Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-LIN'QUISH, v.t. [L. relinquo; re and linquo, to leave, to fail or faint; from the same root as liqueo, liquo, to melt or dissolve, deliquium, a fainting, Ir. leagham, to melt. Hence the sense is to withdraw or give way; to relinquish is to recede from. It is probably allied to flag and slack; W. llac, llaciaw, to slacken; llegu, to flag. Class Lg.]

1. To withdraw from; to leave; to quit. It may be to forsake or abandon, but it does not necessarily express the sense of the latter. A man may relinquish an enterprise for a time, or with a design never to resume it. In general, to relinquish is to leave without the intention of resuming, and equivalent to forsake, but is less emphatical than abandon and desert. They placed Irish tenants on the lands relinquished by the English. – Davies.
2. To forbear; to withdraw from; as, to relinquish the practice of intemperance; to relinquish the rites of a church. – Hooker.
3. To give up; to renounce a claim to; as, to relinquish a debt. To relinquish back, or to, to give up; to release; to surrender; as, to relinquish a claim to another.

RE-LIN'QUISH-ED, pp.

Left; quitted; given up.

RE-LIN'QUISH-ER, n.

One who leaves or quits.

RE-LIN'QUISH-ING, ppr.

Quitting; leaving; giving up.

RE-LIN'QUISH-MENT, n.

The act of leaving or quitting; a forsaking; the renouncing a claim to.

REL'I-QUA-RY, n. [Fr. reliquaire, from L. relinquo.]

A depository for relics; a casket in which relics are kept. – Encyc.

REL-IQUE, n.

A relic. [See Relic.]

RE-LIQ'UID-ATE, v.t. [re and liquidate.]

To liquidate anew; to adjust a second time.

RE-LIQ'UID-A-TED, pp.

Liquidated again.

RE-LIQ'UID-A-TING, ppr.

Liquidating again.

RE-LIQ-UID-A'TION, n.

A second or renewed liquidation; a renewed adjustment. – Hamilton.

REL'ISH, n.

1. Taste; or rather, a pleasing taste; that sensation of the organs which is experienced when we take food or drink of an agreeable flavor. Different persons have different relishes. Relish is often natural, and often the effect of habit.
2. Liking; delight; appetite. We have such a relish for faction, as to have lost that of wit. – Addison.
3. Sense; the faculty of perceiving excellence; taste; as, a relish for fine writing, or a relish of fine writing. Addison uses both of and for after relish.
4. That which gives pleasure; the power of pleasing. When liberty is gone, / Life grows insipid and has lost its relish. – Addison.
5. Cast; manners. It preserves some relish of old writing. – Pope.
6. Taste; a small quantity just perceptible. Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, / I have no relish of them. – Shak.

REL'ISH, v.i.

1. To have a pleasing taste. The greatest dainties do not always relish.
2. To give pleasure. Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits. – Shak.
3. To have a flavor. A theory which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature. – Woodward.

REL'ISH, v.t.

1. To give an agreeable taste to. A sav'ry bit that serv'd to relish wine. – Dryden.
2. To like the taste of; as, to relish venison.
3. To be gratified with the enjoyment or use of. He knows how to prize his advantages and to relish the honors which he enjoys. – Atterbury. Men of nice palates would not relish Aristotle, as dressed up by the schoolmen. – Baker.

REL'ISH-A-BLE, a.

Gustable; having an agreeable taste.

REL'ISH-ED, pp.

Giving an agreeable taste; received with pleasure.

RE-LIVE, v.i. [reliv'. re and live.]

To live again; to revive. – Spenser.

RE-LIVE, v.t. [reliv'.]

To recall to life. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

RE-LOAN, n.

A second lending of the same money. – President's Message.

RE-LOAN, v.t. [re and loan.]

To loan again; to lend what has been lent and repaid.

RE-LOAN-ED, pp.

Loaned again.

RE-LOAN-ING, ppr.

Loaning again.

RE-LO'CATE, v.t.

To locate a second time.

RE-LO-CA'TION, n.

A second location. – Scott.

RE-LOVE, v.t. [re and love.]

To love in return. [Not in use.] – Boyle.