Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-QUICK'EN-ED, pp.

Reanimated.

RE-QUICK'EN-ING, ppr.

Reanimating; invigorating.

RE'QUI-EM, n. [L.]

1. In the Romish Church, a hymn or mass sung for the dead, for the rest of his soul; so called from the first word. Encyc.
2. Rest; quiet; peace. [Not in use.] – Sandys.

RE-QUI'ET-O-RY, n. [Low L. requietorium.]

A sepulcher. [Not in use.] Weever.

RE'QUIN, n. [Fr.]

The shark; a fish of the shark kind. – Kirby.

RE-QUIR-A-BLE, a. [from require.]

That may be required; fit or proper to be demanded. – Hale.

RE-QUIRE, v.t. [L. requiro; re and quæro, to seek; Fr. and Sp. requerir. See Query.]

1. To demand; to ask, as of right and by authority. We require a person to do a thing, and we require a thing to be done. Why then doth my lord require this thing? – 1 Chron. xxi.
2. To claim; to render necessary; as a duty or any thing indispensable; as, the law of God requires strict obedience.
3. To ask as a favor; to request. I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way. – Ezra viii. [In this sense, the word is rarely used.]
4. To call to account for. I will require my flock at their hand. – Ezek. xxxiv.
5. To make necessary; to need; to demand. The king's business required haste. – 1 Sam. xxi.
6. To avenge; to take satisfaction for. – 1 Sam. xx.

RE-QUIR-ED, pp.

Demanded; needed; necessary.

RE-QUIRE-MENT, n.

Demand; requisition. – Scott. Chalmers. This ruler was one of those who believe that they can fill up every requirement contained in the rule of righteousness. – J. M. Mason. The Bristol water is of service where the secretions exceed the requirements of health. – Encyc.

RE-QUIR-ER, n.

One who requires.

RE-QUIR-ING, ppr.

Demanding; needing.

REQ'UI-SITE, a. [s as z. L. requisitus, from requiro.]

Required by the nature of things or by circumstances; necessary; so needful that it can not be dispensed with. Repentance and faith are requisite to salvation. Air is requisite to support life. Heat is requisite to vegetation.

REQ'UI-SITE, n.

That which is necessary; something indispensable. Contentment is a requisite to a happy life. God in his part has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know. – Wake.

REQ'UI-SITE-LY, adv.

Necessarily; in a requisite manner. – Boyle.

REQ'UI-SITE-NESS, n.

The state of being requisite or necessary; necessity. – Boyle.

REQ-UI-SI'TION, n. [Fr.; It. requisizione. See Require.]

Demand; application made as of right. Under the old confederation of the American states, Congress often made requisitions on the states for money to supply the treasury; but they had no power to enforce their requisitions, and the states neglected or partially complied with them. – Hamilton.

RE-QUIS'I-TIVE, a.

Expressing or implying demand. – Harris.

RE-QUIS'I-TO-RY, a.

Sought for; demanded. [Little used.]

RE-QUI'TAL, n. [from requite.]

1. Return for any office, good or bad; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds.
2. Return; reciprocal action. No merit their aversion can remove, / Nor requital can efface their love. – Waller.

RE-QUITE, v.t. [from quit, L. cedo; Ir. cuitighim, to requite; cuiteach, recompense.]

1. To repay either good or evil; in a good sense, to recompense; to return an equivalent in good; to reward. I also will requite you this kindness. – 2 Sam. ii. 1 Tim. v. In a bad sense, to retaliate; to return evil for evil; to punish. Joseph will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him. – Gen. l.
2. To do or give in return. He hath requited me evil for good. – 1 Sam. xxv.

RE-QUIT-ED, pp.

Repaid; recompensed; rewarded.

RE-QUIT-ER, n.

One who requites.

RE-QUIT-ING, ppr.

Recompensing; rewarding; giving in return.

RERE-FIEF, n.

A fief held of a superior feudatory; an under fief, held by an under tenant. – Blackstone.

RERE-MOUSE, n. [Sax. hreremus.]

A bat. [See Rear-mouse.]