Rejoice Re·joice" noun The act of rejoicing. Sir T. Browne.
Rejoicement Re·joice"ment (-m
e nt)
noun Rejoicing. [ Obsolete]
Rejoicer Re·joi"cer noun One who rejoices.
Rejoicing Re·joi"cing noun 1. Joy; gladness; delight. We should particularly express our rejoicing by love and charity to our neighbors.
R. Nelson. 2. The expression of joy or gladness. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous.
Ps. cxviii. 15. 3. That which causes to rejoice; occasion of joy. Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
Ps. cxix. 111.
Rejoicingly Re·joi"cing·ly adverb With joi or exultation.
Rejoin Re·join" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Rejoined (-joind");
present participle & verbal noun Rejoining .] [ French
rejoindre ; prefix
re- re- +
joindre to join. See
Join , and confer
Rejoinder .]
1. To join again; to unite after separation. 2. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again. Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot.
Pope. 3. To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
Rejoin Re·join" intransitive verb 1. To answer to a reply. 2. (Law) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
Rejoinder Re·join"der noun [ From French
rejoindre , inf., to join again. See
Rejoin .]
1. An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply. 2. (Law) The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication. Syn. -- Reply; answer; replication. See
Reply .
Rejoinder Re·join"der intransitive verb To make a rejoinder. [ Archaic]
Rejoindure Re·join"dure (-dur)
noun Act of joining again. [ Obsolete] "Beguiles our lips of all
rejoindure " (i.e., kisses).
Shak.
Rejoint Re·joint" (re-joint")
transitive verb 1. To reunite the joints of; to joint anew. Barrow. 2. Specifically (Architecture) , to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged by age and the action of the weather. Gwilt.
Rejolt Re·jolt" noun A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil. [ R.]
These inward rejolts and recoilings of the mind.
South.
Rejolt Re·jolt" transitive verb To jolt or shake again. Locke.
Rejourn Re·journ" transitive verb [ Confer French
réajourner . See
Adjourn .]
To adjourn; to put off. [ Obsolete]
Shak.
Rejournment Re·journ"ment (-m
e nt)
noun Adjournment. [ Obsolete]
Rejudge Re·judge" transitive verb To judge again; to reëxamine; to review; to call to a new trial and decision. Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace.
Pope.
Rejuvenate Re·ju"ve·nate transitive verb [ Prefix
re- re- + Latin
juventis young, youthful.]
To render young again.
Rejuvenated Re·ju"ve·na`ted p. adjective from
Rejuvenate .
1. Rendered young again; as, rejuvenated life. 2. (Physics Geology) (a) Stimulated by uplift to renewed erosive activity; -- said of streams. (b) Developed with steep slopes inside a district previously worn down nearly to base level; -- said of topography, or features of topography, as valleys, hills, etc.
Rejuvenation Re·ju`ve·na"tion noun Rejuvenescence.
Rejuvenescence Re·ju`ve·nes"cence noun 1. A renewing of youth; the state of being or growing young again. 2. (Botany) A method of cell formation in which the entire protoplasm of an old cell escapes by rupture of the cell wall, and then develops a new cell wall. It is seen sometimes in the formation of zoöspores, etc.
Rejuvenescency Re·ju`ve·nes"cen·cy noun Rejuvenescence.
Rejuvenescent Re·ju`ve·nes"cent (-s
e nt)
adjective Becoming, or causing to become, rejuvenated; rejuvenating.
Rejuvenize Re·ju`ve·nize transitive verb To rejuvenate.
Rekindle Re·kin"dle transitive verb & i. To kindle again.
Rekne Rek"ne transitive verb To reckon. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Relade Re·lade" (rē*lād")
transitive verb To lade or load again.
Relaid Re·laid" (rē*lād"),
imperfect & past participle of Relay .
Relais Re·lais" (r
e *la")
noun [ French See
Relay ,
noun ]
(Fort.) A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch. Wilhelm.
Reland Re·land" transitive verb To land again; to put on land, as that which had been shipped or embarked.
Reland Re·land" intransitive verb To go on shore after having embarked; to land again.
Relapse Re·lapse" intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Relapsed (-l?pst");
present participle & verbal noun Relapsing .] [ Latin
relapsus , past participle of
relabi to slip back, to relapse; prefix
re- re- +
labi to fall, slip, slide. See
Lapse .]
1. To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back. [ Obsolete]
Dryden. 2. To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed. That task performed, [ preachers] relapse into themselves.
Cowper. 3. (Theol.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide. They enter into the justified state, and so continue all along, unless they relapse .
Waterland.
Relapse Re·lapse" noun [ For sense 2 confer French
relaps . See
Relapse ,
v. ]
1. A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back. Alas! from what high hope to what relapse
Unlooked for are we fallen!
Milton. 2. One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again. [ Obsolete]
Relapser Re·laps"er noun One who relapses. Bp. Hall.
Relapsing Re·laps"ing adjective Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. Relapsing fever (Medicine) ,
an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium ( Spirochæte ) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called also famine fever , and recurring fever .
Relate Re·late" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Related ;
present participle & verbal noun Relating .] [ French
relater to recount, Late Latin
relatare , from Latin
relatus , used as past participle of
referre . See
Elate , and confer
Refer .]
1. To bring back; to restore. [ Obsolete]
Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again
Both light of heaven and strength of men relate .
Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. [ Obsolete or R.]
3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy heart relate .
Shak. 4. To ally by connection or kindred. To relate one's self ,
to vent thoughts in words. [ R.]
Syn. -- To tell; recite; narrate; recount; rehearse; report; detail; describe.
Relate Re·late" intransitive verb 1. To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to . All negative or privative words relate positive ideas.
Locke. 2. To make reference; to take account. [ R.& Obsolete]
Reckoning by the years of their own consecration without relating to any imperial account.
Fuller.
Related Re·lat"ed past participle & adjective 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. 2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric and magnetic forcec are closely related . 3. Narrated; told. 4. (Mus.) Same as Relative , 4.
Relatedness Re·lat"ed·ness noun The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. [ R.]
Emerson.
Relater Re·lat"er noun One who relates or narrates.
Relation Re·la"tion noun [ French
relation , Latin
relatio . See
Relate .]
1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. ..................oet's relation doth well figure them.
Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant. Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things, or any comparison which is made by the mind, is a relation .
I. Taylor. 3. Reference; respect; regard. I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in relation to its agreement with poetry.
Dryden. 4. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children. Relations dear, and all the charities
Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Milton. 5. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman. For me . . . my relation does not care a rush.
Ld. Lytton. 6. (Law) (a) The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation . (b) The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun. Wharton. Burrill. Syn. -- Recital; rehearsal; narration; account; narrative; tale; detail; description; kindred; kinship; consanguinity; affinity; kinsman; kinswoman.
Relational Re·la"tion·al adjective 1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems .
Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc.
R. Morris.
Relationist Re·la"tion·ist noun A relative; a relation. [ Obsolete]
Relationship Re·la"tion·ship noun The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
Relative Rel"a·tive adjective [ French
relatif , Latin
relativus . See
Relate .]
1. Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject. I'll have grounds
More relative than this.
Shak. 2. Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute. Every thing sustains both an absolute and a relative capacity: an absolute, as it is such a thing, endued with such a nature; and a relative , as it is a part of the universe, and so stands in such a relations to the whole.
South. 3. (Gram.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun. 4. (Mus.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other. Moore (Encyc. of Music). Relative clause (Gram.) ,
a clause introduced by a relative pronoun. --
Relative term ,
a term which implies relation to, as guardian to ward, matter to servant, husband to wife. Confer Correlative .
Relative Rel"a·tive noun One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation. Specifically:
(a) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman. "Confining our care . . . to ourselves and
relatives ."
Bp. Fell. (b) (Gram.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent ; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".
Relatively Rel"a·tive·ly adverb In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively .
I. Watts.
Relativeness Rel"a·tive·ness noun The state of being relative, or having relation; relativity.
Relativity Rel`a·tiv"i·ty noun The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
Relator Re·lat"or noun [ Latin : confer French
relateur . See
Relate .]
1. One who relates; a relater. "The several
relators of this history."
Fuller. 2. (Law) A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed.
Relatrix Re·lat"rix noun [ Latin ]
(Law) A female relator.
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