REPELLENCY
REPEL'LENCY, noun1. The principle of repulsion; the quality of a substance which expands or separates particles and enlarges the volume; as the repellency of heat.2. The quality...
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REPELLENT
REPEL'LENT, adjective Driving back; able or tending to repel.REPEL'LENT, noun In medicine, a medicine which drives back morbid humors into the mass of the blood, from which they...
REPELLER
REPEL'LER, noun He or that which repels.
REPELLING
REPEL'LING, participle present tense Driving back; resisting advance or approach effectually.
REPENT
RE'PENT, adjective [Latin repo, to creep.] Creeping; as a repent root.REPENT', verb intransitive [Latin re and paeniteo, from paena, pain. Gr. See Pain.]1. To feel pain, sorrow ...
REPENTANCE
REPENT'ANCE, noun1. Sorrow for any thing done or said; the pain or grief which a person experiences in consequence of the injury or inconvenience produced by his own conduct.2. ...
REPENTANT
REPENT'ANT, adjective1. Sorrowful for past conduct or words.2. Sorrowful for sin.3. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as repentant tears; repentant ashes; repentant sighs.RE...
REPENTER
REPENT'ER, noun One that repents.
REPENTING
REPENT'ING, participle present tense Grieving for what is past; feeling pain or contrition for sin.REPENT'ING, noun Act of repenting Hosea 11:8.
REPENTINGLY
REPENT'INGLY, adverb With repentance.
REPEOPLE
REPEOPLE, verb transitive [re and people.]To people anew; to furnish again with a stock of people. The world after the flood was repeopled by the descendants of one family.
REPEOPLED
REPEOPLED, participle passive Stocked anew with inhabitants.
REPEOPLING
REPEOPLING, participle present tense Furnishing again with a stock of inhabitants.REPEOPLING, noun [supra.] The act of furnishing again with inhabitants.
REPERCUSS
REPERCUSS', verb transitive [Latin repercutio; re and percutio; per and quatio, to shake, to beat.] To beat back.
REPERCUSSION
REPERCUS'SION, noun [Latin repercussio.]1. The act of driving back; reverberation; as the repercussion of sound.2. In music, frequent repetition of the same sound.
REPERCUSSIVE
REPERCUSS'IVE, adjective1. Driving back; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate; as repercussive rocks.2. Repellent; as a repercussive medicine. [Not in use.]3...
REPERTITIOUS
REPERTI'TIOUS, adjective [from Latin repertus, reperio.] Found; gained by finding. [Not in use.]
REPERTORY
REP'ERTORY, noun [Latin repertorium, from reperio, to find again; re and aperio, to uncover.]1. A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be ea...
REPETEND
REPETEND;, noun [Latin repetendus, repeto.] The parts of decimals continually repeated.
REPETITION
REPETI'TION, noun [Latin repetitio. See Repeat.]1. The act of doing or uttering a second time; iteration of the same act, or of the same words or sounds.2. The act of reciting o...
REPETITIONAL
REPETI'TIONAL,REPETI'TIONARY, adjective Containing repetition. [Little used.]
REPETITIONARY
REPETI'TIONARY, a. Containing repetition. [Little used.]
REPINE
REPI'NE, verb intransitive [re and pine.]1. To fret one's self; to be discontented; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; with at or against. It is our duty neve...
REPINER
REPI'NER, noun One that repines or murmurs.
REPINING
REPI'NING, participle present tense1. Fretting one's self; feeling discontent that preys on the spirits; complaining; murmuring.2.adjective Disposed to murmur or complain; as a ...
REPININGLY
REPI'NINGLY, adverb With murmuring or complaint.
REPLACE
REPLA'CE, verb transitive1. To put again in the former place; as, to replace a book.The earl - was replaced in his government.2. To put in a new place.3. To repay; to refund; as...