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Remark
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.
Remarkable
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.
Remarkableness
REM'ARKABLENESS, noun Observableness; worthiness of remark; the quality of deserving particular notice.
Remarkably
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.
Remarked
REM'ARKED, participle passive Noticed; observed; expressed in words or writing.
Remarker
REM'ARKER, noun An observer; one who makes remarks.
Remarking
REM'ARKING, participle present tense Observing; taking notice of; expressing in words or writing.
Remarried
REMAR'RIED, participle passive Married again or a second time.
Remarry
REMAR'RY, verb transitive [re and marry.] To marry again or a second time.
Remarrying
REMAR'RYING, participle present tense Marrying again or a second time.
Remasticate
REMAS'TICATE, verb transitive [re and masticate.] To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as in chewing the cud.
Remasticated
REMAS'TICATED, participle passive Chewed again or repeatedly.
Remasticating
REMAS'TICATING, participle present tense Chewing again or over and over.
Remastication
REMASTICA'TION, noun The act of masticating again or repeatedly.
Remediable
REME'DIABLE, adjective [from remedy.] That may be remedied or cured. The evil is believed to be remediable
Remedial
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
Remediate
REME'DIATE, in the sense of remedial, is not in use.
Remedied
REM'EDIED, participle passive [from remedy.] Cured; healed; repaired.
Remediless
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.
Remedilessly
REMED'ILESSLY, adverb In a manner or degree that precludes a remedy.
Remedilessness
REMED'ILESSNESS, noun Incurableness.
Remedy
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.
Remedying
REM'EDYING, participle present tense Curing; healing; removing; restoring from a bad to a good state.
Remelt
REMELT', verb transitive [re and melt.] To melt a second time.
Remelted
REMELT'ED, participle passive Melted again.
Remelting
REMELT'ING, participle present tense Melting again.
Remember
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. .
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. .
8. To bear in mind with esteem; or to reward. .
9. To bear in mind with praise or admiration; to celebrate. .
10. To bear in mind with favor, care, and regard for the safety or deliverance of any one. . . .
11. To bear in mind with intent to reward or punish.
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12. To bear in mind with confidence; to trust in.
13. To bear in mind with the purpose of assisting or relieving. .
14. To bear in mind with reverence; to obey.
Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. .
15. To bear in mind with regard; to keep as sacred; to observe.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. .
To remember mercy, is to exercise it. .
Remembered
REMEM'BERED, participle passive Kept in mind; recollected.
Rememberer
REMEM'BERER, noun One that remembers.
Remembering
REMEM'BERING, participle present tense Having in mind.
Remembrance
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 .
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.
Remembrancer
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.
Rememorate
REMEM'ORATE, verb intransitive [Latin rememoratus, rememoror.]
To remember; to revive in the memory. [Not in use.]
Rememoration
REMEMORA'TION, noun Remembrance. [Not in use.]
Remercie
REMER'CIE,
REMER'CY, verb transitive To thank. [Not in use.]
Remercy
REMER'CY, v.t. To thank. [Not in use.]
Remigrate
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.]
Remigration
REMIGRA'TION, noun Removal back again; a migration to a former place.
Remind
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
REMINDED, participle passive Put in mind.
Reminding
REMINDING, participle present tense Putting in mind; calling attention to.
Reminiscence
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.
Reminiscential
REMINISCEN'TIAL, adjective Pertaining to reminiscence or recollection.
Remise
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.
Remised
REMI'SED, participle passive Released.
Remising
REMI'SING, participle present tense Surrendering by deed.
Remiss
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
Remissible
REMISS'IBLE, adjective That may be remitted or forgiven.
Remission
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. . .
6. The act of sending back. [Not in use.]
Remissly
REMISS'LY, adverb
1. Carelessly; negligently; without close attention.
2. Slowly; slackly; not vigorously; not with ardor.
Remissness
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
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.
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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.
Remitment
REMIT'MENT, noun
1. The act of remitting to custody.
2. Forgiveness; pardon.
Remittal
REMIT'TAL, noun A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as the remittal of the first fruits.
Remittance
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.
Remitted
REMIT'TED, participle passive Relaxed; forgiven; pardoned; sent back; referred; given up; transmitted in payment.
Remitter
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.
Remnant
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. .
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.]
Remodel
REMOD'EL, verb transitive [re and model.] To model or fashion anew.
Remodeled
REMOD'ELED, participle passive Modeled anew.
Remodeling
REMOD'ELING, participle present tense Modeling again.
Remold
REMOLD, verb transitive [re and mold.] To mold or shape anew.
Remolded
REMOLDED, participle passive Molded again.
Remolding
REMOLDING, participle present tense Molding anew.
Remolten
REMOLTEN, a or participle passive [re and molten, from melt.] Melted again.
Remonstrance
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.
Remonstrant
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.
Remonstrate
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.
Remonstrating
REMON'STRATING, participle present tense Urging strong reasons against a measure.
Remonstration
REMONSTRA'TION, noun The act of remonstrating. [Little used.]
Remonstrator
REMON'STRATOR, noun One who remonstrates.
Remora
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.
Remorate
REM'ORATE, verb transitive [Latin remoror.] To hinder; to delay. [Not in use.]
Remord
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.]
Remordency
REMORD'ENCY, noun Compunction; remorse.
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.]
Remorsed
REMORS'ED, adjective Feeling remorse or compunction. [Not used.]
Remorseful
REMORSEFUL, adjective remors'ful.
1. Full of remorse.
2. Compassionate; feeling tenderly. [Not in use.]
3. Pitiable. [Not in use.]
Remorseless
REMORSELESS, adjective remors'less. Unpitying; cruel; insensible to distress; as the remorseless deep.
REMORSELESS adversaries.
Remorselessly
REMORSELESSLY, adverb remors'lessly. Without remorse.
Remorselessness
REMORSELESSNESS, noun remors'lessness. Savage cruelty; insensibility to distress.
Remote
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.
Remotely
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.
Remoteness
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.
Remotion
REMO'TION, noun The act of removing; the state of being removed to a distance. [Little used.]
Remount
REMOUNT', verb transitive To mount again; as, to remount a horse.
REMOUNT', verb intransitive To mount again; to reascend.
Removability
REMOVABIL'ITY, noun The capacity of being removable from an office or station; capacity of being displaced.
Removable
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
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
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. .
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. .
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
REMOVED, participle passive
1. Changed in place; carried to a distance; displaced from office; placed far off.
2. adjective Remote; separate from others.
Removedness
REMOVEDNESS, noun State of being removed; remoteness.
Remover
REMOVER, noun One that removes; as a remover of landmarks.
Removing
REMOVING, participle present tense changing place; carrying or going from one place to another; displacing; banishing.
Remunerability
REMUNERABIL'ITY, noun the capacity of being rewarded.
Remunerable
REMU'NERABLE, adjective [from remunerate.] That may be rewarded; fit or proper to be recompensed.
Remunerate
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.
Remunerated
REMU'NERATED, participle passive Rewarded; compensated.
Remunerating
REMU'NERATING, participle present tense Rewarding; recompensing.
Remuneration
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.
Remunerative
REMU'NERATIVE, adjective Exercised in rewarding; that bestows rewards; as remunerative justice.
Remuneratory
REMU'NERATORY, adjective Affording recompense; rewarding.
Remurmur
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.
Remurmured
REMUR'MURED, participle passive Uttered back in murmurs.
Remurmuring
REMUR'MURING, participle present tense uttering back in low sounds.
Renal
RE'NAL, adjective [Latin renalis, from renes, the kidneys.]
Pertaining to the kidneys or reins; as the renal arteries.
Renard
REN'ARD, noun a fox; a name used in fables, but not in common discourse.
Renascency
RENAS'CENCY, noun The state of springing or being produced again.
Renascent
RENAS'CENT, adjective [Latin renascens, renascor; re and nascor, to be born.]
Springing or rising into being again; reproduced.
Renascible
RENAS'CIBLE, adjective That may be reproduced; that may spring again into being.
Renavigate
RENAV'IGATE, verb transitive [re and navigate.] To navigate again; as, to renavigate the Pacific ocean.
Renavigated
RENAV'IGATED, participle passive Navigated again; sailed over anew.
Renavigating
RENAV'IGATING, participle present tense Navigating again.
Rencounter
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
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. .
2. To separate or part with violence.
I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. .
To rend the heart, in Scripture, to have bitter sorrow for sin. .
To rend the heavens, to appear in majesty. .
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.
Render
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. .
2. To inflict, as a retribution.
I will render vengeance to my enemies. .
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. .
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.
Renderable
REN'DERABLE, adjective That may be rendered.
Rendered
REN'DERED, participle passive Returned; paid back; given; assigned; made; translated; surrendered; afforded.
Rendering
REN'DERING, participle present tense Returning; giving back; assigning; making; translating; surrendering; affording.
REN'DERING, noun Version; translation.
Rendezvous
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.
Rendezvousing
REN'DEZVOUSING, participle present tense Assembling at a particular place.
Rendible
REN'DIBLE, adjective
1. That may be yielded or surrendered.
2. That may be translated. [little used in either sense.]
Rendition
RENDI'TION, noun [from render.]
1. The act of yielding possession; surrender.
2. Translation.
Renegade
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.]
Renegado
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.]
Renege
RENE'GE, verb transitive [Latin renego.] To deny; to disown. obsolete
RENE'GE, verb intransitive To deny. obsolete
Renerve
RENERVE, verb transitive renerv'. [re and nerve.] To nerve again; to give new vigor to.
Renerved
RENERV'ED, participle passive Nerved anew.
Renerving
RENERV'ING, participle present tense Giving new vigor to.
Renew
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. To re-establish; to confirm.
Let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there. .
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.
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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. . .
Renewable
RENEW'ABLE, adjective That may be renewed; as a lease renewable at pleasure.
Renewal
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.
Renewed
RENEW'ED, participle passive Made new again; repaired; re-established; repeated; revived; renovated; regenerated.
Renewedness
RENEW'EDNESS, noun State of being renewed.
Renewer
RENEW'ER, noun One who renews.
Renewing
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.
Reniform
REN'IFORM, adjective [Latin renes, the kidneys, and form.]
Having the form or shape of the kidneys.
Renitence
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.
Renitency
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.
Renitent
REN'ITENT, adjective Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force.
Rennet
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.
Renneting
REN'NETING, noun A kind of apple.
Renounce
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. .
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.
Renounced
RENOUN'CED, participle passive Disowned; denied; rejected; disclaimed.
Renouncement
RENOUNCEMENT, noun renouns'ment. The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation.
Renouncer
RENOUN'CER, noun One who disowns or disclaims.
Renouncing
RENOUN'CING, participle present tense Disowning; disclaiming; rejecting.
RENOUN'CING, noun The act of disowning, disclaiming, denying or rejecting.
Renovate
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.
Renovated
REN'OVATED, participle passive Renewed; made new, fresh or vigorous.
Renovating
REN'OVATING, participle present tense Renewing.
Renovation
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
RENOWN', noun
Fame; celebrity; exalted reputation derived from the extensive praise of great achievements or accomplishments.
Giants of old, men of renown . .
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.]
Renowned
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.
Renownedly
RENOWN'EDLY, adverb With fame or celebrity.
Renownless
RENOWN'LESS, adjective Without renown; inglorious.
Rent
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.
Rentable
RENT'ABLE, adjective That may be rented.
Rentage
RENT'AGE, noun Rent. [Not used.]
Rental
RENT'AL, noun A schedule or account of rents.
Rented
RENT'ED, participle passive Leased on rent.
Renter
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.
Rentered
REN'TERED, participle passive Fine-drawn; sewed artfully together.
Renterer
REN'TERER, noun a Fine-drawer.
Rentering
REN'TERING, participle present tense Fine-drawing; sewing artfully together.
Renting
RENT'ING, participle present tense Leasing on rent; taking on rent.
Rentroll
RENT'ROLL, noun [rent and roll.] A rental; a list or account of rents or income.
Renunciation
RENUNCIA'TION, noun [Latin renunciatio.] The act of renouncing; a disowning; rejection. [See Renounce.]
Renverse
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
RENVERSEMENT, noun renvers'ment. The act of reversing. [Not in use.]
Reobtain
REOBTA'IN, verb transitive [re and obtain.] To obtain again.
Reobtainable
REOBTA'INABLE, adjective That may be obtained again.
Reobtained
REOBTA'INED, participle passive Obtained again.
Reobtaining
REOBTA'INING, participle present tense Obtaining again.
Reoppose
REOPPO'SE, verb transitive s as z. To oppose again.
Reordain
REORDA'IN, verb transitive [re and ordain.]
To ordain again, as when the first ordination is defective.
Reordained
REORDA'INED, participle passive Ordained again.
Reordaining
REORDA'INING, participle present tense Ordaining again.
Reordination
REORDINA'TION, noun A second ordination.
Reorganization
REORGANIZA'TION, noun The act of organizing anew; as repeated reorganization of the troops.
Reorganize
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.
Reorganized
REOR'GANIZED, participle passive Organized anew.
Reorganizing
REOR'GANIZING, participle present tense Organizing anew.
Repacified
REPAC'IFIED, participle passive Pacified or appeased again.
Repacify
REPAC'IFY, verb transitive [re and pacify.] To pacify again.
Repacifying
REPAC'IFYING, participle present tense Pacifying again.
Repack
REPACK', verb transitive [re and pact.] To pack a second time; as, to repack beef or pork.
Repacked
REPACK'ED, participle passive Packed again.
Repacker
REPACK'ER, noun One that repacks.
Repacking
REPACK'ING, participle present tense Packing anew.
Repand
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.
Repandous
REPAND'OUS, adjective [supra.] Bent upwards; convexedly crooked.
Reparable
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.
Reparably
REP'ARABLY, adverb In a manner admitting of restoration to a good state, or of amends, supply or indemnification.
Reparation
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.
Reparative
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
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.
Repass
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.
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.