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To RESOU'ND, v. n. To be echoed back.—What is com¬ 
mon fame, which sounds from all quarters of the world, and 
resounds back to them again, but generally a loud, rattling, 
impudent lye? South —To be much and loudly men¬ 
tioned. 
What resounds in fable or romance 
Of Uther’s sons. Milton. 
RESOU'ND, s. Echo; return of sound. 
The only noise which rolled through that sky. 
Were holy echoes that to her did bear 
The sweet resounds of those rich anthems. Beaumont. 
RESOURCE, s. [ressource, Fr. Skinner derives it from 
resoudre, Fr. to spring up.] Some new or unexpected means 
that offer; resort; expedient. 
Pallas view’d 
His foes pursuing, and his friends pursu’d; 
Us’d threatnings, mix’d with pray’rs, his last resource; 
With these to move their minds, with those to fire their force. 
Dry den. 
RESOU'RCELESS, adj. Wanting resource.—A poor, 
unfruitful, and resourceless subjection. Bur he. 
To RESO'W, v. a. To sow anew.—Over wet at sowing 
time breedeth much dearth, insomuch as they are forced to 
resow summer corn. Bacon. 
To RESPEA'K, v. n. To answer in the same terms. 
The great cannon to the clouds shall tell. 
And the king’s rouse the heav’n shall bruit again, 
Respeaking earthly thunder. Shakspeare. 
To RESPE'CT, o. a. {respectus, Lat.] To regard; to 
have regard to. 
Claudio, I quake, 
Lest thou should’st seven winters more respect 
Than a perpetual honour. Shakspeare. 
{Respecter, Fr.] To consider with a lower degree of 
reverence.—I always loved and respected Sir William. 
Swift. —To have relation to: as, tire allusion respects an 
ancient custom.—To look toward.—The needle doth vary, 
as it approacheth the pole; whereas, were there such direc¬ 
tion from the rocks, upon a nearer approachment, it would 
more directly respect them. Brown. 
RESPE'CT, s. {respectus, Lat.] Regard; attention. 
You have too much respect upon the world; 
They lose it, that do buy it with much care. Shakspeare. 
Reverence; honour. 
You know me dutiful, therefore 
Let me not shame respect; but give me leave 
To take that course by your consent and voice. Shakspeare. 
Reverent affection.—He, that will have his son have a re¬ 
spect for him, must have a great reverence for his son. 
Locke. —Goodwill. 
Pembroke has got 
A thousand pounds a year, for pure respect; 
No other obligation ? 
That promises more thousands. Shakspeare. 
Partial regard.—It is not good to have respect of persons 
in judgment. Prov .—Reverend character. 
Many of the best respect in Rome, 
Groaning under this age’s yoke. 
Have wish’d that noble Brutus had his eyes. Shakspeare. 
Manner of treating others.—The duke’s carriage was to the 
gentlemen of fair respect, and bountiful to the soldier, ac¬ 
cording to any special value which he spied in any. Wotton. 
—Consideration; motive. 
The love of him, and this respect beside; 
For that my grandsire was an Englishman, 
Awakes my conscience to confess all this. Shakspeare. 
Relation; regard.—They believed but one supreme deity, 
which, with respect to the various benefits men received from 
him, and several titles. Tillotson. 
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RESPECTABI'LITY, s. State or quality of being respect¬ 
able.—The great respectability of his character. Cum¬ 
berland. —Decorum, the great outguard of the sex and the 
proud sentiment of honour, makes virtue more respectable. 
Burke. 
RESPE'CT ABLY, adv. With respect; so as to merit 
respect. 
RESPE'CTABLENESS, s. State or quality of being 
respectable. 
RESPE'CTER. s. One that has partial regard.—Neither 
is any condition more honourable in the sight of God than 
another; otherwise he would be a respecter of persons: for 
he hath proposed the same salvation to all. Swift. 
RESPE'CTFUL, adj. Ceremonious; full of outward 
civility. 
Will you be only, and forever mine ? 
From this dear bosom shall I ne’er be tom ? 
Or you grow cold, respectful, or forsworn ? Prior. 
RESPE'CTFULLY, adv. With some degree of reverence. 
So your glad genius sacrifice this day. 
Let common meats respectfully give way. Dryden. 
RESPE'CTFULNESS, s. The quality of being re¬ 
spectful. 
RESPE'CTIVE, adj. Particular; relating to particular 
persons or things.—Moses mentions the immediate causes, 
and St. Peter the more remote and fundamental causes, that 
constitution of the heavens, and that constitution of the earth, 
in reference to their respective waters, which made that 
world obnoxious to a deluge. Burnet. — {Respectif, Fr.] 
Relative; not absolute.—The medium intended is not an 
absolute, but a respective medium: the proportion recom¬ 
mended to all is the same; but the things to be desired in 
this proportion will vary. Rogers. —Worthy of reverence. 
Not in use. 
What should it be, that he respect in her, 
But I can make respective in myself. Shakspeare 
Careful; cautious; attentive to consequences. Obsolete. 
— Respective and wary men had rather seek quietly their 
own, and that the world may go well, so it be not long of 
them, than with pain and hazard make themselves adviser for 
the common good. Hooker. 
RESPECTIVELY, adv. Particularly; as each belongs to 
each.—The interruption Of trade between the English and 
Flemish began to pinch the merchants of both nations, which 
moved them by all means to dispose their sovereigns respec¬ 
tively to open the intercourse again. Bacon. —Relatively; 
not absolutely.—If there had been no other choice, but that 
Adam had been left to the universal, Moses would not then 
have said, eastward in Eden, seeing the world had not east 
nor west, but respectively. Ralegh. —Partially; with 
respect to private views. Obsolete. —Among the ministers 
themselves, one being so far in estimation above the rest, the 
voices of the rest were likely to be given for the most part 
respectively with a kind of secret dependency. Hooker .— 
With great reverence. Not in use. —Honest Flaminius, you 
are very respectively welcome. Shakspeare. 
RESPE'CTLESS, adj. Having no respect; without re¬ 
gard; without consideration; without reverence.—’Tis the 
common fortune of most scholars to be servile and poor, to 
complain pitifully, and lay open their wants to their respect- 
less patrons. Burton. 
RESPE'CTLESSNESS, s. State of being respectless; 
inattention; regardlessness.—That which he did, was to lay 
lus elbow on the arm of his chair, and his hand on his 
cheek; desiring Camilla to bear with his respectlessness 
therein. Shelton. 
To RESPE'RSE, v. a. To sprinkle; to disperse in small 
masses.—Love and consider the rare documents of Chris¬ 
tianity, which certainly is the greatest treasure-house of those 
excellent, moral, and perfective discourses, which with much 
pains and greater pleasure we find respersed and thinly scat¬ 
tered in all the Greek and Roman poets, historians, and phi¬ 
losophers. Bp. Taylor. 
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