Emily Dickinson Lexicon — RE-POS-SESS'

To chide; to reprove. Pardon me for reprehending thee. – Shak.
To blame; to censure. I nor advise, nor reprehend the choice. – Phillips.
To detect of fallacy. This color will be reprehended or encountered, by imputing to all excellencies in compositions a kind of poverty. [Not in use.] – Bacon.
To accuse; to charge with a fault; with of; as, Aristipus being reprehended of luxury. – Bacon.

Reproved; blamed.

One that reprehends; one the blames or reproves. – Hooker.

Reproving; blaming.

REP-RE-HEN'SI-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. reprehensus.]

Blamable; culpable; censurable; deserving reproof; applied to persons or things; as, a reprehensible person; reprehensible conduct.

Blamableness; culpableness.

Culpably; in a manner to deserve censure or reproof.

REP-RE-HEN'SION, n. [Fr. from L. reprehensio.]

Reproof; censure; open blame. Faults not punishable, may deserve reprehension.

Containing reproof. – South.

Containing reproof. – Boswell.

REP-RE-SENT', v.t. [s as z. Fr. representer; L. repræsento; re and Low L. præsento, from præsens, present.]

To show or exhibit by resemblance. Before him burn / Seven lamps, as in a zodiac, representing / The heavenly tires. – Milton.
To describe; to exhibit to the mind in words. The managers of the bank at Genoa have been represented as a second kind of senate. Addison.
To exhibit; to show by action; as, a tragedy well represented. – Johnson.
To personate; to act the character or to fill the place of another in a play; as, to represent the character of King Richard.
To supply the place of; to act as a substitute for another. The parliament of Great Britain represents the nation. The congress of the United States represents the people or nation. The senate is considered as representing the states in their corporate capacity.
To show by arguments, reasoning or statement of facts. The memorial represents the situation of the petitioner. Represent to your son the danger of an idle life or profligate company.
To stand in the place of, in the right of inheritance. All the branches inherit the same share that their root, whom they represent, would have done. – Blackstone.

That may be represented.

Representation; likeness. [Not used.] – Donne.

A representative. [Not in use.] – Wotton.

The act of representing, describing or showing.
That which exhibits by resemblance; image, likeness, picture or statue; as, representations of God. – Stillingfleet.
Any exhibition of the form or operations of a thing by something resembling it. A map is a representation of the world or a part of it. The terrestrial globe is a representation of the earth. An orrery is a representation of the planets and their revolutions.
Exhibition, as of a play on the stage.
Exhibition of a character in theatrical performance.
Verbal description; statement of arguments or facts in narration, oratory, debate, petition, admonition, &c.; as, the representation of a historian, of a witness or an advocate.
The business of acting as a substitute for another; as, the representation of a nation in a legislative body.
Representatives, as a collective body. It is expedient to have an able representation in both houses of congress.
Public exhibition.
The standing in the place of another, as an heir, or in the right of taking by inheritance. – Blackstone.

REP-RE-SENT'A-TIVE, a. [Fr. representatif.]

Exhibiting a similitude. They own the legal sacrifices, though representative, to be proper and real. – Atterbury.
Bearing the character or power of another; as, a council representative of the people. – Swift.

One that exhibits the likeness of another. A statue of Rumor, whispering an idiot in the ear, who was the representative of credulity. – Addison.
In legislative or other business, an agent, deputy or substitute, who supplies the place of another or others, being invested with his or their authority. An attorney is the representative of his client or employer. A member of the house of commons is the representative of his constituents and of the nation. In matters concerning his constituents only, he is supposed to be bound by their instructions, but in the enacting of laws for the nation, he is supposed not to be bound by their instructions, as he acts for the whole nation.
In law, one that stands in the place of another as heir, or in the right of succeeding to an estate of inheritance, or to a crown.
That by which any thing is exhibited or shown. This doctrine supposes the perfections of God to be the representatives to us of whatever we perceive in the creatures. Locke.