Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

REPERCUSS — REPRINTED

REPERCUSS, v.t. [L. repercutio; re and percutio; per and quatio, to shake, to beat.] To beat back.

REPERCUSSION, n. [L. repercussio.]

1. The act of driving back; reverberation; as the repercussion of sound.

2. In music, frequent repetition of the same sound.

REPERCUSSIVE, a.

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.

REPERCUSSIVE, n. A repellent. Obs.

REPERTITIOUS, a. [from L. repertus, reperio.] Found; gained by finding. [Not in use.]

REPERTORY, n. [L. 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, n. [L. repetendus, repeto.] The parts of decimals continually repeated.

REPETITION, n. [L. 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, REPETITIONARY, a. Containing repetition. [Little used.]

REPINE, v.i. [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, n. One that repines or murmurs.

REPINING, ppr.

1. Fretting one’s self; feeling discontent that preys on the spirits; complaining; murmuring.

2. a. Disposed to murmur or complain; as a repining temper.

REPINING, n. The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.

REPININGLY, adv. With murmuring or complaint.

REPLACE, v.t.

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, pp. 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, n. The act of replacing.

REPLACING, ppr. Putting again in a former place; supplying the place of with a substitute.

REPLAIT, v.t. [re and plait.] To plait or fold again; to fold one part over another again and again.

REPLAITED, pp. Folded again or often.

REPLAITING, ppr. Folding again or often.

REPLANT, v.t. To plant again.

REPLANTABLE, a. That may be planted again.

REPLANTATION, n. The act of planting again.

REPLANTED, pp. Planted anew.

REPLANTING, ppr. Planting again.

REPLEAD, v.t. [re and plead.] To plead again.

REPLEADER, n. 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, v.t. [L. 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.]

REPLENISH, v.i. To recover former fullness.

REPLENISHED, pp. Filled; abundantly supplied.

REPLENISHING, ppr. Filling; supplying with abundance.

REPLETE, a. [L. repletus; re and pleo, to fill.] Completely filled; full.

His words replete with guile.

REPLETION, n. [L. repletio.]

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

2. In medicine, fullness of blood; plethorn.

REPLETIVE, a. Filling; replenishing.

REPLEVIABLE, a. [See Replevy.] In law, that may be replevied.

REPLEVIED, pp. Taken by a writ of replevin.

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, a. That may be replevied; but little used, being superseded by repleviable.

REPLEVY, v.t. [re and pledge. Law L. 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, ppr. Retaking a distress. [See Replevy.]

REPLICATION, n. [L. 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, n. One who answers; he that speaks or writes in return to something spoken or written.

REPLY, v.i. [L. 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 9:20.

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, v.t. To return for an answer. He knows not what to reply.

REPLY, n.

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, ppr. Answering either in words or writing.

REPOLISH, v.t. To polish again.

REPOLISHED, pp. Polished again.

REPOLISHING, ppr. Polishing anew.

REPORT, v.t. [L. 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 6:19; 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 6:6.

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 16:2; Romans 3:8

REPORT, v.i. To make a statement of facts. The committee will report at twelve o’clock.

REPORT, n.

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

REPORTER, n.

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, ppr. Giving account; relating; presenting statements of facts or of adjudged cases in law.

REPORTINGLY, adv. By report or common fame.

REPOSAL, n. s as z. [from repose.] The act of reposing or resting.

REPOSE, v.t. s as z. [L. 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.

REPOSE, v.i.

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.

REPOSE, n.

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, pp. Laid at rest; placed in confidence.

REPOSEDNESS, n. State of being at rest.

REPOSING, ppr. Laying at rest; placing in confidence; lying at rest; sleeping.

REPOSIT, v.t. [L. repositus, repono.] To lay up; to lodge, as for safety or preservation.

Others reposit their young in holes.

REPOSITED, pp. Laid up; deposited for safety or preservation.

REPOSITING, ppr. Laying up or lodging for safety or preservation.

REPOSITION, n. The act of replacing; as the reposition of a bone.

REPOSITORY, n. [L. 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, v.t. [re and possess.] To possess again.

Nor shall my father repossess the land.

To repossess one’s self, to obtain possession again.

REPOSSESSED, pp. Possessed again.

REPOSSESSING, ppr. Possessing again; obtaining possession again.

REPOSSESSION, n. The act of possessing again; the state of possessing again.

REPOUR, v.t. [re and pour.] To pour again.

REPREHEND, v.t. [L. 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, pp. Reproved; blamed.

REPREHENDER, n. One that reprehends; one that blames or reproves.

REPREHENDING, ppr. Reproving; blaming.

REPREHENSIBLE, a. [L. reprehensus.]

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

REPREHENSIBLENESS, n. Blamableness; culpableness.

REPREHENSIBLY, adv. Culpably; in a manner to deserve censure or reproof.

REPREHENSION, n. [L. reprehensio.]

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

REPREHENSIVE, a. Containing reproof.

REPREHENSORY, a. Containing reproof.

REPRESENT, v.t. s as z. [L. repraesento; re and Low L. 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, n. Representation; likeness. [Not used.]

REPRESENTANT, n. A representative. [Not in use.]

REPRESENTATION, n.

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, a.

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.

REPRESENTATIVE, n.

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, adv.

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

2. By substitution; by delegation of power.

REPRESENTATIVENESS, n. The state or quality of being representative.

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

REPRESENTED, pp. Shown; exhibited; personated; described; stated; having substitutes.

REPRESENTER, n.

1. One who shows, exhibits or describes.

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

REPRESENTING, ppr. Showing; exhibiting; describing; acting in another’s character; acting in the place of another.

REPRESENTMENT, n. Representation; image; an idea proposed as exhibiting the likeness of something.

REPRESS, v.t. [L. 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, n. The act of subduing. [Not in use.]

REPRESSED, pp. Crushed; subdued.

REPRESSER, n. One that crushes or subdues.

REPRESSING, ppr. Crushing; subduing; checking.

REPRESSION, n.

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

2. Check; restraint.

REPRESSIVE, a. Having power to crush; tending to subdue or restrain.

REPRIEVAL, n. Respit; reprieve. [Not in use.]

REPRIEVE, v.t. [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.

REPRIEVE, n.

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, pp. Respited; allowed a longer time to live than the sentence of death permits.

REPRIEVING, ppr. Respiting; suspending the execution of for a time.

REPRIMAND, v.t. [If this word is from L. 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.