Emily Dickinson Lexicon

REP-RE-SENT'A-TIVE-NESS, n.

The state or quality of being representative. Dr. Burnet observes that every thought is attended with consciousness and representativeness. – Spectator.

REP-RE-SENT'ED, pp.

Shown; exhibited; personated; described; stated; having substitutes.

REP-RE-SENT'ER, n.

1. One who shows, exhibits or describes.
2. A representative; one that acts by deputation. [Little used.] – Swift.

REP-RE-SENT'ING, ppr.

Showing; exhibiting; describing; acting in another's character; acting in the place of another.

REP-RE-SENT'MENT, n.

Representation; image; an idea proposed as exhibiting the likeness of something. – Taylor. Brown.

RE-PRESS', n.

The act of subduing. [Not in use.]

RE-PRESS', v.t. [L. repressus, reprimo; re and premo, to press.]

1. To crush; to quell; to put down; to subdue; to suppress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.
2. To check; to restrain. Such kings / Favor the innocent, repress the bold. – Waller.

RE-PRESS'ED, pp.

Crushed; subdued.

RE-PRESS'ER, n.

One that crushes or subdues.

RE-PRESS'ING, ppr.

Crushing; subduing; checking.

RE-PRES'SION, n.

1. The act of subduing; as, the repression of tumults. – K. Charles.
2. Check; restraint.

RE-PRESS'IVE, a.

Having power to crush; tending to subdue or restrain.

RE-PRESS'IVE-LY, adv.

So as to repress.

RE-PRIEV-AL, n.

Respit; reprieve. [Not in use.] – Overbury.

RE-PRIEVE, n.

1. The temporary suspension of the execution of sentence of death on a criminal. – Clarendon.
2. Respit; interval of ease or relief. All that I ask is but a short reprieve, / Till I forget to love, and learn to grieve. – Denham.

RE-PRIEVE, v.t. [I know not the origin of this word, unless it is the French reprendre, repris. In Norm. repriont is rendered reprieved deductions, and reprises, deductions and duties yearly paid out of lands.]

1. To respit after sentence of death; to suspend or delay the execution of for a time; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days. He reprieves the sinner from time to time. – Rogers.
2. To grant a respit to; to relieve for a time from any suffering. Company, though it may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet can not secure a man from his conscience. – South.

RE-PRIEV-ED, pp.

Respited; allowed a longer time to live than the sentence of death permits.

RE-PRIEV-ING, ppr.

Respiting; suspending the execution of for a time.

REP'RI-MAND, n.

Severe reproof for a fault; reprehension, private or public. – Spectator.

REP'RI-MAND, v.t. [Fr. reprimander. If this word is from L. reprimo, it must be formed from the participle reprimendus.]

1. To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault. Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius, for traveling into Egypt without his permission. – Arbuthnot.
2. To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence. The court ordered the officer to be reprimanded.

REP'RI-MAND-ED, pp.

Severely reproved.

REP'RI-MAND-ING, ppr.

Reproving severely.

RE'PRINT, n.

A second or a new edition of a book. Review of Griesbach.

RE-PRINT', v.t. [re and print.]

1. To print again; to print a second or any new edition. – Pope.
2. To renew the impression of any thing. The business of redemption is … to reprint God's image on the soil. – South.

RE-PRINT'ED, pp.

Printed anew; impressed again.