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Respectful
RESPECT'FUL, adjective Marked or characterized by respect; as respectful deportment.
With humble joy and with respectful fear.
Respectfully
RESPECT'FULLY, adverb With respect; in a manner comporting with due estimation.
Respectfulness
RESPECT'FULNESS, noun The quality of being respectful.
Respecting
RESPECT'ING, participle present tense Regarding; having regard to; relating to. This word, like concerning, has reference to a single word or to a sentence. In the sentence, 'his conduct respecting us is commendable, ' respecting has reference to conduct. But when we say, 'respecting a further appropriation of money, it is to be observed, that the resources of the country are inadequate, ' respecting has reference to the whole subsequent clause or sentence.
Respective
RESPECT'IVE, adjective
1. Relative; having relation to something else; not absolute; as the respective connections of society.
2. Particular; relating to a particular person or thing. Let each man retire to his respective place of abode. The officers were found in their respective quarters; they appeared at the head of their respective regiments. Let each give according to his respective proportion.
3. Worthy of respect. [Not in use.]
4. Careful; circumspect; cautious; attentive to consequences; as respective and wary men. [Not in use.]
Respectively
RESPECT'IVELY, adverb
1. As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each. Let each man respectively perform his duty.
The impressions from the objects of the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind.
2. Relatively; not absolutely.
3. Partially; with respect to private views. obsolete
4. With respect. obsolete
Respectless
RESPECT'LESS, adjective Having no respect; without regard; without reference. [Little used.]
Respectlessness
RESPECT'LESSNESS, noun The state of having no respect or regard; regardlessness. [Little used.]
Resperse
RESPERSE, verb transitive respers'. [Latin respersus, respergo; re and spargo, to sprinkle.] To sprinkle. [Rarely used.]
Respersion
RESPER'SION, noun [Latin respersio.] The act of sprinkling.
Respirable
RES'PIRABLE, adjective [from respire.] That may be breathed; fit for respiration or for the support of animal life; as respirable air. Azotic gas is not respirable
Respiration
RESPIRA'TION, noun [Latin respiratio.]
1. The act of breathing; the act of inhaling air into the lungs and again exhaling or expelling it, by which animal life is supported. The respiration of fishes, [for these cannot live long without air, ] appears to be performed by the air contained in the water acting on the gills.
2. Relief from toil.
Respiratory
RES'PIRATORY, adjective Serving for respiration; as respiratory organs.
Respire
RESPI'RE, verb intransitive [Latin respiro; re and spiro, to breathe.]
1. To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs and exhale it, for the purpose of maintaining animal life.
2. To catch breath.
3. To rest; to take rest from toil.
RESPI'RE, verb transitive To exhale; to breathe out; to send out in exhalations.
Respired
RESPI'RED, participle passive Breathed; inhaled and exhaled.
Respiring
RESPI'RING, participle present tense Breathing; taking breath.
Respit
RES'PIT, noun
1. Pause; temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest.
Some pause and respit only I require.
2. In law, reprieve; temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender.
3. Delay; forbearance; prolongation of time for the payment of a debt beyond the legal time.
4. The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury, beyond the proper term.
RES'PIT, verb transitive
1. To relieve by a pause or interval of rest.
To respit his day-labor with repast.
2. To suspend the execution of a criminal beyond the time limited by the sentence; to delay for a time.
3. To give delay of appearance at court; as, to respit a jury.
Respited
RES'PITED, participle passive Relieved from labor; allowed a temporary suspension of execution.
Respiting
RES'PITING, participle present tense Relieving from labor; suspending the execution of a capital offender.
Resplendence
RESPLEN'DENCE,
RESPLEN'DENCY, noun [Latin resplendens, resplendeo; re and splendeo, to shine.]
Brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor.
Son! thou in whom my glory I behold in full resplendence heir of all my might.
Resplendency
RESPLEN'DENCY, n. [L. resplendens, resplendeo; re and splendeo, to shine.] Brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor.Son! thou in whom my glory I behold in full resplendence, heir of all my might.
Resplendent
RESPLEN'DENT, adjective [supra.] Very bright; shining with brilliant luster.
With royal arras and resplendent gold.
Resplendently
RESPLEN'DENTLY, adverb With brilliant luster; with great brightness.
Resplit
RESPLIT', verb transitive [re and split.] To split again.
Respond
RESPOND', verb intransitive [Latin respondeo; re and spondeo, to promise, that is, to sent to. Hence respondeo is to send back.]
1. To answer; to reply.
A new affliction strings a new chord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe.
2. To correspond; to suit.
To every theme responds thy various lay.
3. To be answerable; to be liable to make payment; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages.
RESPOND', verb transitive To answer; to satisfy by payment. The surety was held to respond the judgment of court. The goods attached shall be held to respond the judgment.
RESPOND', noun
1. A short anthem interrupting the middle of a chapter, which is not to proceed till the anthem is ended.
2. An answer. [Not in use.]
Responded
RESPOND'ED, participle passive Answered; satisfied by payment.
Respondent
RESPOND'ENT, adjective Answering; that answers to demand or expectation.
- Wealth respondent to payment and contributions.
RESPOND'ENT, noun
1. One that answers in a suit, particularly a chancery suit.
2. In the schools, one who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province is to refute objections or overthrow arguments.
Responding
RESPOND'ING, ppr. Answering; corresponding.
Responsal
RESPONS'AL, adjective Answerable; responsible. [Not in use.]
RESPONS'AL, noun
1. Response; answer.
2. One who is responsible. [Not in use.]
Response
RESPONSE, noun respons'. [Latin responsum.]
1. An answer or reply; particularly, an oracular answer.
2. The answer of the people or congregation to the priest, in the litany and other parts of divine service.
3. Reply to an objection in a formal disputation.
4. In the Romish church, a kind of anthem sung after the morning lesson.
5. In a fugue, a repetition of the given subject by another part.
Responsibility
RESPONSIBIL'ITY, noun [from responsible.]
1. The state of being accountable or answerable, as for a trust or office, or for a debt.
It is used in the plural; as heavy responsibilities.
2. Ability to answer in payment; means of paying contracts.
Responsible
RESPONS'IBLE, adjective [from Latin responsus, respondeo.]
1. Liable to account; accountable; answerable; as for a trust reposed, or for a debt. We are all responsible for the talents entrusted to us by our Creator. A guardian is responsible for the faithful discharge of his duty to his ward. The surety is responsible for the debt of his principal.
2. Able to discharge an obligation; or having estate adequate to the payment of a debt. In taking bail, the officer will ascertain whether the proposed surety is a responsible man.
Responsibleness
RESPONS'IBLENESS, noun
1. State of being liable to answer, repay or account; responsibility.
2. Ability to make payment of an obligation or demand.
Responsion
RESPON'SION, noun [Latin responsio.] The act of answering. [Not used.]
Responsive
RESPONS'IVE, adjective
1. Answering; making reply.
2. Correspondent; suited to something else.
The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
Responsory
RESPONS'ORY, adjective Containing answer.
RESPONS'ORY, noun A response; the alternate speaking, in church service.
Rest
REST, noun [Latin resto, if the latter is a compound of re and sto; but is an original word. See Verb.]
1. Cessation of motion or action of any kind, and applicable to any body or being; as rest from labor; rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind. A body is at rest when it ceases to move; the mind is at rest when it ceases to be disturbed or agitated; the sea is never at rest Hence,
2. Quiet; repose; a state free from motion or disturbance; a state of reconciliation to God.
Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls. .
3. Sleep; as, retire to rest
4. Peace; national quiet.
The land had rest eighty years. . .
5. The final sleep, death.
6. A place of quiet; permanent habitation.
Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you. .
7. Any place of repose.
In dust, our final rest and native home.
8. That on which any thing leans or lies for support. .
Their vizors clos'd, their lances in the rest
9. In poetry, a short pause of the voice in reading; a cesura.
10. In philosophy, the continuance of a body in the same place.
11. Final hope.
Sea fights have been final to the war; but this is, when princes set up their rest upon the battle. obsolete
12. Cessation from tillage. .
13. The gospel church or new covenant state in which the people of God enjoy repose, and Christ shall be glorified.
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14. In music, a pause; an interval during which the voice is intermitted; also, the mark of such intermission.
REST, noun [Latin resto.]
1. That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder.
Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the present comfort of having done our duty, and for the rest it offers us the best security that heaven can give.
2. Others; those not included in a proposition or description. [In this sense, rest is a noun, but with a singular termination expressing plurality.]
Plato and the rest of the philosophers -
Arm'd like the rest the Trojan prince appears.
The election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded. .
REST, verb intransitive
1. To cease from action or motion of any kind; to stop; a word applicable to any body or being, and to any kind of motion.
2. To cease from labor, work or performance.
God rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. .
So the people rested on the seventh day. .
3. To be quiet or still; to be undisturbed.
There rest if any rest can harbor there.
4. To cease from war; to be at peace.
And the land rested from war. .
5. To be quiet or tranquil, as the mind; not to be agitated by fear, anxiety or other passion.
6. To lie; to repose; as, to rest on a bed.
7. To sleep; to slumber.
Fancy then retires into her private cell, when nature rests.
8. to sleep the final sleep; to die or be dead.
Glad I'd lay me down, as in my mother's lap; ther I should rest and sleep secure.
9. To lean; to recline for support; as, to rest the arm on a table. The truth of religion rests on divine testimony.
10. to stand on; to be supported by; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
11. To be satisfied; to acquiesce; as, to rest on heaven's determination.
12. To lean; to trust; to rely; as, to rest on a man's promise.
13. To continue fixed. .
14. To terminate; to come to an end. .
15. To hang, lie or be fixed.
Over a tent a cloud shall rest by day.
16. To abide; to remain with.
They said, the spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. . .
17. To be calm or composed in mind; to enjoy peace of conscience.
REST, verb intransitive To be left; to remain. obsolete
REST, verb transitive
1. To lay at rest; to quiet.
Your piety has paid all needful rites, to rest my wandering shade.
2. To place, as on a support. We rest our cause on the truth of the Scripture.
Her weary head upon your bosom rest
Rest-Harrow
REST-HARROW, noun A plant of the genus Ononis.
Restagnant
RESTAG'NANT, adjective [Latin restagnans.] Stagnant; remaining without a flow or current. [Not much used.]
Restagnate
RESTAG'NATE, verb intransitive [Latin restagno; re and stagno, to stagnate.]
To stand or remain without flowing.
[This word is superseded by stagnate.]
Restagnation
RESTAGNA'TION, noun Stagnation, which see.
Restant
REST'ANT, adjective [Latin restans, reto.] In botany, remaining, as footstalks after the fructification has fallen off.
Restauration
RESTAURA'TION, noun [Latin restauro.] Restoration to a former good state.
[The present orthography is restoration, which see.]
Rested
REST'ED, participle passive Laid on for support.
Restem
RESTEM', verb transitive [re and stem.] To force back against the current.
Restful
REST'FUL, adjective [from rest.] Quiet; being at rest.
Restfully
REST'FULLY, adverb In a state of rest or quiet.
Restif
REST'IF, adjective [Latin resto.]
1. Unwilling to go, or only running back; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; as a restif steed. It seems originally to have been used of horses that would not be driven forward. It is sometimes written restive.
All who before him did ascend the throne, labor'd to draw three restive nations on.
2. Unyielding; as restif stubbornness.
3. Being at rest, or less in action. [Not in use.]
REST'IF, noun A stubborn horse.
Restifness
REST'IFNESS, noun
1. Obstinate reluctance or indisposition to move.
2. Obstinate unwillingness.
Restinction
RESTINC'TION, noun [Latin restinctio, restinguo; re and extinguo.]
The act of quenching or extinguishing.
Resting
REST'ING, participle present tense Ceasing to move or act; ceasing to be moved or agitated; lying; leaning; standing; depending or relying.
Resting-Place
REST'ING-PLACE, noun A place for rest.
Restinguish
RESTIN'GUISH, verb transitive [Latin restinguo; re and extinguo.] To quench or extinguish.
Restitute
RES'TITUTE, verb transitive [Latin restituo; re and statuo, to set.]
To restore to a former state. [Not used.]
Restitution
RESTITU'TION, noun [Latin restitutio.]
1. The act of returning or restoring to a person some thing or right of which he has been unjustly deprived; as the restitution of ancient rights to the crown.
Restitution is made by restoring a specific thing taken away or lost.
2. The act of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage or injury; indemnification.
He restitution to the value makes.
3. The act of recovering a former state or posture. [Unusual.]
Restitution of all things, the putting the world in a holy and happy state. .
Restitutor
RES'TITUTOR, noun One who makes restitution. [little used.]
Restive
RESTIVE, RESTIVENESS. [See Restif.]
Restiveness
RESTIVE, RESTIVENESS [See Restif.]
Restless
REST'LESS, adjective
1. Unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as a restless child.
2. Being without sleep; uneasy.
Restless he pass'd the remnant of the night.
3. Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night.
4. Uneasy; unquiet; not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; as a restless prince; restless ambition; restless passions.
5. Uneasy; turbulent; as restless subjects.
6. Unsettled; disposed to wander or to change place or condition.
- restless at home, and ever prone to range.
Restlessly
REST'LESSLY, adverb Without rest; unquietly.
When the mind casts and turns itself restlessly from one thing to another.
Restlessness
REST'LESSNESS, noun
1. Uneasiness; unquietness; a state of disturbance or agitation, either of body or mind.
2. Want of sleep or rest; uneasiness.
3. Motion; agitation; as the restlessness of the magnetic needle.
Restorable
RESTO'RABLE, noun [from restore.] That may be restored to a former good condition; as restorable land.
Restoral
RESTO'RAL, noun Restitution. [Not in use.]
Restoration
RESTORA'TION, noun [Latin restauro.]
1. The act of replacing in a former state.
Behold the different climes agree, rejoicing in thy restoration
So we speak of the restoration of a man to his office, or to a good standing in society.
2. Renewal; revival; re-establishment; as the restoration of friendship between enemies; the restoration of peace after war; the restoration of a declining commerce.
3. Recovery; renewal of health and soundness; as restoration from sickness or from insanity.
4. Recovery from a lapse or any bad state; as the restoration of man from apostasy.
5. In theology, universal restoration the final recovery of all men from sin and alienation from God, to a state of happiness; universal salvation.
6. In England, the return of king Charles II in 1660, and the re-establishment of monarchy.
Restorative
RESTO'RATIVE, adjective That has power to renew strength and vigor.
RESTO'RATIVE, noun A medicine efficacious in restoring strength and vigor, or in recruiting the vital powers.
Restore
RESTO'RE, verb transitive [Latin restauro. This is a compound of re and the root of store, story, history. The primary sense is to set, to lay or to throw, as in Gr. solid.]
1. To return to a person, as a specific thing which he has lost, or which has been taken from him and unjustly detained. We restore lost or stolen goods to the owner.
Now therefore restore to the man his wife. .
2. To replace; to return; as a person or thing to a former place.
Pharaoh shall restore thee to thy place. .
3. To bring back.
The father banish'd virtue shall restore
4. To bring back or recover from lapse, degeneracy, declension or ruin to its former state.
- Loss of Eden, till one greater man restore it, and regain the blissful seat.
- Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions.
5. To heal; to cure; to recover from disease.
His hand was restored whole like as the other. .
6. To make restitution or satisfaction for a thing taken, by returning something else, or something of different value.
He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. .
7. To give for satisfaction for pretended wrongs something not taken. .
8. To repair; to rebuild; as, to restore and to build Jerusalem. .
9. To revive; to resuscitate; to bring back to life.
Whose son he had restored to life. .
10. To return or bring back after absence. .
11. To bring to a sense of sin and amendment of life.
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12. To renew or re-establish after interruption; as, peace is restored. Friendship between the parties is restored.
13. To recover or renew, as passages of an author obscured or corrupted; as, to restore the true reading.
RE'STORE, verb transitive [re and store.] To store again. The goods taken out were restored.
Restored
RESTO'RED, participle passive Returned; brought back; retrieved; recovered; cured; renewed; re-established.
Restorement
RESTO'REMENT, noun The act of restoring; restoration. [Not used.]
Restorer
RESTO'RER, noun One that restores; one that returns what is lost or unjustly detained; one who repairs or re-establishes.
Restoring
RESTO'RING, participle present tense Returning what is lost or taken; bringing back; recovering; curing; renewing; repairing; re-establishing.
Restrain
RESTRA'IN, verb transitive [Latin restringo; re and stringo, to strain. The letter g appears from the participle to be casual; stringo, for strigo. Hence strictus, strict, stricture. If the two letters st are removed, the word rigo coincides exactly, in primary sense, with Latin rego, rectus, right, and the root of reach, stretch, straight.]
1. To hold back; to check; to hold from action, proceeding or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by an interposing obstacle. Thus we restrain a horse by a bridle; we restrain cattle from wandering by fences; we restrain water by dams and dikes; we restrain men from crimes and trespasses by laws; we restrain young people, when we can, by arguments or counsel; we restrain men and their passions; we restrain the elements; we attempt to restrain vice, but not always with success.
2. To repress; to keep in awe; as, to restrain offenders.
3. To suppress; to hinder or repress; as, to restrain excess.
4. To abridge; to hinder from unlimited enjoyment; as, to restrain one of his pleasure or of his liberty.
5. To limit; to confine.
Not only a metaphysical or natural, but a moral universality is also to be restrained by a part of the predicate.
6. To withhold; to forbear.
Thou restrainest prayer before God. .
Restrainable
RESTRA'INABLE, adjective Capable of being restrained.
Restrained
RESTRA'INED, participle passive Held back from advancing or wandering; withheld; repressed; suppressed; abridged; confined.
Restrainedly
RESTRA'INEDLY, adverb With restraint; with limitation.
Restrainer
RESTRA'INER, noun He or that which restrains.
Restraining
RESTRA'INING, participle present tense
1. Holding back from proceeding; checking; repressing; hindering from motion or action; suppressing.
2. adjective Abridging; limiting; as a restraining statute.
Restraint
RESTRA'INT, noun
1. The act or operation of holding back or hindering from motion, in any manner; hinderance of the will, or of any action, physical, moral or mental.
2. Abridgment of liberty; as the restraint of a man by imprisonment or by duress.
3. Prohibition. The commands of God should be effectual restraints upon our evil passions.
4. Limitation; restriction.
If all were granted, yet it must be maintained, within any bold restraints, far otherwise than it is received.
5. That which restrains, hinders or represses. The laws are restraints upon injustice.
Restrict
RESTRICT', verb transitive [Latin restrictus, from restringo. See Restrain.]
To limit; to confine; to restrain within bounds; as, to restrict words to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
Restricted
RESTRICT'ED, participle passive Limited; confined to bounds.
Restricting
RESTRICT'ING, participle present tense Confining to limits.
Restriction
RESTRIC'TION, noun [Latin restrictus.]
1. Limitation; confinement within bounds.
This is to have the same restriction as all other recreations.
Restriction of words, is the limitation of their signification in a particular manner or degree.
2. Restraint; as restrictions on trade.
Restrictive
RESTRICT'IVE, adjective
1. Having the quality of limiting or of expressing limitation; as a restrictive particle.
2. Imposing restraint; as restrictive laws of trade.
3. Styptic. [Not used.]
Restrictively
RESTRICT'IVELY, adverb With limitation.
Restringe
RESTRINGE, verb intransitive restrinj. [Latin restringo, supra.] To confine; to contract; to astringe.
Restringency
RESTRIN'GENCY, noun The quality or power of contracting.
Restringent
RESTRIN'GENT, adjective Astringent; styptic.
RESTRIN'GENT, noun A medicine that operates as an astringent or styptic.
Restrive
RESTRI'VE, verb intransitive [re and strive.] To strive anew.
Resty
REST'Y, adjective The same as restive or restif, of which it is a contraction.
Resubjection
RESUBJEC'TION, noun [re and subjection.] A second subjection.
Resublimation
RESUBLIMA'TION, noun A second sublimation.
Resublime
RESUBLI'ME, verb transitive [re and sublime.] To sublime again; as, to resublime mercurial sublimate.
Resublimed
RESUBLI'MED, participle passive sublimed a second time.
Resubliming
RESUBLI'MING, participle present tense Subliming again.
Resudation
RESUDA'TION, noun [Latin resudatus, resudo; re and sudo, to sweat.] The act of sweating again.
Result
RESULT', v.i s as z. [Latin resulto, resilio; re and salio, to leap.]
1. to leap back; to rebound.
The huge round stone, resulting with a bound -
2. To preceed, spring or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, conbination of circumstances, consultation or meditation. Evidence results from testimony, or from a variety of concurring circumstances; pleasure results from friendship; harmony results from certain accordances of sounds.
Pleasure and peace naturally result from a holy and good life.
3. To come to a conclusion or determination. the council resulted in recommending harmony and peace to the parties.
RESULT', noun
1. Resilience; act of flying back.
Sound is produced between the string and the air, by the return of the result of the string.
2. Consequence; conclusion; inference; effect; that which proceeds naturally or logically from facts, premises or the state of things; as the result of reasoning; the result of reflection; the result of a consultation or council; the result of a legislative debate.
3. Consequence or effect.
The misery of sinners will be the natural result of their vile affections and criminal indulgences.
4. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; as the result of an ecclesiastical council.
Resultance
RESULT'ANCE, noun The act of resulting.
Resultant
RESULT'ANT, noun In mechanics, a force which is the combined effect of two or more forces, acting in different directions.
Resulting
RESULT'ING, participle present tense
1. Proceeding as a consequence, effect or conclusion of something; coming to a determination.
2. In law, resulting use, is a use which returns to him who raised it, after its expiration or during the impossibility of vesting in the person intended.
Resumable
RESU'MABLE, adjective s as z. [from resume.] That may be taken back, or that may be taken up again.
Resume
RES'UME, verb transitive s as z. [Latin resumo; re and sumo, to take.]
1. To take back what has been given.
The sun, like this from which our sight we have, gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.
2. To take back what has been taken away.
They resume what has been obtained fraudulently.
3. To take again after absence; as, to resume a seat.
Reason resum'd her place, and passion fled.
4. To take up again after interruption; to begin again; as, to resume an argument or discourse. [This is now its most frequent use.]
Resumed
RESU'MED, participle passive Taken back; taken again; begun again after interruption.
Resuming
RESU'MING, participle present tense Taking back; taking again; beginning again after interruption.
Resummon
RESUM'MON, verb transitive
1. To summon or call again.
2. To recall; to recover.
Resummoned
RESUM'MONED, participle passive Summoned again; recovered.
Resummoning
RESUM'MONING, participle present tense Recalling; recovering.
Resumption
RESUMP'TION, noun [Latin resumptus.]
The act of resuming, taking back or taking again; as the resumption of a grant.
Resumptive
RESUMP'TIVE, adjective Taking back or again.
Resupinate
RESUP'INATE, adjective [Latin resupinatus, resupino; re and supino, supinus, lying on the back.]
In botany, reversed; turned upside down. A resupinate corol is when the upper lip faces the ground, and the lower lip the sky. A resupinate leaf is when the upper surface becomes the lower, and contrary; or when the lower disk looks upward.
Resupination
RESUPINA'TION, noun [supra.] The state of lying on the back; the state of being resupinate or reversed, as a corol.
Resupine
RESU'PINE, adjective Lying on the back.
Resurrection
RESURREC'TION, noun s as z. [Latin resurrectus, resurgo; re and surgo, to rise.]
A rising again; chiefly, the revival of the dead of the human race, or their return from the grave, particularly at the general judgment. By the resurrection of Christ we have assurance of the future resurrection of men. .
In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage. .
Resurvey
RESURVEY, verb transitive [re and survey.] To survey again or anew; to review.
RESUR'VEY, noun A second survey.
Resurveyed
RESURVEY'ED, participle passive Surveyed again.
Resurveying
RESURVEYING, participle present tense surveying anew; reviewing.
Resuscitate
RESUS'CITATE, verb transitive [Latin resuscito; re and suscito, to raise.]
1. To revivify; to revive; particularly, to recover from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.
2. To reproduce, as a mixed body from its ashes.
Resuscitated
RESUS'CITATED, participle passive Revived; revivified; reproduced.
Resuscitating
RESUS'CITATING, participle present tense Reviving; revivifying; reproducing.
Resuscitation
RESUSCITA'TION, noun
1. The act of reviving from a state of apparent death; the state of being revivified.
2. The reproducing of a mixed body from its ashes.
Resuscitative
RESUS'CITATIVE, adjective Reviving; revivifying; raising from apparent death; reproducing.
Retail
RETA'IL,
RETAIL, verb transitive
1. To sell in small quantities or parcels, from the sense of cutting or dividing; opposed to selling by wholesale; as, to retail cloth or groceries.
2. To sell at second hand.
3. To tell in broken parts; to tell to many; as, to retail slander or idle reports.
RE'TAIL, noun The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels, or at second hand.
Retailed
RETA'ILED, participle passive Sold in small quantities.
Retailer
RETA'ILER,
RE'TAILER, noun [This word, like the noun retail, is often, perhaps generally accented on the first syllable in America.]
One who sells goods by small quantities or parcels.
Retailing
RETA'ILING, participle present tense Selling in small quantities.
Retain
RETA'IN, verb transitive [Latin retineo; re and teneo, to hold.]
1. To hold or keep in possession; not to lose or part with or dismiss. The memory retains ideas which facts or arguments have suggested to the mind.
They did not like to retain God in their knowledge. .
2. To keep, as an associate; to keep from departure.
Whom I would have retained with me. .
3. To keep back; to hold.
An executor may retain a debt due to him from the testator.
4. To hold from escape. Some substances retain heat much longer than others. Metals readily receive and transmit heat, but do not long retain it. Seek cloths that retain their color.
5. To keep in pay; to hire.
A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense.
6. To engage; to employ by a fee paid; as, to retain a counselor.
RETA'IN, verb intransitive
1. To belong to; to depend on; as coldness mixed with a somewhat languid relish retaining to bitterness.
[Not in use. We now use pertain.]
2. To keep; to continue. [Not in use.]
Retained
RETA'INED, participle passive Held; kept in possession; kept as an associate; kept in pay; kept from escape.
Retainer
RETA'INER, noun
1. One who retains; as an executor, who retains a debt due from the testator.
2. One who is kept in service; an attendant; as the retainers of the ancient princes and nobility.
3. An adherent; a dependant; a hanger on.
4. A servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.
5. Among lawyers, a fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause.
6. The act of keeping dependents, or being in dependence.
Retaining
RETA'INING, participle present tense Keeping in possession; keeping as an associate; keeping from escape; hiring; engaging by a fee.
Retake
RETA'KE, verb transitive preterit tense retook; participle passive retaken. [re and take.]
1. To take again.
2. To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
Retaker
RETA'KER, noun One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor.
Retaking
RETA'KING, participle present tense Taking again; taking from a captor.
RETA'KING, noun A taking again; recapture.
Retaliate
RETAL'IATE, verb transitive [Low Latin retalio; re and talio, from talis, like.]
To return like for like; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind as has been received. It is now seldom used except in a bad sense, that is, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate injuries. In war, enemies often retaliate the death or inhuman treatment of prisoners, the burning of towns or the plunder of goods.
It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors.
RETAL'IATE, verb intransitive To return like for like; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
Retaliated
RETAL'IATED, participle passive Returned, as like for like.
Retaliating
RETAL'IATING, participle present tense Returning, like for like.
Retaliation
RETALIA'TION, noun
1. The return of like for like; the doing that to another which he has done to us; requital of evil.
2. In a good sense, return of good for good.
God takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise obliges himself to full retaliation
[This, according to modern usage, is harsh.]
Retaliatory
RETAL'IATORY, adjective Returning like for like; as retaliatory measure; retaliatory edicts.
Retard
RET'ARD, verb transitive [Latin retardo; re and tardo, to delay, tardus, slow, late. See Target.]
1. To diminish the velocity of motion; to hinder; to render more slow in progress; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship. The resistance of air retards the velocity of a cannon ball. It is opposed to accelerate.
2. To delay; to put off; to render more late; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations. My visit was retarded by business.
RET'ARD, verb intransitive To stay back. [Not in use.]
Retardation
RETARDA'TION, noun The act of abating the velocity of motion; hinderance; the act of delaying; as the retardation of the motion of a ship; the retardation of hoary hairs.
Retarded
RET'ARDED, participle passive Hindered in motion; delayed.
Retarder
RET'ARDER, noun One that retards, hinders or delays.
Retarding
RET'ARDING, participle present tense Abating the velocity of motion; hindering; delaying.
Retardment
RET'ARDMENT, noun The act of retarding or delaying.
Retch
RETCH, verb intransitive [See Reach.]
To make an effort to vomit; to heave; as the stomach; to strain, as in vomiting; properly to reach.
Retchless
RETCHLESS, careless, is not in use. [See Reckless.]
Retection
RETEC'TION, noun [Latin retectus, from retego, to uncover; re and tego, to cover.]
The act of disclosing or producing to view something concealed; as the retection of the native color of the body.
Retent
RETENT', noun That which is retained.
Retention
RETEN'TION, noun [Latin retentio, retineo; re and teneo, to hold.]
1. The act of retaining or keeping.
2. The power of retaining; the faculty of the mind by which it retains ideas.
3. In medicine, the power of retaining, or that state of contraction in the solid or vascular parts of the body, by which they hold their proper contents and prevent in voluntary evacuations; undue retention of some natural discharge.
4. The act of withholding; restraint.
5. Custody; confinement. [Not in use.]
Retentive
RETEN'TIVE, adjective Having the power to retain; as a retentive memory; the retentive faculty; the retentive force of the stomach; a body retentive of heat or moisture.
Retentiveness
RETEN'TIVENESS, noun The quality of retention; a retentiveness of memory.
Reticence
RET'ICENCE,
RET'ICENCY, noun [Latin reticentia, reticeo; re and tacco, to be silent.]
Concealment by silence. In rhetoric, aposiopesis or suppression; a figure by which a person really speaks of a thing, while he makes a show as if he would say nothing on the subject.
Reticency
RET'ICENCY, n. [L. reticentia, reticeo; re and tacco, to be silent.] Concealment by silence. In rhetoric, aposiopesis or suppression; a figure by which a person really speaks of a thing, while he makes a show as if he would say nothing on the subject.
Reticle
RET'ICLE, noun [Latin reticulum, from rete, a net.]
1. A small net.
2. A contrivance to measure the quantity of an eclipse; a kind of micrometer.
Reticular
RETIC'ULAR, adjective [supra.] Having the form of a net or of net-work; formed with interstices; as a reticular body or membrane.
In anatomy, the reticular body, or rete mucosum, is the layer of the skin, intermediate between the cutis and the cuticle, the principal seat of color in man; the reticular membrane is the same as the cellular membrane.
Reticulate
RETIC'ULATE,
RETIC'ULATED, adjective [Latin reticulatus, from rete, a net.] Netted; resembling net-work; having distinct veins crossing like net-work; as a reticulate corol or petal.
Reticulated
RETIC'ULATED, a. [L. reticulatus, from rete, a net.] Netted; resembling net-work; having distinct veins crossing like net-work; as a reticulate corol or petal.
Reticulation
RETICULA'TION, noun Net-work; organization of substances resembling a net.
Retiform
RET'IFORM, adjective [Latin retiformis; rete, a net, and forma, form.]
Having the form of a net in texture; composed of crossing lines and interstices; as the retiform coat of the eye.
Retina
RET'INA, noun [Latin from rete, a net.] In anatomy, one of the coats of the eye, being an expansion of the optic nerve over the bottom of the eye, where the sense of vision is first received.
Retinasphalt
RETINASPHALT', noun A bituminous or resinous substance of a yellowish or reddish brown color, found in irregular pieces very light and shining. [See Retinite.]
Retinite
RET'INITE, noun [Gr. resin.] Pitchstone; stone of fusible pitch, of a resinous appearance, compact, brown, reddish, gray, yellowish, blackish or bluish, rarely homogeneous, and often containing crystals of feldspar and scales of mica. It is the pechstein porphyry or obsidian of the Germans. It is called also retinasphalt.
Retinue
RET'INUE, noun [Latin retineo; re and tenco, to hold.]
The attendants of a prince or distinguished personage, chiefly on a journey or an excursion; a train of persons.
Retirade
RETIRA'DE, noun
In fortification, a kind of retrenchment in the body of a bastion or other work, which is to be disputed inch by inch, after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces, which make a re-entering angle.
Retire
RETI'RE, verb intransitive
1. To withdraw; to retreat; to go from company or from a public place into privacy; as, to retire from the world; to retire from notice.
2. To retreat from action or danger; as, to retire from battle.
3. To withdraw from a public station. General Washington, in 1796, retired to private life.
4. To break up, as a company or assembly. The company retired at eleven o'clock.
5. To depart or withdraw for safety or for pleasure. Men retire from the town in summer for health and pleasure. But in South Carolina, the planters retire from their estates to Charleston, or to an isle near the town.
6. To recede; to fall back. The shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
RETI'RE, verb transitive To withdraw; to take away.
He retired himself, his wife and children into a forest.
As when the sun is present all the year, and never doth retire his golden ray.
[This transitive use of retire is now obsolete.]
RETI'RE, noun
1. Retreat; recession; a withdrawing. obsolete
2. Retirement; place of privacy. obsolete
Retired
RETI'RED, adjective
1. Secluded from much society or from public notice; private. He lives a retired life; he has a retired situation.
2. Secret; private; as retired speculations.
3. Withdrawn.
Retiredly
RETI'REDLY, adverb In solitude or privacy.
Retiredness
RETI'REDNESS, noun A state of retirement; solitude; privacy or secrecy.
Retirement
RETI'REMENT, noun
1. The act of withdrawing from company or from public notice or station.
2. The state of being withdrawn; as the retirement of the mind from the senses.
3. Private abode; habitation secluded from much society or from public life.
Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus.
Retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
4. Private way of life.
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, progressive virtue and approving heaven.
Retiring
RETI'RING, participle present tense
1. Withdrawing; retreating; going into seclusion or solitude.
2. adjective Reserved; not forward or obtrusive; as retiring modesty; retiring manners.
Retold
RETOLD, preterit tense and participle passive of retell; as a story retold
Retort
RETORT', verb transitive [Latin retortus, retorqueo; re and torqueo, to throw.]
1. To throw back; to reverberate.
And they retort that beat again to the first giver.
2. To return an argument, accusation, censure or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.
He pass'd through hostile scorn; and with retorted scorn, his back he turn'd.
3. To bend or curve back; as a retorted line.
RETORT', verb intransitive To return an argument or charge; to make a severe reply. He retorted upon his adversary with severity.
RETORT', noun
1. The return of an argument, charge or incivility in reply; as the retort courteous.
2. In chimistry, a spherical vessel with its neck bent, to which the receiver is fitted; used in distillation.
Retorted
RETORT'ED, participle passive Returned; thrown back; bent back.
Retorter
RETORT'ER, noun One that retorts.
Retorting
RETORT'ING, participle present tense Returning; throwing back.
Retortion
RETOR'TION, noun The act of retorting.
Retoss
RETOSS', verb transitive [re and toss.] To toss back.
Retossed
RETOSS'ED, participle passive Tossed back.
Retossing
RETOSS'ING, participle present tense Tossing back.
Retouch
RETOUCH, verb transitive retuch'. [re and touch.] To improve by new touches; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.
Retouched
RETOUCHED, participle passive retuch'ed. Touched again; improved by new touches.
Retouching
RETOUCHING, participle present tense retuch'ing. Improving by new touches.
Retrace
RETRA'CE, verb transitive
1. To trace back; to go back in the same path or course; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings.
2. To trace back, as a line.
Then if the line of Tumus you retrace he springs from Inachus of Argive race.
Retraced
RETRA'CED, participle passive Traced back.
Retracing
RETRA'CING, participle present tense Tracing back.
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.