repugnant 
4. Causing mental antagonism or aversion; 
highly distasteful ; offensive. 
There are certain national dishes that are repugnant to 
every foreign palate. Lowell, Don Quixote. 
To one who is ruled by a predominant sentiment of jus- 
tice, the thought of profiting in any way, direct or indi- 
rect, at the expense of another is repugnant. 
H. Spencer, Mil. of Sociol., 579. 
= Syn.2. Opposed, irreconcilable. 4. Disagreeable. See 
antipathy. 
repugnantly (re-pug'nant-li), adv. In a re- 
pugnant manner; with opposition; in contra- 
diction. 
They speak not repugnantly thereto. 
Sir T. Browm, Vulg. Err. 
repugnantnesst (re-pug'nant-nes), n. Repug- 
nance. Bailey, 1727. 
repugnatet (re-pug'nat), v. t. [< L. repugnatus, 
pp. of repugnare, light against, oppose: see re- 
pugn.] To oppose ; fight against. Imp. Diet. 
repugnatorial (re-pug'na-to-ri-al), a. [< re- 
pugnate + -wry + -al.] Repugnant; serving 
as a means of defense by repelling enemies: 
specific in the phrase Repugnatorial pores, the 
openings of the ducts of certain glands which secrete 
prussic acid in most diplopod myriapods. The secretion 
poured out when the creature is alarmed has a strong 
odor, which may be perceived at a distance of several 
feet. The absence or presence of these pores, and their 
number or disposition when present, afford zoological 
characters in the classification of the chilognaths. 
repugner (re-pu'ner), . One who rebels or is 
opposed. 
Excommunicating all repuaners and rebellers against 
the same. Foxe, Martyrs, p. 264. 
repullulatet (re-pul'u-lat), v. i. [< L. repullu- 
latus, pp. of repullulare, sprout forth again (> 
It. ripullulare = Sp. repulular Pg. repullular 
= OF. repulluler, F. repulluler), < re-, again, + 
pullulare, put forth, sprout: see pullulate.] To 
sprout or bud again. 
Vanisht man, 
Like to a lilly-lost, nere can, 
Nere can repullulate, or bring 
1 1 is dayes to see a second spring. 
Herrick, His Age. 
Though Tares repullulate, there is Wheat still left in the 
Field. Howell, Vocall Forrest, p. 65. 
With what delight have I beheld this tender and in- 
numerable offspring repullulatiny at the feet of an aged 
tree. Evelyn, Sllva. 
repullulation (re-pul-u-la'shon), n. [= F. re- 
pullulation, < L. as if *repullulatio(n-), < repul- 
lulare, sprout again : see repullulate.] The act 
of sprouting or budding again : used in pathol- 
ogy to indicate the return of a morbid growth. 
Here I myselfe might likewise die, 
And vtterly forgotten lye, 
But that eternal! poetrie 
Repullulation gives me here 
Unto the thirtieth thousand yeere, 
When all now dead shall reappeare. 
Herrick, Poetry Perpetuates the Poet. 
repullulescentt (re-pul-u-les'ent), a. [< LL. 
repullulescen(t-)s, ppr. of repullulesccre, begin to 
bud, sprout again, inceptive of L. repullulare, 
sprout again: see repullulate.] Sprouting or 
budding anew; reviving; springing up afresh. 
One would have believed this expedient plausible enough, 
and calculated to obviate the ill use a repuUulescent fac- 
tion might make, if the other way was taken. 
Roger North, Lord Guilford, II. 190. (Daviet.) 
repulpit (re-pul'pit), v. t. [< re- + pulpit.] To 
restore to the pulpit ; reinvest with' authority 
over a church. Tennyson, Queen Mary, i. 5. 
[Rare.] 
repulse (re-puls'), v. t.; pret. and pp. repulsed, 
ppr. repulsing. [= OF. repousser, F. repousser 
= Sp. Pg. repulsar = It. repulsare, ripulsare, 
drive back, repulse, < ML. repulsare, freq. of 
L. repellere, pp. repulsus, drive back: see re- 
pel.] 1. To beat or drive back; repel: as, to 
repulse an assailant or advancing enemy. 
Complete to have discover'd and repulsed 
Whatever wiles of foe or seeming friend. 
Milton, P. L., x. 10. 
Near this mouth is a place called Comana, where the 
Privateers were once repulsed without daring to attempt 
it any more, being the only place in the North Seas they at- 
tempted in vain for many years. Dumpier, Voyages, I. 63. 
2. To refuse ; reject. 
She took the fruits of my advice ; 
And he, repulsed a short tale to make 
Fell into a sadness. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 146. 
Mr. Thornhill . . . was going to embrace his uncle, 
which the other repulsed with an air of disdain. 
Goldsmith, Vicar, xxxi. 
repulse (re-puls'). n. [= Sp. Pg. repulsa = It. 
1-cpitlna, ripulsa, < L. repulsa (s_c. petitio), a re- 
pulse in soliciting for an office, in gen. a refusal, 
denial, repulse, fern, of repulsus, pp. of repel- 
lere, drive back, > repulsus, a driving back. 
The E. noun includes the two L. nouns repulxn 
5095 
and repulsus, and is also in part directly from 
the E. verb.] 1. The act of repelling or driv- 
ing back. 
He received, in the repulse of Tarquin, seven hurts i' the 
body. Shak., Cor., ii. 1. 166. 
2. The condition of being repelled; the state 
of being checked in advancing, or Driven back 
by force. 
What should they do ? if on they rush'd, repulse 
Repeated, and indecent overthrow 
Doubled, would render them yet more despised. 
Hilton, P. L., vi. 000. 
3. Refusal; denial. 
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say. 
Shak.,TM. of V., iii. 1. 100. 
I went to the Dominican Monastery, and made suit to 
see it (Christ's thorny crown] ; but I had the repulse; for 
they told me it was kept under three or four lockes. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 41, sig. D. 
repulser (re-pul'ser), n. One who or that which 
repulses or drives back. Cotgrai-e. 
repulsion (re-pul'shon), n. [= OF. repulsion, 
1 . repulsion = Sp. repulsion = Pg. repuls&o = 
It. repulsione, ripulsione, < LL. repulsio(n-), a 
refutation, < L. repellere, pp. repulsus, drive 
back, repulse: see repulse and repel.~\ 1. The 
act of repelling or driving back, or the state of 
being repelled ; specifically, in physics, the ac- 
tion which two bodies exert upon each other 
when they tend to increase their mutual dis- 
tance: as, the repulsion between like magnetic 
poles or similarly electrified bodies. 
Mutual action between distant bodies is called attrac- 
tion when it tends to bring them nearer, and repulsion 
when it tends to separate them. 
Clerk Maxwell, Matter and Motion, art. 66. 
2. The act of repelling mentally ; the act of 
arousing repellent feeling; also, the feeling thus 
aroused, or the occasion of it ; aversion. 
Poetry, the mirror of the world, cannot deal with its 
attractions only, but must present some of its repulsions 
also, and avail herself of the powerful assistance of its 
contrasts. Gladstone, Might of Right, p. 116. 
If Love his moment overstay, 
Hatred's swift repulsions play. 
Emerson, The Visit 
Capillary repulsion. See capillary. 
repulsive (re-pul'siv), a. [= F. repulsif = Sp. 
Pg. renulsivo = It. repulsive, ripulswo ; as re- 
pulse -r -ive.] 1. Acting so as to repel or drive 
away ; exercising repulsion ; repelling. 
Be not discouraged that my daughter here, 
Like a well-fortified and lofty tower, 
Is so repulsive and unapt to yield. 
Chapman, Blind Beggar of Alexandria. 
A Repulsive force by which they [particles of salt or vit- 
riol floating in water] fly from one another. 
Newton, Optics, iii. query 81. 
The foe thrice tugg'd and shook the rooted wood ; 
Repulsive of his might the weapon stood. 
Pope, Iliad, xxi. 192. 
2. Serving or tending to deter or forbid ap- 
proach or familiarity; repellent; forbidding; 
grossly or coarsely offensive to taste or feeling; 
causing intense aversion with disgust. 
Mary was not so repulsive and unsisterly as Elizabeth, 
nor so inaccessible to all influence of hers. 
Jane Austin, Persuasion, vi. 
Our ordinary mental food has become distasteful, and 
what would nave been intellectual luxuries at other 
times are now absolutely repulsive. 
0. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 2. 
We learn to see with patience the men whom we like 
best often in the wrong, and the repulsive men often in 
the right. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 95. 
=Syn. 2. Offensive, disgusting, sickening, revolting, 
shocking. 
repulsively (re-pul'siv-li), adv. In a repulsive 
manner. Imp. Diet. 
repulsiveness (re-pul'siv-nes), n. The charac- 
ter of being repulsive or forbidding. Imp. Diet. 
repulsory (re-pul'so-ri), a. and n. [= OF. re- 
poussoir, n.; < L. repulsorius, driving or forcing 
back (LL. repulsorium, neut., a means of driv- 
ing back), < repellere, pp. repulsus, repel, re- 
pulse: see repulse.] I. a. Repulsive; driving 
back. Bailey, 1727. [Rare.] 
II. t ". Something used to drive or thrust out 
something else, as a punch, etc. Cotgrave. 
[Rare.] 
repurchase (re-per'chas), v. t. [< re- + pur- 
chase,] To purchase back or again ; buy back ; 
regain by purchase or expenditure. 
Once more we sit in England's royal throne, 
Re-purehaied with the blood of enemies. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., v. 7. 2. 
repurchase (re-per'chas), n. [< repurchase, v.] 
The act of buying again ; the purchase again 
of what has been sold. 
repuret (re-pur'), v. t. [< re- + pure.] To purify 
or refine again. 
repute 
What will it be, 
When that the watery palate tastes indeed 
Love's thrice repured nectar? 
Shak., T. and C., iii. 2. 23. 
repurge (re-perj'), r. t. [< OF. repurger, < L. re- 
purgare, cleanse again, < re- + purgare, cleanse : 
see purge.] To purge or cleanse again. 
All which haue, either by their priuate readings, or pub- 
lique workes, repuryed the errors of Arts, expelde from 
their puritie. Nash, Pref. to Greene's Menaphon, p. 11. 
Repurge your spirits from euery hatefull sin. 
Hudson, tr. of Du Bartas's Judith, 1. 
repurify (re-pu'ri-fi), v. t. [< re- + purify.] 
To purify again. 
The joyful bliss for ghosts repurijied, 
The ever-springing gardens of the bless'd. 
Daniel, Complaint of Rosamond. 
reputable (rep'u-ta-bl), a. [< repute + -able.] 
1. Being in good repute; held in esteem; 
estimable: as, a reputable man or character; 
reputable conduct. 
Men as shabby have . . . stepped into fine carriages 
from quarters not a whit more reputable than the " Cafe 
des Ambassadeurs." Thackeray, Level the Widower, ii. 
2. Consistent with good reputation; not mean 
or disgraceful. 
In the article of danger, it is as reputable to elude an 
enemy as defeat one. Broome. 
= Syn. Respectable, creditable, honorable. 
reputableness (rep'u-ta-bl-nes), . The char- 
acter of being reputable. Bailey, 1727. 
reputably (rep'u-ta-bli), adv. In a reputable 
manner; without disgrace or discredit: as, to 
fill an office reputably. Imp. Diet. 
reputation (rep-u-ta'shon), n. [< ME. reputa- 
tion, reputacioun, < OF. reputation, F. reputa- 
tion = Pr. reputatio = Sp. reputation Pg. 
reputafSo = It. reputazione, riputazione, < L. 
reputatio(n-), a reckoning, a pondering, estima- 
tion, fame, < reputare, pp. reputatus, reckon, 
count over, compute: see repute.] 1. Account; 
estimation; consideration; especially, the es- 
timate attached to a person by the community ; 
character by report ; opinion of character gen- 
erally entertained; character attributed to a 
person, action, or thing; repute, in a good or 
bad sense. See character. 
For which he heeld his glorie or his renoun 
At no value or reputacioun. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, L 164. 
Christ Jesus : . . . who . . . made himself of no repu- 
tation, and took upon him the fonn of a servant. 
Phil. ii. 7. 
For to be honest is nothing ; the Reputation of it is all. 
Congreve, Old Batchelor, v. 7. 
The people of this province were in the very worst repu- 
tation for cruelty, and hatred of the Christian name. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 55. 
2. Favorable regard; the credit, honor, or 
character which is derived from a favorable 
public opinion or esteem ; good name ; fame. 
Cos. O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the im- 
mortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. 
lago. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; 
oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. 
Shak., Othello, ii. 3. 263. 
My Lady loves her, and will come to any Composition to 
save her Reputation. Congreve, Way of the World, iii. 18. 
Love of reputation is a darling passion in great men. 
Steele, Tatler, No. 92. 
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; 
At every word a reputation dies. 
Pope.H. of the L., iii. 16. 
Thus reptttation is a spur to wit, 
And some wits flag through fear of losing it. 
Cowper, Table-Talk, 1. 520. 
Every year he used to visit London, where his reputa- 
tion was so great that, if a day's notice were given, " the 
meeting-house in Southwark, at which he generally 
preached, would not hold half the people that attended." 
Southey, Bunyan, p. 55. 
= Syn. 2. Esteem, estimation, name, fame, renown, dis- 
tinction. 
reputatively (rep'u-ta-tiv-li), adv. [< "reputa- 
tive (< repute + -ative) + -ly 2 .] By repute. 
[Rare.] 
But this prozer Dionysius, and the rest of these grave 
and reputatively learned, dare undertake for their gravities 
the headstrong censure of all things. 
Chapman, Odyssey, Ep. Ded. 
If Christ had suffered in our person reputatively in all 
respects, his sufferings would not have redeemed us. 
Baxter, Life of Faith, iii. 8. 
repute (re-put'), v. t.; pret. and pp. reputed, 
ppr. reputing. [< OF. reputer, F. reputer = Pr. 
Sp. Pg. reputar = It. riputare, reputare, < L. re- 
putare, count over, reckon, calculate, compute, 
think over, consider, < re-, again, + putare, 
think : seeputation. Cf. ret 2 , from the same L. 
verb. Cf. also compute, depute, impute.] 1. To 
hold in thought ; account ; hold ; reckon ; deem. 
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in 
your sight? Job xviii. 3. 
