Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-PASS', v.t. [Fr. repasser; It. ripassare; re and pass.]

To pass again; to pass or travel back; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea. – Pope.

RE-PASS'ED, pp.

Passed or traveled back.

RE-PASS'ING, ppr.

Passing back.

RE-PAST', n. [Fr. repas, from repaître; L. re and pasco, feed.]

1. The act of taking food; or the food taken; a meal. From dance to sweet repast they turn. – Milton. A repast without luxury. – Johnson.
2. Food; victuals. Go, and get me some repast. – Shak.

RE-PAST, v.t.

To feed; to feast. – Shak.

RE-PAST-URE, n.

Food; entertainment. [Not in use.] – Shak.

RE-PAT'RI-ATE, v.t. [L. re and patria, country.]

To restore to one's own country.

RE-PAT'RI-A-TED, pp.

Restored to one's own country.

RE-PAT'RI-A-TING, ppr.

Restoring to one's own country.

RE-PAY, v.t. [Fr. repayer; re and pay.]

1. To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.
2. To make return or requital; in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury. Benefits which can not be repaid … are not commonly found to increase affection. – Rambler.
3. To recompense, as for a loss. – Milton.
4. To compensate; as, false honor repaid in contempt. – Bacon.

RE-PAY-A-BLE, a.

That is to be repaid or refunded; as, money lent, repayable at the end of sixty days.

RE-PAY-ING, ppr.

Paying back; compensating; requiting.

RE-PAY-MENT, n.

1. The act of paying back; reimbursement.
2. The money or other thing repaid.

RE-PEAL, n.

1. Recall from exile. [Not in use.] – Shak.
2. Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute.

RE-PEAL, v.t. [Fr. rappeler, to recall; re and appeler, L. appello; ad and pello.]

1. To recall. [Obsolete as it respects persons.] – Shak.
2. To recall, as a deed, will, law or statute; to revoke; to abrogate by an authoritative act, or by the same power that made or enacted; as, the legislature may repeal at one session, a law enacted at a preceding one.

RE-PEAL-A-BIL'I-TY, or RE-PEAL-A-BLE-NESS, n.

The quality or state of being repealable.

RE-PEAL-A-BLE, a.

Capable of being repealed; revocable by the same power that enacted. It is held as a sound principle, that charters or grants which vest rights in individuals or corporations, are not repealable without the consent of the grantees, unless a clause reserving the right is inserted in the act.

RE-PEAL-ED, pp.

Revoked; abrogated.

RE-PEAL-ER, n.

One that repeals.

RE-PEAL-ING, ppr.

Revoking; abrogating.

RE-PEAT, n.

1. In music, a mark directing a part to be repeated in performance.
2. Repetition.

RE-PEAT, v.t. [Fr. repeter; It. ripetere; Sp. repetir; L. repeto; re and peto, to make at or drive toward. This verb ought to be written Repete, in analogy with compete, and with repetition.]

1. To do, make, attempt or utter again; to iterate; as, to repeat an action; to repeat an attempt or exertion; to repeat a word or discourse; to repeat a song; to repeat an argument.
2. To try again. I the danger will repeat. – Dryden.
3. To recite; to rehearse. He repeated some lines of Virgil. – Waller.
4. To seek redress. – J. Taylor.
5. To seek again. [Obs.] To repeat signals, in the navy, is to make the same signal which the admiral or commander has made, or to make a signal again. – Mar. Dict.

RE-PEAT-ED, pp.

Done, attempted or spoken again; recited.

RE-PEAT-ED-LY, adv.

More than once; again and again, indefinitely. He has been repeatedly warned of his danger.

RE-PEAT-ER, n.

1. One that repeats; one that recites or rehearses.
2. A watch that strikes the hours at will, by the compression of a spring.