Repartee Rep`ar·tee" intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Reparteed (-t?d");
present participle & verbal noun Reparteeing .]
To make smart and witty replies. [ R.]
Prior.
Repartimiento Re`par·ti`mi·en"to noun [ Spanish , from
repartir to divide.]
A partition or distribution, especially of slaves; also, an assessment of taxes. W. Irving.
Repartotion Re`par·to"tion noun Another, or an additional, separation into parts.
Repass Re·pass" transitive verb [ Prefix
re- +
pass : confer French
repasser . Confer
Repace .]
To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.
Repass Re·pass" intransitive verb To pass or go back; to move back; as, troops passing and repassing before our eyes.
Repassage Re·pas"sage noun The act of repassing; passage back. Hakluyt.
Repassant Re·pas"sant adjective [ Confer French
repassant , present participle]
(Her.) Counterpassant.
Repast Re·past" noun [ Old French
repast , French
repas , Late Latin
repastus , from Latin
repascere to feed again; prefix
re- re- +
pascere ,
pastum , to pasture, feed. See
Pasture .]
1. The act of taking food. From dance to sweet repast they turn.
Milton. 2. That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment. "Sleep . . . thy best
repast ."
Denham. Go and get me some repast .
Shak.
Repast Re·past" transitive verb & i. To supply food to; to feast; to take food. [ Obsolete] "
Repast them with my blood."
Shak. He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds.
Milton.
Repaster Re·past"er noun One who takes a repast. [ Obsolete]
Repasture Re·pas"ture noun [ See
Repast .]
Food; entertainment. [ Obsolete]
Food for his rage, repasture for his den.
Shak.
Repatriate Re·pa"tri·ate transitive verb [ Latin
repatriare . See 1st
Repair .]
To restore to one's own country.
Repatriation Re·pa`tri·a"tion noun [ Confer Late Latin
repatriatio return to one's country.]
Restoration to one's country.
Repay Re·pay" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Repaid (-p?d");
present participle & verbal noun Repaying .] [ Prefix
re- +
pay : confer French
repayer .]
1. To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced. If you repay me not on such a day,
In such a place, such sum or sums.
Shak. 2. To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury. Benefits which can not be repaid . . . are not commonly found to increase affection.
Rambler. 3. To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt. Syn. -- To refund; restore; return; recompense; compensate; remunerate; satisfy; reimburse; requite.
Repayable Re·pay"a·ble adjective Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.
Repayment Re·pay"ment (-m
e nt)
noun 1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
Repeal Re·peal" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Repealed (-p?ld");
present participle & verbal noun Repealing .] [ Old French
repeler to call back, French
rappeler ; prefix
re- re- + Old French
apeler , French
appeler , to call, Latin
appellare . See
Appeal , and. confer
Repel .]
1. To recall; to summon again, as persons. [ Obsolete]
The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself,
And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
Shak. 2. To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law. 3. To suppress; to repel. [ Obsolete]
Whence Adam soon repealed
The doubts that in his heart arose.
Milton. Syn. -- To abolish; revoke; rescind; recall; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See
Abolish .
Repeal Re·peal" noun 1. Recall, as from exile. [ Obsolete]
The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people
Will be as rash in the repeal , as hasty
To expel him thence.
Shak. 2. Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.
Repealability Re·peal`a·bil"i·ty noun The quality or state of being repealable.
Repealable Re·peal"a·ble adjective Capable of being repealed. --
Re*peal"a*ble*ness ,
noun Syn. -- Revocable; abrogable; voidable; reversible.
Repealer Re·peal"er noun One who repeals; one who seeks a repeal; specifically, an advocate for the repeal of the Articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.
Repealment Re·peal"ment (-m
e nt)
noun Recall, as from banishment. [ Obsolete]
Repeat Re·peat" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Repeated ;
present participle & verbal noun Repeating .] [ French
répéter , Latin
repetere ; prefix
re- re- +
petere to fall upon, attack. See
Petition .]
1. To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. "I will
repeat our former communication."
Robynson (More's Utopia). Not well conceived of God; who, though his power
Creation could repeat , yet would be loth
Us to abolish.
Milton. 2. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. [ Obsolete]
Waller. 3. (Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received). To repeat one's self ,
to do or say what one has already done or said. --
To repeat signals ,
to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn. -- To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See
Reiterate .
Repeat Re·peat" noun 1. The act of repeating; repetition. 2. That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.). 3. (Mus.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.
Repeatedly Re·peat"ed·ly adverb More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
Repeater Re·peat"er noun One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically:
(a) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. (b) A repeating firearm. (c) (Teleg.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate point. (d) A person who votes more than once at an election. [ U.S.]
(e) See Circulating decimal , under Decimal . (f) (Nautical) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Repeating Re·peat"ing adjective Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch. Repeating circle .
See the Note under Circle , noun , 3. --
Repeating decimal (Arith.) ,
a circulating decimal. See under Decimal . --
Repeating firearm ,
a firearm that may be discharged many times in quick succession ; especially:
(a) A form of firearm so constructed that by the action of the mechanism the charges are successively introduced from a chamber containing them into the breech of the barrel, and fired. (b) A form in which the charges are held in, and discharged from, a revolving chamber at the breech of the barrel. See Revolver , and Magazine gun , under Magazine . --
Repeating instruments (Astron. & Surv.) ,
instruments for observing angles, as a circle, theodolite, etc., so constructed that the angle may be measured several times in succession, and different, but successive and contiguous, portions of the graduated limb, before reading off the aggregate result, which aggregate, divided by the number of measurements, gives the angle, freed in a measure from errors of eccentricity and graduation. --
Repeating watch .
See Repeater (a)
Repedation Rep"e·da"tion noun [ Latin
repedare to step back; prefix
re- re- +
pes ,
pedis , foot.]
A stepping or going back. [ Obsolete]
Dr. H. More.
Repel Re·pel" intransitive verb To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.
Repellence Re·pel"lence (-l
e ns),
Re*pel"len*cy (- l
e n-s?)
noun The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
Repellent Re·pel"lent (-l
e nt)
adjective [ Latin
repellens ,
-entis , present participle ]
Driving back; able or tending to repel.
Repellent Re·pel"lent noun 1. That which repels. 2. (Medicine) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. Dunglison. 3. A kind of waterproof cloth. Knight.
Repeller Re·pel"ler noun One who, or that which, repels.
Repent Re"pent adjective [ Latin
repens ,
-entis , creeping, present participle of
repere to creep.]
1. (Botany) Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems. Gray. 2. (Zoology) Same as Reptant .
Repent Re·pent" intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Repented ;
present participle & verbal noun Repenting .] [ French
se repentir ; Latin prefix
re- re- +
poenitere to make repent,
poenitet me it repents me, I repent. See
Penitent .]
1. To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do. First she relents
With pity; of that pity then repents .
Dryden. 2. To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction. Lest, peradventure, the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.
Ex. xiii. 17. 3. (Theol.) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin. Except ye repent , ye shall likewise perish.
Luke xii. 3.
Repent Re·pent" transitive verb 1. To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow. I do repent it from my very soul.
Shak. 2. To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively. My father has repented him ere now.
Dryden. 3. To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally. [ Archaic] "And it
repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth."
Gen. vi. 6.
Repentance Re·pent"ance (re*pĕnt"
a ns)
noun [ French
repentance .]
The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin. Chaucer. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation.
2. Cor. vii. 20. Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.
Hammond. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. Sorrow, fear, and anxiety are properly not parts, but adjuncts, of repentance ; yet they are too closely connected with it to be easily separated.
Rambler. Syn. -- Contrition; regret; penitence; contriteness; compunction. See
Contrition .
Repentant Re·pent"ant (-
a nt)
adjective [ French
repentant .]
1. Penitent; sorry for sin. Chaucer. Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood.
Millton. 2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. "
Repentant sighs and voluntary pains."
Pope.
Repentant Re·pent"ant noun One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent.
Repentantly Re·pent"ant·ly adverb In a repentant manner.
Repenter Re·pent"er (-ẽr)
noun One who repents.
Repentingly Re·pent"ing·ly adverb With repentance; penitently.
Repentless Re·pent"less adjective Unrepentant. [ R.]
Repeople Re·peo"ple (rē*pē"p'l)
transitive verb [ Prefix
re- +
people : confer French
repeupler .]
To people anew.
Reperception Re`per·cep"tion noun The act of perceiving again; a repeated perception of the same object. No external praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reperception and ratification of what is fine.
Keats.
Repercuss Re`per·cuss" (-kŭs")
transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Repercussed (-k?st");
present participle & verbal noun Repercussing .] [ Latin
repercusus , past participle of
repercutere to drive back; prefix
re- re- +
percutere . See
Percussion .]
To drive or beat back; hence, to reflect; to reverberate. Perceiving all the subjacent country, . . . to repercuss such a light as I could hardly look against.
Evelyn.
Repercussion Re`per·cus"sion noun [ Latin
repercussio : confer French
répercussion .]
1. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound. Ever echoing back in endless repercussion .
Hare. 2. (Mus.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound. 3. (Medicine) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent. Dunglison. 4. (Obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.
Repercussive Re`per·cuss"ive adjective [ Confer French
répercussif .]
1. Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate. Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound.
W. Pattison. 2. Repellent. [ Obsolete] "Blood is stanched by astringent and
repercussive medicines."
Bacon. 3. Driven back; rebounding; reverberated. "Rages loud the
repercussive roar."
Thomson.
Repercussive Re`per·cuss"ive noun A repellent. [ Obsolete]
Bacon.
Repertitious Rep`er·ti"tious adjective [ Latin
reperticius . See
Repertory .]
Found; gained by finding. [ Obsolete]
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