Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-BUK-ING, ppr.

Chiding; reproving; checking; punish.

RE-BUK-ING-LY, adv.

By way of rebuke.

RE-BUL-LI'TION, n. [See Ebullition and Boil.]

Act of boiling or effervescing. [Little used.] – Wotton.

RE-BUR-Y, v.t. [reber'ry; re and bury.]

To inter again. – Ashmole.

RE'BUS, n. [L. from res, which is of the class Rd, Rs, and of the same family as riddle. See Riddle, Read and Real.]

1. An enigmatical representation of some name, &c. by using figures or pictures instead of words. A gallant in love with a woman named Rose Hill, painted on the border of his gown, a rose, a hill, an eye, a loaf and a well, which reads, Rose Hill I love well. – Encyc.
2. A sort of riddle.
3. In some chimical writers, sour milk; sometimes, the ultimate matter of which all bodies are composed. – Encyc.
4. In heraldry, a coat of arms which bears an allusion to the name of the person; as three cups, for Butler. – Encyc.

RE-BUT', v.i.

1. To retire back. [Obs.] – Spenser.
2. To answer, as a plaintif's sur-rejoinder. The plaintif may answer the rejoinder, by a sur-rejoinder; on which the defendant may rebut. – Blackstone.

RE-BUT', v.t. [Fr. rebuter; Norm. rebutter; from the root of but, Fr. bout, end; bouter, to put; bouder, to pout; It. ributtare, to drive back, also to vomit. See Butt and Pout. Class Bd.]

To repel; to oppose by argument, plea or countervailing proof. [It is used by lawyers in a general sense.]

RE-BUT'TED, pp.

Repelled; answered.

RE-BUT'TER, n.

In law pleadings, the answer of a defendant to a plaintif's sur-rejoinder. – Blackstone. If I grant to a tenant to hold without impeachment of waste, and afterward implead him for waste done, he may debar me of this action by showing my grant, which is a rebutter. – Encyc.

RE-BUT'TING, ppr.

Repelling; opposing by argument, countervailing allegation or evidence.

RE-CALL', n.

1. A calling back; revocation.
2. The power of calling back or revoking. 'Tis done, and since 'tis done, 'tis past recall. – Dryden.

RE-CALL', v.t. [re and call.]

1. To call back; to take back; as, to recall words or declarations.
2. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; as, to recall a decree.
3. To call back; to revive in memory; as, to recall to mind what has been forgotten. – Broome.
4. To call back from a place or mission; as, to recall a minister front a foreign court, to recall troops from India.

RE-CALL'A-BLE, a.

That may be recalled. – Ramsay. Delegates recallable at pleasure. – Madison.

RE-CALL'ED, pp.

Called back; revoked.

RE-CALL'ING, ppr.

Calling back; revoking.

RE-CANT', v.i.

To recall words; to revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said. Convince me I am wrong, and I will recant.

RE-CANT', v.t. [L. recanto; re and canto. See Cant.]

To retract; to recall; to contradict a former declaration. How soon would ease recant / Vows made in pain, as violent as void. – Milton.

RE-CAN-TA'TION, n.

The act of recalling; retraction; declaration that contradicts a former one. – Sidney.

RE-CANT'ED, pp.

Recalled; retracted.

RE-CANT'ER, n.

One that recants. – Shak.

RE-CANT'ING, ppr.

Recalling; retracting.

RE-CA-PAC'I-TATE, v.t. [re and capacitate.]

To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. – Atterbury.

RE-CA-PAC'I-TA-TED, pp.

Capacitated again.

RE-CA-PAC'I-TA-TING, ppr.

Conferring capacity again.

RE-CA-PIT'U-LATE, v.t. [Fr. recapituler; It. raccopitolare; re and L. capitulum. See Capitulate.]

To repeat the principal things mentioned in a preceding discourse, argument or essay; to give a summary of the principal fares, points or arguments. – Dryden.