[ Rest], sb. rest; reste, S.—AS. rest; cp. OHG. resti (Tatian).
[ Resten], v. to rest, S.—AS. restan; cp. OHG. resten (Tatian).
[ Resun], sb. reason, talk, S2, PP, Prompt.; resoun, C2, S2, PP; reson, C2, PP, HD; reison, PP.—AF. resoun (reison, reasoun), also raisoun, reason, language; Lat. rationem.
[ Resunable], adj. reasonable, talkative, eloquent, Prompt.; resonable, PP; resnabyl, HD; renable, PP; runnable, PP. Notes (p. 23).—AF. resonable, OF. resnable, raisnable; Lat. rationabilem.
[ Retenaunce], sb. retinue, company, PP, HD.—AF. retenaunce; Late Lat. retinentia (Ducange).
[ Retenue], sb. retinue, suite, C2.—OF. retenuë, a retinue (Cotg.); Late Lat. retenuta (Ducange). In F. retenue means ‘reserve, modesty’, and has become obsolete in the English sense of a ‘suite’, a body of attendants.
[ Rethor], sb. orator, C, C2, Manip.—Late Lat. rhethor; Lat. rhetor; Gr. ῥήτωρ.
[ Rethoryke], sb. rhetoric, C2; retoryke, PP; retoryk, PP.—Lat. rhetorica.
[ Retten], v. to account, impute, C, H, Prompt., W; rectyn, Prompt.—AF. retter, reter, to accuse (pp. rette, rete); Lat. reputare see BH, § 153; by popular etymology Low Lat. rectare, ‘in jus vocare,’ rectatus, accused (Schmid). Cf. [A-retten].