reparative 
reparative (re-par'a-tiv), a. and n. [= Sp. 
reparativo, < ML. "raparativus, < L. ri-/nir/in , 
repair: sec repair 1 .] I. . 1. Capable of ef- 
tVrting or tending to effect repair; restoringto 
a sound or good state; tending to amend de- 
feet or make good : as, a repnratire process. 
Reparative inventions by which art and ingenuity stud- 
ies to help and repair defects or deformities. 
Jer. Taylor, Artif. Handsomeness (T), p. 60. (Latham.) 
2. Pertaining to reparation or the making of 
amends. 
Between the principle of Reparative and that of Retrib- 
utive Justice there is no danger of confusion or colli- 
sion, as one is concerned with the injured party, and the 
other with the wrongdoer. 
H. Sidywick, Methods of Ethics, p. 256. 
II. . That which restores to a good state ; 
that which makes amends. 
repareH, *' ' A Middle English form of repair^. 
repare 2 t, '' ' A Middle English form of repair'^. 
reparelt (re-par'el), v. t. [< ME. reparelen, re- 
parellen, reparailen, < OF. repareiller, repareil- 
licr, etc., repair, renew, reunite, < re-, again, 
+ apureiller, prepare, apparel: see apparel. 
The word seems to have been confused with 
repair 1 .'] To repair. 
He salle . . . come and reparelle this citee, and bigge 
it agayne also wele als ever it was. 
MS. Lincoln A. L 17, f. 11. (HallimU.) 
reparelt (re-par'el), n. [Also reparrel; < re- 
parel, i\] Apparel. 
Mayest thou not know me to be a lord by my reparrel ? 
Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. 
Let them but lend him a suit of reparel and necessaries. 
Beau, and Ft., Knight of Burning Pestle, Ind. 
repart ( re-part'), v. t. [< OF. repnrtir, divide 
again, subdivide, reply, answer a thrust, < ML. 
"repartiri, divide again, < L. re-, again, + par- 
tire, part, divide, share: see part, v.,a.Tidpartyl.] 
To divide ; share ; distribute. 
To glue the whole heart to one [friend] is not much, 
but howe much lesse when amongst many it is reparted. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 77. 
First, these Judges, in al cities and townes of their ju- 
risdiction, do number the housholds, and do repart them 
in ten and tenne housholds ; and upon the tenth house 
they do hang a table or signe, whereon is writen the 
names of those ten housholders, &c'. 
R. Porte, Hist China, etc. (1588), p. 83. (F. Hall, Adjec- 
itives in -able, p. 205.) 
repartee (rep-ar-te'), n. [Formerly also reparty 
(the spelling repartee being intended at the 
time (the 17th century) to exhibit the F. sound 
of the last syllable) ; < OF. repartie, an answer- 
ing thrust, a reply, fern, of rcparti, pp. of re- 
partir, answer a thrust with a thrust, reply, 
divide again: see report.] 1. A ready, perti- 
nent, and witty reply. 
They [wicked men] know there is no drolling with so 
sour a piece as that [conscience] within them is, for that 
makes the smartest and most cutting repartees, which 
are uneasie to bear, but impossible to answer. 
Stillingfleet, Sermons, I. xi. 
There were the members of that brilliant society which 
quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees under the rich 
peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague. 
Macaulay, Warren Hastings. 
2. Such replies in general or collectively; the 
kind of wit involved in making sharp and ready 
retorts. 
As for repartee in particular, as it is the very soul of 
conversation, so it is the greatest grace of comedy, where 
it is proper to the characters. 
Dryden, Mock Astrologer, Pref. 
You may allow him to win of you at Play, for you are 
sure to be too hard for him at Repartee. Since you mo- 
nopolize the Wit that is between you, the Fortune must 
he his of Course. Congreve, Way of the World, i. 6. 
= Syn. 1, Repartee, Retort. A repartee is a witty and good- 
humored answer to a remark of similar character, and is 
meant to surpass the latter in wittiness. A retort is a 
keen, prompt answer. A repartee may be called a retort 
where the wit is keen. Retort, however, is quite as com- 
monly used for a serious turning back of censure, derision, 
or the like, in a short and sharp expression. 
Repartee is the witty retort in conversation. 
J. De MUle, Rhetoric, 453. 
repartee (rep-ar-te'), v. i. [< repartee, n.] To 
make ready and witty replies. 
High Flights she had, and Wit at Will, 
And so her Tongue lay seldom still ; 
For in all Visits who but she 
To argue, or to repartee ? Prior, Hans Carvel. 
repartert (re-par'ter), n. [< repart + -er 1 .] A 
distributer.' 
Of the temporall goods that God giues us, we be not lords 
but reparters. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 152. 
repartimiento (re-par-ti-mien'to), . [< Sp. 
reparliinieiito, partition, division, distribution: 
see repartment.] 1. A partition or division; 
also, an assessment or allotment. 
5081 
In preparing for the siege of this formidable place, Fer- 
dinand called upon all the cities and towns of Andalusia 
and Estremadura ... to furnish, according to their re- 
partimientos or allotments, a certain quantity of bread, 
wine, and cattle, in be delivered at the royal camp before 
Loxa. Irving, Granada, p. 64. 
2. In Spanish America, the distribution of cer- 
tain sections of the country, including the na- 
tive inhabitants (as peons), made by the early 
conquerors among their comrades and follow- 
ers. 
There was assigned to him [Las Casas] and his friend 
Renteria a large village in the neighbourhood of Xagua, 
with a number of Indians attached to it, in what wasknown 
as repartimiento (allotment). Encyc. Brit., XIV. 320. 
repartition (re-par-tish'on), n. [= F. reparti- 
tion = Sp. repartition = Pg. repartiq&o = It. 
ripartigione, s ML. "repartitio(n-), < "repartiri, 
divide again: see repart, and cf. partition.] 
A repeated or fresh partition; redistribution. 
liailey. 
repartmentt, [< OF. repartement, division, 
F. repartement, assessment, = Sp. repartimiento 
= Pg. repartimento = It. ripartimento, assess- 
ment, < ML. "repartimentum, < *repartiri, divide 
again: see repart."] A division; distribution; 
classification. 
In these repartments of Epaminondas it apperteyneth 
not unto your honour and mee that we come in a good 
houre, nor that we stande in a good houre ; for wee are 
now come to be of the number that goe in a good houre. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 135. 
repass (re-pas'), v. [< OF. repasser, pass again, 
F. repasser, pass again, iron, set, hone, grind, = 
Sp. repasar = Pg. repassar = It. ripassare, < 
ML. repassare, pass back, return, < L. re-, back, 
+ ML. passare, pass, go: see pass.] I. iiitrans. 
To pass or go back ; move back : used specifi- 
cally by conjurers or jugglers. 
Nothing but hey-pass, repass .' 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, iv. 4. 
Five girdles bind the skies: the torrid zone 
Glows with the passing and repassing sun. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, i. 322. 
II. trans. To pass again, in any sense. 
Well have we pass'd and now repass'd the seas, 
And brought desired help. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iv. 7. 5. 
The bill was thoroughly revised, discussed, and repasied 
a little more than one year afterwards. 
The Century, XXXVII. 559. 
repassage (re-pas'aj), n. [< OF. repassage, F. 
repassage (ML. reflex repassagium), a returning, 
ironing, setting, honing, whetting, raking, etc., 
< repasser, return: see repass.] 1. The act of 
repassing; a passing again ; passage back. 2. 
In gilding, the process of passing a second coat 
of deadening glue as a finish over dead or un- 
burnished surfaces. Gilder's Manual, p. 24. 
repassant (re-pas'ant), a. [< F. repassanl, ppr. 
of repasser, repass: see repass.] In lier., same 
as counter-passant. 
repassion (re-pash'pn), n. The reception of 
an effect by' one body from another which is 
more manifestly affected by the action than 
the former. 
repast ( re-past'), . [< ME. repast, < OF. repast, 
repas, F. repas, a repast, meal (= Sp. repasto, 
increase of food), < ML. repastns, a meal, < L. 
re-, again, + pastas, food: see pasture.] 1. 
A meal ; the act of taking food. 
What neat repast shall feast us. light and choice, 
Of Attick taste, with wine ? Milton, To Mr. Lawrence. 
And hie him home, at evening's close, 
To sweet reiHi.it. and calm repose. 
Gray, Ode, Pleasure arising from Vicissitude, 1. 88. 
2. Food; victuals. 
Go, and get me some repast, 
I care not what, so it be wholesome food. 
Shak., T. of the 8., iv. 3. 16. 
A buck was then a week's repast, 
And 'twas their point, I ween, to make it last. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. ii. 93. 
3t. Refreshment through sleep; repose. 
Forthwith he runnes with feigned faithfnll hast 
Unto his guest, who, after troublous sights 
And dreames, gan now to take more sound repast; 
Whom suddenly he wakes. Spenser, F. Q., I. ii. 4. 
repastt (re-past'), r. [= Sp. Pg. repastar, feed 
again: from the noun.] I. trans. To feed; feast. 
To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms, 
And, like the kind life-rendering pelican, 
Repast them with my blood. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 5. 147. 
He then also, as before, left arbitrary the dyeting and 
repasting of our minds. Milton, Areopagitica, p. IB. 
II. iiitrans. To take food; feast. Pope. 
repastert (re-pas'ter), n. One who takes a re- 
past. 
They doe plye theire commons, lyke quick and greedye re- 
pastours, 
Thee stagg vpbreaking they slit to the dulcet or inchepyn. 
Stanihwst, .Knrid'. i. 
repeal 
repastinationt (re-pas-ti-na'shou), n. [< L. 
i'<'l>fifstiiiatio(n-), a digging up again, < repux/i 
nare, dig up again, < re-, again, + pastinarc, 
dig: see pastinate.] A second or repeated dig- 
ging up, as of a garden or field. 
Chap, vi. Of composts, and stercoration, repastination, 
dressing and stirring the earth or mould of a garden. 
Evelyn, Misc. Writings, p. 730. 
repasturet ( r f-P& s 'tur), " [^ repast + -HIV.] 
Food; entertainment. 
Food for his rage, repasture for his den. 
Shak., L. L. L., iv. 1. 95. 
repatriate (re-pa'tri-at), r. t. [< LL. repair i- 
atus, pp. of repatriare (> It. ripatriare = Sp. Pg. 
repatriar = F. repatrier, rapatrier), return to 
one's country again, return home, < L. re-, back, 
+ patria, native land : seepatria. Cf. repair?.] 
To restore to one's own country. Cotgrave. 
He lived in a certain Villa Garibaldi, which had belonged 
to an Italian refugee, now long repatriated, and which 
stood at the foot of the nearest mountain. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 678. 
repatriation (re-pa-tri-a'shon), n. [< ML. re- 
patriatio(n-), <'LL. repatriare, pp. repatriates, 
return to one's country: see repatriate.] Re- 
turn or restoration to one's own country. 
Iwishyour Honour (in our Tuscan Phrase) a most happy 
Repatriation. 
Sir H. Wotton, To Lord Zouch, Florence, June 13, 1592. 
repay (re-pa'), v. [< OF. repayer = Sp. Pg. 
repagar = It. ripagare, pay back; as re- + 
pay*.] I. trans. 1. To pay back; refund. 
In common worldly things, 'tis call'd ungrateful 
With dull unwillingness to repay a debt. 
Shak., Rich. III., ii. 2. 92. 
He will repay you ; money can he repaid ; 
Not kindness such as yours. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
2. To make return, retribution, or requital for, 
in a good or bad sense : as, to repay kindness ; 
to repay an injury. 
And give God thanks, if forty stripes 
Repay thy deadly sin. Whittier, The Exiles. 
Repaying incredulity with faith. 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 159. 
3. To make return or repayment to. 
When I come again, I will repay thee. Luke x. 35. 
Now hae ye play'd me this, fause love, 
In simmer, mid the flowers? 
I sail repay ye back again 
In winter, 'mid the showers. 
The Fause Lover (Child's Ballads, IV. 90). 
II. iiitrans. To requite either good or evil; 
make return. 
Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. 
Rom. xli. 19. 
'Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, 
But the high faith that failed not by the way. 
Lowell, Comm. Ode. 
repayable (re-pa'a-bl), a. [< repay + -able.] 
That may or must be repaid ; subject to repay- 
ment or refunding: as, money lent, repayable 
at the end of sixty days. 
repayment (re-pa'ment), . [< repay + -nietit.] 
1. The 'act of repaying or paying back. 
To run into debt knowingly . . . without hopes or pur- 
poses of repayment. Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, iv. 8. 
2. The money or other thing repaid. 
What was paid over it was reckoned as a Repayment of 
part of the Principal. Arbuthnot, Ancient Coins, p. 209. 
repet, and H. A Middle English form of reap. 
repeal (re-pel'), . t. [< ME. repelen, < OF. ra- 
peler, call back, recall, revoke, repeal, F. rap- 
peler, call again, call back, call after, call in, 
recall, retract, call up, call to order, recover, 
regain, < re-, back, + apeler, later appeler, call, 
appeal: see appeal.] If. To call back; recall, 
as from banishment, exile, or disgrace. 
For syn my fader in so heigh a place 
As parlement hath hire eschaunge enseled, 
He nyl for me his lettre be repeled. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 560. 
I here forget all former griefs, 
Cancel all grudge, repeal thee home again. 
Shak., T. G. of V., v. 4. 143. 
2f. To give up ; dismiss. 
Yet may ye weel repele this busynesse, 
And to reson snmwhat haue attendance. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 72. 
Which my liege Lady seeing thought it best 
With that his wife in friendly wise to deale, . . . 
And all forepast displeasures to repeale. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. viii. 21. 
Adam soon repeal'd 
The doubts that in his heart arose. 
Milton, P. L., vii. 59. 
3. To revoke; abrogate, as a law or statute: 
it usually implies a recalling of the act by the 
power that made or enacted it. 
