly, in primary sense, with Latin rego, rectus, right, and the root of reach, stretch, straight.]
1. To hold back; to check; to hold from action, proceeding or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by an interposing obstacle. Thus we restrain a horse by a bridle; we restrain cattle from wandering by fences; we restrain water by dams and dikes; we restrain men from crimes and trespasses by laws; we restrain young people, when we can, by arguments or counsel; we restrain men and their passions; we restrain the elements; we attempt to restrain vice, but not always with success.
2. To repress; to keep in awe; as, to restrain offenders.
3. To suppress; to hinder or repress; as, to restrain excess.
4. To abridge; to hinder from unlimited enjoyment; as, to restrain one of his pleasure or of his liberty.
5. To limit; to confine.
Not only a metaphysical or natural, but a moral universality is also to be restrained by a part of the predicate.
6. To withhold; to forbear.
Thou restrainest prayer before God. Job 15:8.
RESTRA'INABLE, adjective Capable of being restrained.
RESTRA'INED, participle passive Held back from advancing or wandering; withheld; repressed; suppressed; abridged; confined.
RESTRA'INEDLY, adverb With restraint; with limitation.
RESTRA'INER, noun He or that which restrains.
RESTRA'INING, participle present tense
1. Holding back from proceeding; checking; repressing; hindering from motion or action; suppressing.
2. adjective Abridging; limiting; as a restraining statute.
RESTRA'INT, noun
1. The act or operation of holding back or hindering from motion, in any manner; hinderance of the will, or of any action, physical, moral or mental.
2. Abridgment of liberty; as the restraint of a man by imprisonment or by duress.
3. Prohibition. The commands of God should be effectual restraints upon our evil passions.
4. Limitation; restriction.
If all were granted, yet it must be maintained, within any bold restraints, far otherwise than it is received.
5. That which restrains, hinders or represses. The laws are restraints upon injustice.
RESTRICT', verb transitive [Latin restrictus, from restringo. See Restrain.]
To limit; to confine; to restrain within bounds; as, to restrict words to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
RESTRICT'ED, participle passive Limited; confined to bounds.
RESTRICT'ING, participle present tense Confining to limits.
RESTRIC'TION, noun [Latin restrictus.]
1. Limitation; confinement within bounds.
This is to have the same restriction as all other recreations.
Restriction of words, is the limitation of their signification in a particular manner or degree.
2. Restraint; as restrictions on trade.
RESTRICT'IVE, adjective
1. Having the quality of limiting or of expressing limitation; as a restrictive particle.
2. Imposing restraint; as restrictive laws of trade.
3. Styptic. [Not used.]
RESTRICT'IVELY, adverb With limitation.
RESTRINGE, verb intransitive restrinj. [Latin restringo, supra.] To confine; to contract; to astringe.
RESTRIN'GENCY, noun The quality or power of contracting.
RESTRIN'GENT, adjective Astringent; styptic.
RESTRIN'GENT, noun A medicine that operates as an astringent or styptic.
RESTRI'VE, verb intransitive [re and strive.] To strive anew.
REST'Y, adjective The same as restive or restif, of which it is a contraction.
RESUBJEC'TION, noun [re and subjection.] A second subjection.
RESUBLIMA'TION, noun A second sublimation.
RESUBLI'ME, verb transitive [re and sublime.] To sublime again; as, to resublime mercurial sublimate.
RESUBLI'MED, participle passive sublimed a second time.
RESUBLI'MING, participle present tense Subliming again.
RESUDA'TION, noun [Latin resudatus, resudo; re and sudo, to sweat.] The act of sweating again.
RESULT', v.i s as z. [Latin resulto, resilio; re and salio, to leap.]
1. to leap back; to rebound.
The huge round stone, resulting with a bound -
2. To preceed, spring or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, conbination of circumstances, consultation or meditation. Evidence results from testimony, or from a variety of concurring circumstances; pleasure results from friendship; harmony results from certain accordances of sounds.
Pleasure and peace naturally result from a holy and good life.
3. To come to a conclusion or determination. the council resulted in recommending harmony and peace to the parties.
RESULT', noun
1. Resilience; act of flying back.
Sound is produced between the string and the air, by the return of the result of the string.
2. Consequence; conclusion; inference; effect; that which proceeds naturally or logically from facts, premises or the state of things; as the result of reasoning; the result of reflection; the result of a consultation or council; the result of a legislative debate.
3. Consequence or effect.
The misery of sinners will be the natural result of their vile affections and criminal indulgences.
4. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; as the result of an ecclesiastical council.
RESULT'ANCE, noun The act of resulting.
RESULT'ANT, noun In mechanics, a force which is the combined effect of two or more forces, acting in different directions.
RESULT'ING, participle present tense
1. Proceeding as a consequence, effect or conclusion of something; coming to a determination.
2. In law, resulting use, is a use which returns to him who raised it, after its expiration or during the impossibility of vesting in the person intended.
RESU'MABLE, adjective s as z. [from resume.] That may be taken back, or that may be taken up again.
RES'UME, verb transitive s as z. [Latin resumo; re and sumo, to take.]
1. To take back what has been given.
The sun, like this from which our sight we have, gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.
2. To take back what has been taken away.
They resume what has been obtained fraudulently.
3. To take again after absence; as, to resume a seat.
Reason resum'd her place, and passion fled.
4. To take up again after interruption; to begin again; as, to resume an argument or discourse. [This is now its most frequent use.]
RESU'MED, participle passive Taken back; taken again; begun again after interruption.
RESU'MING, participle present tense Taking back; taking again; beginning again after interruption.
RESUM'MON, verb transitive
1. To summon or call again.
2. To recall; to recover.
RESUM'MONED, participle passive Summoned again; recovered.
RESUM'MONING, participle present tense Recalling; recovering.
RESUMP'TION, noun [Latin resumptus.]
The act of resuming, taking back or taking again; as the resumption of a grant.
RESUMP'TIVE, adjective Taking back or again.
RESUP'INATE, adjective [Latin resupinatus, resupino; re and supino, supinus, lying on the back.]
In botany, reversed; turned upside down. A resupinate corol is when the upper lip faces the ground, and the lower lip the sky. A resupinate leaf is when the upper surface becomes the lower, and contrary; or when the lower disk looks upward.
RESUPINA'TION, noun [supra.] The state of lying on the back; the state of being resupinate or reversed, as a corol.
RESU'PINE, adjective Lying on the back.
RESURREC'TION, noun s as z. [Latin resurrectus, resurgo; re and surgo, to rise.]
A rising again; chiefly, the revival of the dead of the human race, or their return from the grave, particularly at the general judgment. By the resurrection of Christ we have assurance of the future resurrection of men. 1 Peter 1:3.
In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage. Matthew 22:23.
RESURVEY, verb transitive [re and survey.] To survey again or anew; to review.
RESUR'VEY, noun A second survey.
RESURVEY'ED, participle passive Surveyed again.
RESURVEYING, participle present tense surveying anew; reviewing.
RESUS'CITATE, verb transitive [Latin resuscito; re and suscito, to raise.]
1. To revivify; to revive; particularly, to recover from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.
2. To reproduce, as a mixed body from its ashes.
RESUS'CITATED, participle passive Revived; revivified; reproduced.
RESUS'CITATING, participle present tense Reviving; revivifying; reproducing.
RESUSCITA'TION, noun
1. The act of reviving from a state of apparent death; the state of being revivified.
2. The reproducing of a mixed body from its ashes.
RESUS'CITATIVE, adjective Reviving; revivifying; raising from apparent death; reproducing.
RETA'IL,
RETAIL, verb transitive
1. To sell in small quantities or parcels, from the sense of cutting or dividing; opposed to selling by wholesale; as, to retail cloth or groceries.
2. To sell at second hand.
3. To tell in broken parts; to tell to many; as, to retail slander or idle reports.
RE'TAIL, noun The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels, or at second hand.
RETA'ILED, participle passive Sold in small quantities.
RETA'ILER,
RE'TAILER, noun [This word, like the noun retail, is often, perhaps generally accented on the first syllable in America.]
One who sells goods by small quantities or parcels.
RETA'ILING, participle present tense Selling in small quantities.
RETA'IN, verb transitive [Latin retineo; re and teneo, to hold.]
1. To hold or keep in possession; not to lose or part with or dismiss. The memory retains ideas which facts or arguments have suggested to the mind.
They did not like to retain God in their knowledge. Romans 1:28.
2. To keep, as an associate; to keep from departure.
Whom I would have retained with me. Philemon 1:13.
3. To keep back; to hold.
An executor may retain a debt due to him from the testator.
4. To hold from escape. Some substances retain heat much longer than others. Metals readily receive and transmit heat, but do not long retain it. Seek cloths that retain their color.
5. To keep in pay; to hire.
A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense.
6. To engage; to employ by a fee paid; as, to retain a counselor.
RETA'IN, verb intransitive
1. To belong to; to depend on; as coldness mixed with a somewhat languid relish retaining to bitterness.
[Not in use. We now use pertain.]
2. To keep; to continue. [Not in use.]
RETA'INED, participle passive Held; kept in possession; kept as an associate; kept in pay; kept from escape.
RETA'INER, noun
1. One who retains; as an executor, who retains a debt due from the testator.
2. One who is kept in service; an attendant; as the retainers of the ancient princes and nobility.
3. An adherent; a dependant; a hanger on.
4. A servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.
5. Among lawyers, a fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause.
6. The act of keeping dependents, or being in dependence.
RETA'INING, participle present tense Keeping in possession; keeping as an associate; keeping from escape; hiring; engaging by a fee.
RETA'KE, verb transitive preterit tense retook; participle passive retaken. [re and take.]
1. To take again.
2. To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
RETA'KER, noun One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor.
RETA'KING, participle present tense Taking again; taking from a captor.
RETA'KING, noun A taking again; recapture.
RETAL'IATE, verb transitive [Low Latin retalio; re and talio, from talis, like.]
To return like for like; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind as has been received. It is now seldom used except in a bad sense, that is, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate injuries. In war, enemies often retaliate the death or inhuman treatment of prisoners, the burning of towns or the plunder of goods.
It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors.
RETAL'IATE, verb intransitive To return like for like; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
RETAL'IATED, participle passive Returned, as like for like.
RETAL'IATING, participle present tense Returning, like for like.
RETALIA'TION, noun
1. The return of like for like; the doing that to another which he has done to us; requital of evil.
2. In a good sense, return of good for good.
God takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise obliges himself to full retaliation
[This, according to modern usage, is harsh.]
RETAL'IATORY, adjective Returning like for like; as retaliatory measure; retaliatory edicts.
RET'ARD, verb transitive [Latin retardo; re and tardo, to delay, tardus, slow, late. See Target.]
1. To diminish the velocity of motion; to hinder; to render more slow in progress; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship. The resistance of air retards the velocity of a cannon ball. It is opposed to accelerate.
2. To delay; to put off; to render more late; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations. My visit was retarded by business.
RET'ARD, verb intransitive To stay back. [Not in use.]
RETARDA'TION, noun The act of abating the velocity of motion; hinderance; the act of delaying; as the retardation of the motion of a ship; the retardation of hoary hairs.
RET'ARDED, participle passive Hindered in motion; delayed.
RET'ARDER, noun One that retards, hinders or delays.
RET'ARDING, participle present tense Abating the velocity of motion; hindering; delaying.
RET'ARDMENT, noun The act of retarding or delaying.
RETCH, verb intransitive [See Reach.]
To make an effort to vomit; to heave; as the stomach; to strain, as in vomiting; properly to reach.
RETCHLESS, careless, is not in use. [See Reckless.]
RETEC'TION, noun [Latin retectus, from retego, to uncover; re and tego, to cover.]
The act of disclosing or producing to view something concealed; as the retection of the native color of the body.
RETENT', noun That which is retained.
RETEN'TION, noun [Latin retentio, retineo; re and teneo, to hold.]
1. The act of retaining or keeping.
2. The power of retaining; the faculty of the mind by which it retains ideas.
3. In medicine, the power of retaining, or that state of contraction in the solid or vascular parts of the body, by which they hold their proper contents and prevent in voluntary evacuations; undue retention of some natural discharge.
4. The act of withholding; restraint.
5. Custody; confinement. [Not in use.]
RETEN'TIVE, adjective Having the power to retain; as a retentive memory; the retentive faculty; the retentive force of the stomach; a body retentive of heat or moisture.
RETEN'TIVENESS, noun The quality of retention; a retentiveness of memory.
RET'ICENCE,
RET'ICENCY, noun [Latin reticentia, reticeo; re and tacco, to be silent.]
Concealment by silence. In rhetoric, aposiopesis or suppression; a figure by which a person really speaks of a thing, while he makes a show as if he would say nothing on the subject.
RET'ICENCY, n. [L. reticentia, reticeo; re and tacco, to be silent.]
Concealment by silence. In rhetoric, aposiopesis or suppression; a figure by which a person really speaks of a thing, while he makes a show as if he would say nothing on the subject.RET'ICLE, noun [Latin reticulum, from rete, a net.]
1. A small net.
2. A contrivance to measure the quantity of an eclipse; a kind of micrometer.
RETIC'ULAR, adjective [supra.] Having the form of a net or of net-work; formed with interstices; as a reticular body or membrane.
In anatomy, the reticular body, or rete mucosum, is the layer of the skin, intermediate between the cutis and the cuticle, the principal seat of color in man; the reticular membrane is the same as the cellular membrane.
RETIC'ULATE,
RETIC'ULATED, adjective [Latin reticulatus, from rete, a net.] Netted; resembling net-work; having distinct veins crossing like net-work; as a reticulate corol or petal.
RETIC'ULATED, a. [L. reticulatus, from rete, a net.] Netted; resembling net-work; having distinct veins crossing like net-work; as a reticulate corol or petal.
RETICULA'TION, noun Net-work; organization of substances resembling a net.
RET'IFORM, adjective [Latin retiformis; rete, a net, and forma, form.]
Having the form of a net in texture; composed of crossing lines and interstices; as the retiform coat of the eye.
RET'INA, noun [Latin from rete, a net.] In anatomy, one of the coats of the eye, being an expansion of the optic nerve over the bottom of the eye, where the sense of vision is first received.
RETINASPHALT', noun A bituminous or resinous substance of a yellowish or reddish brown color, found in irregular pieces very light and shining. [See Retinite.]
RET'INITE, noun [Gr. resin.] Pitchstone; stone of fusible pitch, of a resinous appearance, compact, brown, reddish, gray, yellowish, blackish or bluish, rarely homogeneous, and often containing crystals of feldspar and scales of mica. It is the pechstein porphyry or obsidian of the Germans. It is called also retinasphalt.
RET'INUE, noun [Latin retineo; re and tenco, to hold.]
The attendants of a prince or distinguished personage, chiefly on a journey or an excursion; a train of persons.
RETIRA'DE, noun
In fortification, a kind of retrenchment in the body of a bastion or other work, which is to be disputed inch by inch, after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces, which make a re-entering angle.
RETI'RE, verb intransitive
1. To withdraw; to retreat; to go from company or from a public place into privacy; as, to retire from the world; to retire from notice.
2. To retreat from action or danger; as, to retire from battle.
3. To withdraw from a public station. General Washington, in 1796, retired to private life.
4. To break up, as a company or assembly. The company retired at eleven o'clock.
5. To depart or withdraw for safety or for pleasure. Men retire from the town in summer for health and pleasure. But in South Carolina, the planters retire from their estates to Charleston, or to an isle near the town.
6. To recede; to fall back. The shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
RETI'RE, verb transitive To withdraw; to take away.
He retired himself, his wife and children into a forest.
As when the sun is present all the year, and never doth retire his golden ray.
[This transitive use of retire is now obsolete.]
RETI'RE, noun
1. Retreat; recession; a withdrawing. obsolete
2. Retirement; place of privacy. obsolete
RETI'RED, adjective
1. Secluded from much society or from public notice; private. He lives a retired life; he has a retired situation.
2. Secret; private; as retired speculations.
3. Withdrawn.
RETI'REDLY, adverb In solitude or privacy.
RETI'REDNESS, noun A state of retirement; solitude; privacy or secrecy.
RETI'REMENT, noun
1. The act of withdrawing from company or from public notice or station.
2. The state of being withdrawn; as the retirement of the mind from the senses.
3. Private abode; habitation secluded from much society or from public life.
Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus.
Retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
4. Private way of life.
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, progressive virtue and approving heaven.
RETI'RING, participle present tense
1. Withdrawing; retreating; going into seclusion or solitude.
2. adjective Reserved; not forward or obtrusive; as retiring modesty; retiring manners.
RETOLD, preterit tense and participle passive of retell; as a story retold
RETORT', verb transitive [Latin retortus, retorqueo; re and torqueo, to throw.]
1. To throw back; to reverberate.
And they retort that beat again to the first giver.
2. To return an argument, accusation, censure or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.
He pass'd through hostile scorn; and with retorted scorn, his back he turn'd.
3. To bend or curve back; as a retorted line.
RETORT', verb intransitive To return an argument or charge; to make a severe reply. He retorted upon his adversary with severity.
RETORT', noun
1. The return of an argument, charge or incivility in reply; as the retort courteous.
2. In chimistry, a spherical vessel with its neck bent, to which the receiver is fitted; used in distillation.
RETORT'ED, participle passive Returned; thrown back; bent back.
RETORT'ER, noun One that retorts.
RETORT'ING, participle present tense Returning; throwing back.
RETOR'TION, noun The act of retorting.
RETOSS', verb transitive [re and toss.] To toss back.
RETOSS'ED, participle passive Tossed back.
RETOSS'ING, participle present tense Tossing back.
RETOUCH, verb transitive retuch'. [re and touch.] To improve by new touches; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.
RETOUCHED, participle passive retuch'ed. Touched again; improved by new touches.
RETOUCHING, participle present tense retuch'ing. Improving by new touches.
RETRA'CE, verb transitive
1. To trace back; to go back in the same path or course; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings.
2. To trace back, as a line.
Then if the line of Tumus you retrace he springs from Inachus of Argive race.
RETRA'CED, participle passive Traced back.
RETRA'CING, participle present tense Tracing back.
RETRACT', verb transitive [Latin retractus, retraho; re and traho, to draw.]
1. To recall, as a declaration, words or saying; to disavow; to recant; as, to retract an accusation, charge or assertion.
I would as freely have retracted the charge of idolatry, as I ever made it.
2. To take back; to rescind. [Little used.]
3. To draw back, as claws.
RETRACT', verb transitive To take back; to unsay; to withdraw concession or declaration.
She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, consents, retracts, advances, and then flies.
RETRACT', noun Among horsemen, the prick of a horse's foot in nailing a shoe.
RETRACT'ABLE, adjective That may be retracted or recalled.
RETRACTA'TION, noun [Latin retractatio.]
The recalling of what has been said; recantation; change of opinion declared.
RETRACT'ED, participle passive Recalled; recanted; disavowed.
RETRACT'ABLE, adjective That may be drawn back; retractile.
RETRACT'ILE, adjective Capable of being drawn back.
A walrus with fiery eyes - retractile from external injuries.
RETRACT'ING, participle present tense Recalling; disavowing; recanting.
RETRAC'TION, noun [from retract.]
1. The act of withdrawing something advanced, or changing something done.
2. Recantation; disavowal of the truth of what has been said; declaration of change of opinion.
3. Act of withdrawing a claim.
Other men's insatiable desire of revenge, hath beguiled church and state of the benefit of my retractions or concessions.
RETRACT'IVE, adjective Withdrawing; taking from.
RETRACT'IVE, noun That which withdraws or takes from.
RETRA'ICT, noun Retreat. obsolete
RETRA'IT, noun A cast of countenance; a picture. obsolete
RETRAX'IT, noun [Latin retraho, retraxi.] In law, the withdrawing or open renunciation of a suit in court, by which the plaintiff loses his action.
RETRE'AT, noun [Latin retractus, retraho; re and traho.]
1. The act of retiring; a withdrawing of one's self from any place.
But beauty's triumph is well tim'd retreat
2. Retirement; state of privacy or seclusion from noise, bustle or company.
Here in the calm still mirror of retreat
3. Place of retirement or privacy.
He built his son a house of pleasure - and spared no cost to make it a delicious retreat
4. Place of safety or security.
That pleasing shade they sought, a soft retreat from sudden April show'rs, a shelter from the heat.
5. In military affairs, the retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position. A retreat is properly an orderly march, in which circumstance it differs from a flight.
6. The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy; or the order and disposition of ships declining an engagement.
7. The beat of the drum at the firing of the evening gun, to warn soldiers to forbear firing and the sentinels to challenge.
RETRE'AT, verb intransitive
1. To retire from any position or place.
2. To withdraw to a private abode or to any secluded situation.
3. To retire to a place of safety or security; as, to retreat into a den or into a fort.
4. To move back to a place before occupied; to retire.
The rapid currents drive, towards the retreating sea, their furious tide.
5. To retire from an enemy or from any advanced position.
RETRE'ATED, as a passive participle, though used by Milton, is not good English.
RETRENCH', verb transitive
1. To cut off; to pare away.
And thy exuberant parts retrench
2. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.
3. To confine; to limit. [Not proper.]
RETRENCH', verb intransitive To live at less expense. It is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.
RETRENCH'ED, participle passive Cut off; curtailed; diminished.
RETRENCH'ING, participle present tense Cutting off; curtailing.
RETRENCH'MENT, noun
1. The act of lopping off; the act of removing what is superfluous; as the retrenchment of words or lines in a writing.
2. The act of curtailing, lessening or abridging; diminution; as the retrenchment of expenses.
3. In military affairs, any work raised to cover a post and fortify it against an enemy; such as fascines, gabions, sandbags and the like.
Numerous remains of Roman retrenchments, constructed to cover the country -
RETRIB'UTE, verb transitive [Latin retribuo; re and tribuo, to give or bestow.]
To pay back; to make payment, compensation or reward in return; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute to a criminal what is proportionate to his offense.
RETRIB'UTED, participle passive Paid back; given in return; rewarded.
RETRIB'UTER, noun One that makes retribution.
RETRIB'UTING, participle present tense Requiting; making repayment; rewarding.
RETRIBU'TION, noun
1. Repayment; return accommodated to the action; reward; compensation.
In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly.
2. A gratuity or present given for services in the place of a salary.
3. The distribution of rewards and punishments at the general judgment.
It is a strong argument for a state of retribution hereafter, that in this world virtuous persons are very often unfortunate, and vicious persons prosperous.
RETRIB'UTIVE,
RETRIB'UTORY, adjective Repaying; rewarding for good deeds, and punishing for offenses; as retributive justice.
RETRIB'UTORY, a. Repaying; rewarding for good deeds, and punishing for offenses; as retributive justice.
RETRIE'VABLE, adjective [from retrieve.] That may be retrieved or recovered.
RETRIE'VE, verb transitive
1. To recover; to restore from loss or injury to a former good state; as to retrieve the credit of a nation; to retrieve one's character; to retrieve a decayed fortune.
2. To repair.
Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.
3. To regain.
With late repentance now they would retrieve the bodies they forsook, and wish to live.
4. To recall; to bring back; as, to retrieve men from their cold trivial conceits.
RETRIE'VE, noun A seeking again; a discovery. [Not in use.]
RETRIE'VED, participle passive Recovered; repaired; regained; recalled.
RETRIE'VING, participle present tense Recovering; repairing; recalling.
RETROAC'TION, noun [Latin retro, backward, and action.]
1. Action returned, or action backwards.
2. Operation on something past or preceding.
RETROAC'TIVE, adjective [Latin retro, backward, and active.]
Operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.
A retroactive law or statute, is one which operates to affect, make criminal or punishable, acts done prior to the passing of the law.
RETROAC'TIVELY, adverb By returned action or operation; by operating on something past.
RETROCE'DE, verb transitive [Latin retro, back, and cedo, to give.]
To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor.
RETROCE'DED, participle passive Granted back.
RETROCE'DING, participle present tense Ceding back.
RETROCES'SION, noun
1. A ceding or granting back to a former proprietor.
2. The act of going back.
RETRODUC'TION, noun [Latin retroduco; retro, back, and duco, to lead.] A leading or bringing back.
RET'ROFLEX, adjective [Latin retro, back, and flexus, bent.]
In botany, bent this way and that, or in different directions, usually in a distorted manner; as a retroflex branch.
RET'ROFRACT,
RETROFRACT'ED, adjective [Latin retro, back, and fractus, broken.]
Reduced to hang down as it were by force so as to appear as if broken; as a retrofract peduncle.
Bent back towards its insertion, as if it were broken.
RETROFRACT'ED, a. [L. retro, back, and fractus, broken.]
Reduced to hang down as it were by force so as to appear as if broken; as a retrofract peduncle.Bent back towards its insertion, as if it were broken.RETROGRADA'TION, noun
1. The act of moving backwards; applied to the apparent motion of the planets.
2. A moving backwards; decline in excellence.
RET'ROGRADE, adjective [Latin retrogradior; retro, backwards, and gradior, to go.]
1. Going or moving backwards.
2. In astronomy, apparently moving backward and contrary to the succession of the signs, as a planet.
3. Declining from a better to a worse state.
RET'ROGRADE, verb intransitive [Latin retrogradior; retro and gradior, to go.]
To go or move backward.
RETROGRES'SION, noun The act of going backward.
RETROGRESS'IVE, adjective Going or moving backward; declining from a more perfect to a less perfect state.
Geography is at times retrogressive
RETROMIN'GENCY, noun [Latin retro, backward, and mingo, to discharge urine.]
The act of quality of discharging the contents of the bladder backwards.
RETROMIN'GENT, adjective Discharging the urine backwards.
RETROMIN'GENT, noun In zoology, an animal that discharges its urine backwards.
The retromingents are a division of animals whose characteristic is that they discharge their urine backwards, both male and female.
RETROPUL'SIVE, adjective [Latin retro, back, and pulsus, pello, to drive.]
Driving back; repelling.
RETRORSELY, adverb retros'ly. [Latin retrorsum, backward.] In a backward direction; as a stem retrorsely aculeate.
RET'ROSPECT, noun [Latin retro, back, and specio, to look.]
A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of something past. The retrospect of a life well spent affords peace of mind in old age.
RETROSPEC'TION, noun
1. The act of looking back on things past.
2. The faculty of looking back on past things.
RETROSPECT'IVE, adjective
1. Looking back on past events; as a retrospective view.
2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past. A penal statute can have no retrospective effect or operation.
RETROSPECT'IVELY, adverb By way of retrospect.
RETROVER'SION, noun A turning or falling backwards; as the retroversion of the uterus.
RET'ROVERT, verb transitive To turn back.
RET'ROVERTED, adjective [Latin retro, back, and verto, to turn.] Turned back.
RETRU'DE, verb transitive [Latin retrudo; re and trudo, to thrust.] To thrust back.
RETUND', verb transitive [Latin retundo; re and rundo, to beat.]
To blunt; to turn; as an edge; to dull; as, to retund the edge of a weapon.
RETURN, verb intransitive [Latin torno.]
1. To come or go back to the same place. The gentleman goes from the country to London and returns, or the citizen of London rides into the country and returns. The blood propelled from the heart, passes through the arteries to the extremities of the body, and returns through the veins. Some servants are good to go on errands, but not good to return
2. To come to the same state; as, to return from bondage to a state of freedom.
3. To answer.
He said, and thus the queen of heaven return'd.
4. To come again; to revisit.
Thou to mankind be good and friendly still, and oft return
5. To appear or begin again after a periodical revolution.
With the year seasons return but not to me returns day -
6. To show fresh signs of mercy.
RETURN, O Lord, deliver my soul. Psalms 6:4.
To return to God, to return from wickedness, to repent of sin or wandering from duty.
RETURN', verb transitive
1. To bring, carry or send back; as, to return a borrowed book; to return a hired horse.
2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
3. To give in recompense or requital.
In any wise, return him a trespass-offering. 1 Samuel 6:3.
The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thy own head. 1 Kings 2:32.
4. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer.
5. To tell, relate or communicate.
And Moses returned the words of the people to the Lord.
Exodus 19:8.
6. To retort; to recriminate.
If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am.
7. To render an account, usually an official account to a superior. Officers of the army and navy return to the commander the number of men in companies, regiments, etc.; they return the number of men sick or capable of duty; they return the quantity of ammunition, provisions, etc.
8. To render back to a tribunal or to an office; as, to return a writ or an execution.
9. To report officially; as, an officer returns his proceedings on the back of a writ or precept.
10. To send; to transmit; to convey.
Instead of a ship, he should levy money and return the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use.
RETURN', noun
1. The act of coming or going back to the same place.
Takes little journeys and makes quick returns.
2. The act of sending back; as the return of a borrowed book or of money lent.
3. The act of putting in the former place.
4. Retrogression; the act of moving back.
5. The act or process of coming back to a former state; as the return of health.
6. Revolution; a periodical coming to the same point; as the return of the sun to the tropic of Cancer.
7. Periodical renewal; as the return of the seasons or of the year.
8. Repayment; reimbursement in kind or in something equivalent, for money expended or advanced, or for labor. One occupation gives quick returns; in others, the returns are slow. The returns of the cargo were in gold. The farmer has returns in his crops.
9. Profit; advantage.
From these few hours we spend in prayer, the return is great.
10. Remittance; payment from a distant place.
11. Repayment; retribution; requital.
Is no return due from a grateful breast?
12. Act of restoring or giving back; restitution.
13. Either of the adjoining sides of the front of a house or ground-plot, is called a return side.
14. In law, the rendering back or delivery of a writ, precept or execution, to the proper officer or court; or the certificate of the officer executing it, indorsed. We call the transmission of the writ to the proper officer or court, a return; and we give the same name to the certificate or official account of the officer's service or proceedings. The sheriff or his subordinate officers make return of all writs and precepts. We use the same language for the sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
15. A day in bank. The day on which the defendant is ordered to appear in court, and the sheriff is to bring in the writ and report his proceedings, is called the return of the writ.
16. In military and naval affairs, an official account, report or statement rendered to the commander; as the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, ammunition, etc.
RETURN'ABLE, adjective
1. That may be returned or restored.
2. In law, that is legally to be returned, delivered, given or rendered; as a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court; an attachment returnable to the king's bench.
RETURN'-DAY, noun The day when the defendant is to appear in court and the sheriff is to return the writ and his proceedings.
RETURN'ED, participle passive Restored; given or sent back; repaid; brought or rendered to the proper court or officer.
RETURN'ER, noun One who returns; one that repays or remits money.
RETURN'ING, participle present tense Giving, carrying or sending back; coming or going back; making report.
RETURN'LESS, adjective Admitting no return. [Little used.]
RETU'SE, adjective [Latin retusus, retundo.] In botany, a retuse leaf is one ending in a blunt sinus, or whose apex is blunt. This term is applied also to the seed.
REUN'ION, noun
1. A second union; union formed anew after separation or discord; as a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects.
2. In medicine, union of parts separated by wounds or accidents.
REUNI'TE, verb transitive [re and unite.]
1. To unite again; to join after separation.
2. In medicine, union of parts separated by wounds or accidents.
REUNI'TE, verb intransitive To be united again; to join and cohere again.
REUNI'TED, participle passive United or joined again; reconciled.
REUNI'TING, participle present tense Uniting again; reconciling.
REUS'SITE, noun [from Reuss, the place where it is found.]
A salt found in the form of a mealy efforescence, or crystallized in flat six sided prisms, and in acicular crystals.
REVE, noun The bailiff of a franchise or manor. It is usually written reve
REVE'AL, verb transitive [Latin revelo; re and velo, to veil.]
1. To disclose; to discover; to show; to make known something before unknown or concealed; as, to reveal secrets.
2. To disclose, discover or make known from heaven. God has been pleased to reveal his will to man.
The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. Romans 1:17.
REVE'AL, noun A revealing; disclosure. [Not in use.]
REVE'ALED, participle passive Disclosed; discovered; made known; laid open.
REVE'ALER, noun
1. One that discloses or makes known.
2. One that brings to view.
REVE'ALING, participle present tense Disclosing; discovering; making known.
REVE'ALMENT, noun The act of revealing. [Little used.]
REVEILLE,
REV'EL, verb intransitive [Latin rabo, rabio, to rage, whence rabies, rabid.]
1. To feast with loose and clamorous merriment; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian.
Antony, that revels long o'nights.
2. To move playfully or without regularity.
REV'EL, noun A feast with loose and noisy jollity.
Some men ruin the fabric of their bodies by incessant revels.
REVEL', verb transitive [Latin revello; re and vello, to pull.]
To draw back; to retract; to make a revulsion.
REVELA'TION, noun [Latin revelatus, revelo. See Reveal.]
1. The act of disclosing or discovering to others what was before unknown to them; appropriately, the disclosure or communication of truth to men by God himself, or by his authorized agents, the prophets and apostles.
How that by revelation he made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in few words. Ephesians 3:3. 2 Corinthians 12:1.
2. That which is revealed; appropriately, the sacred truths which God has communicated to man for his instruction and direction. The revelations of God are contained in the Old and New Testament.
3. The Apocalypse; the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John.
REV'ELER, noun [See Revel.] One who feasts with noisy merriment.
REV'ELING, participle present tense Feasting with noisy merriment; carousing.
REV'ELING, noun A feasting with noisy merriment; revelry. Galatians 5:1. 1 Peter 4:1.
REV'ELLY, noun [Latin vigilo. See Watch.]
In military affairs, the beat of drum about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise and for the sentinels to forbear challenging.
[This word might well be anglicised rev'elly.]
REV'ELRY, noun Noisy festivity; clamorous jollity.
REVEN'DICATE, verb transitive [Latin vindico. See vindicate.]
To reclaim what has been taken away; to claim to have restored what has been seized.
Should some subsequent fortunate revolution deliver it from the conqueror's yoke, it can revendicate them.
REVEN'DICATED, participle passive Reclaimed; regained; recovered.
REVEN'DICATING, participle present tense Reclaiming; redemanding; recovering.
REVENDICA'TION, noun The act of reclaiming or demanding the restoration of any thing taken by an enemy; as by right of postliminium.
The endless disputes which would spring from the revendication of them, have introduced a contrary practice.
REVENGE, verb transitive revenj'. [Latin vindex, vindico. See Vindicate.]
1. To inflict pain or injury in return for an injury received.
[Note. this word and avenge were formerly used as synonymous, and it is so used in the common version of the Scripture, and applied to the Supreme Being. 'O Lord - revenge me of my persecutors.' Jeremiah 15:15. In consequence of a distinction between avenge and revenge which modern usage has introduced, the application of this word to the Supreme Being appears extremely harsh, irreverent and offensive. revenge is now used in an ill sense, for the infliction of pain maliciously or illegally; avenge for inflicting just punishment.]
2. According to modern usage, to inflict pain deliberately and maliciously, contrary to the laws of justice and humanity, in return for injury, pain or evil received; to wreak vengeance spitefully on one who injures or offends. We say, to revenge an injury or insult, or with the reciprocal pronoun, to revenge ourselves on an enemy or for an injury, that is, to take vengeance or satisfaction.
3. To vindicate by punishment of an enemy.
The gods are just and will revenge our cause.
[According to modern usage, avenge should here be substituted for revenge ]
REVENGE, noun revenj'.
1. Return of an injury; the deliberate infliction of pain or injury or a person in return for an injury received from him.
2. According to modern usage, a malicious or spiteful infliction of pain or injury, contrary to the laws of justice and christianity, in return for an injury or offense. revenge is dictated by passion; vengeance by justice.
3. The passion which is excited by an injury done or an affront given; the desire of inflicting pain on one who has done an injury; as, to glut revenge
REVENGE, as the word is now understood, is always contrary to the precepts of Christ.
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.
REVENG'ED, participle passive Punished in return for an injury; spitefully punished. The injury is revenged
REVENGEFUL, adjective revenj'ful.
1. full of revenge or a desire to inflict pain or evil for injury received; spiteful; malicious; wreaking revenge.
If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive.
2. Vindictive; inflicting punishment.
May my hands never brandish more revengeful steel.
REVENGEFULLY, adverb revenj'fully. By way of revenge; vindictively; with the spirit of revenge.
REVENGEFULNESS, noun revenj'fulness. Vincidtiveness.
REVENGELESS, adjective revenj'less. Unrevenged.
REVENGEMENT, noun revenj'ment. Revenge; return of an injury. [Little used.]
REVENG'ER, noun
1. One who revenges; one who inflicts pain on another spitefully in return for an injury.
2. One who inflicts just punishment for injuries. [Less proper.]
REVENG'ING, participle present tense
1. Inflicting pain or evil spitefully for injury or affront received.
2. Vindicating; punishing.
REVENG'INGLY, adverb With revenge; with the spirit of revenge; vindictively.
REV'ENUE, noun [Latin revenio; re and venio, to come.]
1. In a general sense, the annual rents, profits, interest or issues of any species of property, real or personal, belonging to an individual or to the public. When used of individuals, it is equivalent to income. In modern usage, income is applied more generally to the rents and profits of individuals, and revenue to those of the state. In the latter case, revenue is
2. The annual produce of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc. which a nation or state collects and receives into the treasury for public use.
3. Return; reward; as a rich revenue of praise.
4. A fleshy lump on the head of a deer.
REVERB', verb transitive To reverberate. [Not in use.]
REVERB'ERANT, adjective [Latin reverberans. See Reverberate.]
Returning sound; resounding; driving back.
REVERB'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin reverbero; re and verbero, to beat.]
1. To return, as sound; to send back; to echo; as, an arch reverberates the voice.
2. To send or beat back; to repel; to reflect; as, to reverberate rays of light
3. To send or drive back; to repel from side to side; as flame reverberated in a furnace.
REVERB'ERATE, verb intransitive
1. To be driven back; to be repelled, as rays of light, or sound.
2. To resound.
And even at hand, a drum is ready brac'd, that shall reverberate all as well as thine.
REVERB'ERATE, adjective Reverberant.
REVERB'ERATED, participle passive Driven back; sent back; driven from side to side.
REVERB'ERATING, participle present tense Driving or sending back; reflecting, as light; echoing, as sound.
REVERBERA'TION, noun
The act of driving or sending back; particularly, the act of reflecting light and heat or repelling sound. Thus we speak of the reverberation of the rays of light from an object, the reverberation of sound in echoes, or the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.
REVERB'ERATORY, adjective Returning or driving back; as a reverberatory furnace or kiln.
REVERB'ERATORY, noun A furnace with a kind of dome that reflects the flame upon a vessel placed within it, so as to surround it.
REVE'RE, verb transitive [Latin revereor; re and vereor, to fear.]
To regard with fear mingled with respect and affection; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation.
Marcus Aurelius, whom he rather revered as his father, than treated as his partner in the empire -
REVE'RED, participle passive Regarded with fear mingled with respect and affection.
REV'ERENCE, noun [Latin reverentia.]
1. Fear mingled with respect and esteem; veneration.
When quarrels and factions are carried openly, it is a sign that the reverence of government is lost.
The fear acceptable to God, is a filial fear, an awful reverence of the divine nature, proceeding from a just esteem of his perfections, which produces in us an inclination to his service and an unwillingness to offend him.
Reverence is nearly equivalent to veneration, but expresses something less of the same emotion. It differs from awe, which is an emotion compounded of fear, dread or terror, with admiration of something great, but not necessarily implying love or affection. We feel reverence for a parent, and for an upright magistrate, but we stand in awe of a tyrant. This distinction may not always be observed.
2. An act of respect or obeisance; a bow or courtesy. 2 Samuel 9:6.
3. A title of the clergy.
4. A poetical title of a father.
REV'ERENCE, verb transitive To regard with reverence; to regard with fear mingled with respect and affection. We reverence superiors for their age, their authority and their virtues. We ought to reverence parents and upright judges and magistrates. We ought to reverence the Supreme Being, his word and his ordinances.
Those that I reverence those I fear, the wise.
They will reverence my son. Matthew 21:37.
Let the wife see that she reverence her husband. Ephesians 5:33.
REV'ERENCED, participle passive Regarded with fear mingled with respect and affection.
REV'ERENCER, noun One that regards with reverence.
REV'ERENCING, participle present tense Regarding with fear mixed with respect and affection.
REV'EREND, adjective [Latin reverendus.]
1. Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; as reverend and gracious senators.
A reverend sire among them came.
[This epithet is, I believe, never applied to the Supreme Being, or to his laws or institutions. In lieu of it we use venerable.]
2. A title of respect given to the clergy or ecclesiastics. We style a clergyman reverend; a bishop is styled right reverend; an archbishop most reverend The religious in catholic countries, are styled reverend fathers; abbesses, prioresses, etc. reverend mothers. In Scotland, as in the United States, the clergy are individually styled reverend A synod is styled very reverend and the general assembly venerable.
REV'ERENT, adjective
1. Expressing reverence, veneration or submission; as reverent words or terms; a reverent posture in prayer; reverent behavior.
2. Submissive; humble; impressed with reverence.
They prostrate fell before him reverent
REVEREN'TIAL, adjective [from reverence.] Proceeding from reverence, or expressing it; as reverential fear or awe; reverential gratitude or esteem.
Religion - consisting in a reverential esteem of things sacred.
REVEREN'TIALLY, adverb With reverence, or show of reverence.
REV'ERENTLY, adverb
1. With reverence; with respectful regard.
Chide him for faults, and do it reverently
2. With veneration; with fear of what is great or terrifying.
So reverently men quit the open air, when thunder speaks the angry Gods abroad.
REVE'RER, noun One who reveres or venerates.
REVERIE. [See Revery.]
REVE'RING, participle present tense Regarding with fear mixed with respect and affection; venerating.
REVERS'AL, adjective [See Reverse.] Intended to reverse; implying reverse.
REVERS'AL, noun [from reverse.] A change or overthrowing; as the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false. So we speak of the reversal of an attainder or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void.
REVERSE, verb transitive revers'. [Latin reversus, reverto; re and verto, to turn.]
1. To turn upside down; as, to reverse a pyramid or cone.
2. To overturn; to subvert; as, to reverse the state.
3. To turn back; as with swift wheel reverse
4. To turn to the contrary; as, to reverse the scene.
- Or affectations quite reverse the soul.
5. To put each in the place of the other; as, to reverse the distinctions of good and evil.
6. In law, to overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to annul; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence or decree. Judgments are reversed by writs of error; and for certain causes, may be reversed without such writs.
7. To recall. [Not in use.]
REVERSE, verb intransitive revers'. To return. [Not in use.]
REVERSE, noun revers'.
1. Change; vicissitude; a turn of affairs; in a good sense.
By a strange reverse of things, Justinian's law, which for many ages was neglected, now obtains -
2. Change for the worse; misfortune. By an unexpected reverse of circumstances, an affluent man is reduced to poverty.
3. A contrary; an opposite.
The performances to which God has annexed the promises of eternity, are just the reverse of all the pursuits of sense.
REVERS'ED, participle passive
1. Turned side for side or end for end; changed to the contrary.
2. In law, overthrown or annulled.
3. adjective In botany, resupinate; having the upper lip larger and more expanded than the lower; as a reversed corol.
REVERS'EDLY, adverb In a reversed manner.
REVERSELESS, adjective revers'less. Not to be reversed; irreversible.
REVERSELY, adverb revers'ly. On the other hand; on the opposite.
REVERS'IBLE, adjective That may be reversed; as a reversible judgment or sentence.
REVERS'ING, participle present tense Turning upside down; subverting; turning the contrary way; annulling.
REVER'SION, noun [Latin reversio.]
1. In general sense, a returning; appropriately, in law, the returning of an estate to the grantor or his heirs, after a particular estate is ended. Hence,
2. The residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of the particular estate granted. Thus when there is a gift in tail, the reversion of the fee is, without any special reservation, vested in the donor by act of law.
3. Succession; right to future possession or enjoyment.
4. In algebra, reversion of series, a kind of reversed operation of an infinite series.
REVER'SIONARY, adjective Pertaining to a reversion, that is, to be enjoyed in succession, or after the determination of a particular estate; as a reversionary interest or right.
REVER'SIONER, noun The person who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is determined.
REVERT', verb transitive [Latin reverto; re and verto, to turn.]
1. To turn back; to turn to the contrary; to reverse.
Till happy chance revert the cruel scene.
[Instead of revert in this sense, reverse is generally used.]
2. To drive or turn back; to reverberate; as a stream reverted.
REVERT', verb intransitive
1. To return; to fall back.
2. In law, to return to the proprietor, after the determination of a particular estate. A feud granted to a man for life, or to him and his issue male, or his death or failure of issue male, reverted to the lord or proprietor.
REVERT', noun In music, return; recurrence; antistrophy.
REVERT'ED, participle passive Reversed; turned back.
REVERT'ENT, noun A medicine which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system.
REVERT'IBLE, adjective That may revert or return.
REVERT'ING, participle present tense Turning back; returning.
REVERT'IVE, adjective Changing; reversing.
REV'ERY, noun
1. Properly, a raving or delirium; but its sense, as generally used, is a loose or irregular train of thoughts, occurring in musing or meditation; wild, extravagant conceit of the fancy or imagination. There are reveries and extravagancies which pass through the minds of wise men as well as fools.
2. A chimera; a vision.
REVEST', verb transitive [Low Latin revestio; re and vestio, to clothe.]
1. to clothe again.
2. To reinvest; to vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority.
3. to lay out in something less fleeting than money; as, to revest money in stocks.
REVEST', verb intransitive to take effect again, as a title; to return to a former owner; as, the title or right revest in A, after alienation.
REVEST'ED, participle passive clothed again; invested anew.
REVEST'IARY, noun [Latin revestio.]
The place or apartment in a church or temple where the dresses are deposited; now contracted into vestry.
REVET'MENT, noun
In fortification, a strong wall on the outside of a rampart, intended to support the earth.
REVI'BRATE, verb intransitive [re and vibrate.] to vibrate back or in return.
REVIBRA'TION, noun the act of vibrating back.
REVIC'TION, noun [Latin re and vivo, victum, to live.] Return to life. [Not used.]
REVICTUAL, verb transitive revit'l. [re and victual.] to furnish again with provisions.
REVICTUALED, participle passive revit'ld. furnished with victuals again.
REVICTUALING, participle present tense revit'ling. supplying again with provisions.
REVI'E, verb transitive [re and vie.] to accede to the proposal of a stake and to overtop it; an old phrase at cards. obsolete
REVI'E, verb intransitive To return the challenge of a wager at cards; to make a retort.
REVIEW, verb transitive revu'. [re and view.]
1. To look back on.
2. to see again.
i shall review Sicilia.
3. To view and examine again; to reconsider; to revise; as, to review a manuscript. It is said that Virgil was prevented by death from reviewing the AEneis.
4. To retrace.
Shall I the long laborious scene review?
5. To survey; to inspect; to examine the state of any thing, particularly of troops; as, to review a regiment.
REVIEW, noun revu'. [Latin video, to see.]
1. A second or repeated view; a re-examination; resurvey; as a review of the works of nature; a review of life.
2. Revision; a second examination with a view to amendment or improvement; as an author's review of his works.
3. In military affairs, an examination or inspection of troops under arms, by a general or commander, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of their discipline, equipment, etc.
4. In literature, a critical examination of a new publication, with remarks.
5. A periodical pamphlet containing examinations or analyses of new publications; as the Critical review
Commission of review a commission granted by the British king to revise the sentence of the court of delegates.
REVIEW'ED, participle passive Resurveyed; re-examined; inspected; critically analyzed.
REVIEW'ER, noun One that reviews or re-examines; an inspector; one that critically examines a new publication, and communicates his opinion upon its merits.
REVIEW'ING, participle present tense Looking back on; seeing again; revising; re-examining; inspecting, as an army; critically examining and remarking on.
REVIG'ORATE, verb transitive [re and vigor.] To give new vigor to. [Not in use.]
REVI'LE, verb transitive [re and vile.]
To reproach; to treat with opprobrious and contemptuous language.
She revileth him to his face.
Thou shalt not revile the gods. Exodus 22:28.
Blessed are ye when men shall revile you. Matthew 5:11.
REVI'LE, noun Reproach; contumely; contemptuous language. [Not in use.]
REVI'LED, participle passive Reproached; treated with opprobrious or contemptuous language.
REVI'LEMENT, noun Reproach; contemptuous language.
REVI'LER, noun One who reviles another; one who treats another with contemptuous language.
REVI'LING, participle present tense Reproaching; treating with language of contempt.
REVI'LING, noun The act of reviling or treating with reproachful words. Isaiah 51:7.
REVI'LINGLY, adverb With reproachful or contemptuous language; with opprobrium.
REVIN'DICATE, verb transitive To vindicate again; to reclaim; to demand and take back what has been lost.
REVI'SAL, noun [from revise.] Revision; the act of reviewing and re-examining for correction and improvement; as the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet.
REVI'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin revisus, reviso, to revisit; re and viso, to see, to visit.]
1. To review; to re-examine; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a proof sheet.
2. To review, alter and amend; as, to revise statutes.
REVI'SE, noun
1. Review; re-examination.
2. Among printers, a second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first correction.
REVI'SED, participle passive Reviewed; re-examined for correction.
REVI'SER, noun One that revises or re-examines for correction.
REVI'SING, participle present tense Reviewing; re-examining for correction.
REVI'SION, noun
1. The act of reviewing; review; re-examination for correction; as the revision of a book or writing or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.
2. Enumeration of inhabitants.
REVI'SIONAL,
REVI'SIONARY, adjective Pertaining to revision.
REVIS'IT, verb transitive s as z. [Latin revisito; re and visito, from viso, to see or visit.] To visit again
Let the pale sire revisit Thebes.
REVISITA'TION, noun The act of revisiting.
REVIS'ITED, participle passive Visited again.
REVIS'ITING, participle present tense Visiting again.
REVI'SOR, noun In Russia, one who has taken the number of inhabitants.
REVI'VAL, noun [from revive.]
1. Return, recall or recovery to life from death or apparent death; as the revival of a drowned person.
2. Return or recall to activity from a state of languor; as the revival of spirits.
3. Recall, return or recovery from a state of neglect, oblivion, obscurity or depression; as the revival of letters or learning.
4. Renewed and more active attention to religion; an awakening of men to their spiritual concerns.
REVI'VE, verb intransitive [Latin revivisco; re and vivo, to live.]
1. To return to life; to recover life.
The soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 1 Kings 17:22. Romans 14:9.
2. To recover new life or vigor; to be reanimated after depression.
When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. Genesis 45:27.
3. To recover from a state of neglect, oblivion, obscurity or depression. Learning revived in Europe after the middle ages.
4. In chimistry, to recover its natural state, as a metal.
Sin revives, when the conscience is awakened by a conviction of guilt. Romans 7:9.
REVI'VE, verb transitive
1. To bring again to life; to reanimate.
2. To raise from languor, depression or discouragement; to rouse; as, to revive the spirits or courage.
3. To renew; to bring into action after a suspension; as, to revive a project or scheme that had been laid aside.
4. To renew in the mind or memory; to recall.
The mind has the power in many cases to revive ideas or perceptions, which it has once had.
5. To recover from a state of neglect or depression; as, to revive letters or learning.
6. To recomfort; to quicken; to refresh with joy or hope.
Wilt thou not revive us again? Psalms 85:6.
7. To bring again into notice.
Revive the libels born to die.
8. In chimistry, to restore or reduce to its natural state or to its metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
REVI'VED, participle passive Brought to life; reanimated; renewed; recovered; quickened; cheered; reduced to a metallic state.
REVI'VER, noun That which revives; that which invigorates or refreshes; one that redeems from neglect or depression.
REVIV'IFICATE, verb transitive [Latin re and vivifico; vivus, alive, and facio, to make.]
To revive; to recall or restore to life. [Little used.]
REVIVIFICA'TION, noun
1. Renewal of life; restoration of life; or the act of recalling to life.
2. In chimistry, the reduction of a metal to its metallic state.
REVIV'IFY, verb transitive
1. To recall to life; to reanimate.
2. To give new life or vigor to.
REVI'VING, participle present tense Bringing to life again; reanimating; renewing; recalling to the memory; recovering from neglect or depression; refreshing with joy or hope; reducing to a metallic state.
REVIVIS'CENCE,
REVIVIS'CENCY, noun Renewal of life; return to life.
REVIVIS'CENCY, n. Renewal of life; return to life.
REVIVIS'CENT, adjective Reviving; regaining or restoring life or action.
REVI'VOR, noun In law, the reviving of a suit which is abated by the death of any of the parties. This is done by a bill of revivor
REV'OCABLE, adjective [Latin revocabilis. See Revoke.]
That may be recalled or revoked; that may be repealed or annulled; as a revocable edict or grant.
REV'OCABLENESS, noun The quality of being revocable.
REV'OCATE, verb transitive [Latin revoco; re and voco, to call.] To recall; to call back. [Not in use. See revoke.]
REVOCA'TION, noun [Latin revocatio.]
1. The act of recalling or calling back; as the revocation of Calvin.
2. State of being recalled.
3. Repeal; reversal; as the revocation of the edict of Nantz. A law may cease to operate without an express revocation so we speak of the revocation of a will, of a use, of a devise, etc.
REVO'KE, verb transitive [Latin revoco; re and voco, to call.]
1. To recall; to repeal; to reverse. A law, decree or sentence is revoked by the same authority which enacted or passed it. A charter or grant which vests rights in a corporation, cannot be legally revoked without the consent of the corporation. A devise may be revoked by the devisor, a use by the grantor, and a will be the testator.
2. To check; to repress; as, to revoke rage. [Not in use.]
3. To draw back.
Seas are troubled when they do revoke their flowing waves into themselves again. [Unusual.]
REVO'KE, verb intransitive To renounce at cards.
REVO'KE, noun The act of renouncing at cards.
REVO'KED, participle passive Repealed; reversed.
REVO'KEMENT, noun Revocation; reversal. [Little used.]
REVO'KING, participle present tense Reversing; repealing.
REVOLT', verb intransitive [Latin revolvo; re and volvo, to turn. Eng. wallow.]
1. To fall off or turn from one to another.
2. To renounce allegiance and subjection to one's prince or state; to reject the authority of a sovereign; as a province or a number of people. It is not applied to individuals.
The Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah.
2 Chronicles 21:10.
3. To change. [Not in use.]
4. In Scripture, to disclaim allegiance and subjection to God; to reject the government of the King of kings. Isaiah 31:6.
REVOLT', verb transitive
1. To turn; to put to flight; to overturn.
2. To shock; to do violence to; to cause to shrink or turn away with abhorrence; as, to revolt the mind or the feelings.
Their honest pride of their purer religion had revolted the Babylonians.
REVOLT', noun
1. Desertion; change of sides; more correctly, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to one's prince or government; as the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
2. Gross departure from duty.
3. In Scripture, a rejection of divine government; departure from God; disobedience. Isaiah 59:13.
4. A revolter. [Not in use.]
REVOLT'ED, participle passive
1. Having swerved from allegiance or duty.
2. Shocked; grossly offended.
REVOLT'ER, noun
1. One who changes sides; a deserter.
2. One who renounces allegiance and subjection to his prince or state.
3. In Scripture, one who renounces the authority and laws of God. Jeremiah 6:28. Hosea 9.
REVOLT'ING, participle present tense
1. Changing sides; deserting.
2. Disclaiming allegiance and subjection to a prince or state.
3. Rejecting the authority of God.
4. adjective Doing violence, as to the feelings; exciting abhorrence.
REV'OLUTE, adjective [Latin revolutus, from revolvo.]
In botany, rolled back or downwards; as revolute foliation or leafing, when the sides of the leaves in the bud are rolled spirally back or towards the lower surface; a revolute leaf or tendril; a revolute corol or valve.
REVOLU'TION, noun [Latin revolutus, revolvo.]
1. In physics, rotation; the circular motion of a body on its axis; a course or motion which brings every point of the surface or periphery of a body back to the place at which it began to move; as the revolution of a wheel; the diurnal revolution of the earth.
2. The motion of a body round any fixed point or center; as the annual revolution of the earth or other planet in its orbit round the center of the system.
3. Motion of any thing which brings it to the same point or state; as the revolution of day and night or of the seasons.
4. Continued course marked by the regular return of years; as the revolution of ages.
5. Space measured by some regular return of a revolving body or of a state of things; as the revolution of a day.
6. In politics, a material or entire change in the constitution of government. Thus the revolution in England, in 1688, was produced by the abdication of king James II the establishment of the house of Orange upon the throne, and the restoration of the constitution to its primitive state. So the revolutions in Poland, in the United States of America, and in France, consisted in a change of constitution. We shall rejoice to hear that the Greeks have effected a revolution
7. Motion backward.
This word is used adjectively, as in the phrase, revolution principles.
REVOLU'TIONARY, adjective
1. Pertaining to a revolution in government; as a revolutionary war; revolutionary crimes or disasters.
2. Tending to produce a revolution; as revolutionary measures.
REVOLU'TIONER, noun
1. One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist.
2. In England, one who favored the revolution in 1688.
REVOLU'TIONIST, noun One engaged in effecting a change of government; the favorer of a revolution.
REVOLU'TIONIZE, verb transitive
1. To effect a change in the form of a political constitution; as, to revolutionize a government.
2. To effect an entire change of principles in.
The gospel, if received in truth, has revolutionized his soul.
REVOLU'TIONIZED, participle passive Charged in constitutional form and principles.
REVOLU'TIONIZING, participle present tense Changing the form and principles of a constitution.
REVOLV'ENCY, noun State, act or principle of revolving; revolution.
Its own revolvency upholds the world.
REVOM'IT, verb transitive [re and vomit; ]
To vomit or pour forth again; to reject from the stomach.
REVOM'ITED, participle passive Vomited again.
REVOM'ITING, participle present tense Vomiting again.
REVUL'SION, noun [Latin revulsus, revello; re and vello, to pull.]
1. In medicine, the act of turning or diverting a flux of humors or any cause of disease, from one part of the body to another.
2. The act of holding or drawing back.
REVUL'SIVE, adjective Having the power of revulsion.
REVUL'SIVE, noun
1. That which has the power of diverting humors from one part to another.
2. That which has the power of withdrawing.
REW, noun A row. [Not in use.]
REWARD', verb transitive a as aw. [[Latin re, denoting return.]
To give in return, either good or evil.
Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. 1 Samuel 24:19.
Hence, when good is returned for good, reward signifies to repay, to recompense, to compensate. When evil or suffering is return for injury or wickedness, reward signifies to punish with just retribution, to take vengeance on, according to the nature of the case.
I will render vengeance to my enemies; and will reward them that hate me. Deuteronomy 32:41.
The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels, and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Matthew 16:27.
In the latter passage, reward signifies to render with good and evil.
REWARD', noun
1. Recompense, or equivalent return for good done, for kindness, for services and the like. Rewards may consist of money, goods or any return of kindness or happiness.
The laborer is worthy of his reward 1 Timothy 5:18.
Great is your reward in heaven. Matthew 5:12.
REWARDs and punishments presuppose moral agency, and something voluntarily done, well or ill; without which respect, though we may receive good, it is only a benefit and not a reward
2. The fruit of men's labor or works.
The dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward Ecclesiastes 9:5.
3. A bribe; a gift to pervert justice. Deuteronomy 27:25.
4. A sum of money offered for taking or detecting a criminal, or for recovery of any thing lost.
5. Punishment; a just return of evil or suffering for wickedness.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Psalms 91:8.
6. Return in human applause. Mat 6.
7. Return in joy and comfort. Psalms 19:11.
REWARD'ABLE, adjective That may be rewarded; worthy of recompense.
REWARD'ABLENESS, noun The state of being worthy of reward.
REWARD'ED, participle passive Requited; recompensed or punished.
REWARD'ER, noun One who rewards; one that requites or recompenses. Hebrews 11:6.
REWARD'ING, participle present tense Making an equivalent return for good or evil; requiting; recompensing or punishing.
REWORD, verb transitive [re and word.] To repeat in the same words. [Not in use.]
REWRI'TE, verb transitive To write a second time.
REWRIT'TEN, participle passive Written again.
REYS, noun The master of an Egyptian bark or ship.