reagency 
reagency (re-ii'jen-si), H. [< re- + agency. 1 Ac- 
tion of or as of a reagent ; reflex agency or ac- 
tivity; counter-agency; reaction. 
Still, the mind, when acted on, is only excited to self, 
agency, to manifest what it is in itself, in the way of re- 
agency. H. B. Smith, Christian Theology, p. 173. 
reagent (re-a'jent), . [< re- + agent. Cf. re- 
(/.] 1. One who or that which exerts reflex 
action or influence ; an agency that produces 
reciprocal effects ; a cause or source of counter- 
results. 
These tools have some questionable properties. They 
are reagents. Machinery is aggressive. The weaver be- 
comes a web, the machinist a machine. 
Emerson, Works and Days. 
2. In diem., a substance used to effect chemical 
change in another substance for the purpose of 
identifying its component parts or of ascertain- 
ing its percentage composition . Thus, the infusion 
of galls is a reagent which indicates iron in solution by 
a dark purple precipitate. Barium chlorid is a reagent 
which separates sulphuric acid from a solution in the in- 
soluble form of barium sulphate which can be weighed, 
and from the weight of which the actual amount of sul- 
phuric acid can readily be deduced. 
3. Anything used for the treatment of a sub- 
stance under investigation to render its nature 
or condition more evident. Ordinarily the object is 
to see what changes are thus produced, but the word is 
used more loosely, as in hardening; reagents. Nessler's 
reagent, a reagent used to detect and determine minute 
quantities of ammonia, particularly in water. It consists 
of a strongly alkaline solution of potassium iodide and mer- 
curic chlorid. A few drops added to a few fluidounces of 
water will cause a slight reddish-yellow tinge if one part 
of ammonia is present in twenty million parts of water. 
reaggravation (re-ag-ra-va'shon), n. [< reag- 
gravate + -ion.] In Bom. Catti. eccles. law, the 
last monitory, published after three admoni- 
tions and before the excommunication. 
reagree (re-a-gre'), v. [< re- + agree.] I. in- 
trans. To agree again; become reconciled. 
Il.t trans. To cause to agree again; recon- 
cile. 
And fain to see that glorious holiday 
Of union which this discord reagreed. 
Daniel, Civil Wars, vii. 111. 
reakt, v. i. An obsolete spelling of reek 1 . 
reaket, [Perhaps an erroneous form for wrack 
or wreck, or an error for reate, q. v.: see wrack, 
wrecfc.] A kind of plant. [The word occurs only 
in the passage quoted, where it is used as a translation of 
Latin viva, seaweed.] 
The bore is yll in Laurente soyle, 
That feedes on reate and reedes ; 
Somtymes frome goodly pleasant vine 
A sower tendrell speedes. 
Drant, tr. of Horace's Satires, ii. 4. 
reakst. See to play rex, under rex. 
reaks-playert, n. One who plays reaks (rex). 
Cotgrave. 
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real 
real, and independent of what we may think about it. Heal interest in lands, etc., except some minor, temporary, or 
, . 
objects are either external to the mind, when they are in- 
dependent altogether of our thought, or they are internal. 
when they depend upon thought, but not upon thought 
about them. 
The term real (realis), though always importing the exis- 
tent, is used in various significations and oppositions. . . . 
1. As denoting existence, in contrast to the nomenclature 
of existence the thing as contradistinguished from its 
name. Thus we have definitions and divisionsraiJ, and defi- 
nitions and divisions nominal or verbal. 2. As expressing 
the existent as opposed to the non-existent a something 
in contrast to a nothing. In this sense the diminutions of 
existence, to which reality in the following significations 
is counterposed, are all real. 3. As denoting material or 
external, in contrast to mental, spiritual, or internal, exis- 
tence. This meaning is improper. ... 4. As synonymous 
with actual; and this (a) as opposed to potential, (b) as op- 
posed to possible existence. 5. As denoting absolute or ir- 
respective, in opposition to phenomenal or relative, exis- 
tence ; in other words, as denoting things in themselves 
and out of relation to all else, in contrast to things in re- 
lation to, and as known by, intelligences, like men who 
know only under the conditions of plurality and differ- 
ence. In this sense, which is rarely employed and may 
inchoate rights which by the laws of most jurisdictions 
are deemed to be personal estate. " At common law, any 
estate in lands, etc., the date of the termination of which 
is not determined by or ascertainable from or at the date 
of the act which creates it, is real estate." (Robinson.) The 
line between the two classes of property is differently 
drawn in detail, according as the object of the law is to 
define what shall be taxed, or what shall go to the heir in 
case of intestacy as distinguished from what shall go 
through the administrator to the next of kin, or what 
shall come within the rules as to recording titles, or other 
purposes. Real evidence, exchange, focus, fugue. 
See the nouns. Real horse-power. Same as indicated 
horse-power (which see, under horse-power). Real iden- 
tity, the non-difference in reality of the extremes of a re- 
lation. Real immunity (eccles.). See immunity, 3. 
Real induction. See induction, 5. Real laws', laws 
which directly and indirectly regulate property, and the 
rights of property, without changing the state of the per- 
son. Real noon. Same as apparent noon (which see, 
under apparent). Real partition, the mental separa- 
tion of an object into parts which might be physically 
separated. -Real poinding, possibility, power, 
cision, presence, privilege. See the nouns. 
pre- 
be neglected, the real is only another term for Uie"unc'on'- Property. Same 'as real extaie. Real quality, quan- 
considered as a representation in thought. In this sense, 
reale, in the language of the older philosophy (Scholastic, 
Cartesian, Gassendian), as applied to esse or ens, is opposed 
to intentionale, notionale, conceptibile, imaginarium, ra- 
tionis, cognilionis, in anima, in intellectu. prout coanitum, 
ideate, etc. ; and corresponds with a parte rei as opposed 
to a parte intelleclus, with subjectimtm as opposed to 06- 
jectivum, with proprium, principale, and fundamental as 
opposed to vicarium, witn materiale as opposed to for- 
male, and with formale in seipso and entitativum as op- 
posed to representativum, etc. Under this head, in the 
vacillating language of our more recent philosophy, real 
approximates to, but is hardly convertible with, objective, 
in contrast to subjective in the signification there preva- 
lent. 7. In close connection with the sixth meaning, 
real, in the last place, denotes an identity or difference 
founded on the conditions of the existence of a thing in 
itself, in contrast to an identity or difference founded 
only on the relation or point of view in which the thing 
may be regarded by the thinking subject. In this sense 
it is opposed to logical or rational, the terms being here 
employed in a peculiar meaning. Thus a thing which 
really (re) or in itself is one and indivisible may logically 
(ratione) by the mind be considered as diverse or plural. 
Sir W. Hamilton, Reid's Works, Note B, 1, 5, foot-note. 
Ideas of substances are real when they agree with the 
existence of things. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. xxx. 6. 
We substitute a real for a dramatic person, and judge 
him accordingly. Lamb, Artificial Comedy. 
For the first time the ideal social compact was real. 
Emerson, Hist. Discourse at Concord. 
4f. Sincere; faithful; loyal. 
Then the governor told them, if they were real, as they 
professed, he should expect their ready and free concur- 
rence with him in all affairs tending to the public service. 
Memoirs of Colonel Ilutchinson (1643). (Nares.) 
made is a real one. Real science or philosophy, (o) 
A science or philosophy that is caused in the mind by a 
real thing, as physics, mathematics, metaphysics ; a spec- 
ulative science: opposed to practical science, which is 
caused in the mind by an idea of a thing to be brought 
about. (b) A science which has a determinate reality for 
its object, and is conversant about existences other than 
forms of thought : in this sense, mathematics is not a real 
science. Real services. Same as predial services (which 
see, under predial). Real things, in law, things substan- 
tial and immovable, and the rights and profits annexed to 
or issuing out of them. Real truth, the agreement of a 
judgment with its object: opposed informal truth, which 
consists in the agreement of a reasoning with the prin- 
ciples of logic. The real stuff, the genuine thing; that 
which is really what is represented or supposed : used es- 
pecially of liquors. [Colloq.] 
In this exhibition there are, of course, a certain number 
of persons who make believe that they are handing you 
round tokay giving you the real imperial stuff, with the 
seal of genuine stamped on the cork. 
Thackeray, Men and Pictures. 
Real warran dice. Seeu>arra)idic.=Syn.land2. Real, 
Actual, Positive, veritable, substantial, essential. Heal 
applies to that which certainly exists, as opposed to that 
which is imaginary or feigned : as, real cause for alarm ; 
a real occurrence ; a real person, and not a ghost or a shad- 
ow ; real sorrow. Actual applies to that which is brought 
to be or to pass, as opposed to that which is possible, proba- 
ble, conceivable, approximate, estimated, or guessed at. 
Actual has a rather new but natural secondary sense of 
present. Positive, from the idea of a thing's being placed, 
fixed, or established, is opposed to uncertain or doubtful. 
H. n. 1. That which is real; a real existence 
or object ; a reality. 
While it is true that correlatives imply each other, it is 
not true that all correlatives imply Seals. . . . The only 
meaning we can attach to Reality is that every Jteal has 
K , y T i" J-1 - lll'.llllllfi TTV ^.UI llLKll.ll lu 1H-JILILV ID LIlilL CV 
5f. Kelating to things, not to persons; not a corresponding feeling or group of feelings. 
the disputes of the Nominalists and Realists), 
< L. res, a thing; perhaps allied to Skt. / ra, 
give. Hence realize, realization, realism, real- 
ist, reality, etc.; also, from L. res, E. rebus, repub- 
lic, republican, etc.] I. a. 1. Actual; genu- 
ine; true; authentic; not imaginary, artificial, 
counterfeit, or factitious : as, real lace. 
I waked, and found 
Before mine eyes all real, as the dream 
Had lively shadow'd. Milton, P. L., viii. 310. 
Homer tells us that the blood of the gods is not real 
blood, but only something like it. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 275. 
The hatred of unreality was uppermost with Carlyle ; 
the love of what Is real with Emerson. 
0. W. Holmes, Emerson, iv. 
It is probable that the American inventor of the first 
anesthetic has done more for the real happiness of man- 
kind than all the moral philosophers from Socrates to 
Mill. Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 91. 
The Teutonic words are all of them real words, words 
which we are always wanting. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 163. 
2. Of genuine character; not pretended or pre- 
tending ; unassumed or unassuming. 
Phoebe's presence made a home about her. . . . She was 
real! Hawthorne, Seven Gables, ix. 
Heal kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, 
and affect a plain and poor exterior. 
Emerson, Works and Days. 
3. Specifically, in pltilos., existing in or per- 
taining to things, and not words or thought 
merely; being independent of any person's 
thought about the subject ; possessing charac- 
ters independently of the attribution of them 
by any individual mind or any number of minds ; 
not resulting from the mind's action: opposed 
to imaginary or in ten Hoiuil. Jteal differs from actual, 
inasmuch as whiit is only in germ or in posse in so far as 
it has a power of developing into a definite actuality, is 
personal. 
Many are perfect in men's humours that are not greatly 
capable of the real part of business. Bacon. 
6. In law, pertaining to or having the quality 
of things fixed or immovable. See real estate, 
O. H. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. 19. 
2f. A realist. 
Scotists, Thomists, Reals, Nominals. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 677. 
, The real (a) Reality, (b) The real thing ; the genuine 
etc., below Chattel real See chattel. Covenant article - [Colloq.] 
real. See covenant. Real abstraction. See abstrac- A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this 
turn. Real action, in law. Seeactton, 8.- Real assets, simple legend, "Just as good as the real." 
See assets, 1. Real attribute, an attribute known by C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies p 4 
ordinary observation, generalization, and abstraction, n / -/ i\ j rx it i 
and signified by a term of first intention: opposed to a real 1 (re al), art?'. [< real 1 , a.] Really; truly; 
!i - [Colloq., Eng. and U. S.] 
notional attribute, which is signified by a term of second very; quite. [Colloq., Eng. and U. S.] 
intention. Real burden, in Scotslaw, a burden in money real 2 * (re'all a K ME real rinll rial rimll 
imposed on the subject of 'a right, as on an estate, in the "SS* ; J ^,1 ie-ftl '< AF r%, ,1 r^nl^V 
deed by which the right is constituted, and thus distin- ; ?/>za(, royal, regal, <. A* . > etal, ratal, Ur . 
, , . , , . 
finished from a personal burden, which is imposed merely real, * Teal (used only in certain antique locu- 
on the receiver of the right. Real character. Seechar- tions), = Sp. Pg. real = It. reale, regale, < L. 
acter. Real component of a force. See component. rpnnlis rpfral Icintrlv rnvnl- PO vtvunl onrl w 
Jm, W^'a ' 
doublets 
see component. 
Real composition, (a) The union of objects having ex- 
istences distinct from one another. (6) In Eng. eccles. law, 
PO vtvunl onrl 
1 1 i j , 
loyal, legal, 
an agreement made between the owner of lands and the similarly related.] Royal; regal; royally ex- 
parson or vicar, with consent of the ordinary, that such 
lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in con- 
sequence of other land or recompense given to the parson 
in lieu and satisfaction thereof. Also called composition 
of tithes. Real concordance. See concordance, S. 
Real contract. See contract. Real conveniencet, the 
agreement of a thing with itself. Real definition, the 
definition of a thing that is to say, of a species by stat- 
ing the components of its essence, or its place in natural 
classification. For the nominalists there could be no real 
definition, in the proper sense; hence, finding the defini- 
tions so called useful, they invented new definitions of the 
phrase. The real definition, for Leibnitz and Wolf, is the rea! 3 (ra-al'), "', pi- ra/frw(ra-a'les). [AlsonaZ; 
definition from which the possibility of the thing defined < Sp. real, a coin so called.lit. 'royal, '< L.reaalis, 
follows; for Kant, the definition which sets forth the pos- -] r ovnl-BBnw72 
sibility of the thing from its essential marks ; for M ill, the ? ,' rova ' * ee real*, 
definition of a name with an implied assumption of the ex- royal, regal 1 .] A sub- 
istenceof the thing. Real degradation. Seedegrada- sidiary silver coin 
tion,l (a). Real distinction, (a) A distinction indepen- andmonevofaccount 
dent of any person's thought, (b) A distinction between ; ; OT ,ri c,,, 
real objects. The Scotists made subtle and elaborate defl- i pam and fcpan- 
nitions of this phrase. Real diversity, division, ens, ish-Amencan coun- 
essence. See the nouns. Real estate, in law: (a) Land) tries. The current real 
cellent or splendid. 
Thus, real as a prince Is in his halle, 
Leve I this chauntecleer in his pasture. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 364. 
Sir, I could wish that for the time of your vouchsafed 
abiding here, and more real entertainment, this my house 
stood on the Muses' hill. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii 1. 
Reall, magnanimous, bountious. 
Marston, Antonio and Mellida, I., ii. 1. 
. . , , 
including with it whatever by nature or artificial annexa- 
tion inheres with it as a part of it or as the means of its 
enjoyment, as minerals on or in the earth, standing or 
running water, growing trees, permanent buildings, and 
fences. In this sense the term refers to those physical 
objects of ownership which are immovable. (6) The own- 
ership of or property in lands, etc. ; any legal or equitable 
Obveree. Reverse. 
Silver Real of Isabella II. British 
MuSei ""- (Size ' orig """' ) 
of Spain (real de vellon) is 
one quarter of the peseta 
or franc, and worth about 5 United States cents. The Mex- 
ican real, corresponding to the old Spanish real de plata, 
is one eighth " a dollar (Mexican pern), and reckoned at 
124 cents. The latter coin, both Spanish and .Mexican, cir- 
culated largely in the United States down to about 1850, 
