Regent Street. In honour of the Prince Regent, afterwards George IV.
Regiomontanus. The name assumed by Johann Müller, a celebrated German mathematician of the fifteenth century, being a Latinised rendering of “Konigsberg,” his native place.
Regius Professor. The professorial chair in various departments of learning at Oxford and Cambridge Universities founded by Henry VIII.
Regular Brick. See “[He’s a Brick].”
Regular Clergy. Those who in the Catholic Church are attached to monasteries and friaries, living by rule; in contradistinction to the “Secular Clergy,” who are appointed to parochial work by a bishop, and move among the people.
Regular Zantippe. See “[Zantippe].”
Rehan. See “[Ada Rehan].”
Rendezvous. Literally an individual haunt or resort, and in no sense a place of public meeting. The word is French for “betake yourself.”
Republican Marriage. The name given by the Red Republicans during the French Revolution to their atrocious procedure, instigated by Jean Baptiste Carrier, of tying a young man and woman together and drowning them.
Resurrection Men. Body snatchers, who “resurrected,” as the Americans say, bodies from the graves in order to sell them to the medical faculty for dissection. Since the general institution of public hospitals, the last refuge of so many “unknowns,” whose dead bodies are never claimed, the demand for subjects snatched from the grave has entirely ceased.