The American Printer: A Manual of Typography / Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc.

by Thomas MacKellar

Recte et suaviter.—Justly and mildly.

Rectus in curiâ.—Upright in the court; with clean hands.

Redolet lucernâ.—It smells of the lamp; it is a laboured production.

Reductio ad absurdum.—A reducing a position to an absurdity.

Regina.—Queen.

Regium donum.—A royal donation (a grant from the British crown to the Irish Presbyterian clergy.)

Regnant populi.—The people rule.

Rencontre.—An encounter.

Renaissance.—New birth: applied to the revival of the classic arts in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Requiescant in pace.—May they rest in peace.