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Reposit

To cause to rest or stay; to lay away; to lodge, as for safety or preservation; to place; to store.

Repositor

An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.

Repository

A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.

Repossess

To possess again; as, to repossess the land.

Repoussage

Art or process of hammering out or pressing thin metal from the reverse side: (1) in producing repouss/ work; (2) in leveling up any part of an etched plate that has been worked so as to cause a depression.

Repousse

Formed in relief, as a pattern on metal. Ornamented with patterns in relief made by pressing or hammering on the reverse side; -- said of thin metal, or of a vessel made of thin metal. Repouss/ work.

Reprehend

To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure.

Reprehensible

Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable.

Reprehensory

Containing reproof; reprehensive; as, reprehensory complaint.

Represent

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

Repressive

Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures.

Reprieve

A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death.

Reprimand

To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally.

Reprimer

A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.

Reprint

A second or a new impression or edition of any printed work; specifically, the publication in one country of a work previously published in another.

Reprisal

The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity.

Reproach

To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.

Reproachful

Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.

Reprobate

To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject.

Reprobation

The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure.

Reprobationer

One who believes in reprobation. See Reprobation, 2.

Reprobative

Of or pertaining to reprobation; expressing reprobation.

Reproduce

To produce again. To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. To cause to exist again.

Reproduction

The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring.

Reproductive

Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction.

Reproof

Refutation; confutation; contradiction.

Reprover

One who, or that which, reproves.

Reptantia

A division of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata.

Reptile

An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.

Reptilia

A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.

Republican

One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.

Republicanism

A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government.

Republicanize

To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation.

Republication

A second publication, or a new publication of something before published, as of a former will, of a volume already published, or the like; specifically, the publication in one country of a work first issued in another; a reprint.

Republish

To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive (a will) by re/xecution or codicil.

repudiable

Admitting of repudiation; fit or proper to be put away.

Repudiation

One who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt.

Repugn

To fight against; to oppose; to resist.

Repugnancy Repugnance

The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like.

Repugnant

Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature.

Repullulation

The act of budding again; the state of having budded again.

Repulse

To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.

Repulser

One who repulses, or drives back.

Repulsion

The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled.

Repulsive

Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.

Reputable

Having, or worthy of, good repute; held in esteem; honorable; praiseworthy; as, a reputable man or character; reputable conduct.

Repute

Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate.

Reputedly

In common opinion or estimation; by repute.

Reputeless

Not having good repute; disreputable; disgraceful; inglorius.

Request

To ask for (something); to express desire ffor; to solicit; as, to request his presence, or a favor.

Requicken

To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to.

Requiem

A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul.

Requin

The man-eater, or white shark (Carcharodon carcharias); -- so called on account of its causing requiems to be sung.

Requirable

Capable of being required; proper to be required.

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