Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-PRINT'ING, ppr.

Printing again; renewing an impression.

RE-PRI'SAL, n. [s as z. Fr. represailles; It. ripresaglia; Sp. represalia; Fr. reprendre, repris, to retake; re and prendre, L. prendo.]

1. The seizure or taking of anything from an enemy of war for retaliation or indemnification for something taken or detained by him.
2. That which is taken from an enemy to indemnify an owner for something of his which the enemy has seized. Reprisals may consist of persons or of goods. Letters of marque and reprisal may be obtained in order to seize the bodies or goods of the subjects of an offending state, until satisfaction shall be made. – Blackstone.
3. Recaption; a retaking of a man's own goods or any of his family, wife, child or servant, wrongfully taken from him or detained by another. In this case, the owner may retake the goods or persons wherever he finds them. – Blackstone. Letters of marque and reprisal, a commission granted by the supreme authority of a state to a subject, empowering him to pass the frontiers [marque], that is, enter an enemy's territories and capture the goods and persons of the enemy, in return for goods or persons taken by him.
4. The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation of an act of inhumanity. – Vattel.

RE-PRISE, n. [s as z. Fr.]

A taking by way of retaliation. [Obs.] – Dryden.

RE-PRISE, v.t. [s as z.]

1. To take again. [Obs.] – Spenser.
2. To recompense; to pay. [Obs.] – Grant.

RE-PRIS-ING, ppr.

Taking again; recompensing.

RE-PRIZ-ES, n. [plur.]

In law, yearly deductions out of a manor, as rent-charge, rent-seck, &c. – Jones.

RE-PROACH, n. [The pointed vowel designates the accented syllable.]

1. Censure mingled with contempt or derision; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, foul-mouthed reproach. – Shak.
2. Shame; infamy; disgrace. Give not thine heritage to reproach. – Joel ii. Is. iv.
3. Object of contempt, scorn or derision. Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we may be no more a reproach. – Neh. ii.
4. That which is the cause of shame or disgrace. – Gen. xxx.

RE-PROACH, v.t. [Fr. reprocher; It. rimprocciare; from the same root as approach, and Fr. proche, near, L. prox, in proximus, from a root in Class Brg, signifying to thrust or drive; probably ברך.]

1. To censure in terms of opprobrium or contempt. Mezemius with his ardor warm'd / His fainting friends, reproach'd their shameful flight, / Repell'd the victors. – Dryden.
2. To charge with a fault in severe language. That shame / There sit not, and reproach us as unclean. – Milton.
3. To upbraid; to suggest blame for any thing. A man's conscience will reproach him for a criminal, mean or unworthy action.
4. To treat with scorn or contempt. – Luke vi.

RE-PROACH-A-BLE, a.

1. Deserving reproach.
2. Opprobrious; scurrilous. [Not proper.] – Elyot.

RE-PROACH-A-BLE-NESS, n.

The state of being reproachable.

RE-PROACH-A-BLY, adv.

In a reproachable manner.

RE-PROACH-ED, pp.

Censured in terms of contempt; upbraided.

RE-PROACH-ER, n.

One who reproaches.

RE-PROACH-FUL, a.

1. Expressing censure with contempt; scurrilous; opprobrious; as, reproachful words. Shak.
2. Shameful; bringing or casting reproach; infamous; base; vile; as, reproachful conduct; a reproachful life.

RE-PROACH-FUL-LY, adv.

1. In terms of reproach; opprobriously; scurrilously. – 1 Tim. v.
2. Shamefully; disgracefully; contemptuously.

RE-PROACH-ING, ppr.

Censuring in terms of contempt; upbraiding.

REP'RO-BATE, a. [L. reprobatus, reprobo, to disallow; re and probo, to prove.]

1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. – Jer. vi.
2. Abandoned in sin; lost to virtue or grace. They profess that they know God, but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate. – Tit. i.
3. Abandoned to error, or in apostasy. – 2 Tim. iii.

REP'RO-BATE, n.

A person abandoned to sin; one lost to virtue and religion. I acknowledge myself a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. – Ralegh.

REP'RO-BATE, v.t.

1. To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to disallow; to reject. It expresses more than disapprove or disallow. We disapprove of slight faults and improprieties; we reprobate what is mean or criminal.
2. In a milder sense, to disallow. Such an answer as this, is reprobated and disallowed of in law. – Ayliffe.
3. To abandon to wickedness and eternal destruction. – Hammond.
4. To abandon to his sentence, without hope or pardon. Drive him out / To reprobated exile. – Southern.

REP'RO-BA-TED, pp.

Disapproved with abhorrence; rejected; abandoned to wickedness or to destruction.

REP'RO-BATE-NESS, n.

The state of being reprobate.

REP'RO-BA-TER, n.

One that reprobates.

REP'RO-BA-TING, ppr.

Disapproving with extreme dislike; rejecting; abandoning to wickedness or to destruction.

REP-RO-BA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. reprobatio.]

1. The act of disallowing with detestation, or of expressing extreme dislike.
2. The act of abandoning or state of being abandoned to eternal destruction. When a sinner is so hardened as to feel no remorse or misgiving of conscience, it is considered as a sign of reprobation. – Encyc.
3. A condemnatory sentence; rejection. Set a brand of reprobatian on clipt poetry and false coin. – Dryden.

REP-RO-BA'TION-ER, n.

One who abandons others to eternal destruction. – South.