Repassed – Reputation

Repassed

REP'ASSED, participle passive Passed or traveled back.

Repassing

REP'ASSING, participle present tense Passing back.

Repast

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.

Repasture

REP'ASTURE, noun Food; entertainment. [not in use.]

Repeal

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.

Repealability

REPEALABIL'ITY, noun The quality of being repealable.

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REPEA'LABLE, adjective Capable of being repealed; revocable by the same power that enacted.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.

Repealed

REPE'ALED, participle passive Revoked; abrogated.

Repealer

REPE'ALER, noun One that repeals.

Repealing

REPE'ALING, participle present tense Revoking; abrogating.

Repeat

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.

Repeated

REPE'ATED, participle passive done, attempted or spoken again; recited.

Repeatedly

REPE'ATEDLY, adverb More than once; again and again, indefinitely. He has been repeatedly warned of his danger.

Repeater

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.

Repeating

REPE'ATING, participle present tense Doing or uttering again.

Repedation

REPEDA'TION, noun [Low Latin repedo; re and pes, the foot.] A stepping or going back. [Not in use.]

Repel

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.

Repelled

REPEL'LED, participle passive Driven back; resisted.

Repellency

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.

Repellent

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.

Repeller

REPEL'LER, noun He or that which repels.

Repelling

REPEL'LING, participle present tense Driving back; resisting advance or approach effectually.

Repent

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.]

Repentance

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.

Repentant

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.

Repenter

REPENT'ER, noun One that repents.

Repenting

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.

Repentingly

REPENT'INGLY, adverb With repentance.

Repeople

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

REPEOPLED, participle passive Stocked anew with inhabitants.

Repeopling

REPEOPLING, participle present tense Furnishing again with a stock of inhabitants.

REPEOPLING, noun [supra.] The act of furnishing again with inhabitants.

Repercuss

REPERCUSS', verb transitive [Latin repercutio; re and percutio; per and quatio, to shake, to beat.] To beat back.

Repercussion

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.

Repercussive

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

Repertitious

REPERTI'TIOUS, adjective [from Latin repertus, reperio.] Found; gained by finding. [Not in use.]

Repertory

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

REPETEND; , noun [Latin repetendus, repeto.] The parts of decimals continually repeated.

Repetition

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.

Repetitional

REPETI'TIONAL,

REPETI'TIONARY, adjective Containing repetition. [Little used.]

Repetitionary

REPETI'TIONARY, a. Containing repetition. [Little used.]

Repine

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.

Repiner

REPI'NER, noun One that repines or murmurs.

Repining

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.

Repiningly

REPI'NINGLY, adverb With murmuring or complaint.

Replace

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.

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.

Replacement

REPLA'CEMENT, noun The act of replacing.

Replacing

REPLA'CING, participle present tense Putting again in a former place; supplying the place of with a substitute.

Replait

REPLA'IT, verb transitive [re and plait.] To plait or fold again; to fold one part over another again and again.

Replaited

REPLA'ITED, participle passive Folded again or often.

Replaiting

REPLA'ITING, participle present tense Folding again or often.

Replant

REPLANT', verb transitive To plant again.

Replantable

REPLANT'ABLE, adjective That may be planted again.

Replantation

REPLANTA'TION, noun The act of planting again.

Replanted

REPLANT'ED, participle passive Planted anew.

Replanting

REPLANT'ING, participle present tense Planting again.

Replead

REPLE'AD, verb transitive [re and plead.] To plead again.

Repleader

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.

Replenish

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.

Replenished

REPLEN'ISHED, participle passive Filled; abundantly supplied.

Replenishing

REPLEN'ISHING, participle present tense Filling; supplying with abundance.

Replete

REPLE'TE, adjective [Latin repletus; re and pleo, to fill.] Completely filled; full.

His words replete with guile.

Repletion

REPLE'TION, noun [Latin repletio.]

1. The state of being completely filled; or superabundant fullness.

2. In medicine, fullness of blood; plethorn.

Repletive

REPLE'TIVE, adjective Filling; replenishing.

Repleviable

REPLEV'IABLE, adjective [See Replevy.] In law, that may be replevied.

Replevied

REPLEV'IED, participle passive Taken by a writ of replevin.

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.

Replevisable

REPLEV'ISABLE, adjective That may be replevied; but little used, being superseded by repleviable.

Replevy

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.

Replevying

REPLEV'YING, participle present tense Retaking a distress. [See Replevy.]

Replication

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.]

Replier

REPLI'ER, noun One who answers; he that speaks or writes in return to something spoken or written.

Reply

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.

Replying

REPLY'ING, participle present tense Answering either in words or writing.

Repolish

REPOL'ISH, verb transitive To polish again.

Repolished

REPOL'ISHED, participle passive Polished again.

Repolishing

REPOL'ISHING, participle present tense Polishing anew.

Report

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

REPORTED, participle passive Told, related or stated in answer to inquiry or direction; circulated in popular rumors; reputed; stated officially.

Reporter

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

REPORTING, participle present tense Giving account; relating; presenting statements of facts or of adjudged cases in law.

Reportingly

REPORTINGLY, adverb By report or common fame.

Reposal

REPO'SAL, noun s as z. [from repose.] The act of reposing or resting.

Repose

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.

Reposed

REPO'SED, participle passive Laid at rest; placed in confidence.

Reposedness

REPO'SEDNESS, noun State of being at rest.

Reposing

REPO'SING, participle present tense Laying at rest; placing in confidence; lying at rest; sleeping.

Reposit

REPOS'IT, verb transitive [Latin repositus, repono.] To lay up; to lodge, as for safety or preservation.

Others reposit their young in holes.

Reposited

REPOS'ITED, participle passive Laid up; deposited for safety or preservation.

Repositing

REPOS'ITING, participle present tense Laying up or lodging for safety or preservation.

Reposition

REPOSI'TION, noun The act of replacing; as the reposition of a bone.

Repository

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

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.

Repossessed

REPOSSESS'ED, participle passive Possessed again.

Repossessing

REPOSSESS'ING, participle present tense Possessing again; obtaining possession again.

Repossession

REPOSSES'SION, noun The act of possessing again; the state of possessing again.

Repour

REPOUR, verb transitive [re and pour.] To pour again.

Reprehend

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.

Reprehended

REPREHEND'ED, participle passive Reproved; blamed.

Reprehender

REPREHEND'ER, noun One that reprehends; one that blames or reproves.

Reprehending

REPREHEND'ING, participle present tense Reproving; blaming.

Reprehensible

REPREHEN'SIBLE, adjective [Latin reprehensus.]

Blamable; culpable; censurable; deserving reproof; applied to persons or things; as a reprehensible person; reprehensible conduct.

Reprehensibleness

REPREHEN'SIBLENESS, noun Blamableness; culpableness.

Reprehensibly

REPREHEN'SIBLY, adverb Culpably; in a manner to deserve censure or reproof.

Reprehension

REPREHEN'SION, noun [Latin reprehensio.]

Reproof; censure; open blame. Faults not punishable, may deserve reprehension

Reprehensive

REPREHEN'SIVE, adjective Containing reproof.

Reprehensory

REPREHEN'SORY, adjective Containing reproof.

Represent

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.

Representance

REPRESENT'ANCE, noun Representation; likeness. [Not used.]

Representant

REPRESENT'ANT, noun A representative. [Not in use.]

Representation

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.

Representative

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.

Representatively

REPRESENT'ATIVELY, adverb

1. In the character of another; by a representative.

2. By substitution; by delegation of power.

Representativeness

REPRESENT'ATIVENESS, noun The state or quality of being representative.

Dr. Burnet observes that every thought is attended with consciousness and representativeness

Represented

REPRESENT'ED, participle passive Shown; exhibited; personated; described; stated; having substitutes.

Representer

REPRESENT'ER, noun

1. One who shows, exhibits or describes.

2. A representative; one that acts by deputation. [Little used.]

Representing

REPRESENT'ING, participle present tense Showing; exhibiting; describing; acting in another's character; acting in the place of another.

Representment

REPRESENT'MENT, noun Representation; image; an idea proposed as exhibiting the likeness of something.

Repress

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.]

Repressed

REPRESS'ED, participle passive Crushed; subdued.

Represser

REPRESS'ER, noun One that crushes or subdues.

Repressing

REPRESS'ING, participle present tense Crushing; subduing; checking.

Repression

REPRES'SION, noun

1. The act of subduing; as the repression of tumults.

2. Check; restraint.

Repressive

REPRESS'IVE, adjective Having power to crush; tending to subdue or restrain.

Reprieval

REPRIE'VAL, noun Respit; reprieve. [Not in use.]

Reprieve

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.

Reprieved

REPRIE'VED, participle passive Respited; allowed a longer time to live than the sentence of death permits.

Reprieving

REPRIE'VING, participle present tense Respiting; suspending the execution of for a time.

Reprimand

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.

Reprimanded

REP'RIMANDED, participle passive Severely reproved.

Reprimanding

REP'RIMANDING, participle present tense Reproving severely.

Reprint

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.

Reprinted

REPRINT'ED, participle passive Printed anew; impressed again.

Reprinting

REPRINT'ING, participle present tense Printing again; renewing an impression.

Reprisal

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.

Reprise

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

Reprizes

REPRI'ZES, noun plural In law, yearly deductions out of a manor, as rent-charge, rent-seek, etc.

Reproach

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

REPROACHABLE, adjective

1. Deserving reproach.

2. Opprobrious; scurrilous. [Not proper.]

Reproached

REPROACHED, participle passive Censured in terms of contempt; upbraided.

Reproachful

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

REPROACHFULLY, adverb

1. In terms of reproach; opprobriously; scurrilously

1 Timothy 5:14.

2. Shamefully; disgracefully; contemptuously.

Reprobate

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.

Reprobated

REP'ROBATED, participle passive Disapproved with abhorrence; rejected; abandoned to wickedness or to destruction.

Reprobateness

REP'ROBATENESS, noun The state of being reprobate.

Reprobater

REP'ROBATER, noun One that reprobates.

Reprobating

REP'ROBATING, participle present tense Disapproving with extreme dislike; rejecting; abandoning to wickedness or to destruction.

Reprobation

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.

Reprobationer

REPROBA'TIONER, noun One who abandons others to eternal destruction.

Reproduce

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.

Reproduced

REPRODU'CED, participle passive Produced anew.

Reproducer

REPRODU'CER, noun One or that which reproduces.

Reproducing

REPRODU'CING, participle present tense Producing anew.

Reproduction

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

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

REPROVABLE, adjective [from reprove.] Worthy of reproof; deserving censure; blamable.

Reprove

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

REPROVED, participle passive Blamed; reprehended; convinced of a fault.

Reprover

REPROVER, noun One that reproves; he or that which blames. Conscience is a bold reprover

Reproving

REPROVING, participle present tense Blaming; censuring.

Reprune

REPRU'NE, verb transitive [re and prune.] To prune a second time.

Reptile

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.

Republican

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.

Republicanism

REPUB'LICANISM, noun

1. A republican form or system of government.

2. Attachment to a republican form of government.

Republicanize

REPUB'LICANIZE, verb transitive To convert to republican principles; as, to republicanize the rising generation.

Republication

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.

Republish

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.

Republished

REPUB'LISHED, participle passive Published anew.

Republisher

REPUB'LISHER, noun One who republishes.

Republishing

REPUB'LISHING, participle present tense Publishing again.

Repudiation

REPUDIA'TION, noun [Latin repudiatio.]

1. Rejection.

2. Divorce; as the repudiation of a wife.

Repugn

REPUGN, noun repu'ne. [Latin repugno; re and pugno.

To oppose; to resist. [Not used.]

Repugnance

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.

Repugnancy

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.

Repugnant

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.]

Repugnantly

REPUG'NANTLY, adverb With opposition; in contradiction.

Repullulate

REPUL'LULATE, verb intransitive [Latin re and pullulo, to bud.] To bud again.

Repullulation

REPULLULA'TION, noun The act of budding again.

Repulse

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.

Repulsed

REPULS'ED, participle passive Repelled; driven back.

Repulser

REPULS'ER, noun One that repulses or drives back.

Repulsing

REPULS'ING, participle present tense Driving back.

Repulsion

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.

Repulsive

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.

Repulsiveness

REPULS'IVENESS, noun The quality of being repulsive or forbidding.

Repulsory

REPULS'ORY, adjective Repulsive; driving back.

Repurchase

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.

Repurchased

REPUR'CHASED, participle passive Bought back or again; regained by expense; as a throne repurchased with the blood of enemies.

Repurchasing

REPUR'CHASING, participle present tense Buying back or again; regaining by the payment of a price.

Reputable

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.

Reputation

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.