Re-present transitive verb To present again; as, to re-present the points of an argument.

Re-presentation noun [ See Re-present .] The act of re- presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.

Reportage (-aj) noun SAme as Report . [ Obsolete]

Reporter (-ẽr) noun One who reports. Specifically: (a) An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates. (b) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers.

Of our tales judge and reportour .

Chaucer.

Reportingly adverb By report or common fame.

Reportorial (rē`por*tō"rĭ* a l) adjective Of or pertaining to a reporter or reporters; as, the reportorial staff of a newspaper.

Reposal (re*pōz" a l) noun [ From Repose .]
1. The act or state of reposing; as, the reposal of a trust. Shak.

2. That on which one reposes. [ Obsolete] Burton.

Reposance (- a ns) noun Reliance. [ Obsolete] John Hall.

Repose (re*pōz") transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Reposed (-p?zd"); present participle & verbal noun Reposing .] [ French reposer ; Latin prefix re- re- + pausare to pause. See Pause , Pose , v. ]
1. To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit. [ Obsolete]

But these thy fortunes let us straight repose
In this divine cave's bosom.

Chapman.

Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth . . . are left behind.

Woodward.

2. To lay at rest; to cause to be calm or quiet; to compose; to rest, -- often reflexive; as, to repose one's self on a couch.

All being settled and reposed , the lord archbishop did present his majesty to the lords and commons.

Fuller.

After the toil of battle to repose
Your wearied virtue.

Milton.

3. To place, have, or rest; to set; to intrust.

The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.

Shak.

Repose intransitive verb
1. To lie at rest; to rest.

Within a thicket I reposed .

Chapman.

2. Figuratively, to remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.

It is upon these that the soul may repose .

I. Taylor.

3. To lie; to be supported; as, trap reposing on sand.

Syn. -- To lie; recline; couch; rest; sleep; settle; lodge; abide.

Repose noun [ French repos . See Repose , v. ]
1. A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet.

Shake off the golden slumber of repose .

Shak.

2. Rest of mind; tranquillity; freedom from uneasiness; also, a composed manner or deportment.

3. (Poetic) A rest; a pause.

4. (Fine Arts) That harmony or moderation which affords rest for the eye; -- opposed to the scattering and division of a subject into too many unconnected parts, and also to anything which is overstrained; as, a painting may want repose .

Angle of repose (Physics) , the inclination of a plane at which a body placed on the plane would remain at rest, or if in motion would roll or slide down with uniform velocity; the angle at which the various kinds of earth will stand when abandoned to themselves.

Syn. -- Rest; recumbency; reclination; ease; quiet; quietness; tranquillity; peace.

Reposed (re*pōzd") adjective Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest. Bacon. -- Re*pos"ed*ly (re*pōz"ĕd*lȳ) adverb -- Re*pos"ed*ness , noun

Reposeful (re*pōz"ful) adjective Full of repose; quiet.

Reposer (re*pōz"ẽr) noun One who reposes.

Reposit (re*pŏz"ĭt) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Reposited ; present participle & verbal noun Repositing .] [ Latin repositus , past participle of reponere to put back; prefix re- re- + ponere to put. See Position .] To cause to rest or stay; to lay away; to lodge, as for safety or preservation; to place; to store.

Others reposit their young in holes.

Derham.

Reposition (re`po*zĭsh"ŭn) noun [ Latin repositio .] The act of repositing; a laying up.

Repositor (re*pŏz"ĭ*tẽr) noun (Surg.) An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.

Repository (re*pŏz"ĭ*to*rȳ) noun [ Latin repositorium , repostorium : confer Old French repositoire .] A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. Locke.

Repossess transitive verb To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope.

To repossess one's self of (something), to acquire again (something lost).

Repossession noun The act or the state of possessing again.

Reposure noun Rest; quiet.

In the reposure of most soft content.

Marston.

Repour transitive verb To pour again.

Repoussage noun [ French See Repoussé .] (Art) Art or process of hammering out or pressing thin metal from the reverse side: (1) in producing repoussé work; (2) in leveling up any part of an etched plate that has been worked so as to cause a depression.

Repoussé adjective [ French, past participle of repousser to thrust back; pref re- + pousser to push. See Push .] (a) Formed in relief, as a pattern on metal. (b) Ornamented with patterns in relief made by pressing or hammering on the reverse side; -- said of thin metal, or of a vessel made of thin metal. -- noun Repoussé work.

Repoussé work , ornamentation of metal in relief by pressing or hammering on the reverse side.

Reprefe noun Reproof. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Reprehend transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Reprehended ; present participle & verbal noun Reprehending .] [ Latin reprehendere , reprehensum , to hold back, seize, check, blame; prefix re- re- + prehendere to lay hold of. See Prehensile , and confer Reprisal . ] To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure. Chaucer.

Aristippus being reprehended of luxury by one that was not rich, for that he gave six crowns for a small fish.

Bacon.

Pardon me for reprehending thee.

Shak.

In which satire human vices, ignorance, and errors . . . are severely reprehended .

Dryden.

I nor advise nor reprehend the choice.

J. Philips.

Reprehender noun One who reprehends.

Reprehensible adjective [ Latin reprehensibilis : confer French répréhensible .] Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable. -- Rep`re*hen"si*ble*ness , noun -- Rep`re*hen"si*bly , adverb

Reprehension noun [ Latin reprehensio : confer French répréhension .] Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval.

This Basilius took as though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension that he had not showed more gratefulness to Dorus.

Sir P. Sidney.

Syn. -- Censure; reproof; reprimand. See Admonition .

Reprehensive adjective [ Confer French répréhensif .] Containing reprehension; conveying reproof. South.

-- Rep`re*hen"sive*ly , adverb

Reprehensory adjective Containing reproof; reprehensive; as, reprehensory complaint. Johnson.

Represent transitive verb [ French repr...senter , Latin repraesentare , repraesentatum ; prefix re- re- + preesentare to place before, present. See Present , transitive verb ]
1. To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

Before him burn
Seven lamps, as in a zodiac representing
The heavenly fires.

Milton.

2. To portray by pictoral or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like.

3. To portray by mimicry or action of any kind; to act the part or character of; to personate; as, to represent Hamlet.

4. To stand in the place of; to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of; to speak and act with authority in behalf of; to act the part of (another); as, an heir represents his ancestor; an attorney represents his client in court; a member of Congress represents his district in Congress.

5. To exhibit to another mind in language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of; to bring before the mind; to set forth; sometimes, to give an account of; to describe.

He represented Rizzio's credit with the queen to be the chief and only obstacle to his success in that demand.

Robertson.

This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate.

Addison.

6. To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words represent ideas or things.

7. To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.

Among these. Fancy next
Her office holds; of all external things
Which he five watchful senses represent ,
She forms imaginations, aery shapes.

Milton.

8. (Metaph.) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative , 3.

The general capability of knowledge necessarily requires that, besides the power of evoking out of unconsciousness one portion of our retained knowledge in preference to another, we posses the faculty of representing in consciousness what is thus evoked . . . This representative Faculty is Imagination or Phantasy.

Sir. W. Hamilton.

Representable adjective Capable of being represented.

Representance (- a ns) noun Representation; likeness. [ Obsolete] Donne.

Representant (- a nt) adjective [ Confer French repr...sentant .] Appearing or acting for another; representing.

Representant noun [ French representant .] A representative. [ Obsolete] Sir H. Wotton.

Representation noun [ French repr...sentation , Latin representatio .]
1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

2. That which represents. Specifically: (a) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like. (b) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation ; a representation of Hamlet. (c) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate. (d) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress. (e) (Insurance Law) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.

3. The state of being represented.

Syn. -- Description; show; delineaton; portraiture; likeness; resemblance; exhibition; sight.

Representationary adjective Implying representation; representative. [ R.]

Representative adjective [ Confer French repr...sentatif .]
1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.

2. Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people. Swift.

3. Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.

4. (Nat.Hist.) (a) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family. (b) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.

5. (Metaph.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative , 3 and Represent , 8.

Representative noun [ Confer Late Latin repraesentativus .]

1. One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.

A statute of Rumor, whispering an idiot in the ear, who was the representative of Credulity.

Addison.

Difficulty must cumber this doctrine which supposes that the perfections of God are the representatives to us of whatever we perceive in the creatures.

Locke.

2. An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.

3. (Law) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.

» The executor or administrator is ordinarily held to be the representative of a deceased person, and is sometimes called the legal representative , or the personal representative . The heir is sometimes called the real representative of his deceased ancestor. The heirs and executors or administrators of a deceased person are sometimes compendiously described as his real and personal representatives . Wharton. Burrill.

4. A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress. [ U.S.]

5. (Nat.Hist.) (a) That which presents the full character of the type of a group. (b) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.

Representatively adverb In a representative manner; vicariously.

Representativeness noun The quality or state of being representative.

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

Spectator.

Representer noun
1. One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne.

2. A representative. [ Obsolete] Swift.

Representment (-m e nt) noun Representation. [ Obsolete]

Repress transitive verb [ Prefix re- + press .] To press again.

Repress noun The act of repressing. [ Obsolete]

Represser noun One who, or that which, represses.

Repressible adjective Capable of being repressed.

Repression noun [ Confer French répression .]

1. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.

2. That which represses; check; restraint.