Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-PUB'LIC-AN-IZE, v.t.

To convert to republican principles; as, to republicanize the rising generation. – Ramsay.

RE-PUB-LIC-A'TION, n. [re and publication.]

1. A second publication, or a new publication of something before published.
2. A second publication, as of a former will; renewal. If there be many testaments, the last overthrows all the former; but the republication of a former will, revokes one of a later date, and establishes the first. – Blackstone.

RE-PUB'LISH, v.t. [re and publish.]

1. To publish a second time, or to publish a new edition of a work before published.
2. To publish anew. Unless, subsequent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republishes his will. – Blackstone.

RE-PUB'LISH-ED, pp.

Published anew.

RE-PUB'LISH-ER, n.

One who republishes.

RE-PUB'LISH-ING, ppr.

Publishing again.

RE-PU'DI-A-BLE, a. [from repudiate.]

That may be rejected; fit or proper to be put away.

RE-PU'DI-ATE, v.t. [Fr. repudier; L. repudio; re and one of the roots in Class Bd, which signifies to send or thrust.]

1. To cast away; to reject; to discard. Atheists … repudiate all title to the kingdom of heaven. – Bentley.
2. Appropriately, to put away; to divorce; as a wife.

RE-PU'DI-A-TED, pp.

Cast off; rejected; discarded; divorced.

RE-PU'DI-A-TING, ppr.

Casting off; rejecting; divorcing.

RE-PU-DI-A'TION, n. [Fr. from L. repudiatio.]

1. Rejection.
2. Divorce; as, the repudiation of a wife. – Arbuthnot.

RE-PUGN, v.t. [repu'ne; L. repugno; re and pugno.]

To oppose; to resist. [Not used.] Elyot.

RE-PUG'NANCE, or RE-PUG'NAN-CY, n. [Fr. repugnance; It. ripugnanza; L. repugnantia, from repugno, to resist; re and pugno, to fight.]

1. Opposition of mind; reluctance; unwillingness. – Shak. Dryden.
2. Opposition or struggle of passions; resistance. – South.
3. Opposition of principles or qualities; inconsistency; contrariety. But where difference is without repugnancy, that which hath been can be no prejudice to that which is. – Hooker.

RE-PUG'NANT, a. [Fr. from L. repugnans.]

1. Opposite; contrary; inconsistent; properly followed by to. Every sin is repugnant to the will of God. Every thing morally wrong, is repugnant both to the honor, as well as to the interest of the offender.
2. Disobedient; not obsequious. [Not in use.] – Shak.

RE-PUG'NANT-LY, adv.

With opposition; in contradiction. – Brown.

RE-PUG'NATE, v.t.

To oppose; to fight against.

RE-PUL'LU-LATE, v.i. [L. re and pullulo, to bud.]

To bud again. – Howell.

RE-PUL-LU-LA'TION, n.

The act of budding again.

RE-PULSE, n. [repuls'; L. repulsa, from repello; re and pello, to drive.]

1. A being checked in advancing, or driven back by force. The enemy met with repulse and retreated.
2. Refusal; denial. – Bailey.

RE-PULSE, v.t. [repuls'; L. repulsus, repello.]

To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assailant or advancing enemy. – Knolles. Milton.

RE-PULS'ED, pp.

Repelled; driven back.

RE-PULS'ER, n.

One that repulses or drives back. – Sherwood.

RE-PULS'ING, ppr.

Driving back.

RE-PUL'SION, n.

1. In physics, the power of repelling or driving off; that property of bodies which causes them to recede from each other or avoid coming in contact. – Encyc.
2. The act of repelling.

RE-PULS'IVE, a.

1. Repelling; driving off, or keeping from approach. The repulsive power of the electric fluid is remarkable.
2. Cold; reserved; forbidding; as, repulsive manners.