repetition 
2. That which is repeated. 3f. Remembrance; 
recollection. 
Call him hither; 
We are reconciled, and the first view shall kill 
All repe/itimi : let him not ask our pardon ; 
The nature of his great offence is dead, 
And deeper than oblivion we do bury 
The incensing relics of it. 
Shak., All's Well, v. 3. 22. 
4. In Scots law, repayment of money errone- 
ously paid. 5. Specifically, in mi/sic, the rapid 
reiteration or repercussion of a tone or chord, 
so as to produce a sustained effect, as upon the 
pianoforte and other stringed instruments. 6. 
Same as repeating action (which see, under re- 
peat) Repetition of r, in math., a partition in which 
a number occurs r times. Thus, 2-1 2 + 2 + 5 is a repeti- 
tion of 3. = Syn. 1 and 2. See recapitulate and pleonasm. 
repetitional (rep-e-tish'on-al), a. [< repetition 
+ -al.] Of the nature of or containing repeti- 
tion. 
repetitionary (rep-e-tish'on-a-ri), a. [< repeti- 
tion + -ary.] Same as repetitionnl. 
repetitionert (rep-e-tish'on-er), n. [< repetition 
+ -eri.] One who' repeats; a repeater. 
In 1665 he [Sam. Jemmat] was the Repeater or Repeti- 
tioner, in St. Mary's church, on Low Sunday, of the four 
Easter Sermons. Wood, Fasti Oxon., II. 141. 
repetitious (rep-e-tish'us), a. [< repetition) 
HP -ous.] Containing or employing repetition ; 
especially, characterized by undue or tiresome 
iteration. [U. S.] 
The observation which you have quoted from the Abbe 
Raynal, which has been written off in a succession not 
much less repetitious, or protracted, than that in which 
school-boys of former times wrote. 
Quoted by Pickering from Remarks on the Review of Inchi- 
[quin's Letters in the Quarterly Rev., Boston, 1815. 
The whole passage, Hamlet, i. 4. 17-38, "This heavy- 
headed revel, east and west," etc., is diffuse, involved, and 
repetitious. Proc. Amer. Phil. Ass., 1888, p. xiii. 
An irrelevant or repetitious speaker. 
Harper's Mag., LXXV. 515. 
repetitiously (rep-e-tish'us-li), adr. In a rep- 
etitious manner; with tiresome repetition. 
[U. S.] 
repetitiousness (rep-e-tish'us-nes), n. The 
character of being repetitious. [U. S.] 
repetitive (re-pet'i-tiv), . [= Sp. repetitive, 
< L. repetere, pp. repetitus, repeat: see repeat.] 
Containing repetitions; repeating; repetitious. 
repetitor (re-pef i-tor), n. [= F. repetiteur = 
Pr. repcteire = Sp. Pg. repetidor = It.ripetitore, 
ripititore, < L. repetitor, one who demands back, 
a reclaimer, ML. a repeater, < repetere, seek 
again, repeat: see repent.] A private instruc- 
tor or tutor in a university. 
repicque, . and . See repique. 
repine (re-pin'), r. i.; pret. and pp. repined, ppr. 
repining. [Early mod. E. repync; < re- + pine 2 ; 
perhaps suggested by OF. repoindre, prick 
again, or by repent*.] 1. To be fretfully dis- 
contented; be unhappy and indulge in com- 
plaint; murmur: often with at or against. 
Lachesis thereat gan to repine, 
And sayd : . . . 
" Not so ; for what the Fates do once decree, 
Not all the gods can chaunge, nor Jove himself can free ! " 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. ii. 51. 
This Saluage trash you so scornfully repine at, being 
put in your mouthes, your stomackes can disgest. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 229. 
Our Men, seeing we made such great runs, and the Wind 
like to continue, repined because they were kept at such 
short allowance. Dumpier, Voyages, I. 281. 
Thy rack'd inhabitants repine, complain, 
Tax'd till the brow of Labour sweats in vain. 
Cowper, Expostulation, 1. 304. 
2f. To fail; give way. 
Repining courage yields 
No foote to foe. Spenser, F. Q., I. ii. 17. 
repine (re-pin'), . [< repine, r.] A repining. 
[Rare.] 
Were never four such lamps together mix'd, 
Had not his [eyes] clouded with his brow's repine. 
Shalt., Venus and Adonis, 1. 400. 
And ye, fair heaps, the II uses' sacred shrines 
(In spite of time and envious repines) 
Stand still, and flourish. Bp. Hall, Satires, II. ii. 8. 
repiner (re-pi'ner), n. One who repines or 
murmurs. 
Let rash repiners stand appalled 
Who dare not trust in Thee. Young. 
Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, 
For rich repiner and household drudge ! 
Whittier, Maud Muller. 
repining (re-p!'ning), . [Verbal n. of repine. 
c.J Discontent; regret; complaint. 
He sat upon the rocks that edged the shore, 
And in continued weeping and in sighs 
And vain repining* wore the hours away. 
The Atlantic, LXVI. 79. 
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repiningly (re-pi'ning-li), adr. With murmur- 
ing or complaint. 
repique (re-pek'), . [Also repicque; < F. ivyi/r, 
repique, < repiquer, formerly rrpici/iier, prick 
or thrust again, < re- + piquer, prick, thrust, < 
pic, a point, pike: see pdce 1 .] In piquet, the 
winning of thirty points or more from combi- 
nations of cards in one's hand, before the play- 
ing begins and before an opponent has scored 
at all. 
repique (re-pek'), v. [< repique, .] I. intrans. 
In piquet, to score a repique. 
II. trans. To score a repique over. 
"Your game has been short," said Barley. "Irepiqued 
him," answered the old man, with joy sparkling in his 
countenance. H. Mackenzie, Man of Feeling, xxv. 
Also repicque. 
replace (re-plas'), r. t. ; pret. and pp. replaced, 
ppr. replacing. [< re- + place; prob. suggested 
by F. remplacer (see reimplace).] 1. To put 
again in the former or the proper place. 
The earl . . . was replaced in his government Bacon. 
The deities of Troy, and his own Penates, are made the 
companions of his flight ;. . . and at last he rep/ace* them 
in Italy, their native country. Dryden, An eld, Ded. 
A hermit . . . replac'd his book 
Within its customary nook. 
Cowper, Moralizer Corrected. 
2. To restore (what has been taken away or 
borrowed); return; make good: as, to replace 
a sum of money borrowed. 3. To substitute 
something competent in the place of, as of 
something which has been displaced or lost or 
destroyed. 4. To fill or take the place of; 
supersede; be a substitute for; fulfil the end 
or office of. 
It is a heavy charge against Peter to have suffered that 
so important a person as the successor of an absolute 
monarch must needs be should grow up ill-educated and 
unfit to replace him. Brougham. 
With Israel, religion replaced morality. 
M. Arnold, Literature and Dogma, p. 44. 
These compounds [organic acids] may be regarded as 
hydrocarbons in which hydrogen is replaced by carlx>xyl. 
Encyc. Brit., V. 568. 
The view of life as a thing to be put up with replacing 
that zest for existence which was so intense in early civi- 
lisations. T. Uardy, Return of the Native, iii. 1. 
Replaced crystal See crystal. = Syn. 1. To reinstate, 
reestablish, restore. 
replaceable (re-pla'sa-bl), a. Capable of bein^ 
replaced ; that may be replaced. 
replacement (re-plas'ment), . [< replace + 
-me nt. Cf. F. remplacenient. < remplacer, re- 
place.] 1. The act of re- 
placing. 
The organic acids may likewise 
be regarded as derived from alco- 
hols by the replacement of Ho by O. 
Encyc. Brit., V. 553. 
2. Iii crystal., the removal of 
an edge or angle by one plane 
or more. 
replacer (rf-pla'ser), . 1. 
One who or that which re- 
places, or restores to the former or proper 
plaee. 2. One who or that which takes the 
place of another ; 
a substitute. Car-re- 
placer, a device carried 
on nearly all American rail- 
way-trains for quickly re- 
placing derailed wheels on 
the track. It is used In 
pairs, one for each rail, and 
consists of a short heavy 
bar of iron swiveling on a 
Replacement of the 
solid angles of a cube by 
the planes of a trapeze- 
hedron. 
Car-replacer. 
a, rail ; b, c, replacer. The part 
r embraces the head of the rail 
when in use. The derailed car- 
wheel rolls up the incline '. 
yoke which is placed over 
the railhead. A sharp pull 
of the locomotive pulls the 
derailed wheels up the re- 
placer, whence they drop 
upon the rails. 
replacing-switch (re-pla'sing-swich), . A 
device consisting of a united pair of iron plates 
hinged to shoes fitting over the rails, used as a 
bridge to replace on the track derailed railway 
rolling-stock. A second pair of plates may be hinged 
to the first to facilitate the placing of the bridge in posi- 
tion to receive the car-wheels. 
replait (re-plat'), v. t. [Also repleat; < re- + 
plait, r.] To plait or fold again; fold one part 
of over another again and again. 
In his [Raphael's] first works, ... we behold many 
small foldings often repleated, which look like so many 
whipcords. Dryden, Observations on Dufresnoy's Art 
[of Painting. 
replant (re-plant'), r. t. [< OF. (and F.) re- 
planter = Sp. Pg. replantar = It. ri/iitintun: 
< ML. replantare, plant again, < L. re-, again, 
+ plantare, plant: see plant 1 .] 1. To plant 
again. 
repletion 
Small trees upon which figs or other fruit grow, liciu- 
yet unripe, . . . take ... up in a warm day, and replant 
them in good ground. Jtacnn, Xat. Hist., S 443. 
2. Figuratively, to reinstate. 
I will revenge his wrong to Lady Bona, 
And replant Henry in his former state. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iii. 3. 198. 
replant (re-plant'), M. [< replant, r.] That 
wnich is replanted. [Recent.] 
No growth has appeared in any of the replants. 
Medical Xeies, LII. 4i-8. 
replantable (re-plan'ta-bl), a. [< OF. replnnt- 
tililc ; as replant + -aole.] Capable of being 
planted again. Imp. Diet. 
replantation (re-plan-ta'shon), n. [< F. re- 
/i/iiii/iitiini ; as replant + -at/on.] The act of 
planting again. 
Attempting the replantation of that beautiful image sin 
and vice had obliterated and defaced. 
UattyweU, Saving of Souls (1677), p. 100. (Latham.) 
replead (re -pled'), r. t. and t. [< OF. *re- 
plaider, repledoier, reploider, plead again; as 
re- + plead.] To plead again. 
repleader (re-ple'der), n. [< OF. 'replaidir, inf. 
used as a noun : see replead.] In lair, a second 
pleading or course of pleadings; the right or 
privilege of pleading again: a course allowed 
for the correction of mispleading. 
repleat (re-plef), r. t. Same as replait. 
repledge (re-plej'), v. t. [< OF. replegier (ML. 
replegiare), pledge again ; as re- + pledge. Cf. 
replevy.] 1. To pledge again. 2. In Scots 
law, to demand judicially, as the person of an 
offender accused before another tribunal, on 
the ground that the alleged offense had been 
committed within the repledger's jurisdiction. 
This was formerly a privilege competent to 
certain private jurisdictions. 
repledger (re-plej'^r), n. One who repledges. 
replenish (re-plen'ish), v. [< ME. replenigsen, < 
repleniss-, stem of certain parts of OF. replenir, 
fill up again, < L. re-, again, 4- ML. "plenire, < 
plena*, full : see plenish.] I. trans. 1. To fill 
again; hence, to fill completely ; stock. 
Desertes replenisshed with wylde beastis and venlrnoug 
serpentes. Sir T. Elyot, The Oovernour, ii. 9. 
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 
Gen. i. 28. 
Ther waa ... a quantitie of a great sorte of dies, . . . 
which came out of holes in y ground, and replenished all 
y woods, and eate y green things. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 315. 
2t. To finish ; complete ; consummate ; per- 
fect. 
We smothered 
The most replenished sweet work of nature. 
Shak., Rich. III., iv. 3. 18. 
3f. To revive. Palsgrave. (Halliirell.) 
Il.t intrans. To recover former fullness. 
It is like . . . that the humours in men's bodies in- 
crease and decrease as the moon doth ; and therefore it 
were good to purge some day or two after the full; for 
that then the humours will not replenish so soon. 
Bacon, Sat. Hist., 8 894. 
replenisher (re-plen'ish-er), n. One who or 
that which replenishes; specifically, in elect., 
a static influence- or induction-machine used 
for maintaining the charge of a quadrant elec- 
trometer. 
replenishment (re-plen'ish-ment), M. [< re- 
plenish + -ment.] ' 1. The act of replenishing, 
or the state of being replenished. 2. That 
which replenishes ; a supply. Coirper. 
replete (re-plef), . [Early mod. E. also re- 
pleat; < ME. replete, replet, < OF. (and F.) re- 
plet = Pr. replet = Sp. Pg. It. replcto, < L. re- 
pMug, filled up, pp. of replere, fill again, < re-, 
again, + ptere, fill: see plenty. Cf. complete.] 
Filled up; completely filled ; full; abounding. 
Ware the sonne in his ascencioun 
Ne fynde yow not replet of humours hote. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 137. 
The world's large tongue 
Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks. 
Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 853. 
O, that 's a comedy on a very new plan ; replete with wit 
and mirth, yet of a most serious moral ! 
Sheridan, The Critic, i. 1. 
replete (re-plef). v. t. ; pret. and pp. repleted, 
ppr. repleting. [< L. repletus, pp. of replere. 
fill up: see replete, a.] To fill to repletion or 
satiety; fill full. 
Such have their intestines repleted with wind and excre- 
ments. Venner, Treatise of Tobacco, p. 407. (Encyc. Diet.) 
repleteness (re-plef nes), n. The state of be- 
ing replete; fullness; repletion. Bailey, 1727 . 
repletion (re-ple'shon), H. [< ME. repleciouit, 
< OF. repletion, replecion, F. repletion = Pr. 
replecio = Sp. replecion = Pg. replecSo = It. re- 
