ENCYCLOPAEDIA LONDINENSIS; 
OR, AN 
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UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY 
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OF 
ARTS, SCIENCES, AND LITERATURE. 
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R EQUISITION, s. [ requisition , Fr.] Demand; appli¬ 
cation for a thing as of right.—Had you been well, I 
am sure you would have written, according to your engage¬ 
ment and my requisition. Ld. Chesterfield. 
REQUI'SITIVE, adj. Indicating demand.—Hence new 
modes of speaking; if we interrogate, ’tis the interrogative 
mode; if we require, ’tis the requisitive. Harris. 
REQUI'SITORY, adj. \rcquisitus, Lat.] Sought 
for; demanded.—There are two sorts of these dreams; the 
one, which are called curious or requisitory, to which 
are referred the dreams sought out, demanded, and 
obtained, by wicked vows and profane sacrifices amongst 
the ancient pagans. Summary on Du Bartas. 
REQUITAL, s. Return for any good or bad office; 
retaliation. 
Since you 
Wear out your gentle limbs in my affairs, 
Be bold, you do so grow in my requital. 
As nothing can unroot you. Shakspeare. 
Return; reciprocal action. 
No merit their aversion can remove. 
Nor ill requital can efface their love. Waller. 
Reward; recompense. 
He oft would beg me sing;— 
And in requital op'd his leathern scrip. 
And shew’d me simples of a thousand names, 
Telling their strange and vigorous faculties. Milton. 
To REQUITE, v. a. \requiter, Fr.] To repay; to 
retaliate good or ill; to recompense.—If he love me to mad¬ 
ness, I shall never requite him. Shakspeare. 
Him within protect from harms; 
He can requite thee, for he knows the charms 
That call fame on such gentle acts as these. Milton. 
Great idol of mankind, we neither claim 
The praise of merit, nor aspire to fame! 
’Tis all we beg thee to conceal from sight, 
Those acts of goodness which themselves requite: 
O let us still the secret joy partake, 
To follow virtue ev’n for virtue’s sake. Pope. 
To do or give in reciprocation.—He hath requited me 
evil for good. 1 Sam. xxv. 21. 
REQUITER, s. One who requites.—Honour is not 
only the guardian and parent of other virtues, but is a 
virtue of itself, which renders man a grateful resenter and 
requiter of courtesies. Barrow 
RERE FIEFS, a name given in the Scotch laws to those 
fiefs which were held by interior tenants or feudatories, that 
cultivated the lands under the chief feudatories, who held 
by military service. 
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REREDOS, the skreen at the back of an ancient high 
altar, which separated it from the Lady-chapel, being, for 
the most part, highly ornamented with niches, canopies, 
and tracery work. The richest of these which have reached 
our time are those of Winchester and Durham cathedrals, 
and of St. Alban’s abbey. 
RE'REMOUSE, s. [hpepemuj-, Sax.] A bat.—See 
Rearmouse. 
RERIGONIUM, called by some Berigonium, a town of 
the Novantas, situated somewhere in Galloway; according 
to Camden the present Bargeny in Carrict; but Horsley pre¬ 
fers Barton or Strathaven. 
RERRICK, a parish of Scotland, in the stewartry of 
Kirkcudbright, about 10 miles long and six broad, lying on 
the coast of the Solway frith. Population 1224. 
To RESAI'L, v. a. To sail back. 
From Pyle resailing, and the Spartan court. 
Horrid to speak ! in ambush is decreed. Pope. 
RESA'LE, s. Sale at second hand.—Monopolies and 
coemption of wares for resale, where they are not restrained, 
are great means to enrich. Bacon. 
To RESALUTE, v. a. [resaluto, Lat. resaluer, Fr.] 
To salute or greet anew. 
We drew her up to land, 
And trod ourselves the resaluted sand. Chapman. 
To resalute the world with sacred light, 
Leucothea wak’d. Milton. 
To return a salutation to. Jfnloet. —Hippocrates, after a 
little pause, saluted him by his name ; whom he resaluted. 
Burton. 
RESAPHE, a town of Palmyrene, according to Ptolemy; 
but Procopius called it Sergiopolis. It was at some distance 
from the Euphrates. 
RESCEIT, Receptio, in law, an admission or receiv¬ 
ing of a third person to plead his right, in a cause formerly 
commenced between other two. 
As, when an action is brought against a tenant for life or 
years, and he makes default; in such case he in the rever¬ 
sion may come in and pray to be received, to defend the 
land, and to plead with the demandant. 
Resceit is also sometimes applied to an admittance of plea, 
though the controversy be only between two. He in rever¬ 
sion may come into court, and pray to be received in a 
suit against his particular tenant. 
Resceit of homage, receptio homagii, denotes the lord’s 
receiving homage of his tenant, at his admission to the 
lands. 
To RESCI'ND, v. a. [rescindo, Lat. rescinder, Fr,] 
To cut off; to abrogate a law.—It is the imposing a sacra¬ 
mental obligation upon him, which being the condition, 
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