Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 46

Reprobated (imp. & p. p.) of Reprobate

Reprobating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reprobate

Reprobate (v. t.) To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject.

Reprobate (v. t.) To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.

Reprobateness (n.) The state of being reprobate.

Reprobater (n.) One who reprobates.

Reprobation (n.) The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure.

Reprobation (n.) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment.

Reprobationer (n.) One who believes in reprobation. See Reprobation, 2.

Reprobative (a.) Of or pertaining to reprobation; expressing reprobation.

Reprobatory (a.) Reprobative.

Reproduce (v. t.) To produce again.

Reproduce (v. t.) To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play.

Reproduce (v. t.) To cause to exist again.

Reproduce (v. t.) To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation.

Reproduce (v. t.) To make an image or other representation of; to portray; to cause to exist in the memory or imagination; to make a copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in marble, or on canvas; to reproduce a design.

Reproducer (n.) One who, or that which, reproduces.

Reproduction (n.) The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced

Reproduction (n.) the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring.

Reproduction (n.) That which is reproduced.

Reproductive (a.) Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction.

Reproductory (a.) Reproductive.

Reproof (n.) Refutation; confutation; contradiction.

Reproof (n.) An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach.

Reprovable (a.) Worthy of reproof or censure.

Re proval (n.) Reproof.

Reproved (imp. & p. p.) of Reprove

Reproving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reprove

Reprove (v. t.) To convince.

Reprove (v. t.) To disprove; to refute.

Reprove (v. t.) To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure.

Reprove (v. t.) To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults.

Reprover (n.) One who, or that which, reproves.

Reprovingly (adv.) In a reproving manner.

Reprune (v. t.) To prune again or anew.

Rep-silver (n.) Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.

Reptant (a.) Same as Repent.

Reptant (a.) Creeping; crawling; -- said of reptiles, worms, etc.

Reptantia (n. pl.) A division of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata.

Reptation (n.) The act of creeping.

Reptatory (a.) Creeping.

Reptile (a.) Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.

Reptile (a.) Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices.

Reptile (n.) An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.

Reptile (n.) One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia.

Reptile (n.) A groveling or very mean person.

Reptilia (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.

Reptilian (a.) Belonging to the reptiles.

Reptilian (n.) One of the Reptilia; a reptile.

Republic (a.) Common weal.

Republic (a.) A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2.

Republican (a.) Of or pertaining to a republic.

Republican (a.) Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.

Republican (n.) One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.

Republican (n.) A member of the Republican party.

Republican (n.) The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.

Republican (n.) A South African weaver bird (Philetaerus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw.

Republicanism (n.) A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government.

Republicanism (n.) Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government.

Republicanism (n.) The principles and policy of the Republican party, so called

Republicanized (imp. & p. p.) of Republicanize

Republicanizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Republicanize

Republicanize (v. t.) To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation.

Republicate (v. t.) To make public again; to republish.

Republication (n.) A second publication, or a new publication of something before published, as of a former will, of a volume already published, or the like; specifically, the publication in one country of a work first issued in another; a reprint.

Republished (imp. & p. p.) of Republish

Republishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Republish

Republish (v. t.) To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive (a will) by re/xecution or codicil.

Republisher (n.) One who republishes.

Repudiable (a.) Admitting of repudiation; fit or proper to be put away.

Repudiated (imp. & p. p.) of Repudiate

Repudiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repudiate

Repudiate (v. t.) To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.

Repudiate (v. t.) To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.

Repudiate (v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.

Repudiation (n.) The act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated; as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc.

Repudiation (n.) One who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt.

Repudiator (n.) One who repudiates.

Repugn (v. t.) To fight against; to oppose; to resist.

Repugnable (a.) Capable of being repugned or resisted.

Repugnance (n.) Alt. of Repugnancy

Repugnancy (n.) The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like.

Repugnant (a.) Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature.

Repugnantly (adv.) In a repugnant manner.

Repugnate (v. t.) To oppose; to fight against.

Repugner (n.) One who repugns.

Repullulate (v. i.) To bud again.

Repullulation (n.) The act of budding again; the state of having budded again.

Repulsed (imp. & p. p.) of Repulse

Repulsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repulse

Repulse (v. t.) To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.

Repulse (v. t.) To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer.

Repulse (n.) The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.

Repulse (n.) Figuratively: Refusal; denial; rejection; failure.

Repulseless (a.) Not capable of being repulsed.

Repulser (n.) One who repulses, or drives back.

Repulsion (n.) The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled.

Repulsion (n.) A feeling of violent offence or disgust; repugnance.

Repulsion (n.) The power, either inherent or due to some physical action, by which bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede from each other, or to resist each other's nearer approach; as, molecular repulsion; electrical repulsion.

Repulsive (a.) Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.

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