repressive 
repressive (re-pres'iv), a. [< F. repressif = 
Pg. repressivo ; as repress + -ire.] Having 
power to repress or crush ; tending to subdue 
or restrain. 
Visible disorders are no more than symptoms which no 
measures, repressive or revolutionary, can do more than 
palliate. Froude, Csesar, vi. 
repressively(re-pres'iv-li), adr. Inarepressive 
manner; with repression ; so as to repress. 
Imp. Diet. 
represser (re-pres'or), n. [< ME. repressour = 
It. ripressore, < L. represser, one who restrains 
or limits, < reprimere, pp. repressus, repress: 
see repress,] One who represses or restrains. 
reprevablet, A Middle English form of re- 
provable. 
reprevet, n. and v. A Middle English form of 
reproof and reprove. 
repriet, repryt, '' t. [A reduced form of re- 
prieve.] Same as reprieve. 
Wherupon they repryede me to prison cheynde. 
Heywood's Spider and Flie (1556). (Nares.) 
repriet, repryt, . [A reduced form of reprieve. 
Cr. reprie, .] Same as reprieve. 
Why, master Vaux, is there no remedy 
But instantly they must be led to death? 
Can it not be deferrd till afternoon, 
Or but two hours, in hope to get reprie > 
Heywood, 2 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, I. 136). 
reprieft, Same as repreve for reproof. 
reprievalt (re-pre'val), n. [< reprieve + -a/.] 
Respite. 
The reprieval of my life. 
Bp. Hall, Contemplations (ed. Tegg), IV. 125. 
reprieve (re-preV), v. t. ; pret. and pp. reprieved, 
ppr. reprieving. [Early mod. E. also repreeve, 
reprive; a particular use of reprove: see reprove, 
of which reprieve is a doublet.] If. To acquit ; 
set free ; release. 
It is by name 
Proteus, that hath ordayn'd my sonne to die; . . . 
Therefore I humbly crave your Majestie 
It to replevie, and my sonne reprive. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. xii. 31. 
He cannot thrive 
Unless her prayers . . . reprieve him from the wrath 
Of greatest justice. Shale., All's Well, iii. 4. 28. 
2. To grant a respite to ; suspend or delay the 
execxition of for a time : as, to reprieve a crimi- 
nal for thirty days. 
His Majesty had been graciously pleased to reprieve him, 
with several of his friends, in order, as it was thought, to 
give them their lives. 
Addison, Conversion of the Foxhunter. 
3. To relieve for a time from any danger or 
suffering; respite; spare; save. 
At my Return, if it shall please God to reprieve me in 
these dangerous Times of Contagion, I shall continue my 
wonted Service to your Lordship. 
Hoicell, Letters, I. iv. 20. 
Vain, transitory splendours ! Could not all 
Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall ? 
Goldsmith, Des. ViL, 1. 238. 
4. To secure a postponement of (an execution). 
[Rare.] 
I repriev'd 
Th' intended execution with entreaties 
And interruption. Ford, Lover's Melancholy, i. 1. 
= Syn. 2. See the noun. 
reprieve (re-prev'), n. [< reprieve, T. Cf. re- 
proof.] 1. The suspension of the execution 
of a criminal's sentence. Sometimes incorrectly 
used to signify a permanent remission or commutation 
of a capital sentence. In the United States reprieves may 
be granted by the President, by the governor of a State, 
governor and council, etc. ; in Great Britain they are 
granted by the home secretary in the name of the sover- 
eign. See pardon, 2. 
Duke. How came it that the absent duke had not . 
executed him? . . . 
Prov. His friends still wrought reprieves for him. 
Shale., M. for M., iv. 2. 140. 
The morning that Sir John Hotham was to die, a reprieve 
was sent ... to suspend the execution for three days. 
Clarendon, Hist, of the Rebellion (1648), p. 589. 
2. Respite in general ; interval of ease or re- 
lief; delay of something dreaded. 
I search'd the shades of sleep, to ease my day 
Of griping sorrows with a night's reprieve. 
Quarles, Emblems, iv. 14. 
All that I ask is but a short reprieve, 
Till I forget to love, and learn to grieve. 
Sir J. Denham, Passion of Dido. 
Their theory was despair ; the Whig wisdom was only 
reprieve, a waiting to be last devoured. 
Emerson, Fugitive Slave Law. 
= Syn. Reprieve, Respite. Reprieve is now used chiefly 
in the sense of the first definition, to name a suspension 
or postponement of the execution of a sentence of death. 
Respite is a free word, applying to an intermission or post- 
ponement of something wearying, burdensome, or trouble- 
some : as, respite from work. Respite may be for an in- 
definite or a definite time; a reprieve is generally for a 
time named. A respite may be a reprieve. 
B090 
reprimand (rep'ri-mand), . [< OF. rcprimande, 
n /iriiin-iidf. F. rcprimande = Sp. Pg. reprimenda, 
reprehension, reproof, < L. rc/irintt n<l/i, sc. res, 
a thing that ought to be repressed, fern, gerun- 
dive of reprimere, repress: see repress.] Se- 
vere reproof for a fault ; reprehension, private 
or public. 
Ooldsmlth gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her 
treatment of him. Macaulay, Goldsmith. 
= Syn. Monition, Reprehension, etc. See admonition. 
reprimand (rep-ri-mand'), r. t. [< OF. repri- 
mander, F. reprimander, <. reprimande, reproof: 
see reprimand, n.] To reprove severely ; repre- 
hend ; chide for a fault. 
Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius for 
travelling into Egypt without his permission. Arbuthnot. 
The people are feared and flattered. They are not rep- 
rimanded. Emerson, Fortune of the Republic. 
= Svn. Rebate, etc. See censure. 
reprimander (rep-ri-man'der), n. One who 
reprimands. 
Then said the owl unto his reprimander, 
" Fair sir, I have no enemies to slander." 
Quiver, 1867, p. 186. (Eneye. Diet.) 
reprimer (re-pri'mer), n. [< re- + primer 2 .} 
An instrument for setting a cap upon a car- 
tridge-shell. It is one of a set of reloading- 
tools. E. H. Knight. 
reprint (re-print'), ?>. t. [< re- + print, .] 1. 
To print again ; print a second or any new edi- 
tion of. 
My bookseller ia reprinting the "Essay on Criticism." 
Pope. 
2. To renew the impression of. [Rare.] 
The whole business of our redemption is ... to reprint 
God's image upon the soul. South, Sermons, I. ii. 
reprint (re-print'), n. [< reprint, r.] 1. A 
second or a new impression or edition of any 
printed work; reimpression. 2. In printing, 
printed matter taken from some other publica- 
tion for reproduction. 
"How are ye off for copy, Mike?" "Bad," answered the 
old printer. " I've a little reprint, but no original matter 
at all." The Century, XXXVII. 303. 
reprisal (re-pri'zal), ji. [Early mod. E. also 
reprisall, r'eprisel; < OF. represaille, P. repre- 
saille (= Sp. represaha, represaria = Pg. repre- 
salia = It. ripresaglia; ML. reflex reprisals, 
reprsesalise, pi.), a taking, seizing, prize, booty, 
< reprise, a taking, prize : see reprise, .] 1. In 
international law : (a) The recovering by force 
of what is one's own. (6) The seizing of an 
equivalent, or, negatively, the detaining of 
that which belongs to an adversary, as a means 
of obtaining redress of a grievance. ( Woolsey. ) 
A reprisal is the use of force by one nation against prop- 
erty of another to obtain redress without thereby com- 
mencing war ; and the uncertainty of the distinction be- 
tween it and war results from the uncertainty as to what 
degree of force can be used without practically declaring 
war or creating a state of war. 
All this Year and the Year past sundry quarrels and 
complaints arose between the English and French, touch- 
ing reprisals of Goods taken from each other by Parties of 
either Nation. Baker, Chronicles, p. 389. 
Reprisals differ from retorsion in this, that the essence 
of the former consists in seizing the property of another 
nation by way of security, until it shall have listened to 
the just reclamations of the offended party, while retor- 
sion includes all kinds of measures which do an injury to 
another, similar and equivalent to that which we hare ex- 
perienced from him. 
Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 114. 
2. The act of retorting on an enemy by inflict- 
ing suffering or death on a prisoner taken from 
him, in retaliation of an act of inhumanity. 
The military executions on both sides, the massacre of 
prisoners, the illegal reprisall of Warwick and Clarence 
in 1469 and 1470, were alike unjustifiable. 
Stubbs, Const. Hist., 373. 
3. Any taking by way of retaliation ; an act of 
severity done in retaliation. 
This gentleman being very desirous, as it seems, to make 
reprisals upon me, undertakes to furnish out a whole sec- 
tion of gross misrepresentations made by me in my quota- 
tions. Wateriand, Works, III. 70. 
He considered himself as robbed and plundered, and 
took it into his head that he had a right to make reprisals, 
as he could find opportunity. 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, ii. 
Who call things wicked that give too much joy, 
And nickname the reprisal envy makes 
Punishment. Browning, Ring and Book, n. 249. 
4. Same as recaption. 5t. A prize. 
I am on fire 
To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh, 
And yet not ours. Come, let me taste my horse, 
Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt 
Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales. 
Shale., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 118. 
6. A restitution. [An erroneous use.] 
reproach 
He was able to refund, to make reprisals, if they could 
be fairly demanded. Georye Eliot, Felix Holt, ix. 
Letters of marque and reprisal. See marque. = Syn. 
1-3. Retribution, Retaliation, etc. See revenge. 
repriset, reprizeH (re-priz'), v. t. [< OF. (and 
F.) repris, pp. of reprendre, take again, retake 
(cf. Sp. Pg. represar, recapture), < L. reprehen- 
dere, seize again: see reprehend.] 1. To take 
again; retake. 
He now begunne 
To challenge her anew, as his own prize, 
Whom formerly he had in battell wonne, 
And proffer made by force her to reprize. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. iv. 8. 
Ye might reprise the armes Sarpedon forfeited, 
By forfeit of your rights to him. Chapman, Iliad, vii. 
2. To recompense ; pay. 
If any of the lands so granted by his majesty should be 
otherwise decreed, his majesty's grantee should be re- 
prised with other lands. 
Grant, in Lord Clarendon's Life, ii. 252. (Latham.) 
3. To take ; arrest. 
He was repriz'd. 
Howelf, Exact Hist of the late Rev. in Naples, 1664. 
reprise (re-priz'), n. [Early mod. E. also re- 
prize; < ME. reprise, < OF. reprise, a taking 
back, etc., F. reprise, a taking back, recovery, 
recapture, resumption, return, repetition, re- 
vival (= Sp. represa = Pg. represa, repreza 
= It. ripresa, a retaking), < repris, pp. of re- 
prendre, take ; from the verb.] If. A taking 
by way of retaliation ; reprisal. 
If so, a just reprise would only be 
Of what the land usurp'd upon the sea. 
Dryden, Hind and Panther, iii. 862. 
2. In masonry, the return of a molding in an 
internal angle. 3. In maritime law, a ship re- 
captured from an enemy or a pirate, if recaptured 
within twenty-four hours of her capture, she must be re- 
stored to her owners ; if after that period, she is the law- 
ful prize of those who have recaptured her. 
4. pi. In law, yearly deductions, duties, or pay- 
ments out of a manor and lands, as rent-charge, 
rent-seek, annuities, and the like. Also writ- 
ten reprizes. 5. la. music: (a) The act of re- 
peating a passage, or a passage repeated, (b) 
A return to the first theme or subject of a short 
work or section, after an intermediate or con- 
trasted passage, (c) A revival of an obsolete 
or forgotten work. 6f. Blame; reproach. 
Halliwell. 
That alle the world ne may sufnse 
To staunche of pride the reprise. 
dower, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 60. 
repristinate (re-pris'ti-nat), v. t. [< re- + 
prixtinate.] To restore to the pristine or first 
state or condition. [Rare.] Imp. Diet. 
repristination (re-pris-ti-na'shon), n. [< re- 
pristinate + -ion.} Restoration to the pristine 
form or state. 
The repristination of the simple and hallowed names of 
early Hebrew history. 
Smith's Diet. Bible (Amer. ed.), p. 2062. 
reprivet, r. t. An obsolete form of reprieve and 
reprove. 
reprize 1 t, v. and n. See reprise. 
reprize 2 , r. t. [< OF. repriser, set a new price 
on, prize again; as re- + prize'*, .] To prize 
anew. Imp. Diet. 
reproach (re-proch'), " t. [< OF. reprocher, re- 
proehier, F. reprocher = Pr. repropchar = Sp. 
Pg. reprochar = It. rimprocciare (ML. reflex 
reproehare), reproach, prob. < LL. 'repropiare, 
bring near to, hence cast in one's teeth, im- 
pute, object (cf. approach, < OF. aprocher, ap- 
proach, < LL. *appropiare), < re-, again, + "pro- 
piare, < L. propius, nearer, compar. of prope, 
near: see propinquity, audcf. approach.'] 1. To 
charge with a fault; censure with severity; 
upbraid: now usually with a personal object. 
With a most inhumane cruelty they who have put out 
the peoples eyes reproach them of their blindnesse. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
Scenes which, never having known me free, 
Would not repriMch me with the loss I felt. 
Cmcper, Task, v. 490. 
2f. To disgrace. 
I thought your marriage fit ; else imputation, 
For that he knew you, might reproach your life, 
And choke your good to come. 
Shalt., M. forM., v. 1. 426. 
= Syn. 1. Reprove, Rebuke, etc. (see censure) ; revile, vilify, 
accuse. 
reproach (re-proch'), n. [Early mod. E. also 
reproch, reproche; < OF. reproche, reproce, re- 
proece. F. reproche = Pr. repropdie = Sp. Pg. 
reproche = It. rimproccio, reproach ; from the 
verb.] 1. The act of reproaching; a severe 
expression of censure or blame. 
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of 
his own heart, Addison, Sir Roger at the Assizes. 
