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Redeem / Reproach
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Racked
RACK’ED, participle passive
1. Tortured; tormented; strained to the utmost.
2. Drawn off, as liquor.
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Rampart
RAM’PART, noun [Hence we see rampart is from Latin reparo; re & paro. See Parry & Repair.]
1. In fortification, an elevation or mound of earth round a place, capable of resisting cannon shot, and formed into bastions, curtains, etc.
No standards from the hostile ramparts torn.
2. That which fortifies & defends from assault; that which secures safety.
RAM’PART, verb transitive To fortify with ramparts. [Not in use.]
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Recompensed
REC’OMPENSED, participle passive Rewarded; requited.
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REDEEMED
REDEE’MED, participle passive Ransomed; delivered from bondage, distress, penalty, liability, or from the possession of another, by paying an equivalent.
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REDEEMING
REDEE’MING, participle present tense Ransoming; procuring deliverance from captivity, capture, bondage, sin, distress or liability to suffer, by the payment of an equivalent.
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Rejoice
REJOICE, verb intransitive rejois’.
To experience joy and gladness in a high degree; to be exhilarated with lively and pleasurable sensations; to exult.
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Proverbs 29:2.
I will rejoice in thy salvation. Psalms 9:14.
REJOICE, verb transitive rejois’. To make joyful; to gladden; to animate with lively pleasurable sensations; to exhilarate.
Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father. Proverbs 29:3.
While she, great saint, rejoices heaven.
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Rend
REND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive rent. [Eng. cranny, Latin crena, Gr.]
1. To separate any substance into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.
An empire from its old foundation rent.
I rend my tresses, and by breast I wound.
Neither rend your clothes, lest ye die. Leviticus 10:6.
2. To separate or part with violence.
I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. 1 Kings 11:11.
To rend the heart, in Scripture, to have bitter sorrow for sin. Joel 2:13.
To rend the heavens, to appear in majesty. Isaiah 64:1.
REND differs somewhat from lacerate. We never say, to lacerate a rock or a kingdom, when we mean to express splitting or division. Lacerate is properly applicable to the tearing off of small pieces of a thing, as to lacerate the body with a whip or scourge; or to the tearing of the flesh or other thing without entire separation.
REPENTANCE
REPENT’ANCE, noun
1. Sorrow for any thing done or said; the pain or grief which a person experiences in consequence of the injury or inconvenience produced by his own conduct.
2. In theology, the pain, regret or affliction which a person feels on account of his past conduct, because it exposes him to punishment. This sorrow proceeding merely from the fear of punishment, is called legal repentance as being excited by the terrors of legal penalties, and it may exist without an amendment of life.
3. Real penitence; sorrow or deep contrition for sin, as an offense and dishonor to God, a violation of his holy law, and the basest ingratitude towards a Being of infinite benevolence. This is called evangelical repentance and is accompanied and followed by amendment of life.
Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.
Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2 Corinthians 7:9. Matthew 3:8.
Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice, from conviction that it has offended God.
Reproach
REPROACH, verb transitive [Latin prox, in proximus.]
1. To censure in terms of opprobrium or contempt.
Mezentius with his ardor warm’d his fainting friends, reproach’d their shameful flight, repell’d the victors.
2. To charge with a fault in severe language.
That shame there sit not, and reproach us as unclean.
3. To upbraid; to suggest blame for any thing. A man’s conscience will reproach him for a criminal, mean or unworthy action.
4. To treat with scorn or contempt. Luke 6:22.
REPROACH, noun
1. Censure mingled with contempt or derision; contumelious or opprobrious language towards any person; abusive reflections; as foul-mouthed reproach
2. Shame; infamy; disgrace.
Give not thine heritage to reproach Joel 2:17. Isaiah 4:1.
3. Object of contempt, scorn or derision.
Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we may be no more a reproach Nehemiah 2:17.
4. That which is the cause of shame or disgrace. Genesis 30:23.
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REQUITE
REQUI’TE, verb transitive [from quit, Latin cedo.]
1. To repay either good or evil; in a good sense, to recompense; to return an equivalent in good; to reward.
I also will requite you this kindness. 2 Samuel 2:6. 1 Timothy 5:4.
In a bad sense, to retaliate; to return evil for evil; to punish.
Joseph will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him. Genesis 50:15.
2. To do or give in return.
He hath requited me evil for good. 1 Samuel 25:21.
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RESCRIPT
RE’SCRIPT, noun [Latin rescriptum, rescribo.] The answer of an emperor, when consulted by particular persons on some difficult question. This answer serves as a decision of the question, and is therefore equivalent to an edict or decree.
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RIVE
RIVE, verb transitive preterit tense rived; participle passive rived or riven. [Latin rumpo, rupi. It may be allied to the family of Latin rapio, reap, rip.]
To split; to cleave; to rend asunder by force; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles with wedges; the riven oak; the riven clouds.
The scolding winds have riv’d the knotty oaks.
RIVE, verb intransitive To be split or rent asunder.
Freestone rives, splits and breaks in any direction.
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Rouse
dROUSE, verb transitive rouz. [This word, written also arouse, seems to belong to the family of raise or rush. See Raise.]
1. To wake from sleep or repose. Genesis 49:9.
2. To excite to thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity or inattention.
3. To put into action; to agitate.
Blust’ring winds that rous’d the sea.
4. To drive a beast from his den or place of rest.
ROUSE, verb intransitive
1. To awake from sleep or repose.
Morpheus rouses from his bed.
2. To be excited to thought or action from a state of indolence, sluggishness, languor or inattention.
ROUSE, verb intransitive In seamen’s language, to pull together upon a cable, etc. without the assistance of tackles or other mechanical power.
ROUSE, noun rouz.
A full glass of liquor; a bumper in honor of a health. obsolete