reproach 
In vain Thalestris with reproach assails, 
For who can move when fair Belinda fails? 
Pope, R. of the!., v. 3. 
The name of Whig was never used except as a term of 
reproach. Maeaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. 
2. An occasion of blame or censure, shame, in- 
famy, or disgrace; also, the state of being sub- 
ject to blame or censure ; a state of disgrace. 
In any writer vntruth and flatterie are counted most 
great reproches. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 21. 
Give not thine heritage to reproach. Joel ii. 17. 
I know repentant tears ensue the deed, 
Reproach, disdain, and deadly enmity ; 
Yet strive I to embrace mine infamy. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 603. 
Many scandalous libells and invectives [were] scatter'd 
5091 
reprobablet, <* [< ML. reprobabilis, < L. repro- 
bare, reprove: see reprove, reprobate. Cf. re- 
provable.'] Reprovable. 
No thynge ther in was reprobaMe, 
But all to gedder true and veritable. 
Ron and Barlow, Rede me and Be nott Wroth, p. 44. 
[(Dames.) 
reprobacy (rep'ro-ba-si), w. [< reproba(te) + 
-ey.] The state or character of being a repro- 
bate; wickedness; profligacy. [Rare.] 
Greater evils . . . were yet behind, and . . . were as 
sure as this of overtaking him in his state of reprobacy. 
Fielding, Tom Jones, v. 2. 
"I should be sorry," said he, "that the wretch would 
die in his present state of reprobacy." 
H. Brooke, Fool of Quality, II. 134. (Dames.) 
about the streets, to y reproch of government and the reprobanCCt ( rep 'ro -bans), n. [< L. rcpro- 
fermentation of our since firtgrttol* ^ ^ J,^ ppr _ of rcp ' robaret disapprove, refect, 
Why did the King dwell on my name to me? condemn : see reprobate.] Reprobation. 
Why did the King dwell on my name to 
Mine own name shames me, seeming areproach. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
3. An object of contempt, scorn, or derision. 
I will deliver them . . . to be a reproach and a proverb, 
a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive 
them. Jer. xxiv. 9. 
The Reproaches, in the Rom. Cath. Ch., antiphons 
sung on Good Friday during the Adoration of the Cross. 
They follow the special prayers which succeed the Gos- 
pel of the Passion, and consist of sentences addressed 
by Christ to his people, reminding them of the great 
things he had done for them, in delivering them from 
Egypt, etc., and their ungrateful return for his goodness, as 
shown in the details of the passion and crucifixion. They 
are intermingled with the Trisagion ("Holy God . . . ') 
in Greek and Latin, and succeeded by hymns and the 
bringing in of the presanctifled host in procession, after 
which the Mass of the Presanctifled is celebrated. The 
Reproaches are sometimes sung in Anglican churches 
before the Three Hours' Service. Also called Improperia. 
=Syu. 1. Monition, Reprehension, etc. (see admonition), 
blame, reviling, abuse, invective, vilification, upbraiding. 
2. Disrepute, discredit, dishonor, scandal, contumely. 
reproachable (re-pro'cha-bl), a. [< ME. re- 
prochable, < OF.' reprochable, F. reprochable; 
as reproach + -able.] 1. Deserving reproach. 
Nor, in the mean time, is our ignorance reproachable. 
Evelyn, True Religion, I. 166. 
This sight would make him do a desperate turne, 
Yea, curse his- better Angell from his side, 
And fall to reprobanee. 
Shak., Othello (folio 1623), v. 2, 209. 
reprobate (rep'ro-bat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
see reprove.'] 1. To disapprove vehemently; 
contemn strongly ; condemn ; reject. 
And doth he reprobate, and will he damn, 
The use of his own bounty ? Cowper, Task, v. 638. 
If, for example, a man, through intemperance or extrav- 
agance, becomes unable to pay his debts, ... he is de- 
servedly reprobated, and might be justly punished. 
J. S.MUl, On Liberty, iv. 
Thousands who detested the policy of the New Eng- 
landers . . . reprobated the Stamp Act and many other 
parts of English policy. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., xiv. 
2. To abandon to vice or punishment, or to 
hopeless ruin or destruction. See reprobation, 3. 
I believe many are saved who to man seem reprobated. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 57. 
If he doom that people with a frown, . . . 
Obduracy takes place ; callous and tough, 
The reprobated race grows judgment-proof. 
Cowper, Table-Talk, 1. 459. 
To approbate and reprobate, in Scots law. See appro- 
bate. = Syn. 1. To reprehend, censure. See reprobate, a. 
i T7 , K reprobate (rep'r^-bat), a. and n. [= F. reprouee 
St. Opprobrious ; scurrilous ; reproachful ; abu- J 7 gp _ rep robado = Pg. reprovado = It. riprova- 
sive. [Rare.] to re p rooa t o < L. reprobates, pp. of reprobare, 
Catullus the poet wrote againste him [Julius Cfesar] repro tj a t e , condemn: see reprobate, v.] I. a. 
contumelious ior reproachable verses. ./ n . ,', , . M , annrn ,,^A . r^^t^ nni 
Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, fol. 170 b. (Latham.) 
reproachableness (re-pro'cha-bl-nes), *. The 
character of being reproachable. Bailey, 1727. 
reproachably (re-pro'cha-bli), adv. In a re- 
proachable manner; so as to be reproachable. 
Imp. Diet. 
reproacher (re-pro'cher), . One who re- 
proaches. Imp. Diet. 
reproachful (re-proch'ful), a. [< reproach + 
-ful.] 1. Containing or expressing reproach 
or censure ; upbraiding. 
Fixed were her eyes upon his, as if she divined his inten- 
tion, 
Fixed with a look so sad, so reproachful, imploring, and 
patient* 
That with a sudden revulsion his heart recoiled from its 
purpose. Longfellow, Miles Standish, v. 
2t. Scurrilous; opprobrious. 
Aar. For shame, put up. 
Dem. Not I, till I have sheathed 
My rapier in his bosom, and withal 
Thrust these reproachful speeches down his throat 
Shalt., Tit. And., ii. 1. 55. 
The common People cast out reproachful Slanders 
against the Lord Treasurer Buckhurst, as the Granter of 
Licenses for transportation of Corn. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 389. 
Bozon Allen, one of the deputies of Hingham, and a de- 
linquent in that common cause, should be publicly con- 
vict of divers false and reproach/id speeches published 
by him concerning the deputy governour. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 286. 
If. Disallowed; disapproved; rejected; not 
enduring proof or trial. 
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord 
hath rejected them. Jer. vi. 30. 
2. Abandoned in sin ; morally abandoned ; de- 
praved ; characteristic of a reprobate. 
By reprobate desire thus madly led. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 300. 
So fond are mortal men, 
Fallen into wrath divine, 
As their own ruin on themselves to invite, 
Insensate left, or to sense reprobate, 
And with blindness internal struck. 
Xaton, S. A., 1. 1686. 
3. Expressing disapproval or censure ; con- 
demnatory. [Rare.] 
I instantly reproached my heart ... in the bitterest 
and most reprobate of expressions. 
Sterne, Sentimental Journey, p. 44. 
= Syn. 2. Profligate, etc. (see abandoned), vitiated, cor- 
rupt, hardened, wicked, base, vile, cast away, graceless, 
shameless. 
II. n. One who is very profligate or aban- 
doned; a person given over to sin; one lost to 
virtue and religion ; a wicked, depraved wretch. 
We think our selves the Elect, and have the Spirit, and 
the rest a Company of Reprobates that belong to the Devil. 
Selden, Table-Talk, p. 67. 
I fear 
A hopeless reprobate, a hardened sinner, 
Must be that Carmelite now passing near. 
Longfellow, Golden Legend, i. 5. 
' reprobateness (rep'ro-bat-nes), n. The state 
3. Worthy or deserving of, or Deceiving, re- O r character of being reprobate. Imp. Diet. 
proach ; shameful : as, reproachful conduct. 
Thy punishment 
He shall endure by coming in the flesh 
To a reproachful life and cursed death. 
Xilton, P. L, xii. 406. 
= 8yn. 1. Rebuking, censuring, upbraiding, censorious, 
contemptuous, contumelious, abusive. 
reproachfully (re-proch'ful-i), adv. 1. In a 
reproachful manner; with reproach or censure. 
Give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproach- 
fully. 1 Tim. v. 14. 
2. Shamefully ; disgracefully ; contemptuously. 
William Bussey, Steward to William de Valence, is com- 
mitted to the Tower of London, and most reproachfully 
used. Baker, Chronicles, p. 86. 
reprqachfulness (re-proch'fiil-nes), n. The 
quality of being reproachful. Bailey, 1727. 
reproachless (re-proch'les), a. [< reproach + 
-less.] Without reproach ; irreproachable. 
reprobater (rep'ro-ba-ter), n. One who repro- 
bates. 
John, Duke of Argyle, the patriotic reprobater of French 
modes. 
M. Noble, Cont. of Granger's Biograph. Hist., III. 490. 
reprobation (rep-ro-ba'shon),n. [<OF. repro- 
bation, F. reprobation = Sp. reprobacion = Pg. 
reprovaqao = It. riprovasione, reprobazione, < 
LL. (eccl.) reprobatio(n-), rejection, reproba- 
tion, < L. reprobare, pp. reprobatus, reject, rep- 
robate: see reprobate.] 1. The act of repro- 
bating, or of vehemently disapproving or con- 
demning. 
The profligate pretenses ... are mentioned with be- 
coming reprobation. Jeffrey. 
Among other agents whose approbation or reprobation 
are contemplated by the savage as consequences of his 
conduct, are the spirits of his ancestors. 
a. Spencer, Prin. of Psycho!., 520. 
reproduction 
2. The state of being reprobated; condemna- 
tion; censure; rejection. 
You are empowered to ... put your stamp on all that 
ought to pass for current, and set a brand of reprobation 
on dipt poetry and false coin. Dryden. 
He exhibited this institution in the blackest colors of 
reprobation. Sumner, Speech, Aug. 27, 1846. 
3. In theol., the act of consigning or the state 
of being consigned to eternal punishment; the 
predestination by the decree and counsel of 
God of certain individuals or communities to 
eternal death, as election is the predestination 
to eternal life. 
No sin at all but impenitency can give testimony of 
final reprobation. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 654. 
What transubstantiation is in the order of reason, the 
Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptised in- 
fants, and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation, are in 
the order of morals. Lecky, European Morals, 1. 98. 
4. In eceles. law, the propounding of excep- 
tions to facts, persons, or things.^5. Disquali- 
fication to bear office: a punishment inflicted 
upon military officers for neglect of duty. 
Grose. 
reprobationer (rep-ro-ba'shon-er), n. In theol., 
one who believes in the doctrine of reprobation. 
Let them take heed that they mistake not their own 
fierce temper for the mind of God. . . . But I never knew 
any of the Geneva or Scotch model (which sort of sancti- 
fied reprobationers we abound with) either use or like this 
way of preaching in my life; but generally whips and 
scorpions, wrath and vengeance, fire and brimstone, made 
both top and bottom, front and rear, first and last, of all 
their discourses. South, Sermons, III. xi. 
reprobative (rep'ro-ba-tiv), a. [< reprobate + 
-ive.] Of or pertaining to reprobation; con- 
demning in strong terms ; criminatory. Imp. 
Diet. 
reprobator (rep'ro-ba-tor), n. [Orig. adj., a 
form of reprobatory.] In Scots law, formerly, 
an action to convict a witness of perjury, or to 
establish that he was biased. 
reprobatory (rep'ro-ba-to-ri), a. [= Sp. re- 
probatorio; as reprobate + -ory.] Reproba- 
tive. Imp. Diet. 
reproduce (re-pro -dus')i *' ' [= F. repro- 
duire = Sp. reprddueir = Pg. reproduzir = It. 
riprodurre, reproduce, < ML. *reproducere, < L. 
re-, again, + producere, produce : see produce."} 
1. To bring forward again; produce or exhibit 
anew. 
Topics of which she retained details with the utmost ac- 
curacy, and reproduced them in an excellent pickle of epi- 
grams. George Eliot, Middlemarcb, vi. 
2. To produce or yield again or anew ; gene- 
rate, as offspring; beget; procreate; give rise 
by an organic process to a new individual of the 
same species; propagate. See reproduction. 
If horse-dung reproduceth oats, it will not be easily de- 
termined where the power of generation ceaseth. 
Sir T. Browne. 
The power of reproducing lost parts is greatest where 
the organization is lowest, and almost disappears where 
the organization is highest. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., 62. 
In the seventeenth century Scotland reproduced all the 
characteristics and accustomed itself to the phrases of the 
Jewish theocracy, and the world saw again a covenanted 
people. J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 181. 
3. To make a copy or representation of; por- 
tray; represent. 
Such a comparison . . . would enable us to reproduce 
the ancient society of our common ancestry in a way that 
would speedily set at rest some of the most controverted 
questions of institutional history. 
Stubbs, Medieval apd Modern Hist., p. 65. 
From the Eternal Being among whose mountains he 
wandered there came to his heart steadfastness, stillness, 
a sort of reflected or reproduced eternity. 
J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 98. 
A number of commendably quaint designs, however, 
are reproduced from the "Voyages Pittoresques." 
N. and Q., 7th ser., III. 260. 
reproducer (re-pro-dii'ser), n. 1. One who or 
that which reproduces. 
I speak of Charles Townshend, officially the re-producer 
of this fatal scheme. Burke, American Taxation. 
Specifically 2. The diaphragm used in repro- 
ducing speech in the phonograph. 
Consequently, there are two diaphragms, one a recorder 
and the other a reproducer. Nature, XXXIX. 108. 
reproducible (re-pro-du'si-bl), a. [< reproduce 
+ -ible.] Susceptible or capable of reproduc- 
tion. 
reproduction (re-pro-duk'shon), n. [= F. re- 
prodvclion = Sp. reproduccion = Pg. reproduc- 
ctto = It. riproduzione, < ML. 'reproductio(n-), < 
'reproducere, reproduce: see reproduce.] _ 1. 
The act or process of reproducing, presenting, 
or yielding again ; repetition. 
The labourers and labouring cattle, therefore, employed 
in agriculture, not only occasion, like the workmen in 
