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Readjourn

To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.

Readjournment

The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.

Readjust

To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.

Readjuster

One who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the States of the United States, one who advocates a refunding, and sometimes a partial repudiation, of the State debt without the consent of the State's creditors.

Readjustment

A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.

Readmission

The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.

Readmit

To admit again; to give entrance or access to again.

Ready

To dispose in order.

Ready-made

Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.

reafforest re-afforest

To convert again into a forest, as a region of country; to re-establish a forest after clear-cutting or fire, etc.; -- used more often without the hyphen.

Reagent

A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.

Reaggravation

The last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication.

Realgar

Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.

realign re-align

To align anew or better; as, realign the wheels of my car; realign my jaw. Usually used without the hyphen.

Realism

As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle). As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.

Realist

One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.

Realistic

Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

Reality

The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.

Realization

The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.

Realize

To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc.

Realizing

Serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality; as, a realizing view of the danger incurred.

Really

In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth.

Realm

A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.

Realness

The quality or condition of being real; reality.

Ream

To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

Reamer

One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc.

Reamputation

The second of two amputations performed upon the same member.

Reanimate

To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits.

Reanimation

The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.

Reannex

To annex again or anew; to reunite.

Reanswer

To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.

Reap

A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

Reappearance

A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.

Reapplication

The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.

Reappointment

The act of reappointing, or the state of being reappointed.

Rear

To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.

Rearer

One who, or that which, rears.

Reargue re-argue

To argue anew or again; as, This politician will be forced into re-arguing an old national campaign. Usually used without the hyphen.

Reargument

An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.

rearm re-arm

To become armed again; as, after the war, the defeated country rapidly rearmed. Usually used without the hyphen.

Rearrange re-arrange

To arrange again; to put into a different order; to arrange in a different way; as, Please re-arrange these files in alphabetical order. Usually used without the hyphen.

Rearrangement

The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.

Reascend

To ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again.

Reascent

A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity.

Reason

To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend.

Reasoner

One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.

Reasoning

The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons.

Reasonless

Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind.

reassail re-assail

To assail again; as, Her old fears reassailed her. Usually used without the hyphen.

Reassemble re-assemble

To assemble again; -- usually after having taking something apart. Usually used without the hyphen.

Reassert

To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so.

Reassertion

A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.

Reassign

To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned.

Reassociate

To associate again; to bring again into close relations.

Reassume

To assume again or anew; to resume.

Reassurance

Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated.

Reassure

To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.

Reasty

Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat.

Reaumur

Of or pertaining to Ren/ Antoine Ferchault de R/aumur; conformed to the scale adopted by R/aumur in graduating the thermometer he invented. A R/aumur thermometer or scale.

Reave

To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic].

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