r ejectment 
of throwing away, < L. rejectare, throw away : 
see reject.] Matter thrown away, 
rejector (re-jek'tor), . One who rejects. 
The rejectors of it [revelation], therefore, would do well 
to consider the grounds on which they stand. 
Warburton, Works, IX. xiii. 
rejoice (re-jois'), v. ; pret. and pp. rejoiced, ppr. 
rejoicing. [< ME. rejoicen, rejoisen, rejoischen, 
< OF. resjois-, stem of certain parts of resjoir, 
F. rejouir, gladden, rejoice : see rejoy, and cf. 
joice.} I. trans. 1. To make joyful ; gladden; 
animate with lively and pleasurable sensations ; 
exhilarate. 
Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father. Prov. xxix. 3. 
I love to rejoice their poor hearts at this season [Christ- 
inas], and to see the whole village merry in my great hall. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 269. 
2t. To enjoy ; have the fruition of. 
To do so that here sone after mi dessece, 
Miste reioische that reaume as rijt eir bi kinde. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 4102. 
For lenger that ye keep it thus in veyne, 
The lesse ye gette, as of your hertis reste, 
And to reioise it shal ye neuere atteyne. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 66. 
St. To feel joy on account of. 
Ne'er mother 
Rejoiced deliverance more. 
Shak., Cymbeline, v. 5. 370. 
II. intrans. To experience joy and gladness 
in a high degree; be exhilarated with lively and 
pleasurable sensations; be joyful; feel joy; 
exult: followed by at or in, formerly by of, or 
by a subordinate clause. 
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice. 
Prov. xxix. 2. 
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth. Eccl. xi. 9. 
He rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and 
nine which went not astray. Mat. xviii. 13. 
To rejoice in the boy's correction. 
Shak., T. O. of V., iii. 1. 394. 
May they rejoice, no wanderer lost, 
A family in Heaven ! 
Burns, Verses Left at a Friend's House. 
rejoicet (re-jois'), n. [< rejoice, v.} The act of 
rejoicing. [Rare.] 
There will be signal examples of God's mercy, and the 
angels must not want their charitable rejoices for the con- 
version of lost sinners. 
Sir T. Browne, Christian Morals, ii. 6. 
rejoicement! (re-jois'meut), n. [< rejoice + 
-meut.} Rejoicing. 
It is the most decent and comely demeanour of all ex- 
ultations and reioycements of the hart, which is no lesse 
naturall to man then to be wise or well learned or sober. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 244. 
rejoicer (re-joi'ser), n. 1. One who causes to 
rejoice: as, a rejoicer of the comfortless and 
widow. Pope, 2. One who rejoices. 
rejoicing (re-joi'sing), . [< ME. rejoisyng, etc. ; 
verbal n. of rejoice, v.} 1. The feeling and ex- 
pression of joy and gladness ; procedure expres- 
sive of joy ; festivity. 
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles 
of the righteous. Ps. cxviii. 16. 
A day of thanksgiving was proclaimed by the King, and 
was celebrated with pride and delight by his people. The 
rejoicings in England were not less enthusiastic or less 
sincere. Macaulay, Frederic the Great. 
2. The experience of joy. 
Iff he [a child] be vicius, and no thing will lerne. 
... no man off hym reiasynge will haue. 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. 8., extra ser.X i. 67. 
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall 
he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 
Oal. vi. 4. 
3. A subject of joy. 
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever : 
for they are the rejoicing of my heart. Ps. cxix. ill. 
rejoicingly (rf-joi'sing-li), adv. With joy or 
exultation. 
She hath despised me rejoicingly, and 
I'll be merry in my revenge. 
Shak., Cymbeline, iii. 6. 150. 
rejoiet, *' t. Same as rejoy. 
rejoin (re-join'), f. [Early mod. E. rejoyne; < 
OF. rejoindre, F. rejoindre = It. rigiugnere, re- 
join, overtake, < L. re-, again, + jungere, join : 
see join.} I. trans. 1. To join again; unite 
after separation. 
A short space severs ye, 
Compared unto that long eternity 
That shall rejoine ye, 
B. Jonson, Elegy on my Muse. 
The Grand Signior . . . conveyeth his galleys . . . down 
to Grand Cairo, where they are taken in pieces, carried upon 
camels' backs, and rejoined together at Suez. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vl. 8. 
The letters were written not for publication . . . and to 
rejoin heads, tails, and betweenities which Hayley had 
severed. Southey, Letters. III. 448 
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2. To join the company of again ; bestow one's 
company on again. 
Thoughts which at Hyde-park corner I forgot 
Meet and rejoin me in the pensive Grot. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. ii. 209. 
3. To say in answer to a reply or a second or 
later remark; reply or answer further: with a 
clause as object. 
It will be replied that he receives advantage by this 
lopping of his superfluous branches ; but I rejoin that a 
translator has no such right. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Epistles, Pref. 
"Are you that Lady Psyche?" I rejoin'd. 
Tennyion, Princess, ii. 
II. intrans. 1. To answer to a reply; in gen- 
eral, to answer. 
Your silence argues it, in not rejoining 
To this or that late libel. 
Ii. Jongon, Apol. to Poetaster. 
2. In law, to answer the plaintiff's replication. 
I rejoyne, as men do that answere to the lawe, and make 
answere to the byll that is put np agaynst them. 
Palsgrave. 
rejoinder (re-join'der), w. [< F. rejoindre, re- 
join, inf. used as noun: see rejoin. Cf. attain- 
der, remainder.} 1. An answer to a reply; in 
general, an answer. 
The quality of the person makes me judge myself obliged 
to a rejoinder. Glanville, To Albius. 
Rejoinder to the churl the King disdain'd ; 
But shook his head, and rising wrath restrain'd. 
Fenian, in Pope's Odyasey, xx. 281. 
2. In law, the fourth stage in the pleadings in 
an action at common law, being the defendant's 
answer to the plaintiff's replication. The next 
allegation of the plaintiff is called surrejoinder. 
=Syn. 1. Eeply, retort. 
rejoinder! (re-join'der), v. i. [< rejoinder, n.} 
To make a reply. 
When Nathan shall rejoinder with a "Thon art the man. " 
Hammond, Works, IV. 804. 
rejoinduret (re-join'dur), . [< rejoin (rejoin- 
der) +-ure.] A joining again; reunion. [Rare.] 
Rudely beguiles our lips 
Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents 
Our lock'd embrasures. 
Shak., T. and C., iv. 4. 38. 
rejoint (re-joint'),t>. t. [< re- + joint. Cf.F.re- 
jointoyer, rejoint, < rejoint, pp. of rejoindre, re- 
join.] 1. To reunite the joints of; joint anew. 
Ezekiel saw dry bones rejoynted and reinspired with life. 
Barrow, Resurrection of the Body or Flesh. 
2. To fill up the joints of, as of stone in build- 
ings when the mortar has been displaced by 
age or the action of the weather. 
rejolt (re-jolt'), r. t. [< re- + jolt.} To jolt 
again; shake or shock anew; cause to rebound. 
Locke. 
rejolt (re-jolt'), . [< rejolt, v.} A reacting 
jolt or shock. 
These inward rejolts and recoilings of the mind. 
South, Sermons, II. v. 
rejournt (re-jern'), v. t. [For "readjourn, < F. 
reajourner, adjourn again; as re- + adjourn.} 
1. To adjourn to another hearing; defer. 
You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a 
cause between an orange wife and a f osset-seller, and then 
rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of 
audience. Shak., Cor., it 1. 79. 
Concerning mine own estate, I am right sorry that my 
coming to Venice is rejourned a month or two longer. 
Sir B. Wotton, Reliqnia;, p. 702. 
2. To refer; send for information, proof, or 
the like. 
To the Scriptures themselves I rejmirne all such Atheis- 
tical spirits. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 27. 
rejournmentt (re-jern'ment), n. [< rejourn + 
-ment.} Adjournment. 
So many rejournmenti and delays. 
North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 713. 
rejoyt (re-joi'), v. t. [< ME. rejoyen, rejoien, < 
OF. resjoir, F. rejouir, gladden, rejoice, < re-, 
again, + esjoir, Frtjjouir, joy, rejoice, < es- (< L. 
esc-, out) + joir, F. jouir, joy, rejoice : see joy, 
v., and cf. enjoy and rejoice.} To rejoice; en- 
joy. 
Ris, lat us speke of lusty lit in Troye, 
That we have led, and forth the tyme dryve, 
And ek of tyme comynge us rejoye. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 89.i. 
And that I and my assignez may peasseble rejoie theym 
[certain lands). Pashm Letters, II. 332. 
rejudge (re-juj'), v. t. [< OF. (and F.) rejuger; 
us re- + judge.} To judge again ; reexamine; 
review; call to a new trial and decision. 
'Tis hers the brave man's latest steps to trace, 
Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace. 
Pope, Epistle to Harley, 1. 30. 
It appears now too late to rejudge the virtues or the 
vices of those men. Goldsmith, Pref. to Roman History. 
reking 
rejuvenate (re-jo've-nat), i-. t. [< re- + juve- 
nate. Cf. OF. rejovenir, rejovener, rejoennir, re- 
jeunir, renjovenir, rajeunir, F. rajeunir = Pr. re- 
jovenir = OSp. rcjuvenir = It. ringioranire, rin- 
giovenire, rejuvenate.] To restore the appear- 
ance, powers, or feelings of youth to; make as 
if young again; renew; refresh. 
Such as used the bath in moderation, refreshed and re- 
stored by the grateful ceremony, conversed with all the 
zest and freshness of rejuvenated life. 
Bulwer, Last Days of Pompeii, i. 7. 
No man was so competent as he to rejuvenate those dead 
old skulls and relics, lifting a thousand years from the 
forgotten past into the middle of the nineteenth century. 
Harper's Mag., LXXX. 388. 
rejuvenation (re-jo-ve-na'shgn), n. [< rejuve- 
nate + -ion.} The act of rejuvenating, or the 
state or process of being rejuvenated; rejuve- 
nescence. 
Instances of fecundity at advanced ages are not rare. 
Contemporaneous writers mention examples of rejuvena- 
linn which must be regarded as probably legendary. 
Pop. Set. Mo., XX. 99. 
rejuvenator (re-jo've-na-tor), n. [< rejuvenate 
T -or 1 .} One who or that which rejuvenates. 
A great beautifler and rejuvenator of the complexion. 
Lancet, No. 3433, p. 1193. 
rejuvenesce (re-jo-ve-nes'), r. i.; pret. and pp. 
rejuvenesced, ppr. rejnveitescing. [< ML. rejuve- 
nescere, grow young again, < L. re-, again, + ju- 
renescere, grow young: see rejuvenescent.} To 
grow young again; renew one's youthfulness 
byreacquinng vitality; specifically, in biol., to 
accomplish rejuvenescence, or repair vitality 
by conjugation and subsequent fission, as an 
infusorian. 
The dark, double-bordered cells are those which were 
sown but did not rejuvenesce. 
Pasteur, On Fermentation (trans.), p. 177. 
rejuvenescence (re-j6-ve-nes'ens), n. [< reju- 
venescen(t) + -ce.} 1. A renewal of the appear- 
ance, powers, or feelings of youth. 
That degree of health I give up entirely ; I might as 
well expect rejuvenescence. 
Chesterfield, Misc. Works, IV. 276. (Latham.) 
2. In biol., a transformation whereby the entire 
protoplasm of a vegetative cell changes into a 
cell of a different character that is, into a pri- 
mordial cell which subsequently invests itself 
with a new cell-wall and forms the starting- 
point of the life of a new individual. It occurs 
in numerous algje, as fEdogonium, and also in 
some diatoms. 
rejuvenescency (re-jS-ve-nes'en-si), n. [As re- 
juvenescence (see -cy) .} Same as rejuvenescence. 
The whole creation, now grown old, expecteth and wait- 
eth for a certain rejuvenescency. 
J. Smith, Portrait of Old Age, p. 264. 
rejuvenescent (re-jo-ve-nes'ent), a. [< ML. 
rejuvenescen(t-)s, ppr. of rejuvenescere, become 
young again : see rejuvenesce. Cf. juvenescent.} 
Becoming or become young again. 
Rising 
Rejuvenescent, he stood in a glorified body. 
Southey. 
rejuvenize ( re-jo" ve-nlz), c. t. ;pret. and pp. re- 
juvenized, ppr. rejuvenizing. [< rejuven(esce) + 
-ize.} To render young again ; rejuvenate. 
reke 1 !, . A Middle English form of reek 1 . 
reke' 2 t, A variant of reek'*. 
reke 3 , f. An obsolete or dialectal form of rake 1 . 
rekelst, . [ME., also rekils, rekyls, rekles, as- 
sibilated rychellys, recMes, recheles, < AS. recels, 
incense, < recan, smoke, reek: see reek 1 .} In- 
cense. Prompt. Pan., p. 433. (Stratmann.) 
rekenH, v. A Middle English form of reckon. 
reken 2 t, [ME., < AS. recen, ready, prompt, 
swift.] Ready; prompt; noble; beautiful. 
Thou so ryche a reken rose. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i, 906. 
The rekenestf redy mene of the rownde table. 
Marie Arthure (E. E. T. S.), I. 4082. 
rekindle (re-kin'dl), v. [< re- + kindle 1 .} I. 
trans. 1 . To kindle again ; set on fire anew. 
On the pillar raised by martyr hands 
Burns the rekindled beacon of the right. 
0. W. Holmes, Commemoration Services. Cambridge, 
[July 21, 1866. 
2. To inflame again ; rouse anew. 
Rekindled at the royal charms, 
Tumultuous love each beating bosom warms. 
Fenton, in Pope's Odyssey, i. 466. 
II. intrans. To take fire or be animated anew. 
Straight her rekindling eyes resume their fire. 
Thomson, To the Prince of Wales. 
rekingt (re-king'), v. t. [< re- + king 1 .} To 
make king again ; raise to the monarchy anew. 
[Rare.] 
