Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-PRO-DUCE, v.t. [re and produce.]

To produce again; to renew the production of a thing destroyed. Trees are reproduced by new shoots from the roots or stump; and certain animals, as the polype, are reproduced from cuttings. – Encyc.

RE-PRO-DUC-ED, pp.

Produced anew.

RE-PRO-DUC-ER, n.

One or that which reproduces. – Burke.

RE-PRO-DUC-ING, ppr.

Producing anew.

RE-PRO-DUC'TION, n.

The act or process of reproducing that which has been destroyed; as, the reproduction of plants or animals from cuttings or slips. The reproduction of several parts of lobsters and crabs is one of the greatest curiosities in natural history. – Encyc.

RE-PRO-DUC'TIVE, a.

Tending to reproduce. – Lyell.

RE-PRO-MUL'GATE, v.t.

To promulgate again.

RE-PRO-MUL-GA'TION, n.

A second promulgation.

RE-PROOF', n. [from reprove.]

1. Blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; reprehension. Those best can bear reproof, who merit praise. – Pope. He that hateth reproof is brutish. – Prov. xii.
2. Blame cast; censure directed to a person.

RE-PROV-A-BLE, a. [from reprove.]

Worthy of reproof; deserving censure; blamable. – Taylor.

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

State of being reprovable.

RE-PROV-A-BLY, adv.

In a reprovable manner.

RE-PROVE, v.t. [Fr. reprouver; L. reprobo; re and probo, to prove.]

1. To blame; to censure. I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices. – Ps. 1.
2. To charge with a fault to the face; to chide; to reprehend. – Luke iii.
3. To blame for; with of; as, to reprove one of laziness. – Carew.
4. To convince of a fault, or to make it manifest. – John xvi.
5. To refute; to disprove. [Not in use.] – Shak.
6. To excite a sense of guilt. The heart or conscience reproves us.
7. To manifest silent disapprobation or blame. The vicious can not bear the presence of the good, whose very looks reprove them, and whose life is a severe, though silent admonition. – Buckminster.

RE-PROV-ED, pp.

Blamed; reprehended; convinced of a fault.

RE-PROV-ER, n.

One that reproves; he or that which blames. Conscience is a bold reprover. – South.

RE-PROV-ING, ppr.

Blaming; censuring.

RE-PRUNE, v.t. [re and prune.]

To prune a second time. – Evelyn.

RE-PRUN-ED, pp.

Pruned a second time.

RE-PRUN-ING, ppr.

Pruning a second time.

REP'TILE, a. [Fr. from L. reptilis, from repo, to creep, Gr. ερπω; It. rettile; Sp. reptil. See Creep. The primary sense is probably to rub or scrape, or to seize.]

1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or with small feet.
2. Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices. – Burke.

REP'TILE, n.

1. An animal that moves on its belly, or by means of small short legs, as snakes, lizards, tortoises, and the like. In zoology, the reptiles constitute a class or order, including all such animals as are cold blooded, vertebrated, and breathe air; as tortoises, lizards, frogs, etc. Bell has separated the batrachians from this class, and arranges them under the denomination of Amphibia, because they breathe water in the tadpole state.
2. A groveling or very mean person; a term of contempt.

RE-PUB'LIC, n. [L. respublica; res and publica; public affairs.]

1. A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people. In modern usage, it differs from a democracy or democratic state, in which the people exercise the powers of sovereignty in person. Yet the democracies of Greece are often called republics.
2. Common interest; the public. [Not in use.] – B. Jonson. Republic of letters, the collective body of learned men.

RE-PUB'LIC-AN, a.

1. Pertaining to a republic; consisting of a commonwealth; as, a republican constitution or government.
2. Consonant to the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.

RE-PUB'LIC-AN, n.

One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.

RE-PUB'LIC-AN-ISM, n.

1. A republican form or system of government.
2. Attachment to a republican form of government. – Burke.