Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: RE-NEW'ED – REN'O-VA-TOR
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RE-NEW'ED, pp.
Made new again; repaired; re-established; repeated; revived; renovated; regenerated.
RE-NEW'ED-LY, adv.
Again; once more.
RE-NEW'ED-NESS, n.
State of being renewed. – Hammond.
RE-NEW'ER, n.
One who renews. – Sherwood.
RE-NEW'ING, a.
That renews or regenerates; as, renewing grace. Tending or adapted to renovate.
RE-NEW'ING, n.
The act of making new; renewal.
RE-NEW'ING, ppr.
Making new again; repairing; re-establishing; repeating; reviving; renovating.
REN'I-FORM, a. [L. renes, the kidneys, and form.]
Having the form or shape of the kidneys. – Kirwan.
REN'I-TENCE, or REN'I-TEN-CY, n. [L. renitens, renitor, to resist; re and nitor, to struggle or strive.]
- The resistance of a body to pressure; the effort of matter to resume the place or form from which it has been driven by the impulse of other matter; the effect of elasticity. – Quincy.
- Moral resistance; reluctance. We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants. – Darwin.
REN'I-TENT, a.
Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force. – Ray.
REN'NET, n. [G. rinnen, to run, to curdle; D. runnen, ronnen, to curdle or coagulate; Sax. gerunnen, coagulated.]
The dried stomach or concreted milk found in the stomach of a sucking quadruped, particularly of the calf. It is also written Runnet, and this is the preferable orthography. – Encyc.
A kind of apple. – Mortimer.
RE-NOUNCE', n. [renouns'.]
The declining to follow suit, when it can be done.
RE-NOUNCE, v.i. [renouns'.]
- To declare a renunciation. He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood. – Dryden. [Not in use.]
- In cards, not to follow suit, when the person has a card of the same sort.
RE-NOUNCE', v.t. [renouns'; Fr. renoncer; L. renuncio; re and nuncio, to declare, from the root of nomen, name.]
- To disown; to disclaim; to reject; as a title or claim; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to; as, to renounce a title to land or a claim to reward; to renounce all pretensions to applause.
- To deny; to cast off; to reject; to disclaim; as an obligation or duty; as, to renounce allegiance.
- To cast off or reject, as a connection or possession; to forsake; as, to renounce the world and all its cares. Shak. We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. – 2 Cor. iv.
RE-NOUN'CED, pp.
Disowned; denied; rejected; disclaimed.
RE-NOUNCE'MENT, n. [renouns'ment.]
The act of disdaining or rejecting; renunciation. – Shak.
RE-NOUN'CER, n.
One who disowns or disclaims.
RE-NOUN'CING, n.
The act of disowning, disclaiming, denying or rejecting.
RE-NOUN'CING, ppr.
Disowning; disclaiming; rejecting.
REN'O-VATE, v.t. [L. renovo; re and novo, to make new; novus, new.]
To renew; to restore to the first state, or to a good state, after decay, destruction or depravation. It is synonymous with renew, except in its fourth definition, supra.
REN'O-VA-TED, pp.
Renewed; made new, fresh or vigorous.
REN'O-VA-TING, ppr.
Renewing.
REN-O-VA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. renovatio.]
- The act of renewing; a making new after decay, destruction or depravation; renewal; as, the renovation of the heart by grace. There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world. – Rambler.
- A state of being renewed. – Bacon. Milton.
REN'O-VA-TOR, n.
One who, or that which renews. – Foster.