Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-MU-NER-A-BIL'I-TY, n.

The capacity of being rewarded.

RE-MU'NER-A-BLE, a. [from remunerate.]

That may be rewarded; fit or proper to be recompensed.

RE-MU'NER-ATE, v.t. [L. remunero; re and munero, from munus, a gift.]

To reward; to recompense; to requite; in a good sense; to pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense or other sacrifice; as, to remunerate the troops of an army for their services and sufferings; to remunerate men for labor. The pious sufferer in this life will be remunerated in the life to come.

RE-MU'NER-A-TED, pp.

Rewarded; compensated.

RE-MU'NER-A-TING, ppr.

Rewarding; recompensing.

RE-MU-NER-A'TION, n.

1. Reward; recompense; the act of paying an equivalent for services, loss or sacrifices. – Shak.
2. The equivalent given for services, loss or sufferings.

RE-MU'NER-A-TIVE, a.

Exercised in rewarding; that bestows rewards; as, remunerative justice. – Boyle.

RE-MU'NER-A-TO-RY, a.

Affording recompense; rewarding. – Johnson.

RE-MUR'MUR, v.i.

To murmur back; to return or echo in low rumbling sounds. The realms of Mars remurmur'd all around. – Dryden.

RE-MUR'MUR, v.t. [L. remurmuro; re and murmuro.]

To utter back in murmurs; to return in murmurs; to repeat in low hoarse sounds. – Dryden. The trembling trees in every plain and wood, / Her fate remurmur to the silver flood. – Pope.

RE-MUR'MUR-ED, pp.

Uttered back in murmurs.

RE-MUR'MUR-ING, ppr.

Uttering back in low sounds.

RE'NAL, a. [L. renalis, from renes, the kidneys.]

Pertaining to the kidneys or reins; as, the renal arteries.

REN'ARD, n. [Fr.; G. reineke.]

A fox; a name used in fables, but not in common discourse. – Dryden.

RE-NAS'CEN-CY, n.

The state of springing or being produced again. – Brown.

RE-NAS'CENT, a. [L. renascens, renascor; re and nascor, to be born.]

Springing or rising into being again; reproduced.

RE-NAS'CI-BLE, a.

That may be reproduced; that may spring again into being.

RE-NAV'I-GATE, v.t. [re and navigate.]

To navigate again; as, to renavigate the Pacific Ocean.

RE-NAV'I-GA-TED, pp.

Navigated again; sailed over anew.

RE-NAV'I-GA-TING, ppr.

Navigating again.

REN-COUN'TER, n. [Fr. rencontre; re and encontre; en and contre, against.]

1. Literally, a meeting of two bodies. Hence,]
2. A meeting in opposition or contest. The jostling chiefs in rude rencounter join. – Glanville.
3. A casual combat; a sudden contest or fight without premeditation; as between individuals or small parties.
4. A casual action; an engagement between armies or fleets. The confederates should … outnumber the enemy in all rencounters and engagements. Addison.
5. Any combat, action or engagement.

REN-COUN'TER, v.i.

1. To meet an enemy unexpectedly.
2. To clash; to come in collision.
3. To skirmish with another.
4. To fight hand to hand. – Johnson.

REN-COUN'TER, v.t.

1. To meet unexpectedly without enmity or hostility. [This use is found in some recent publications, but is not common.]
2. To attack hand to hand. – Spenser.

REN-COUN'TER-ED, pp.

Met unexpectedly; clashed. [See the Verbs.]

REND, v.t. [pret. and pp. rent. Sax. rendan, hrendan; Ir. rannam, rannaim; W. rhanu; Arm. ranna, to divide, and crenna, to abridge, whence Eng. cranny, L. crena. Qu. L. cerno, Gr. κρινω. Class Rn, No. 4, 8, 13, 16.]

1. To separate any substance into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak. An empire from its old foundation rent. – Dryden. I rend my tresses, and my breast I wound.vPope. Neither rend your clothes, lest ye die. – Lev. x.
2. To separate or part with violence. I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. – 1 Kings xi. To rend the heart, in Scripture, to have bitter sorrow for sin. – Joel ii. To rend the heavens, to appear in majesty. – Is. lxiv. Rend differs somewhat from lacerate. We never say, to lacerate a rock or a kingdom, when we mean to express splitting or division. Lacerate is properly applicable to the tearing off of small pieces of a thing, as to lacerate the body with a whip or scourge; or to the tearing of the flesh or other thing without entire separation.