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Taught’em how clemency made pow’r rever'd, 
And that the prince belov’d was truly fear’d Prior. 
REVERE, a town of Austrian Italy, in the Milanese, on 
the Po. Population 3200; 15 miles east-south-east of 
Mantua. "*• 
REFERENCE, s. [ reverentia, Lat.] Veneration ; re- 
pect; awful regard.—The fear, acceptable to God, is a filial 
fear; an awful reverence of the divine nature, proceeding 
from a just esteem of his perfections, which produces in us 
an inclination to his service, and an unwillingness to offend 
him. j Rogers. —Act of obedience; bow; courtesy. 
Now lies he there, 
And none so poor to do him reverence. Shakspeare. 
Title of the clergy. 
Many now in health 
Shall drop their blood, in approbation 
Of what your reverence shall incite us to. Shakspeare. 
Poetical title of a father. 
O my dear father! let this kiss 
Repair those violent harms, that my two sisters 
Have in thy reverence made. Shakspeare. 
To RE'VERENCE, v. a. To regard with reverence; to 
regard with awful respect. 
Those that I reverence, those I fear, the wise; 
At fools I laugh, not fear them. Shakspeare. 
RE'VERENCER, s. One who regards with reverence.— 
The Athenians, quite sunk in their affairs, had little com¬ 
merce with the rest of Greece, and were become great re- 
vercncers of crowned heads. Swift. 
RE'VEREND, adj. [reverendus, Lat.] Venerable; de¬ 
serving reverence; exacting respect by his appearance.—Let 
his lack of years be no impediment, to let him lack a rever¬ 
end estimation. Shakspeare.—Reverend and gracious sena¬ 
tors. Shakspeare. —The honorary epithet of the clergy. 
We style a clergyman, reverend; a bishop, right reverend; 
an archbishop, most reverend. 
RE'VERENT, adj. [reverens, Lat.] Humble; express¬ 
ing submission; testifying veneration. 
They forthwith to the place 
Repairing where he judg’d them, prostrate fell 
Before him reverent. Milton. 
REVERENTIAL, adj. Expressing reverence; pro¬ 
ceeding from awe and veneration.—The least degree of con¬ 
tempt weakens religion; it properly consisting in a reveren¬ 
tial esteem of things sacred. South. 
REVERENTIALLY, adv. With show of reverence.— 
The Jews, reverentially declining the situation of their tem¬ 
ple, place their beds from north to south. Brown. 
RE'VERENTLY, adv. Respectfully; with awe; wfith 
reverence.—Chide him for faults, and do it reverently. 
Shakspeare. 
REVE'RER, s. One who venerates; one who reveres.— 
When the divine revelations were committed to writing, the 
Jews were such scrupulous revcrers of them, that it was the 
business of the Masorites, to number not only the sections 
and lines, but even the words and letters of the Old Testament. 
Gov. o f the Tongue. 
REVERl'E, orREVERY, s. [ resverie , Fr. from resver, 
« todote, to speak idly, to talk like an ass!” Cotgrave. And 
so resverie at first signified raving, or idle talking; then vain 
fancy, or fond imagination.] Loose musing; irregular 
thought. —Revcry is when ideas float in our mind, without 
any reflection or regard of the understanding. Locke. 
REVE'RSAL, s. Change of sentence.—The king, in the 
reversal of the attainders of his partakers, had his will. 
Bacon. 
REVE'RSAL, adj. Implying reverse; intended to re¬ 
verse.—After his death there were reversal letters found 
among his papers. Burnet. 
To REVE'RSE, v. a. [ reversus, Lat.] To turn upside 
down.—A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point, if 
REV 
balanced by admirable skill. Temple. —To overturn ; io 
subvert. 
These now controul a wretched people’s fate, 
These can divide, and these reverse the state. Pope. 
To turn back. 
Michael’s sword stay’d not; 
But with swift wheel reverse, deep entering shar’d 
Satan’s right side. Milton. 
To contradict; to repeal. 
Death, his doom which I 
To mitigate thus plead, not to reverse. 
To better life shall yield him. Milton. 
To turn to the contrary. 
These plain characters we rarely find. 
Though strong the bent, yet quick the turns of mind; 
Or puzzling contraries confound the whole. 
Or affectations quite reverse the soul. . Pope. 
To put each in the place of the other.—With what tyranny 
custom governs men; it makes that reputable in one age, 
which was a vice in another, and reverses even the distinc¬ 
tions of good and evil. Rogers. —To recall; to renew. 
Obsolete. 
Well knowing true all he did rehearse, 
And to his fresh remembrance did reverse 
The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser. 
To REVE'RSE, v. n. \reverterc, reversus, Lat.] To 
return. 
Beene they all dead, and laid in doleful hearse ? 
Or doen they onely sleepe, and shall again reverse ?■ Spenser. 
REVE'RSE, s. Change; vicissitude. 
The strange reverse of fate you see; 
I pily’d you, now you may pity me. Dry den. 
A contrary; an opposite. This is a sense rather colloquial 
than analogous.—Count Tariff appeared the reverse of 
Goodman Fact. Addison. —The performances, to which 
God has annexed the promises of eternity, are just the reverse 
of all the pursuits of sense. Rogers.—[revers , Fr.] The 
side of the coin on which the head is not impressed.—As the 
Romans set down the image and inscription of the consul, 
afterwards of the emperor on the one side, so they changed 
the reverse, always upon new events. Camden. 
Any thing turned backwards, or contrary to its usual state. 
•—It has this meaning in Heraldry, in Tactics, in Music, &c. 
REVERSE, in Law, signifies to undo, repeal, or make 
void. 
A judgment may be reversed or voided for matters foreign 
to or dehors the record, that is, not appareut upon the face 
of it, by writ of error, and by act of parliament. The effect 
of falsifying or reversing an outlawry is, that the parly shall 
be in the same plight as if he had appeared upon the capias; 
and if it be before plea pleaded, he shall be put to plead to 
the indictment; if after conviction, he shall receive the sen¬ 
tence of the law; for all the other proceedings, except only 
the process of outlawry for his non-appearance, remain good 
and effectual as before. But when j udgment, pronounced 
upon conviction, is falsified or reversed, all former proceed¬ 
ings are absolutely set aside, and the party stands as if he 
had never been at all accused; restored in his credit, his 
capacity, his blood, and his estates. But he still remains 
liable to another prosecution for the same offence. 
REVE'RSEDLY, adv. In a reversed manner. — He took 
out of his pocket this letter, for want of a better supply of 
paper at hand; and on the cover of it, over the direction, 
which now stands among the notes, intermixed rcversedly 
with them, noted from Dr. London’s mouth the account 
which we had to communicate. Lowth. 
REVE'RSELESS, adj. Not to be reversed; irreversible. 
Even now thy lot shakes in the urn, whence fate 
Throws her pale edicts in reverseless doom. Seward. 
REVE'RSiBLE, 
