Reprise, rē-prīz′, v.t. (Spens.) to take again, retake.—n. in maritime law, a ship recaptured from an enemy: in masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle: (law) yearly deductions, as annuities, &c.: (mus.) the act of repeating a passage. [Fr. reprise—reprendre—L. reprehendĕre.]
Reprive, rē-prīv′, v.t. (Spens.) to deprive, take away.
Reproach, rē-prōch′, v.t. to cast in one's teeth: to censure severely: to upbraid: to revile: to treat with contempt.—n. the act of reproaching: reproof: censure: blame in opprobrious language: disgrace: occasion of blame: an object of scorn.—adj. Reproach′able, deserving reproach: opprobrious.—n. Reproach′ableness.—adv. Reproach′ably.—n. Reproach′er.—adj. Reproach′ful, full of reproach or blame: abusive: scurrilous: bringing reproach: shameful: disgraceful.—adv. Reproach′fully.—n. Reproach′fulness.—adj. Reproach′less, without reproach.—The Reproaches, antiphons chanted in R.C. churches on Good Friday after the prayers which succeed the Gospel of the Passion, their subject the ingratitude of the Jews in rejecting and crucifying Christ. [Fr. reprocher—re-, back, proche, near—L. propius, comp. of prope, near.]
Reprobate, rep′rō-bāt, adj. condemned: base: given over to sin: depraved: vile: (B.) that will not stand proof or trial: (Sterne) condemnatory.—n. an abandoned or profligate person: one lost to shame.—v.t. to disapprove: to censure: to disown.—ns. Rep′rōbācy, state of being a reprobate; Rep′robance (Shak.), reprobation; Rep′robāteness; Rep′robāter; Reprobā′tion, the act of reprobating: rejection: the act of abandoning to destruction: state of being so abandoned: the doctrine of the fore-ordination of the impenitent to eternal perdition: (mil.) disqualification to bear office; Reprobā′tioner, one who maintains the doctrine of reprobation by divine decree.—adj. Reprobā′tive, criminatory.—n. Rep′robātor (Scots law), an old form of action to prove a witness to be perjured or biassed.—adj. Rep′robātory, reprobative. [L. reprobatus, pa.p. of reprobāre, to reprove.]
Reproduce, rē-prō-dūs′, v.t. to produce again: to form anew: to propagate: to represent.—n. Reprodū′cer, one who reproduces: the diaphragm used in producing speech in the phonograph.—adj. Reprodū′cible.—n. Reproduc′tion, the act of producing new organisms—the whole process whereby life is continued from generation to generation: repetition.—adj. Reproduc′tive, tending to reproduce.—ns. Reproduc′tiveness, Reproductiv′ity.—adj. Reproduc′tory.—Reproductive faculty, the faculty of the association of ideas; Reproductive organs (bot.), the organs appropriate to the production of seeds or spines: (zool.) the generative system.
Repromission, rē-prō-mish′un, n. (obs.) a promise.
Repromulgate, rē-prō-mul′gāt, v.t. to republish.—n. Repromulgā′tion.
Reproof, rē-prōōf′, n. a reproving or blaming: rebuke: censure: reprehension.—adj. Reprovable (-ōōv′-), deserving reproof, blame, or censure.—n. Reprov′ableness.—adv. Reprov′ably.—n. Repro′val, the act of reproving: reproof.—v.t. Reprove′, to condemn: to chide: to convict: to censure: to disprove or refute.—ns. Repro′ver; Repro′ving.—adv. Repro′vingly. [O. Fr. reprover (Fr. réprouver)—L. reprobāre, the opposite of approbāre (cf. Approve)—re-, off, probāre, to try.]
Reprune, rē-prōōn′, v.t. to trim again.
Reptant, rep′tant, adj. crawling: pertaining to the Reptantia, those gasteropod mollusca adapted for crawling.—n. Reptā′tion, the act of creeping: (math.) the motion of one plane figure around another, so that the longest diameter of one shall come into line with the shortest of the other.—adjs. Reptatō′rial, creeping or crawling; Rep′tatory (zool.), creeping.