republican 
II. n. 1. One who favors or prefers a repub- 
lican form of government. 
There is a want of polish In the subjects of free states 
which has made the roughness of a republican almost 
proverbial. Brougham. 
2. A member of a republican party; specifically 
[cop.], in U. S. hist., a member of the Repub- 
lican party. 3. In ornith . , the republican swal- 
low Black Republican, in U. S. hist., an extreme or 
radical Republican ; one who after the civil war advocated 
strong measures in dealing with persons in the States lately 
in rebellion. The term arose before the war ; the epithet 
" black " was used intensively, in offensive allusion to 
the alleged friendliness of the party toward the negro. 
National Republican, in ''. 5. hist., a name assumed 
during the administration of J. Q. Adams (1825 -9) by that 
wing of the Democratic party which sympathized with 
him and his measures, as distinguished from the followers 
of Jackson. The National Republicans in a few years took 
the name of Whigs. See Whig. Red republican, an 
extreme or radical republican ; specifically, in French 
hut., one of the more violent republicans, especially in the 
first revolution, at the time of the ascendancy of the Moun- 
tain, about 1793, and at the time of the Commune in 1871. 
In the first period the phrase was derived from the red 
cap which formed part of the costume of the carmagnole. 
- Stalwart Republican. See stalwart. 
republicanism (re-pub'li-kan-izm), n. [= F. 
republicanisme = Sp. Pg. republicanismo = It. 
repubblicanismo = G. republikanismus = Dan. re- 
publikanisme = Sw. republicanism ; as repub- 
lican + -ism.'] 1. A republican form or system 
of government. 2. Attachment to a republi- 
can form of government; republican princi- 
ples : as, his republicanism was of the most 
advanced type. 
Our young people are educated in republicanism ; an 
apostacy from that to royalism is unprecedented and im- 
possible. Jefferson, Correspondence, II. 443. 
3. [cap.'] The principles or doctrine of the Re- 
publican party, specifically of the Republican 
party in the United States. 
republicanize (re-pub'li-kan-iz), v. t. ; pret. and 
pp. republicanized, ppr. republicanizing. [< F. 
republicaniser ; as republican + -ize.~\ To con- 
vert to republican principles ; render republi- 
can. Also spelled republicanise. 
Let us not, with malice prepense, go about to republican- 
ize our orthography and our syntax. 
G. P. Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., xxx. 
republicariant (re-pub-li-ka'ri-an), n. [< re- 
public + -arian.'] ' A republican. [Rare.] 
There were Hepublicarians who would make the Prince 
of Orange like a Stadtholder. 
Evelyn, Diary, Jan. 15, 1688-9. 
republicatet (re-pub'li-kat), v. t. [< ML. repub- 
licatits, pp. of republicare, publish, lit. repub- 
lish: see republish."] To set forth afresh; re- 
habilitate. 
The Cabinet-men at Wallingford-house set upon it to 
consider what exploit this lord should commence, to be 
the darling of the Commons and as it were to republicate 
his lordship, and to be precious to those who had the vogue 
to be the chief lovers of their country. 
Bp. Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. 137. (Davies.) 
republication (re-pub-li-ka'shon), n. [< ML. 
*repul>licatio(n-), < republicare,"p\Mish : see re- 
publish."] 1. The act of republishing; a new 
publication of something before published; 
specifically, the reprint in one country of a 
work published in another: as, the republica- 
tion of a book or pamphlet. 
The Gospel itself is only a republication of the religion 
of nature. Warburton, Divine Legation, ix. 3. 
2. In laic, a second publication of a former 
will, usually resorted to after canceling or re- 
voking, or upon doubts as to the validity of its 
execution, or after the termination of a sug- 
gested disability, in order to avoid the labor of 
drawing a new will, or in order that the will 
may stand if either the original execution or 
the republication proves to be valid. 
If there be many testaments, the last overthrows all 
the former ; but the republication of a former will revokes 
one of a later date, and establishes the first again. 
Blackstone, Com., II. xxxii. 
republish (re-pub'lish), v. t. [< re- + publish, 
after OF. republier, republish, < ML. republi- 
care, publish, lit. 'republish,' < L. re-, again, + 
pnblicare, publish : see publish.'] To publish 
anew, (a) To publish a new edition of, as a book. (6) 
To print or publish again, as a foreign reprint, (c) In 
law, to revive, as a will revoked, either by reexecntion or 
by a codicil. Blackstone, Com., II. xxxii. 
republisher (re-pub'lish-er), n. One who re- 
publishes. Imp. Diet. 
repudiable (re-pu'di-a-bl), a. [< OF. repudia- 
ble, F. repudiable = Sp. repudiable = Pg. repu- 
diavel, < ML. "repudiabilis, < L. repudiare, re- 
pudiate : see repudiate."] Capable of being re- 
pudiated or rejected ; fit or proper to be put 
away. 
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The reasons that on each side make them differ are 
such as make the authority itself the less authentic and 
more repudiable. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835); II. 339. 
repudiate (re-pu'di-at), v. t.; pret. and pp. re- 
jindiatcd, ppr. repudiating. [< L. repudiatus, pp. 
of repudiare, put away, divorce (one's spouse), 
in gen. cast off, reject, refuse, repudiate (> It. 
ripudiare = Sp. Pg. repudiar = OF. repudier, F. 
rrpudier, repudiate), < L. repudiitm, a putting 
off or divorce of one's spouse or betrothed, repu- 
diation, lit. a rejection of what one is ashamed 
of, < re-, away, back, + pudere, feel shame : see 
pudency.'] 1. To put away; divorce. 
His separation from Terentia, whom he repudiated not 
long afterward, was perhaps an affliction to him at this 
time. BMngbroke, Exile. 
2. To cast away; reject; discard; renounce; 
disavow. 
He [Phalaris] is defended by the like practice of other 
writers, who, being Dorians born, repudiated their ver- 
nacular idiom for that of the Athenians. 
Bentlfy, Works, I. 359. 
In repudiating metaphysics, M. Comte did not inter- 
dict himself from analyzing or criticising any of the ab- 
stract conceptions of the mind. 
J. S. Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism, p. 15. 
3. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay, as a 
debt; disclaim. 
I petition your honourable Bouse to institute some 
measures for ... the repayment of debts incurred and 
repudiated by several of the States. 
Sydney Smith, Petition to Congress. 
When Pennsylvania and other States sought to repudi- 
ate the debt due to England, the witty canon of St. Paul's 
[Sydney Smith] took the field, and, by a petition and let- 
ters on the subject, roused all Europe against the repudi- 
ating States. Chambers, Eng. Lit., art. Sydney Smith. 
repudiate! (re-pu'di-at), a. [< L. repudiatus, 
pp.: see the verb.] Repudiated. 
To be debarred of that Imperial state 
Which to her graces rightly did belong, 
Basely rejected, and repudiate. 
Drayton, Barons' Wars, L 30. 
repudiation (re-pu-di-a'shon), . [< OF. repu- 
diation, F. repudiation = Sp. repudiation, < L. 
repudiatio(n-), repudiation, < repudiare, repu- 
diate: see repudiate."] The act of repudiating, 
or the state of being repudiated, (a) The putting 
away of a wife, or of a woman betrothed ; divorce. 
Just causes for repudiation by the husband were [under 
Constantino] 1, adultery ; 2, preparing poisons ; 3, being 
a procuress. Encyc. Brit., VII. 300. 
(6) Rejection ; disavowal or renunciation of a right or an 
obligation, as of a debt ; specifically, refusal by a state 
or municipality to pay a debt lawfully contracted. Repu- 
diation of a debt implies that the debt is just, and that its 
payment is denied, not because of sufficient legal defense, 
but to take advantage of the rule that a sovereign state 
cannot be sued by individuals. 
Other states have been even more unprincipled, and 
have got rid of their debts at one sweep by the simple 
method of repudiation. Encyc. Brit., XVII. 245. 
(c) Eccles., the refusal to accept a benefice, 
repudiationist (re-pu-di-a'shon-ist), n. [< re- 
pudiation + -ist."]' One who advocates repudi- 
ation; one who disclaims liability for debt con- 
tracted by a predecessor in office, etc. 
Perhaps not a single citizen of the State [Tennessee] 
would have consented to be called a repudiationist. 
The Nation, XXXVI. 58. 
repudiator (rf-pu'di-a-tgr), . [< LL. repudia- 
tor, a rejecter, contemner, < L. repudiare, repu- 
diate: see repudiate.'] One who repudiates; 
specifically, one who advocates the repudiation 
of debts contracted in good faith by a state. 
See readjuster, 2. 
The people of the State [Virginia] appear now to be 
divided into two main parties by the McCulloch Bill, which 
the ftepudiators desire repealed, and which is in reality, 
even as it stands, a compromise between the State and its 
creditors. The Nation, XXIX. 317. 
repudiatory (re-pu'di-a-to-ri), a. [< repudiate 
+ -ory.] Pertaining to or of the nature of re- 
pudiation or repudiators. [Rare.] 
They refused to admit ... a delegate who was of known 
repudiatory principles. The American, IV. 67. 
repugn (re-pun'), t\ [< ME. repugnen, < OF. 
repugner, F. repugner = Pr. Sp. Pg. repugnar = 
It. repugnarc, ripugnare, < L. repugnare, fight 
against, < re-, back, against, + pugnare, fight: 
see pugnacious. Cf. expugn, impugn, propugn."] 
1. trans. 1. To oppose; resist; fight against; 
feel repugnance toward. 
Your will oft resisteth and repugneth God's will. 
Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 224. 
Stubbornly he did repugn the truth 
About a certain question in the law. 
Shale., 1 Hen. VI., | v . 1. 94. 
2. To affect with repugnance. [Rare.] 
Man, highest of the animals so much so that the base 
kinship rtpugns him. Mauddey, Body and Will, p. 241. 
repugnant 
II. in trans. To be opposed; be in conflict with 
anything; conflict. 
It semyth, quod I, to repugnen and to contraryen gretly 
that God knowit byforn alle thinges. 
Chaucer, Boethius, v. prose 3. 
Be thou content to know that God's will, his word, and 
his power be all one, and repugn not. 
Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 232. 
In many thinges repugning quite both to God and mans 
lawe. Spenser, State of Ireland. 
repugnabletX r f-P u/ - or r ?-P u g' n a-bl), " [< re- 
pugn + -al>h'.~\ Capable 'of being resisted. 
The demonstration proving it soexquisitely, with won- 
derfull reason and facility, as it is not repugnable. 
North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 262. 
repugnance (re-pug'nans), n. [Early mod. E. 
also repugnaunce; < OF. repugnance, F. repu- 
gnance = Pr. Sp. Pg. repugnancia = It. repu- 
gnama, < L. repugnan Ha, resistance, opposition, 
contradiction, repugnance, < repugnan(t-)s, re- 
sisting, repugnant: Bee repugnant.'] If. Oppo- 
sition; conflict; resistance, in a physical sense. 
As the shotte of great artillerie is driuen furth by vio- 
lence of fyre, euen so by the commlxtion and repugnaunce 
of fyre, coulde. and brymstome, greate stones are here 
throwne Into the ayer. 
J<. Eden, tr. of Jacobus Ziglerus (First Books on America, 
[ed. Arber, p. 800). 
2. Mental opposition or antagonism ; positive 
disinclination (to do or suffer something); in 
a general sense, aversion. 
That which causes us to lose most of our time Is the re- 
pugnance which we naturally have to labour. Dryden. 
Chivalrous courage ... is honorable, because It Is In 
fact the triumph of lofty sentiment over an Instinctive 
repugnance to pain. Ining, Sketch-Book, p. 350. 
We cannot feel moral repugnance at an act of meanness 
or cruelty except when we discern to some extent the 
character of the action. 
J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 558. 
3. Contradictory opposition ; in logic, disagree- 
ment ; inconsistency ; contradiction ; the rela- 
tion of two propositions one of which must be 
true and the other false ; the relation of two 
characters such that every individual must pos- 
sess the one and lack the other. 
Those ill counsellors have most unhappily engaged him 
In ... pernicious protects and frequent repugnances of 
workes and words. Prynne, Soveraigne Power, II. 40. 
I found in those Descriptions and Charts [of the South 
Sea Coasts of America] a repugnance with each other in 
many particulars, and some things which from my own 
experience I knew to be erroneous. 
Dampier, Voyages, II., Pref. 
Immediate or contradictory opposition is called likewise 
repugnance. Sir W. Hamilton, Logic, xl. 
The principle of repugnance. Sam e as the principle lit 
contradiction^ (which see, under contradiction). =8yn. 2. 
Hatred, Dislike, etc. (see antipathy), backwardness, disin- 
clination. See list under aversion. 
repugnancy (re-pug'nan-si), >!. [As repugnance 
(see -cy).} If. Same. as repugnance. 
Why do fond men expose themselves to battle, . . . 
And let the foes quietly cut their throats, 
Without repugnancy? Shak., T. of A., ill. 5. 45. 
Neuerthelesse without any repugnancie at all, a Poet 
may in some sort be said a follower or imitator, because 
he can expresse the true and liuely of euery thing is set 
before him. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesle, p. 1. 
2. In law, inconsistency between two clauses 
or provisions in the same law or document, or 
in separate laws or documents that must be con- 
strued together Formal repugnancy. See formal. 
repugnant (re-pug'nant), a. [< OF. repugnant, 
F. repugnant '= Sp. Pg. It. repugnante, < L. re- 
pugnan(t-)s, ppr. of repugnare, oppose: sert- 
gn."] If. Opposing; resisting; refractory; 
iposed to oppose or antagonize. 
His antique sword, 
Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls, 
Repugnant to command. Shak., J 1 umlut, II. 2. 493. 
2. Standing or being in opposition ; opposite ; 
contrary; contradictory; at variance; incon- 
sistent. 
It seemeth repugnant both to him and to me, one body 
to be in two places at once. 
Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850X p. 234. 
She conforms to a general fashion only when it happens 
not to be repugnant to private beauty. 
Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 2. 
3. In law, contrary to or inconsistent with an- 
other part of the same document or law, or of 
another which must be construed with it : gen- 
erally used of a clause inconsistent with some 
other clause or with the general object of the 
instrument. 
If he had broken any wholesome law not repugnant to 
the laws of England, he was ready to submit to censure. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 312. 
Sometimes clauses in the same treaty, or treaties be- 
tween the same parties, are repugnant. 
Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 109. 
