Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-PORT, v.t. [Fr. rapporter; L. reporto, to carry back; re and porto, to bear.]

1. To bear or bring back an answer, or to relate what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained. The committee reported the whole number of votes.
2. To give an account of; to relate; to tell. They reported his good deeds before me. – Neh. vi. Acts iv.
3. To tell or relate from one to another; to circulate publicly, as a story; as in the common phrase, it is reported. It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel. – Neh. vi. In this form of expression, it refers to the subsequent clause of the sentence; “that thou and the Jews think to rebel, is reported.”
4. To give an official account or statement; as, the secretary of the treasury reports to congress annually the amount of revenue and expenditure.
5. To give an account or statement of cases and decisions in a court of law or chancery.
6. To return, as sound; to give back. – Bacon. To be reported, or usually, to be reported of, to be well or ill spoken of; to be mentioned with respect or reproach. – Acts xvi. Rom. iii.