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every thing that relates to the interior adniiiiillratiou, pafi 

 through the channel of the reis-effendi ; but he dots nothing 

 without communicating it to tlie grand vifir, and taking liia 

 orders. In this council there are alfo two ex-reU-efftndi. 



REISENBERG, in Geography, a town of Auttria, on 

 the Reifenpach river ; 12 miles S.E. of Vienna. 



REISENBURG, a town of Prullia, in the province of 

 Oberland, built in the year 1169, and anciently the refi- 

 dence of the bifhops of Pomerania. The chief fubfiitenre 

 of the inhabitants is derived from brewing and agricul- 

 ture ; near it is an ancient calUe ; 78 miles S.W. of Konigf- 

 berg. 



REISENGEBERG, a town of Bohemia, in the circle 

 of Konigingratz. N. lat. 50° 40'. E. long. 15° 30'. 



REISENPACH, a river of Aullria, which runs into 

 tl>e Danube ; 12 miles below Vienna. 



REISHOFFEN, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Lower Rhine ; 21 miles N. of Strafburg. 



REIS.IARVI, a town of Sweden, in the government 

 cf Ulea ; 47 miles E. of Gamla Karleby. 



REISKE, John Jamks, in Biography, a learned philo- 

 logift, born in 1716, at Zorlis, in Mifnia, was the. fon of a 

 tanner in that place. He was, at the age of twelve, fent 

 to the orphan-fchool at Halle, where he made a rapid pro- 

 grefs in the learning of the place. In 1733 he entered at the 

 univerfity of I.eipfic, and being deftined for the theological 

 profeflion, he fpcnt five years chiefly in the itudy of rabbi- 

 nical writings, and in tlie ftudy of the Arabic language. 

 To the latter he became fo ardently attached, and his paf- 

 fion for Arabic books was fo ftrong, that he almoil deprived 

 himfelf of necedaries to purchafe them. He went to Hol- 

 land with the view of improving himfelf in his favourite 

 language, and while there, he ranfacked all the Oriental 

 treafurcs of the library at Leyden, while, for his fubfiftence, 

 he was obliged to become a correftor of the prefs. He 

 paffed his time in a Hate of indigence that brought upon 

 him hypochondriac affeflions, the eSedis of which never 

 left him. During his refidence at Leyden, he was prefented 

 with a gratuitous degree in phyfic, but he never intended to 

 avail himfelf of it in the way of praftice : " Poverty," fays 

 his biographer, " was his perpetual companion, and his 

 fcanty refources were derived from correcting the prefs, 

 tranflating, and performing other talks for bookfellers." 

 Many learned pieces in Oriental and Greek literature occa- 

 fionally proceeded from his pen, which made him well known 

 in the learned world : and feveral of the works edited by him 

 are held in very high eftimation. He was atlaft nominated 

 reclor of the college of St. Nicholas, in Leipfic, a htuation 

 xvhich enabled him to piirfue his literary labours more ac- 

 cording to his inclination. At the age of forty-eight he 

 married Erneftine MuUcr, a young woman of twenty-five, 

 who, under his inllrudtions, acquired fo much knowledge of 

 the Greek and Latin, and fome modern languages, that (he 

 became extremely ufeful to her hulband in his editorial ein- 

 ployments. He died at the age of fifty -eight, in the year 

 J 774. Of the moft valuable works of Reifke, are " Differ- 

 tatio de Principibus Muhamedanis qui aut ab Eruditione aut 

 ab Amore Literarum inclaruerunt ;" " Animadverfiones in 

 Sophoclem ;" " Animadverfiones in Auflores Grjecos ;" 

 " OratorumGrscorum," 8voIs.; "Plutarchi Opera omnia;" 

 ■" Maximi Tyrii Differt.;" " Apparatus Critici ad Demof- 

 "ihenem," 3 vols. And after his death were pubhfhed his 

 I •" Conjefturse in Jobum et Proverbia Salomonis, cum Ora- 

 lione de Studio Arabia Lingua." The " Adla Eradito- 

 711m" were much indebted to the pen of Rei/ke. 



REISNITZ, in Geography, a towa of the duchy of 

 Carjiiola ; four miles N. W. of Gottfchee, 



RElbSENDORI", a town of Silefia, in the principality 

 of Neilfe ; four miles N. of Putrtikau. 



REISTEN, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg ; fix 

 miles N.N.E. of Arnftein. 



REISTERSTOWN, a poft-town of America, in 

 Baltimore county, Maryland; ten miles S.E. of Weil - 

 minder. 



REITERATED Gkafting. See Grafting. 



REITERATING, in Printing. See Printing. 



REITERATION, the aft of repeating a thing, or 

 doing it a fecond time. 



The church does not allow of the reiteration of baptilm. 

 St. Gregory obferves, that it is no reiteration when there 

 are wanting proofs of the thing's having been regularly done 

 before. 



REITLENGIN, in Geography. See Reutlencin. 



REITTERECK, a tov/n of Stiria ; feven miles E. oi 

 Voitfhurg. 



REITTERS, an ancient title given the German cavalry. 

 The word is originally High Dutch, and fignifies a horfe- 

 man, cavalier, or even knight. 



REITZ, in Geography, a town of Portugal, in the pro- 

 vince of Beira ; three miles N. of Vifeu. 



REKEK, a fmall ifiand in the Eaft Indian fea. S. la'. 

 i°33'. E. long. 138'= 40'. 



RELAIS, in Fortijlcatior., a French term, the fame with 

 herme. 



RELAND, Adria>:, in Biography, an eminent orien- 

 talift and polite fcholar, was born in the year 1676, at a 

 village in North Holland., He was educated at Amfterdam, 

 and made fuch progrefs in learning, that, having gone 

 through the ufual clafTical courfc when he was only eleven 

 years old, he employed the next three years in making him- 

 felf acquainted with the Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldee, and 

 Arabic languages. At the age of fourteen he was fent to 

 the univerfity at Utrecht, and in three years was admitted 

 to the degree of dottor in philofophy, and on this occafion 

 he fuilained a thefis " De Libertate Philofophandi." After 

 a refidence of fix years at Utrecht he removed to Leyden, 

 and was in a fliort time chofen by the earl of Portland as 

 preceptor to his fon. At the age of twenty- four, the univer- 

 fity of Harderwyk nominated him to the chair of philofo- 

 phy, but he did not remain long in that fituation, for the 

 univerfity of Utrecht, on the recommendation of king 

 William, invited him to the profelforfliip of the Oriental 

 languages and Jewifii antiquities, which he accepted, and oc- 

 cupied with high reputation during the remainder of hij life. 

 He died at the age of 43, in the year 17 19. Few writers 

 have met with more general applaufe than Reland. His 

 principal works, which are all extremely valuable, are ; 



1. " Paleftina Monumentis veteribus illuftrata," 2 vols. 4to. 



2. " Diflertationes de nummis veterum Hebrsorum." 



3. " Antiquitates facrse veterum Heba°orum." 4. " In- 

 troduftio ad Grammaticam Hebraeam." 5. " De Spohis 

 Templi Hierofolymitani in Arcu Titiano Roniae confpi- 

 cuis." 6. " De Religione Muhamedica." Befides thefe 

 he publiihed many other thi^ngs. In private life he was dif- 

 tinguifhed by his modefty, humanity, and learning, and 

 carried on a correfpondence with the moft eminent fcholars 

 of his time. Moreri. 



RELAPSE, in Medicine, the recurrence of a difeafe 

 durincj the period of convalefcence. 



Relapfes of all difeafes, whether acute or chronic, are 

 deemed more dangerous than the original attack ; becaufe 

 the conftitution, being already debilitated and rtduced by 

 the previous illnefs, is lefs capable of refilling the farther 

 ravages of difeafe. This may be faid to be true of all acute 



difeafes. 



