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houfes, &c. or to burn flacks of corn, or to abate rents, 

 or prices of viduals. Sec Riot, Rout, and Unlawful 



AJtmhly. 



REBENSOE, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the North 

 fea, near tlu- coaft of Norway. N. lat. 70^. 



REBHIANG, one of the Hebrew accents, anfwcring to 

 our comma, and enumerated among their kings and paufes. 

 It is marked by a dot over the middle of a letter. See Ath- 

 NACH, Syli-uk, &c. Sec alfo Accents. 



REBINARE, was to give a fecond ftirring or plough- 

 ing to arable land that lay fallow, to prepare it for fowing 

 wheat, &c. or to plough the ground a tliird time for that 

 purpofe. " Tempus rebinandi erit pofl feftum Nativitatis 

 fanfti Johannis Baptifte cum terra pullulaverit pod caru- 

 can.." Fleta, lib. ii. cap. 73. 



REBNITZ, in Geography. See Ribnitz. 



REBORDAOS, a town of Portugal, in the province of 

 Tras los Monies ; two miles S. of Diagan9a. 



REBOUND. See Recoil. 



REBOUX, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of Mont Blanc ; g miles N.W. of Chambcry. 



REBTORF, a town of Bavaria, in the principahty of 

 Aichftatt ; 3 miles W. of Aichitatt. 



REBUS, a name -device, as Camden englifhes it ; or an 

 enigmatical reprefentation of fome name, &c. by ufing 

 figures or piftures, inftead of words, or parts of words. 

 Such is that of the gallant mentioned by Camden, who 

 exprelTed his love to Rofc Hill, by painting in the border of 

 his gown a rofe, a hill, an eye, a loaf, and a well ; which, in 

 the rebus ityle, is read, Rofe Hill I love luell. 



The Picards have the honour of the invention of this 

 notable kind of wit ; whence the French, to this day, call it 

 rebus de Picardie. Camden adds, that the Englifh firll learnt 

 it of them in the reign of our Henry HI. by means of the 

 o-arrifons we then had in Calais, Guienne, and other places 

 bordering on Picardy. 



Its origin is by Menage, &c. afcribed to the priefts of Pi- 

 cardy, who, it feems, anciently, in carnival time, ufed every 

 year to make certain libels, entitled de rebus quii geruntur, 

 being railleries on the intrigues and tranfaftions that had 

 paflcd about the city ; in which they made great ufe of fuch 

 fort of equivoques and allufions, breaking and joining words, 

 andfupplying them with paintings. 



Camden tells us, the rebus was in wonderful efteem 

 among our forefathers ; and that he was nobody who could 

 not hammer out of his name an invention by this wit-craft, 

 andpiftureit accordingly. 



The Sieur des Accords has made- an ample colIeAion of 

 the moft famous rebufes de Picardie. And Mr. Camden has 

 done fomething of the fame kind in his Remains. 



Abel Drugger's device in Ben Johnfon's Alchemift, and 

 Jack of Newbury, in the Spcftator, are known to every 

 body. But the rebus, being once raifed to fign-poits, grew 

 out of fafhionat court. 



Yet has rebus antiquity on its fide, as having been in vife 

 in the pure Auguftan age : Cicero, in a dedication to the 

 gods, infcribed Marcus TuUius, with a little pea, called 

 by the Latins cker, by us a chich pea. And Julius Caefar, 

 in fome of his coins, ufed an elephant, called Gafar in the 

 Mauritanian tongue. Add to tnefe, that the two mmt- 

 mafters in that age, L. Aquilius Fionas, and Voconius Vi- 

 tulus, ufed, the firft a flower, the fecond a calf, on tlie re- 

 verfe of their coins. 



Rebus, in Heraldry, a coat of arms which bears an allu- 

 fion to the name of the perfon : as three caftles, for Caftle- 

 ton ; three cups, for Butler ; three conies, for Conifby ; a 

 kind of bearings which are of great antiquity. 



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Rebus is alio ufed by the chemical writers, fometimes to 

 fignify four milk, and fometimes for what they call the ulti- 

 mate matter of which all bodies arecompofed. 



REBUTTER, from re, and the Vn-uch bouler, lo refel, 

 or bar, in Latu, the anfwer of the defendant in a caufe to 

 the plaintiff 's fur-rejoinder. 



The plaintifl^'s anfwer to the defendant's rebutter, is called 

 a fur-rebutlcr. 



Rebutter is alfo when a man warrants any land or here- 

 ditament to another, and the perfon making the wananty, 

 or his heir, fucs him to whom tlie warranty is made, or his 

 heir orafhgnee, for the fame tiling: if he, who is fo fued,' 

 plead the deed or fine with warranty, and pray judgment, 

 if the plaintiff fhall be received to demand the thing which 

 he ought to warrant to the party, againfl the warranty in 

 the deed, &c. this is called a rebutter. 



Again, if I grant to the tenant to hold Jlne impetltlone 

 vajli, and afterwards implead him for wafle, he may debar 

 me of the aiflion, by (hewing my grant ; wliich is like wife a 

 rebutter. 



REC, in Geography, a river of .France, which runs into 

 the Sarre, at Sarre Alb. 



RECANATI, a town of the marquifate of Ancona ; 

 near which towards Macerata are feen the ruins of Helvia 

 Ricina ; a town built by the emperor Sept. Severus, and 

 deftroyed by the Goths ; 8 miles N.N.E. of Macerata. N. 

 lat. 43'^ 25'. E. long. 13° 39'. I 



RECANGED, m Rural Economy, a term provincially 

 ufed to fignify lifted or difcoloured in ftripes. 



RECANTATION. See Palinody, or Retracta- 

 tion'. 



RECAPITULATION, in Oratory, &c. a part of 

 the peroration, or conclufion ; called alfo anacephalaqfis. 



Recapitulation is a fummary of the preceding difcourfe ; 

 or a concife, tranfient enumeration of the principal things 

 infilled on at large in it ; by which the memory of the 

 hearer is refreflied, and the force of the whole collefted 

 into one view. 



An inflance of this may be given in the peroration of Ci- 

 cero's Manihan : " Qaare, cum bellum ita neceffarium fit, 

 ut negligi non pofiit : ita magnum, iit accuratifiime fit ad- 

 miniflrandum ; & cum ei imperatorem praeficere poflitis, in 

 quo fit eximia belli fcientia, finguiaris virtus, clariffiraa 

 auftoritas, egregia fortuna ; dubitabitis, Quirites, quiii, 

 &c." 



In order to conflitute a good repetition or recapitulation, 

 it mufl be (hort and concife : it is alfo convenient to recite 

 things in the fame order in \\-hich they were at firfl laid down ; 

 but fometimes a repetition is made, by running a comparifon 

 between the fpeaker's own argument, and thofe of the ad- 

 verfe party, and placing them in oppofition to each other ; 

 and this method Cicero takes in the conclufion of his third 

 oration upon the Agrarian law. In fome cafes, when the dif- 

 courfe is very long, and the arguments infiftedon have been 

 many, the orator only mentions fuch things which bethinks 

 of leaft confequence, by faying that he omits or paffes over 

 tham, till he comes to what is of greater moment, which he 

 reprefents more fully. Ward's Oral. vol. i. feft. iS. See 

 Preterition. 



RECAPTION, Recaptio, or Reprifal, in Law, is a 

 remedy given to the party himfelf for an injury to his per- 

 fonal property. This happens, when any one hath deprived 

 another of his property in goods or chattels perfonal, or 

 wrongfully detains one's wife, child, or fervant ; in which 

 cafe tlie owner of the goods, and the hufband, parent, or 

 mafter, may lawfully claim and retake them, wherever he 

 happens to find them, fo it be not in a riotous manner, 



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