report 
covered by a person sent to examine, explore, 
or investigate. 
But you, faire Sir, whose pageant next ensewes, 
Well mote >ee thee, as well can wish your thought, 
That home ye may report thrise happy newes. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. i. 33. 
Tom, an arch, sly rogue, . . . 
Moves without noise, and, swift as an express, 
Reports a message with a pleasing grace. 
Cou-per, Truth, 1. 205. 
2. To give an account of; make a statement 
concerning; say; make known; tell or relate 
from one to another. 
Reporte no slaunder, nc yet shew 
The fruites of flattery. 
Babees Boole (E. E. T. S.), p. 97. 
It is reported among the heathen, nnd Gashmu saith it, 
that I In MI and the Jews think to rebel. N < h. vi. 6. 
Why does the world report that Kate doth limp? 
O slanderous world ! Shale., T. of the S., ii. 1. 254. 
Came 
The lord of Astolat out, to whom the Prince 
Reported who he was, and on what quest. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
3. To give an official or formal account or 
statement of: as, to report a deficit. 
A committee of the whole . . . has no authority to 
punish a breach of order, . . . but can only rise and re- 
port the matter to the assembly. 
Cashing, Manual of Parl. Practice, 308. 
4. To write out and give an account or state- 
ment of, as of the proceedings, debates, etc., 
of a legislative body, a convention, court, etc. ; 
specifically, to write out or take down from the 
lips of the speaker: as, the debate was fully 
reported. 5. To lay a charge against; bring 
to the cognizance of: as, to report one to one's 
employer. 6f. To refer (one's self) for infor- 
mation or credit. 
I report me unto the consciences of all the land, whether 
he say truth or otherwise. 
Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850X p. 14. 
Wherein I report me to them that knew Sir Nicholas 
Bacon Lord keeper of the great Scale. 
PutUnham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 116. 
7f. To return or reverberate, as sound; echo 
back. 
The eare taking pleasure to heare the like tune reported, 
and to feele his returne. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 163. 
If you speak three words, it will (perhaps) some three 
times report you the whole three words. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 249. 
8t. To describe ; represent. 
He shall know you better, sir. if I may live to report you. 
Shak., M. for M., iii. 2. 172. 
Bid him 
Report the feature of Octavia, her years, 
Her inclination, let him not leave out 
The colour of her hair. Shak., A. and C. , ii. 5. 112. 
To be reported, or (usually) to be reported of, to be 
(well or ill) spoken of ; be mentioned. 
Timotheus . . . was well reported of. Acts xvi. 2. 
To report one's self, (a) To make known one's own 
whereabouts or movements to any person, or in any desig- 
nated place or office, so as to be in readiness to perform a 
duty, service, etc., when called upon. (6) To give infor- 
mation about one's self ; speak for one's self. 
The chimney-piece 
Chaste Dian bathing ; never saw I figures 
So likely to report themselves ; the cutter 
Was as another nature. 
Shak., Cymbeline, ii. 4. 83. 
= Syn. 1. To announce, communicate. 2. To rumor, 
bruit. 
II. intrans. 1. To give in a report, or make 
a formal statement: as, the committee will re- 
port at twelve o'clock. 2. To give an account 
or description; specifically, to do the work of 
a reporter. See reporter (b). 
There is a gentleman that serves the count 
Reports but coarsely of her. 
Shak., All's Well, iii. 5. 60. 
For two sessions he (Dickens] reported for the "Mirror 
of Parliament," . . . and in the session of 1835 became 
reporter for the " Morning Chronicle." 
Leslie Stephen, Diet. National Biog., XV. 21. 
3. Same as to report one's self (a) (see under 
I.): as, to report at headquarters, 
report (re-port'), [< ME. report = F. report, 
a bringing forward (rapport, relation, a state- 
ment, report), = It. riporto, report; from the 
verb.] 1. An account brought back or re- 
turned ; a statement or relation of facts given 
in reply to inquiry, as the result of investiga- 
tion, or by a person authorized to examine and 
bring or send information. 
Other service thanne this I myhte comende 
To yow to done, but, for the tyme is shorte, 
I putte theym nouhte in this lytyl Reporte. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 8. 
This is (quod he) the richt report 
Of all that I did heir and kimw. 
Battle of Harlaw (Child's Ballads, VII. 187). 
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'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; 
And ask them what report they bore to heaven. 
Ymmij, Mght Thoughts, ii. 377. 
Geraint . . . woke . . . and call'd 
For Enid, and . . . Yniol made report 
Of that good mother making Enid gay. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
2. A tale carried; a story circulated; hence, 
rumor; common fame. 
It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of 
thy acts and of thy wisdom. 1 Ki. x. 6. 
My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks 
goldenly of his profit. Shak., As you Like it, 1. 1. 6. 
3. Repute ; public character. 
Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that fear- 
eth God, and of good report among all the nation of the 
Jews. Acts x. 22. 
A gentlewoman of mine, 
Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth, 
Hath blistered her report. 
Shale., M.forM.,11. 3. 12. 
4. An account or statement, (a) A statement of 
a judicial opinion or decision, or of a case argued and de- 
termined in a court of Justice, the object being to pre- 
sent such parts of the pleadings, evidence, and argument, 
with the opinion of the court, as shall serve to inform the 
profession and other courts of the points of law in respect 
to which the case may be a precedent The books con- 
taining such statements are also called reports, (b) The 
official document in which a referee, master in chancery, 
or auditor embodies his findings or his proceedings for 
the purpose of presentation to the court, or of filing as a 
part of its records, (c) In parliamentary lav, an official 
statement of facts or opinions by a committee, officer, or 
board to the superior body, (d) A paper delivered by the 
masters of all snips arriving from parts beyond seas to the 
custom-house, and attested upon oath, containing a state- 
ment In detail of the cargo on board, etc. (e) An account 
or statement, more or less full and circumstantial, of the 
proceedings, debates, etc., of a legislative assembly, meet- 
ing, court, etc.. or of any occurrence of public Interest, in- 
tended for publication ; an epitome or fully written ac- 
count of a speech. 
Stuart occasionally took him [Coleridge] to the report- 
ers' gallery, where his only effort appears to have been a 
report of a remarkable speech delivered by Pitt 17 Feb., 
1800. Ledie Stephen, Diet. National Blog., XI. 308. 
5. The sound of an explosion ; a loud noise. 
Russet-pated choughs, many in sort, 
Kising and cawing at the gun's report. 
Shak., M. N. D., Ul. 2. 22. 
The lashing billows make a loud report, 
And beat her sides. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., r. 139. 
6f. Relation; correspondence; connection; ref- 
erence. 
The kitchen and stables are ill-plac'd, and the corridore 
worse, having no report to the wings they Joyne to. 
Evelyn, Diary, Sept. 25, 1672. 
Guard report. See guard. Pinion of report. See 
pinion*. Practice reports. See practice.- Sick re- 
port. See *ic*.=Syn,l. Narration, detail, description, 
recital, narrative, communication. 2. Hearsay. 4. (a), 
(b) Verdict, etc. See decision. 
reportable (re-por'ta-bl), a. [< report + -able.] 
That may be reported ; fit to be reported. Imp. 
Diet. 
reportage (re-por'taj), n. [< F. reportage, re- 
porter, report : see report. ] Report. 
Lord Lytton says some sensible things both about poetry 
and about Proteus [his friend) ; and he will interest the 
lovers of personal detail by certain reportage, in which he 
has exhibited the sentiments of an "illustrious poet, X." 
The Academy, Nov. 5, 1881, p. 347. 
reporter (re-por'ter), n. [< ME. reportour, < 
OF. "reporteor, reportour, one who reports a 
case, < ML. reportator, < rejiortare, report: see 
report.'] One who reports or gives an account. 
And that he wolde bene oure governour, 
And of oure tales juge and reportour. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T. , 1. 814. 
There she appeared indeed ; or my reporter devised well 
for her. Shak., A. and C., ii. 2. 193. 
The mind of man, whereto the senses are but reporters. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. S. 
Specifically (a) One who draws up official statements of 
law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates. 
(6) A member of the staff of a newspaper whose work is 
to collect and put in form for submission to the editors 
local information of all kinds, to give an account of the 
proceedings at public meetings, entertainments, etc., and, 
in general, to go upon any mission or quest for news, to 
interview persons whose names are before the public, 
and to obtain news for his paper in any other way that 
may be assigned to him by his chiefs. 
Among the reporters who sat in the Gallery, it is re- 
markable that two-thirds did not write short-hand ; they 
made notes, and trusted to their memories ; Charles Dick- 
ens sat with them in the year 1836. 
W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 210. 
(c) One who makes or signs a report, as of a committee. 
A. J. Ellis. 
reporterism (re-por'ter-izm), . [< reporter + 
-ism.] The practice or business of reporting ; 
work done by a reporter. [Rare.] 
Fraser . . . seems more bent on Toryism and Irish re- 
porterism, to me infinitely detestable. 
Carlyle, in Fronde, II. 
repose 
reporterize (re-por'ter-Iz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
reporterized, ppr. reporterizing. [< reporter + 
-ize.~\ To submit to the influence of newspaper 
reporters ; corrupt with the methods of report- 
ers. [Rare and objectionable.] 
Our reporterized press is often truculently reckless of 
privacy and decency. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 314. 
reporting (re-por'ting), n. [Verbaln. of report, 
v7] The act or system of drawing up reports ; 
the practice of making a report; specifically, 
newspaper reporting (see phrase below): also 
used attributively: as, the reporting style of 
phonography. 
At the Restoration all reporting was forbidden, though 
the votes and proceedings of the House were printed by 
direction of the Speaker. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., iii. 
Newspaper reporting, the system by which proceed- 
ings and debates of Congress or Parliament or other legis- 
lative bodies, and the proceedings of public meetings, 
the accounts of important or interesting events, etc., are 
taken down, usually in shorthand, by a body of reporters 
attached to various newspapers or to general news-agen- 
cies, and are afterward prepared for publication. 
reportingly (re-por'ting-li), adv. By report or 
common fame. [Rare.] 
For others say thou dost deserve, and I 
Believe it better than reportinyly. 
Shak., Much Ado, ill. 1. 116. 
reportorial (re-por-to'ri-al), a. [Irreg. < re- 
porter, taken as 'reporter, + -ial, in imitation 
of words like editorial, professorial, etc.] Of 
or pertaining to a reporter or reporters. [An 
objectionable word, not in good use.] 
The great newspapers of New York have capital, edito- 
rial talent, reportorial enterprise, and competent business 
management, and an unequalled field both for the collec- 
tion of news and the extension of their circulation. 
Harper's Mai/., LXXVII. 687. 
repertory! (re-por'to-ri), n. [Irreg. < report + 
-on/.] A report. 
In this transcursive reportory, without some observant 
glaunce, I may not dully overpasse the gallant beauty of 
their haven. Nahe, Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc., VI. 149). 
reposal (re-po'zal), n. [< repose + -al.~\ 1. 
Tne act of reposing or resting. 
Dost thon think, 
If I would stand against thee, would the reposal 
Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee 
Make thy words faith'd 1 Shak., Lear, ii. 1. 70. 
2f. That on which one reposes. 
The devil's cushion, as Gnalter cats It, his pillow and 
chiefe reposall. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 86. 
reposancet (re-po'zans), n. [< repose + -ance.] 
The act of reposing; reliance. [Rare.] 
See what sweet 
Reposance heaven can beget. 
/.'/' //"'/, Poems, p. 92. 
repose (re-poz'). r. ; pret. and pp. reposed, ppr. 
repaying. [< ME. reposen, < OF. reposer, repau- 
ser, repose, rest, stay, F. reposer = Pr. repausar 
= Sp. reposar = Pg. repousar = It. riposare, < 
ML. repatisare, lay at rest, quiet, also nourish, 
intr. be at rest, rest, repose, < L. re-, again, + 
pamare, pause, rest: see pose?. Cf. repone, re- 
posit.] I. trans. If. To lay (a thing) at rest; 
lay by ; lay up ; deposit. 
Write upon the [almond] cornel . . . outetake, 
Or this or that, and faire aboute it close 
In cley and swynes dounge and so repose. 
Paltadius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 56. 
Pebbles, reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth, being 
not so dissoluble and more bulky, are left behind. 
Woodward. 
2. To lay at rest; refresh by rest: with refer- 
ence to a person, and often used reflexively. 
Enter in the castle 
And there repose you for this night 
5Ao*.,Kich. II., ii. 3. 161. 
I reposed my selfe all that night in a certaine lime in 
the suburbes of the city. Coryat, Crudities, I. 132. 
Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? 
Whose seats the weary traveller repose' 
Pope, Moral Essays, iii. 260. 
The hardy chief upon the rugged rock, . . . 
Fearless of wrong, repos'd his wearied strength. 
Cowper, Task, i. 16. 
3t. To cause to be calm or quiet; tranquilize; 
compose. 
All being settled and reposed, the lord archbishop did 
present his majesty to the lords and commons. 
fuller. (Webster.) 
4. To lay, place, or rest, as confidence or trust. 
The king reposeth all his confidence in thee. 
Shak., Rich. II., ii. 4. 6. 
Mr. Godolphin requested me to continue the trust his 
wife had reposed in me in behalfe of his little sonn. 
Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 16, 167& 
There are some writers who repose undoubting confi- 
dence in words. Whipple, Ess. and Rev., I. 60. 
The absolute control [of a society] is reposed in a com- 
mittee. Art Age, VII. 51. 
