R
Reannex – Recision
Page 247 of 345
Reannex
REANNEX', verb transitive [re and annex.] To annex again; to reunite; to annex what has been separated.
Reannexation
REANNEXA'TION, noun The act of annexing again.
Reannexed
REANNEX'ED, participle passive Annexed or united again.
Reannexing
REANNEX'ING, participle present tense Annexing again; reuniting.
Reap
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. .
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. .
Ye have plowed wickedness; ye have reaped iniquity.
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. .
Reaped
RE'APED, participle passive Cut with a sickle; received as the fruit of labor or works.
Reaper
RE'APER, noun One that cuts grain with a sickle.
Reaping
RE'APING, participle present tense Cutting grain with a sickle; receiving as the fruit of labor or the reward of works.
Reaping-Hook
RE'APING-HOOK, noun An instrument used in reaping; a sickle.
Reapparel
REAPPAR'EL, verb transitive [re and apparel.] To clothe again.
Reappareled
REAPPAR'ELED, participle passive Clothed again.
Reappareling
REAPPAR'ELING, participle present tense Clothing again.
Reappear
REAPPE'AR, verb intransitive [re and appear.] To appear a second time.
Reappearance
REAPPE'ARANCE, noun A second appearance.
Reappearing
REAPPE'ARING, participle present tense Appearing again.
Reapplication
REAPPLICA'TION, noun [See Reapply. A second application.
Reapply
REAPPLY', verb transitive or i. [re and apply.] To apply again.
Reapplying
REAPPLY'ING, participle present tense Applying again.
Reappoint
REAPPOINT', verb transitive To appoint again.
Reappointment
REAPPOINT'MENT, noun A second appointment.
Reapportion
REAPPORTION, verb transitive To apportion again.
Reapportioned
REAPPORTIONED, participle passive Apportioned again.
Reapportioning
REAPPORTIONING, participle present tense Apportioning. again.
Reapportionment
REAPPORTIONMENT, noun A second apportionment.
Rear
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.
Rear-Admiral
REAR-ADMIRAL. [See Admiral.]
Rear-Guard
RE'AR-GU'ARD, noun The body of an army that marches in the rear of the main body to protect it.
Rear-Line
REAR-LINE, noun The line in the rear of an army.
Rear-Mouse
RE'AR-MOUSE, noun The leather-winged bat.
Rear-Rank
REAR-RANK, noun The rank of a body of troops which is in the rear.
Reared
RE'ARED, participle passive Raised; lifted; brought up; educated; elevated.
Rearing
RE'ARING, participle present tense Raising; educating; elevating.
Rearward
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
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.
Reascended
REASCEND'ED, participle passive Ascended again.
Reascending
REASCEND'ING, participle present tense Ascending again.
Reascension
REASCEN'SION, noun The act of reascending; a remounting.
Reascent
REASCENT', noun A returning ascent; acclivity.
Reason
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. .
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. .
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 .
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.
Reasonable
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.
Reasonableness
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.
Reasonably
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 -
Reasoner
RE'ASONER, noun One who reasons or argues; as a fiar reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner
Reasoning
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.
Reasonless
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
Reassemblage
REASSEM'BLAGE, noun assemblage a second time.
Reassemble
REASSEM'BLE, verb transitive [re and assemble.] to collect again.
REASSEM'BLE, verb intransitive to assemble or convene again.
Reassembled
REASSEM'BLED, participle passive assembled again.
Reassembling
REASSEM'BLING, participle present tense assembling again.
Reassert
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.
Reasserted
REASSERT'ED, participle passive Asserted or maintained anew.
Reasserting
REASSERT'ING, participle present tense Asserting again; vindicating anew.
Reassign
REASSIGN, verb transitive [re and assign.] To assign back; to transfer back what has been assigned.
Reassimilate
REASSIM'ILATE, verb transitive [re and assimilate.]
To assimilate or cause to resemble anew; to change again into a like or suitable substance.
Reassimilated
REASSIM'ILATED, participle passive Assimilated anew; changed again to a like substance.
Reassimilating
REASSIM'ILATING, participle present tense Assimilating again.
Reassimilation
REASSIMILA'TION, noun A second or renewed assimilation.
Reassume
REASSU'ME, verb transitive [re and assume.] To resume; to take again.
Reassumed
REASSU'MED, participle passive Resumed; assumed again.
Reassuming
REASSU'MING, participle present tense Assuming or taking again.
Reassumption
REASSUMP'TION, noun A resuming; a second assumption.
Reassurance
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
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.
Reassured
REASSU'RED, participle passive
1. Restored from fear; re-encouraged.
2. Insured against loss by risk taken, as an underwriter.
Reassurer
REASSU'RER, noun One who insures the first underwriter.
Reassuring
REASSU'RING, participle present tense
1. Restoring from fear, terror or depression of courage.
2. Insuring against loss by insurance.
Reastiness
RE'ASTINESS, noun Rancidness. [Not in use or local.]
Reasty
RE'ASTY, adjective Covered with a kind of rust and having a rancid taste; applied to dried meat. [Not in use or local.]
Reate
RE'ATE, noun A kind of long small grass that grows in water and complicates itself. [Not in use or local.]
Reattach
REATTACH', verb transitive [re and attach.] To attach a second time.
Reattachment
REATTACH'MENT, noun A second attachment.
Reattempt
REATTEMPT', verb transitive [re and attempt.] To attempt again.
Reave
REAVE, verb transitive To take away by stealth or violence; to bereave. obsolete [See Bereave.]
Rebaptism
REBAP'TISM, noun A second baptism.
Rebaptization
REBAPTIZA'TION, noun [from rebaptize.] A second baptism.
Rebaptize
REBAPTI'ZE, verb transitive [re and baptize.] To baptize a second time.
Rebaptized
REBAPTI'ZED, participle passive Baptized again.
Rebaptizing
REBAPTI'ZING, participle present tense Baptizing a second time.
Rebate
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
Rebatement
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.
Rebato
REBA'TO, noun A sort of ruff. [See Rabato.]
Rebeck
RE'BECK, noun A three stringed fiddle. [Not much used.]
Rebel
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. .
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. . .
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?
Rebelled
REBEL'LED, participle passive or adjective Rebellious; guilty of rebellion.
Rebeller
REBEL'LER, noun One that rebels.
Rebelling
REBEL'LING, participle present tense Renouncing the authority of the government to which one owes allegiance; rising in opposition to lawful authority.
Rebellion
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.
Rebellious
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. . .
Rebelliously
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.
Rebelliousness
REBEL'LIOUSNESS, noun The quality or state of being rebellious.
Rebellow
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.
Rebellowing
REBEL'LOWING, participle present tense Bellowing in return or in echo.
Rebild
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.
Rebilding
REBILD'ING, participle present tense Building again.
Rebilt
REBILT', participle passive Built again; reconstructed.
Reblossom
REBLOS'SOM, verb intransitive [re and blossom.] To blossom again.
Reboation
REBOA'TION, noun [Latin rebo; re and boo.]
The return of a loud bellowing sound. [Not used.]
Reboil
REBOIL', verb intransitive [Latin re and bullio.] To take fire; to be hot.
Rebound
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
Rebounding
REBOUND'ING, participle present tense Springing or flying back; reverberating.
Rebrace
REBRA'CE, verb transitive [re and brace.] To brace again.
Rebreathe
REBRE'ATHE, verb intransitive [re and breathe.] To breathe again.
Rebuff
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',
REBUILD'ING,
REBUILT',
REBU'KABLE, adjective [from rebuke.] Worthy of reprehension.
Rebuilding
REBUILD'ING,
Rebuilt
REBUILT',
Rebuke
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. .
2. To check or restrain.
The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan. . .
3. To chasten; to punish; to afflict for correction.
O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger. .
4. To check; to silence.
Master, rebuke thy disciples. .
5. To check; to heal.
And he stood over her and rebuked the fever. .
6. To restrain; to calm.
He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea. .
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. .
3. In low language, any kind of check.
To suffer rebuke to endure the reproach and persecution of men. .
To be without rebuke to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.
Rebuked
REBU'KED, participle passive Reproved; reprehended; checked; restrained; punished for faults.
Rebukeful
REBU'KEFUL, adjective Containing or abounding with rebukes.
Rebukefully
REBU'KEFULLY, adverb With reproof or reprehension.
Rebuker
REBU'KER, noun One that rebukes; a chider; one that chastises or restrains.
Rebuking
REBU'KING, participle present tense Chiding; reproving; checking; punishing.
Rebullition
REBULLI'TION, noun [See ebullition and Boil.] Act of boiling or effervescing. [Little used.]
Rebury
REBURY, verb transitive reber'ry. [re and bury.] To inter again.
Rebus
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
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
Rebutted
REBUT'TED, participle passive Repelled; answered.
Rebutter
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
Rebutting
REBUT'TING, participle present tense Repelling; opposing by argument, countervailing allegation or evidence.
Recall
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
Recallable
RECALL'ABLE, adjective That may be recalled.
Delegates recallable at pleasure.
Recalled
RECALL'ED, participle passive Called back; revoked.
Recalling
RECALL'ING, participle present tense Calling back; revoking.
Recant
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
Recantation
RECANTA'TION, noun The act of recalling; retraction; a declaration that contradicts a former one.
Recanted
RECANT'ED, participle passive Recalled; retracted.
Recanter
RECANT'ER, noun One that recants.
Recanting
RECANT'ING, participle present tense Recalling; retracting.
Recapacitate
RECAPAC'ITATE, verb transitive [re and capacitate.] To qualify again; to confer capacity on again.
Recapacitated
RECAPAC'ITATED, participle passive Capacitated again.
Recapacitating
RECAPAC'ITATING, participle present tense Conferring capacity again.
Recapitulate
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.
Recapitulated
RECAPIT'ULATED, participle passive Repeated in a summary.
Recapitulating
RECAPIT'ULATING, participle present tense Repeating the principal things in a discourse or argument.
Recapitulation
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.
Recapitulatory
RECAPIT'ULATORY, adjective Repeating again; containing recapitulation.
Recaption
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.
Recaptor
RECAP'TOR, noun [re and captor.] One who retakes; one that takes a prize which had been previously taken.
Recapture
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.
Recaptured
RECAP'TURED, participle passive Retaken.
Recapturing
RECAP'TURING, participle present tense Retaking, as a prize from the captor.
Recarnify
REC'ARNIFY, verb transitive [re and carnify, from Latin caro, flesh.]
To convert again into flesh. [Not much used.]
Recarried
RECAR'RIED, participle passive Carried back or again.
Recarry
RECAR'RY, verb transitive [re and carry.] To carry back.
Recarrying
RECAR'RYING, participle present tense Carrying back.
Recast
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.
Recasting
REC'ASTING, participle present tense Casting again; molding anew.
Recede
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.
Receded
RECE'DED, participle passive Ceded back; regranted.
Receding
RECE'DING, participle present tense
1. Withdrawing; retreating; moving back.
2. Ceding back; regranting.
Receipt
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.
.
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.
Receit
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. . 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.
Receivable
RECE'IVABLE, adjective That may be received.
Receivableness
RECE'IVABLENESS, noun Capability of being received.
Receive
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? .
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. .
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. .
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. .
10. To admit into membership or fellowship.
Him that is weak in the faith, receive ye. .
11. To take in or on; to hold; to contain.
The brazen altar was too little to receive the burnt-offering. .
12. To be endowed with.
Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you. .
13. To take into a place or state.
After the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven. .
14. To take or have as something ascribed; as, to receive praise or blame. . .
15. To bear with or suffer. .
16. To believe in. .
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.
Received
RECE'IVED, participle passive Taken; accepted; admitted; embraced; entertained; believed.
Receivedness
RECE'IVEDNESS, noun General allowance or belief; as the receivedness of an opinion.
Receiver
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.
Receiving
RECE'IVING, participle present tense Taking; accepting; admitting; embracing; believing; entertaining.
Recelebrate
RECEL'EBRATE, verb transitive [re and celebrate.] To celebrate again.
Recelebrated
RECEL'EBRATED, participle passive Celebrated anew.
Recelebrating
RECEL'EBRATING, participle present tense Celebrating anew.
Recelebration
RECELEBRA'TION, noun A renewed celebration.
Recency
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
RECENSE, verb transitive recens'. [Latin recenso; re and censeo.]
To review; to revise.
Recension
RECEN'SION, noun [Latin recensio.] Review; examination; enumeration.
Recent
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.
Recently
RE'CENTLY, adverb Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as advices recently received; a torn recently built or repaired; an isle recently discovered.
Recentness
RE'CENTNESS, noun Newness; freshness; lateness of origin or occurrence; as the recentness of alluvial land; the recentness of news or of events.
Receptacle
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.
Receptacular
RECEPTAC'ULAR, adjective In botany, pertaining to the receptacle or growing on it, as the nectary.
Receptary
REC'EPTARY, noun Thing received. [Not in use.]
Receptibility
RECEPTIBIL'ITY, noun The possibility of receiving.
Reception
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.]
Receptive
RECEP'TIVE, adjective Having the quality of receiving or admitting what is communicated.
Imaginary space is receptive of all bodies.
Receptivity
RECEPTIV'ITY, noun The state or quality of being receptive.
Receptory
RECEP'TORY, adjective Generally or popularly admitted or received. [Not in use.]
Recess
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.
Recession
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
RECHANGE, verb transitive [re and change.] To change again.
Rechanged
RECHANGED, participle passive Changed again.
Rechanging
RECHANGING, participle present tense Changing again.
Recharge
RECH'ARGE, verb transitive [re and charge.]
1. To charge or accuse in return.
2. To attack again; to attack anew.
Recharged
RECH'ARGED, participle passive Accused in return; attacked anew.
Recharging
RECH'ARGING, participle present tense Accusing in return; attacking anew.
Recheat
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
RECHOOSE, verb transitive rechooz'. To choose a second time.
Rechosen
RECHOSEN, participle passive or adjective recho'zn. Re-elected; chosen again.
Recidivation
RECIDIVA'TION, noun [Latin recidivus, from recido, to fall back; re and cado, to fall.]
A falling back; a backsliding. [Not much used.]
Recidivous
RECID'IVOUS, adjective [Latin recidivus.] Subject to backslide. [Little used.]
Recipe
RECIPE, noun res'ipy. [Latin imperative of recipio, to take.]
A medical prescription; a direction of medicines to be taken by a patient.
Recipient
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.
Reciprocal
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.
Reciprocally
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.
Reciprocalness
RECIP'ROCALNESS, noun Mutual return; alternateness.
Reciprocate
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.
Reciprocated
RECIP'ROCATED, participle passive Mutually given and returned; interchanged.
Reciprocating
RECIP'ROCATING, participle present tense Interchanging; each giving or doing to the other the same thing.
Reciprocation
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.
Reciprocity
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
Recision
RECI'SION, noun s as z. [Latin recisio, from recido, to cut off; re and caedo.]
The act of cutting off.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.