Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 45

Represent (v. t.) 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.

Represent (v. t.) To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words represent ideas or things.

Represent (v. t.) To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.

Represent (v. t.) 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.

Representable (a.) Capable of being represented.

Representance (n.) Representation; likeness.

Representant (a.) Appearing or acting for another; representing.

Representant (n.) A representative.

Representation (n.) The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

Representation (n.) That which represents.

Representation (n.) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like.

Representation (n.) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet.

Representation (n.) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate.

Representation (n.) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress.

Representation (n.) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.

Representation (n.) The state of being represented.

Re-presentation (n.) The act of re-presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.

Representationary (a.) Implying representation; representative.

Representative (a.) Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.

Representative (a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.

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

Representative (a.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.

Representative (a.) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.

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

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

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

Representative (n.) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.

Representative (n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress.

Representative (n.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group.

Representative (n.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.

Representatively (adv.) In a representative manner; vicariously.

Representativeness (n.) The quality or state of being representative.

Representer (n.) One who shows, exhibits, or describes.

Representer (n.) A representative.

Representment (n.) Representation.

Repress (v. t.) To press again.

Repress (v. t.) To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.

Repress (v. t.) Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.

Repress (n.) The act of repressing.

Represser (n.) One who, or that which, represses.

Repressible (a.) Capable of being repressed.

Repression (n.) The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.

Repression (n.) That which represses; check; restraint.

Repressive (a.) Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures.

Reprevable (a.) Reprovable.

Repreve (v. t.) To reprove.

Repreve (n.) Reproof.

Repriefe (n.) Repreve.

Reprieval (n.) Reprieve.

Reprieved (imp. & p. p.) of Reprieve

Reprieving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reprieve

Reprieve (v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.

Reprieve (v. t.) To relieve for a time, or temporarily.

Reprieve (n.) A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death.

Reprieve (n.) Interval of ease or relief; respite.

Reprimand (n.) Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.

Reprimanded (imp. & p. p.) of Reprimand

Reprimanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reprimand

Reprimand (n.) To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally.

Reprimand (n.) To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded.

Reprimander (n.) One who reprimands.

Reprimer (n.) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.

Reprint (v. t.) To print again; to print a second or a new edition of.

Reprint (v. t.) To renew the impression of.

Reprint (n.) A second or a new impression or edition of any printed work; specifically, the publication in one country of a work previously published in another.

Reprinter (n.) One who reprints.

Reprisal (n.) The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity.

Reprisal (n.) Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation.

Reprisal (n.) The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity.

Reprisal (n.) Any act of retaliation.

Reprise (n.) A taking by way of retaliation.

Reprise (n.) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like.

Reprise (n.) A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.

Reprise (v. t.) To take again; to retake.

Reprise (v. t.) To recompense; to pay.

Repristinate (v. t.) To restore to an original state.

Repristination (n.) Restoration to an original state; renewal of purity.

Reprive (v. t.) To take back or away.

Reprive (v. t.) To reprieve.

Reprize (v. t.) See Reprise.

Reprizes (n. pl.) See Reprise, n., 2.

Reproached (imp. & p. p.) of Reproach

Reproaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reproach

Reproach (v. t.) To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.

Reproach (v. t.) To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.

Reproach (v.) The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.

Reproach (v.) A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.

Reproach (v.) An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.

Reproachablr (a.) Deserving reproach; censurable.

Reproachablr (a.) Opprobrius; scurrilous.

Reproacher (n.) One who reproaches.

Reproachful (a.) Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.

Reproachful (a.) Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life.

Reproachless (a.) Being without reproach.

Reprobacy (n.) Reprobation.

Reprobance (n.) Reprobation.

Reprobate (a.) Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.

Reprobate (a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved.

Reprobate (a.) Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct.

Reprobate (n.) One morally abandoned and lost.

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