Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-PEO-PLING, ppr.

Furnishing again with a stock of inhabitants.

RE-PER-CUSS', v.t. [L. repercutio; re and percutio; per and quatio, to shake, to beat.]

To beat back. – Bacon.

RE-PER-CUSS'ED, pp.

Beaten back.

RE-PER-CUS'SION, n. [L. repercussio.]

1. The act of driving back; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.
2. In music, frequent repetition of the same sound. – Encyc.

RE-PER-CUSS'IVE, a.

1. Driving back; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate; as, repercussive rocks. Pattison.
2. Repellent; as, a repercussive medicine. [Not in use.] – Bacon.
3. Driven back; reverberated. – Thomson.

RE-PER-CUSS'IVE, n.

A repellent. [Obs.] – Bacon.

RE-PER-TI'TIOUS, a. [from L. repertus, reperio.]

Found; gained by finding. [Not in use.] – Dict.

REP'ER-TO-RY, n. [Fr. repertoire; L. 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 easily found, as the index of a book, a common-place book, &c.
2. A treasury; a magazine.

REP-E-TEND', n. [L. repetendus, repeto.]

The parts of decimals continually repeated.

REP-E-TI'TION, n. [L. 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. – Hooker.
2. The act of reciting or rehearsing; the act of reading over. – Shak.
3. Recital. – Chapman.
4. Recital from memory, as distinct from reading.
5. In music, the art of repeating, singing or playing the same part a second time. – Encyc.
6. In rhetoric, reiteration, or a repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.

REP-E-TI'TION-AL, or REP-E-TI'TION-A-RY, a.

Containing repetition. [Little used.]

REP-E-TI'TIOUS, a.

Repeating; containing repetition.

RE-PINE, v.i. [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 never to repine at the allotments of Providence.
2. To complain discontentedly; to murmur. Multitudes repine at the want of that which nothing but idleness hinders them from enjoying. – Rambler.
3. To envy. – Johnson.

RE-PIN-ER, n.

One that repines or murmurs.

RE-PIN-ING, n.

The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring. – Burnet.

RE-PIN-ING, ppr.

1. Fretting one's self; feeling discontent that preys on the spirits; complaining; murmuring.
2. adj. Disposed to murmur or complain; as, a repining temper.

RE-PIN-ING-LY, adv.

With murmuring or complaint. – Hall.

RE-PLACE, v.t. [Fr. replacer; re and place.]

1. To put again in the former place; as, to replace a book. The earl … was replaced in his government. – Bacon.
2. To put in a new place. – Dryden.
3. To repay; to refund; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
4. To put a competent substitute in the place of another displaced, or of something lost. The paper is lost, and can not be replaced.

RE-PLAC-ED, pp.

Put again in a former place; supplied by a substitute. Thus in petrifaction, the animal or vegetable substance gradually wastes away, and is replaced by silex.

RE-PLACE-MENT, n.

The act of replacing.

RE-PLAC-ING, ppr.

Putting again in a former place; supplying the place of with a substitute.

RE-PLAIT, v.t. [re and plait.]

To plait or fold again; to fold one part over another again and again. – Dryden.

RE-PLAIT-ED, pp.

Folded again or often.

RE-PLAIT-ING, ppr.

Folding again or often.

RE-PLANT', v.t. [Fr. replanter; re and plant.]

To plant again. – Bacon.