repent 
Be witness to me, O thpu blessed moon, 
. . . poor EnobarMU did 
Before thy face repent ! Shak., A. and C., iv. 9. 7. 
= Syn, 1-4. See repentance. 
II. trans. 1. To remember or regard with 
contrition, compunction, or self-reproach; feel 
self-accusing pain or grief on account of: as, 
to repent rash words; to repent an injury done 
to a neighbor. 
Peraventur thu may repent it twyes, 
That thu hast askid of this lande treyage. 
'E. E. T. S.), 1. 3342. 
Confess yourself to heaven ; 
Repent what 's past ; avoid what is to come. 
Shak., Hamlet, ill. 4. 150. 
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tance; sorrowful for past conduct or words; 
sorrowful for sin. 
There is no sin so great but God may forgive it, and 
doth forgive it to the repentant heart. 
Latimer, 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. 
in lowliest plight, repentant stood, 
Milton, P. L., xi. 1. 
2. Expressing or showing repentance. 
After I have solemnly interr'd 
At Chertsey monastery this noble king, 
And wet his grave with my repentant tears. 
SAa*., Rich. III., i. 2. 216. 
Relentless walls ! whose darksome round contains 
Repentant sighs and voluntary pains. repertoire (rep-er-twor'), . 
My loss I mourn, but not repent it. 
R urm , To Major Logan. " ntantl (re-pen'tant-li), adv 
[Formerly often, and sometimes still, used reflexively and t t manuer . w i t h repentance, 
impersonally. 
It repenteth me not of my cost or labor bestowed in the 
service of this commonwealth. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 476. 
This was that which repented him, to have giy'n up to 
just punishment so stout a Champion of his designes. 
Mill", i, Eikouoklastes, ii. 
repetition 
The huge Cyclops did with molding Thunder sweat, 
And Massive Bolts on repercussive Anvils bear. 
Cnii'jreve, Taking of Namure. 
2f. Repellent. 
Blood is stanched ... by astringents and repercusrive 
medicines. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 6. 
3. Driven back; reverberated. 
Echo, fair Echo, speak, . . . 
Salute me with thy repercussive voice. 
B. Jonmn, Cynthia's Revels, i. 1. 
Amid Carnarvon's mountains rages loud 
The repercussive Roar. Thomson, Summer, 1. 1162. 
TT n. A repellent. 
,, e (rep-er-twor'), n. [< F. repertoire : 
see repertory.'] A repertory; specifically, in 
music and the drama, the list of works which a 
= Syn. See repentance. 
H. n. One who repents; a penitent^ _ ^^^^ or company of performers has care- 
taut manner ; with repentance. fully studied, and is reader to perform. 
To her I will myself address, 
And my rash faults repentantly confess. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, v. 4. 
repenter (re-pen'ter), n. One who repents. 
Sentences from which a too-late repenter will suck des- 
peration. 
Thou may'st repent thee yet 
The giving of this gift. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 47.] 
Donne, Devotions, p. 221. 
(re-pen'shi-a), n.pl. [NL.^neut 
2f. To be sorry for or on account of. 
tance. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
Reproch the first, Shame next, Repent behinde. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. xii. 24. 
of squamate 
With repen- 
limbless lacertilians as 
reptiles. Merrem. 
" To that shall thow come hastely," quod Gawein, "and repentingly (re-pen'ting-li), adv. 
that me repentetk sore, ffor moche wolde I love thy com- tance. Imp. Diet. 
panye yet it the liked." Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 592. re pentleSS (re-pent'les), a. [< repent 1 + -less.] 
repent 1 (re-pent'), n. [< repent^, v.] Repen- Without repentance; unrepenting. Jodrell. 
repeople (re-pe'pl), v. t. [< OF. repeupler, F. 
repeupler, also repopuler = Sp. repoblar = It. 
ripopolare; as re- + people.] To people anew; 
repent^ (re'pent), a. [< L. repen(t-)s, ppr. of furnish again with a stock of people. 
repere (>It. repere), creep; akin to serpere, creep, I send with this my discourse of ways and means for 
Gr. g&t creep: Bee reptUe and serpent.] 1. encourag.ng mamage and .^.gthe Man*. ^ ^ 
In bot., creeping; growing prostrate along the , , -.A_/ B( ,_ H r< re + nercent 1 
ground, or horizontally beneath the surface, repercepT) (re-pei sepc;, n. \\ it, -rvmvqn., 
and rooting progressively. 2. In zool., creep- A represented percept. Wild, X. \M. 
ing, as an animalcule; specifically, of or per- reperception (re-per-sep'shon), . [<- +pe,- 
taining to the Repentia. ception.] The act of perceiving again; a re- 
repertort (re-per'tor), ?! . [< L. repertor, a finder, 
discoverer, < reperire, pp. repertus, find out, dis- 
cover: see repertory.] A finder. [Rare.] 
Let others dispute whether Anah was the inventor or 
only the repertor of mules, the industrious founder or the 
casual finder of them. 
Fuller, Pisgah Sight, IV. ii. 32. (Dames.) 
reper- 
n. ; pi. repertories 
^ .._,. '[< OF! *repertorie, later repertoire, F. 
repertoire = Sp. Pg. It. repertorio, < LL. reper- 
torium, an inventory, list, repertory, < L. repe- 
rire, pp. repertus, find, find out, discover, invent, 
< re-, again, + parire, usually Dartre, produce: 
see parent.] 1. A place where things are so 
arranged that they can readily be found when 
wanted; a book the contents of which are so 
arranged; hence, an inventory; a list; an in- 
dex. 
Hermippus, who wrote of ... the poeme of Zoroastes, 
containing a hundred thousand verses twentie times told, 
of his making ; and made besides a repertorie or index to 
every book of the said poesie. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxx. 1. 
2. A store or collection; a treasury; a mag- 
azine ; a repository. 
'No external Hia [Homer's] writings became the sole repertory to 
praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary refer- i ater ages O f all the theology, philosophy, and history of 
It seems scarce pardonable, because 'tis scarce a repent- atption and ratification of what is fine." those which preceded his. 
able sin or repairable malice. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 313. 
Bp. Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 65. (.Domes.) ._,.,, . rt ** A. 
repercolation (re-per-ko-la shon), n. [< re- + 
repentance (re-pen 'tans), . [< ME. repentance, p erc olation.] Repeated percolation ; mphar., 
re2)entaunce,< OF. repentance, repentauitce, F. re- the successive application of the same perco- 3 Same as repertoire, 
penance = Pr.repent e nsa = lt.ripentenza,<^l J . , ati monst ruum to fresh parts of the sub- A great academic, artistic theatre, . . . rich in its reper- 
as if 'repenttentia, < repemten(t-)s, repentant. gtance to ^ e percolated. (ory, rich in the high quality and the wide array of its 
see repentant, andcf. penitence.] 1. The act ot re p ercuss (re-per-kus'), v. t. [< L. repei-cus- servants. a. James, Jr., The Tragic Muse, xxix. 
repenting; the state of being penitent; sorrow of rep e,. ctl t er e (> It. ripercuotere = Sp. rel) enisal (re-pe-ro'zal), n. [< reperuse + -al.] 
or contrition for what one has done or left un- Pg repereuti r = Pr. repercutir = F. repercuter), A F gecO nd or a repeated perusal, 
done. strike, push or drive back, reflect, reverberate, re p eruse (re-pe-roz'), v. t. [< re- + peruse.] 
< re-, back, + percutere, strike : see percuss.] To peruse again. Buteer. 
To beat or drive back; send back; reflect. 
taining to the Repentia 
repentable (re-pen'ta-bl), a. [< repenft + -able.] 
Capable of being repented of. [Rare.] 
peated perception. 
Keats . . . writes to his publisher, 
Bolingbroke, Essays, ii., Error and Superstition. 
The revolution of France is an inexhaustible repertory 
of one kind of examples. Burke. 
For what is true repentance but in thought- 
Net ev'n in inmost thought to think again 
The sins that made the past so pleasant to us? 
Tennyson, Guinevere. 
2. In tlieol., a change of mental and spiritual 
habit respecting sin, involving a hatred of and 
repet. An abbreviation of the Latin word re- 
Mr in ovens, though ... it doth . . . boil and dilate nctatur (let it be repeated), used in prescrip- 
itself, and is repereussed, yet it is without noise. ^ ^^ tions. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 118. 
Perceiving all the subjacent country, at so small an 
MWQ *>. > --.-i5 perceiving ail me snujauenv uuuuuj, K ov/ BUKUI u 
sorrow because of it, and a hearty and genuine horizontal distance, to repercuss such a light as I could 
abandonment of it in conduct of life. hardly look against. Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 4, 1641. 
John did preach the baptism of repentance for the repercussion (re-per-kush'on), n. 
remission of sins" Mark i. 4. percussion, F. repercussion = Pr. 
Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 4, 1641. 
[< OF. re- 
repcrcussio 
repetend (rep'e-tend), 71. [< L. repetendus, to 
be repeated, gerundive of repetere, repeat : see 
repeat.] 1. In arith., that part of a repeating 
decimal which recurs continually; the circu- 
late. It is called a simple repetend when only one figure 
rmisstonofsins." 10 JteS It *. / e rcuslion,F. repercussion "= Pr. repercussio tate^ *^&^*5ffjggZ 
As all sins deprive us of the favour of Almighty God, = Sp. repercusion = Pg. repercussao = It. riper- afe m ' me - flgures than one in the repeating period, as 
ir way of reconciliation with him is the inward secret cussione, (. L. repercussio(n-), a rebounding, re- .029029, etc. It is usual to mark the single figure or the 
repentance of the heart. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, vt 3. 
Try what repentance can ; what can it not? 
Yet what can it when one can not repent? 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 3. 65. 
=Syn. Repentance, Penitence, Contrition, Compunction, 
Regret, Remorse, may express the sorrowful feeling of the 
wrong-doer in view of his conduct. Regret is quite as of- 
ten used of wishing that one had not done that which is 
unwise ; as applied to misconduct, it expresses the fee- 
blest degree of sorrow for doing wrong ; but it may con- 
pinges ; reverberation. 
In echoes (whereof some are as loud as the original 
voice) there is no new elision, but a repercussion only. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 124. 
The streams . . . appearing, by the repercussion of the repetent (rep-e-tenf), n. 
In "The Raven," "Lenore," and elsewhere, he [Poe] 
employed the repettnd also, and with still more novel re- 
sults. Stedman, Poets of America, p. 251. 
[G., <L. repeteu(t-)x, 
tain no element of real repentance. Repentance goes be- water in rnanie places, to be full of great stones in the pp. o f repetere, repeat: see repeat.] In Ger- 
yond feeling to express distinct purposes of turning from bottome. 
sin to righteousness; the Bible word most of ten translated . Decll ]j ar sty ie 
repentance means a change of mental and spiritual atti- ._- r nin.,., n H vchpmpii 
tude toward sin. Strictly, repentance is the beginning of **. the short iiTii 
, 
J. Brende, tr. of Quintus Curtius, viii. 
](.. 5 * v i p n f t n i, critic PHazlittl is at once 
" ? . The volcano of his criticism 
whether the turning be from a particular sin or from an 
atti tod 
fei 
2. In music 
many, a tutor or private teacher; a repetitor. 
He [Bleek] was recalled to Berlin to occupy the position 
of Repetent or tutor in theology. Encyc. Brit., In. 824. 
"/. D'tsraeli, Amen, of Lit., II. 99. repetition (rep-e-tish'on), )(. [< OF. repetition, 
ic : (a) That tone in a Gregorian mode tf repetition = Pr. rep'etitio = Sp. repelicion = 
. 
haves the short irruptive periods clash with quick re- 
"' 
iriiivii- iiLuiiiny wr^BKiiiM wx i >*"(s> * ~ _ ... *-,. . j / . . tri . ' . * *f , a 
same as penitence; it is a deep, quiet, and continued general development with its episodes, (c) Any The act of repeating, in any sense; iteration of 
sorrow, chiefly for'speciflc acts.' Compunction, literally reiteration or repetition of a tone or chord, 
pricking, is a sharp ^^^S^S^^^^i repercussive (re-per-kus'iv), a. and n. [< OF. 
momentary and not always resulting in moral benefit. It il=i B0 .y VT n^c'/- Pv 
is more likely than remorse to result in good. Remorse, re/icrcHSSij, I' . J fpi't cusmj = 1 l . 
Sp. repercusiro = Pg. repercnsslm = It. nper- 
cussivo; as repercuss + -ive.] I. a. 1. Of the 
nature of repercussion; causing repercussion 
or reflection. 
Whose dishevell'd locks. 
Like gems against the repermssirc sun, 
literally gnawing, is naturally sharper mental suffering 
than compunction; the word often suggests a sort of 
spiritual despair or hopelessness, paralyzing one for ef- 
forts to attain repentance. 
repentant (ro-pen'tant), a. and n. [< ME. re- 
pentant, < OF. repentant, repentant, penitent, 
< ML. repe>iiten(t-)x, ppr. of *repenitcrc, repent : 
see repent 1 .] I. a. 1. Experiencing repen- 
Give light and splendour. 
Middleton, Family of Love, iv. 2. 
the same act, word, sound, or idea. 
Ye haue another sort of repetition when in one verse or 
clause of a verse ye iterate one word without any inter- 
mission, as thus : 
It was Maryne, Maryne that wrought mine woe. 
futtenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 167. 
All the neighbour caves . . . 
Make verbal repetition of her moans. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 831. 
Every feeling tends to a certain extent to become deeper 
by repetitii'ii. J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 484. 
