Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 35

Rejoice (v. t.) To enjoy.

Rejoice (v. t.) To give joy to; to make joyful; to gladden.

Rejoice (n.) The act of rejoicing.

Rejoicement (n.) Rejoicing.

Rejoicer (n.) One who rejoices.

Rejoicing (n.) Joy; gladness; delight.

Rejoicing (n.) The expression of joy or gladness.

Rejoicing (n.) That which causes to rejoice; occasion of joy.

Rejoicingly (adv.) With joi or exultation.

Rejoined (imp. & p. p.) of Rejoin

Rejoining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rejoin

Rejoin (v. t.) To join again; to unite after separation.

Rejoin (v. t.) To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.

Rejoin (v. t.) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.

Rejoin (v. i.) To answer to a reply.

Rejoin (v. i.) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

Rejoinder (n.) An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.

Rejoinder (n.) The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.

Rejoinder (v. i.) To make a rejoinder.

Rejoindure (n.) Act of joining again.

Rejoint (v. t.) To reunite the joints of; to joint anew.

Rejoint (v. t.) Specifically (Arch.), to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged by age and the action of the weather.

Rejolt (n.) A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil.

Rejolt (v. t.) To jolt or shake again.

Rejourn (v. t.) To adjourn; to put off.

Rejournment (n.) Adjournment.

Rejudge (v. t.) To judge again; to reexamine; to review; to call to a new trial and decision.

Rejuvenate (v. t.) To render young again.

Rejuvenation (n.) Rejuvenescence.

Rejuvenescence (n.) A renewing of youth; the state of being or growing young again.

Rejuvenescence (n.) 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 zoospores, etc.

Rejuvenescency (n.) Rejuvenescence.

Rejuvenescent (a.) Becoming, or causing to become, rejuvenated; rejuvenating.

Rejuvenize (v. t.) To rejuvenate.

Rekindle (v. t. & i.) To kindle again.

Rekne (v. t.) To reckon.

Relade (v. t.) To lade or load again.

Relaid () imp. & p. p. of Relay.

Relais (n.) 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.

Reland (v. t.) To land again; to put on land, as that which had been shipped or embarked.

Reland (v. i.) To go on shore after having embarked; to land again.

Relapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Relapse

Relapsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relapse

Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.

Relapse (v. i.) 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.

Relapse (v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.

Relapse (v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.

Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.

Relapser (n.) One who relapses.

Relapsing (a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.

Related (imp. & p. p.) of Relate

Relating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relate

Relate (v. t.) To bring back; to restore.

Relate (v. t.) To refer; to ascribe, as to a source.

Relate (v. t.) To recount; to narrate; to tell over.

Relate (v. t.) To ally by connection or kindred.

Relate (v. i.) To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to.

Relate (v. i.) To make reference; to take account.

Related (p. p. & a.) Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree.

Related (p. p. & a.) Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric and magnetic forcec are closely related.

Related (p. p. & a.) Narrated; told.

Related (p. p. & a.) Same as Relative, 4.

Relatedness (n.) The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity.

Relater (n.) One who relates or narrates.

Relation (n.) The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

Relation (n.) 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.

Relation (n.) Reference; respect; regard.

Relation (n.) Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.

Relation (n.) A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.

Relation (n.) 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.

Relation (n.) The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun.

Relational (a.) Having relation or kindred; related.

Relational (a.) Indicating or specifying some relation.

Relationist (n.) A relative; a relation.

Relationship (n.) The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.

Relative (a.) Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.

Relative (a.) Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.

Relative (a.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.

Relative (a.) 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.

Relative (n.) 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.

Relative (n.) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.

Relative (n.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".

Relatively (adv.) In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely.

Relativeness (n.) The state of being relative, or having relation; relativity.

Relativity (n.) The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject.

Relator (n.) One who relates; a relater.

Relator (n.) 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 (n.) A female relator.

Relaxed (imp. & p. p.) of Relax

Relaxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relax

Relax (n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.

Relax (n.) To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.

Relax (n.) Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.

Relax (n.) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.

Relax (v. i.) To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.

Relax (v. i.) To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.

Relax (v. i.) To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.

Relax (n.) Relaxation.

Relax (a.) Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.

Relaxable (a.) Capable of being relaxed.

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