Dictionary: RE-PLANT'A-BLE – RE-PLY'

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RE-PLANT'A-BLE, a.

That may be planted again. – Cotgrave.

RE-PLANT-A'TION, n.

The act of planting again.

RE-PLANT'ED, pp.

Planted anew.

RE-PLANT'ING, ppr.

Planting again.

RE-PLEAD, v.t. [or v. i. re and plead.]

To plead again.

RE-PLEAD-ER, n.

In law, a second pleading or course of pleadings; or the power of pleading again. Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo. – Blackstone.

RE-PLEAD-ING, ppr.

Pleading again.

RE-PLEN'ISH, v.i.

To recover former fullness. – Bacon.

RE-PLEN'ISH, v.t. [Norm. replener, to fill; It. riempire; L. re and plenus, full.]

  1. To fill; to stock with numbers or abundance. The magazines are replenished with corn. The springs are replenished with water. Multiply and replenish the earth. – Gen. i.
  2. To finish; to complete. [Not in use.] – Shak.

RE-PLEN'ISH-ED, pp.

Filled; abundantly supplied.

RE-PLEN'ISH-ING, ppr.

Filling; supplying with abundance.

RE-PLETE, a. [L. repletus; re and pleo, to fill.]

Completely filled; full. His words replete with guile. – Milton.

RE-PLE'TION, n. [Fr. from L. repletio.]

  1. The state of being completely filled; or superabundant fullness. – Bacon.
  2. In medicine, fullness of blood; plethora. – Coxe.

RE-PLE'TIVE, a.

Filling; replenishing. – Cotgrave.

RE-PLE'TIVE-LY, adv.

So as to be filled.

RE-PLEV'I-A-BLE, a. [See Replevy.]

In law, that may be replevied.

RE-PLEV'I-ED, pp.

Taken by a writ of replevin.

RE-PLEV'IN, n. [See Ripley.]

  1. An action or remedy granted on a distress, by which a person whose cattle or goods are distrained, has them returned to his own possession upon giving security, to try the right of taking in suit at law, and if that should be determined against him, to return the cattle or goods into the possession of the distrainor. – Blackstone.
  2. The writ by which a distress is replevied.

RE-PLEV'I-SA-BLE, a.

That may be replevied; but little used, being superseded by repleviable.

RE-PLEV'Y, v.t. [re and pledge, Norm. plegg or plevy, whence in Law L. replegiabilis and replegiare.]

  1. To take back, by a writ for that purpose, cattle or goods that have been distrained, upon giving security to try the right of distraining in a suit at law, and if that should be determined against the plaintif, to return the cattle or goods into the hands of the distrainor. In this case, the person whose goods are distrained becomes the plaintif, and the person distraining, the defendant or avowant. – Blackstone.
  2. To bail.

RE-PLEV'Y-ING, ppr.

Retaking a distress. [See Replevy.]

REP-LI-CA'TION, n. [L. replicatio. See Reply.]

  1. An answer; a reply. Particularly,
  2. In law pleadings, the reply of the plaintif to the defendant's plea.
  3. Return or repercussion of sound. [Not used.] – Shak.

RE-PLI'ED, pp.

Answered; returned for an answer.

RE-PLI'ER, n.

One who answers; he that speaks or writes in return to something spoken or written.

RE-PLY', n. [Fr. replique; It. replica.]

  1. An answer; that which is said or written, in answer to what is said or written by another.
  2. A book or pamphlet written in answer to another.