Then shall you find this name of liberty, The watch-word of rebellion ever us'd.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. ii.

Nor idly sit our men at arms the while,
Four thousand horse that ev'ry day go out,
And of the field are masters many a mile,
By putting the rebellious French to rout.

Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt.

For rebellion being an opposition, not to persons, but authority, which is founded only in the constitution and laws of the government; those, whoever they be, who by force break through, and by force justify their violation of them, are truly and properly rebels. For when men, by entering into society and civil government, have excluded force, and introduced laws for the preservation of property, peace, and unity amongst themselves; those who set up force again in opposition to the laws, do rebellare, that is, bring back again the state of war, and are properly rebels.

Locke. Civil Government, c. 1.

Well, on that day, the world repose had gain'd,
And bold rebellion's blood had all been drain'd
Had not the pious Chief the rage of war restrain'd.
Rowe. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. vi.

Tho' grief and fondness in my breast rebel,
When injur'd Thales bids the town farewell,
Yet still my calmer thoughts his choice commend,
I praise the hermit, but regret the friend.

Johnson. London, (1738.)

RE-BE'LLOW, v. A. S. Hlow-an, to low.

Till at the last he heard a dreadfull sound,
Which through the wood loud bellowing did rebound.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 7.

Boice taking the proffer at rebound, stept to the Earl [of Kildare] and said: So it is, and if it like your good lordship, one of your horssemen promised me a choise horsse, if Lsnip one haire from your beard.-Stanihurst. Ireland, an. 1514.

If this repercussion and rebounding (of the sunne beames) appeare moist, and namely, when the face of the earth looketh drie and thirstie, they make no doubt to find water there.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxi. c. 3.

Ulysses' son, with his illustrious friend,
The horses join'd, the polish'd car ascend.
Along the court the fiery steeds rebound,
And the wide portal echoes to the sound.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xv.
Where the long roofs rebounded to the din
Of spectre Chiefs, who feasted far within.
Warton. On his Majesty's Birthday.
RE-BRACE, v. To hold in the arms (brachiis).
To hold, bind, tie, or tighten again together.

-Oh! 'tis a cause

To arm the hand of childhood, and rebrace The slacken'd sinews of time-wearied age.

RE-BREATHE, v.

Gray. Agrippina. To inhale and exhale

low'd, loud noise.

RE-BELOVED. Beloved again, or in return.

Erickman languisht all this while

Not rebeloued long,

For shee that fayl'd to doe him right,
Did feofe on him the wrong.

Warner. Albion's England, b. vii. c. 36.

RE-BLOOM, v. To bloom, or blossom again.

I travell'd then 'till health again resumed
Its former seat-I must not say re-bloom'd.
Crabbe. Tales of the Hall, b. vii.

RE-BOIL, v. Fr. Bouiller; It. Bollire; REBULLITION. (Sp. Bullir; Lat. Bullire. To throw or cast forth, to eject, to throw over to heat or be heated, as water, till it throws itself or is thrown over, (sc.) the vessel.

She towardes her, hei heaui fainting eies wold faine haue cast,

But fired vnderneth her brest her wound reboyleth fast. Phaer. Virgill. Eneidos, b. iv.

Yet if any one commissioner, meued with zele to his countrey, accordynge to his duetie do execute duely and frequetly the lawe or good ordinaunce, wherin is any sharpe punishmente, some of his companyons therat reboyleth, Infamynge hym to be a manne without charytie.

Sir T. Elgot. The Governor, b. ii. c. 7.

So soone as it is put up into proper vessels for the purpose, it must be suffered to worke: and afterwards to reboile and worke againe for fortie daies space the summer following. Holland. Plinie, b. ii. c. 9.

We are sorry to hear that the Scotish gentlemen, who have been lately sent to that king. found (as they say) but a brusk welcome; which makes all fear, that there may be a rebullition in that business.-Howell, Additional Letters, p. 582. Fr. Bondir, rebondir.

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RE-BOUND, v.
REBOUND, n.
To leap, to spring back;
REBOUNDING, N. to beat or drive back at a
spring; to repel, to reverberate.

As cruel waves full oft be found
Against the rockes to rore and cry;
So doth my hart full oft rebound
Agaynst my brest fuil bitterly.

Surrey. The Louer describes, &c.

Which stones] falling upon the nethermost rockes, and there breaking in peeces, rebounded among the Macedons, falling with such violence, that they distressed whole bandes at once-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 112.

Which fell with that fury, that the rebound of water made it seeme as if it had bene all couered ouer with a great shower of raine.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 652,

His letter gan rebuk, sette it at light prise.

R. Brunne, p. 246 For thy rebuke me ryght nought reson ich gow praye. For in my conscience ich knowe, what Crist wolde that ich wroughte. Piers Ploukman, p. 79.

Pride of the table appereth eke ful oft; for certes riche men be cleped to festes, and poure folk be put away and rebuked.-Chaucer. The Persones Tule.

But none amendes bad hee,

But was rebuked here and there
Of hem, that loues frendes were,

And saiden, that he was to blame.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. He imagined that by his tariynge one of these twoo thinges muste needes chaunce; that is to say, either he should fight against hys will, or lye still like a cowarde, to his great rebuke and infamy.-Hall. Henry VI. an. 7.

In that he [Peter] taught the gentils by his example to him therein to be rebukeable.-Fox. Martyrs, p.204. an. 1171. plaie the Jews, Paule the doctour of the gentils did declare

Nothynge more rebukeable, if ye respect fame. Nothing more pernicious, if ye mark the example.

Bale. English Votaries, pt. ii. Remember the rebukes wherewith wee are scorned all the daie long of foolishe rebukers. Fox. Martyrs, p. 1166. an. 1558 Sharpe rebuking of our adversarie or früpes giuen before some persons, can not be suffered at all. Wilson. Rhetorique, p. 10. Therfore he toke vpon him the rehukful miserie of our mortalitee, to make us partakers of his godlye glorie. Udal. John, c. 1. If a man wold be so mad, as for feare of ye rebuke yt he RE-BUFF, v. Į It. Rabbuffo; buffet, to give should haue of such rebukeful beastes, he would be ashamed REBUFF, n. Sa blow. to confesse the fayth of Chryst. Sir T. More. Dyalogue of Comforte, b. iii.

As you are a soldier,

And Englishman, have hope to be redeem'd
From this your scorned bondage you sustain;
Hope to rebreathe that air you tasted first.

Heywood. Challenge for Beauty.

To beat back or repel; to repulse, to resist.
Marvelling that he, who had neuer heard such speeches
from any knight, should be thus rebuffed by a woman, and
that marvel made him hear out her speech.
Sidney. Arcadia, b. iii.
The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud
Instinct with fire and nitre hurried him
As many miles aloft. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. fi.

In vain, the fated skin is proof to wounds,
And from their plumes the shining sword rebounds;
At length rebuffed, they leave their mangled prey,
And their stretch'd pinions to the skies display.

Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. iii. A clear exposure of the rebuffs we received in the progress of that experiment-Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 3.

RE-BUILD, v. Į A. S. Byldan; to confirm, REBUILDING, n. to establish, to strengthen. To build again; or raise, construct, erect, edify, again, firmly, stedfastly.

Great London still shall live (by him rebuilded) while
To cities she remains the sovereign of this isle.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 8.

With no less time or labour can
Destiny build up such a man.
Who's with sufficient virtue fill'd
His ruin'd country to rebuild.

Vnto euery man dysclose not thy hart, leste parauenture he wyl gyue to the a feyned thanke, and after reporte rebukefully of the.-Sir T. Elyot. The Governorr, b. iii. c. 27.

At whose departynge she gaue vnto hym many rrbucous wordys, sayinge playnlye, that if hyr husbonde euer retournyd, she wolde of that velony be reuéged.

Fabyan, voi, ji an 1399. On which when gazing him the palmer saw, He much rebukt those wand'ring eyes of his, And, counsel'd well, him forward thence did draw. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 12. Certainely they deserve to be well chastised for their perverse judgement, and one rebuke is not sufficient. Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvii. c. 3.

distant cures, were not ashamed to be seen so quickly These great rebukers of non-residence, among so many pluralists and non-residents themselves, to a fearful condemnation doubtless by their own mouths.

Milton. History of Britain, b. iii.

Till angry Neptune, looking o'er the main,
Rebukes the tempest, calms the waves again,
Their vessels from the dangerous quicksand steer.
Dryden. The Art of Poetry.

His master lust
Falls first before his resolute rebuke,
And seems dethroned and vanquished.-Cowper. Task,b.v.
RE-BUOY, v. To buoy, to float, to raise, to
sustain, to elevate-again.

Some, with hope replenish'd and rebuoy'd Return to whence they came-with like intent, And weave their web again.-Byron. Childe Harold, c. 4. RE-BURY, v. i. e. to bury again.

He caused her body to be re-buried in St. Maries Church in Oxford, with great pomp and solemnity.

Ashmole. Berk. vol. i. p. 154.

And though it be true. that in his retractations he recalleth and correcteth this: yet was this only a scrupulosity in that pious father, concerning the meer word, because he no where found in scripture Angels called by the name of souls. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 812.

There the blest day of his recall
Is annually a festival.

RE-CANT, v.
RECANTATION.
RECA'NTER.

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Cooper. Ververt, c. 4.

Fr. Chanter, rechanter, to sing or chant again; to rehearse deschanter, to recall, to revoke, to retract, what has been sung or said, an opinion before avowed; to declare a change of opinion.

These trickes and manie such like are easy to be espied In this oration and preface, for a man to wonder and blesse him to se, how these incarnate diuils could so aduisedlie, so grauelie and so confidentlie say ye than, and so impudentlie, so rashlye, so periuredlie, and so slaightelie recant and saie naie now-Bp Gardner. True Obedience. Pref. by M. Wood. Which duke of Northuberlande, at the time of his death did recant his former life, and exhorted the people not to be ashamed to returue to the catholike faith. Fabyan, vol. ii. p. 712. an. 1553. And the kinge with publyk rescript and open recatacion confessinge his synne setteth forth the glory of God.

Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 5.

Now for that this marriage proved happy and blessed, they were wont ever after in their wedding songs to recant and resound this name-Thalassius.

Holland. Plutarch, p. 704.

Is it not essential in Dr. Clarke's scheme, and yours too? What mean you then to deny that there are two gods? Can you deny it without recanting all that you had said before-Waterland. Works, vol. i. p. 51.

Here lighting upon Aurelius, bishop of Carthage, and St. Austin, he [Leporius] was by them brought to a sense of his error, and induced to sign a full recantation, called Libellus satisfactionis.-Id. Ib.

RE-CAPACITATE, v. Lat. Capax, that can or may take.

To enable again to take or occupy; to qua'ify again.

There was another [amendment] which provided, that persons, recapacitating themselves by taking the oaths, should not come into the places out of which they were turned, if full.-Allerbury. Letter to Bp. Trelawney.

RE-CA'PITATE. Perhaps reheaded, reentitled; headed, titled, directed again.

Being yesterday from my friend advertis'd that your honour resided still in Padoa, and that my last were recapitated thither; I now proceed to effectuate your will. Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 700.

RE-CAPITULATE, v. RECAPITULATION. RECAPITULATORY. RECAPITULAR.

pitular.

Fr. Capituler, récapituleru.

To repeat the heads (capita) or chief points, or topics; to repeat, to rehearse, to reiterate.

Nowe to returne againe to our matters ecclesiasticall, followeth in order to recapitulate and notifie the troubles and contentions growing betweene the same king and the pope. Fox. Martyrs, p. 357. an. 1355. These considerations (right reuerend) did first moue me to consent that these poems shoulde passe in print. For recapitulation whereof, and to answere vnto the objections that maie be geuen: I saie to the first, that I neither take example of a wanton Ouid, doting Nigidius, nor foolish Samocratius.-Gascoigne. To the Reuerend Diuines.

At the porte of Organant thou shalt fynde the bones of Lolliodorus, recapituler of the antike lawes, that was banyshed by Nero the cruell.-Golden Boke, Let. 12.

And she must recapitulate my shame,
And give a thousand by words to my name.
Drayton. Elenor to D. Humphry,
D. Fer. Were e'er two friends engag'd in an adventure
So intricate as we, and so capricious?

D. Jul. Sure never in this world; methinks it merits
A special recapitulation.
Digby. Elvira, Act iii.

This law is comprehensive and recapitulatory (as it were) of the rest concerning our neighbour, prescribing universal justice toward him (whence Saint Mark it seems meaneth to render it in one word, by un añoσTEρηons, deprive not, or bereave not your neighbour of any thing.)

Barrow. An Exposition of the Decalogue.

What hath been done or attempted to be done, both in the reign of King William and since, to prevent an undue influence on the elected, as well as on the electors, I need not recapitulate.-Bolingbroke. Upon Parties, Let. 18.

Hence we see the reason why creeds were no larger, nor more explicit, being but a kind of recapitulation of what the catechumens had been taught more at large, the main heads whereof were committed to memory, and publicly recited, and so became a creed.— Waterland. Works, vol. ii. p. 194.

RE-CAPTION. Lat. Re, and capere, captum, to take.

The quotation explains the word.

Recaption or reprisal is another species of remedy by the mere act of the party injured. This happens when any one hath deprived another of his property in goods and chattels personal, or wrongfully detains one's wife, child, or servant; in which case the owner of the goods, and the husband, parent, or master, may lawfully claim and retake them, wherever he happens to find them.

Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 1.

RE-CA'RNIFY, v. Lat. Caro, carnis, flesh. To cause again to be or become flesh.

As the sun recedes, the moon and stars discover themselves; and when it returns they draw in their baffled beams, and hide their heads in obscurity.

Glanvill. Pre-existence of Souls, c. 13.

All the resistance that this laxe and disunited element could make, call it naturall or divine, (for words have no force) could no more keep down the above-said bullet from receding from the earth, then an army of the smallest flyes stop a cannon-bullet flying in the aire.

More. Antidote against Atheism, b. ii. c. 2. Here in this despis'd recess Would I, maugre winter's cold, And the summer's worst excess, Try to live.

Colton. The Retirement.

But by this pressing the conscience with omissions, I do not mean recessions or distances from states of eminency or perfection.-Bp. Taylor. Holy Dying, c. 5. s. 3.

When as abating something from the height and strictness of our pretences, and a favourable recession in such cases will greatly engage men to have an honourable opinion, and a peaceable affection toward us.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 29 But, nymphs, recede! sage chastity denies To raise the blush, or pain the modest eyes.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. v. It [sin] is the worst corruption and the greatest debasement of human nature that is possible, and farthest recession in the world from the divine perfections, from their approach to which all other perfections have their name and estimate. Sharp, vol. ii. Ser. 7 Oft let the turf recede, and oft approach, With varied breadth, now sink into the shade, Now to the sun its verdant bosom bare.

Mason. The English Garden, b. ii.

David was become a favourite of the people, and, on that account, the object of Saul's jealousy; to avoid the ill effects of which he prudently retired. During this recess Saul was seised with his disorder. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iv. Notes.

RECEIVE, v.
RECEIVABLE.
RECEIVABLENESS.
RECEIVEDNESS.
RECEIVER.
RECEIVING, n.
RECEIPT.
RECEPTACLE.
RECEPTARY, or
RECEPTORY.
RECEPTIBILITY.
RECEPTION.
RECEPTIVE.

RECEPTIVITY. RECIPIENT. confederacy, &c.

Fr. Recevoir, recevable, recepte; It. Recipere, ricèvere, ricètta; Sp. Recibir, recibo; Lat. Recipere, receptum; to take back or again, (re, and capere, to take;) (generally to take.

To take, to hold; to contain, to comprehend; to attain, to apprehend; to acknowledge.

A receipt (rescet) is,—a place to which any one takes or betakes himself; a retreat, (sc.) for safety, for

RE-CA'RRY, v. Fr. Charier; Sp. Acarraiar.
To carry, bear, or convey back or again.

Christ ordained the supper to be a taking matter, an eat. ing matter, a distributing and a remembring matter; contrary our massemen make it a matter not of taking, but of gazing, peeping, pixing, boxing, carying, recurying, worshipping, stouping, kneeling, knocking, with stoupe downe before. hold up higher, I thanke God I see my Maker to-day, &c-Fox. Martyrs, p. 1271. an. 1553.

Which [ship or vessell] was supposed sufficient for the cariage and recariage of such necessities as should appertaine vnto his house.

Holinshed. Description of England, b. ii. c. 18. RE-CAST, v. Sw. Kasta; Dan. Kaste. To cast or throw back again; to reform or refashion; to mould or model again,

In the midst of their running race, they would cast and recast themselves from one to another horse. Florio. Tr. of Montaigne, p. 155.

Your men of close application, though taking their terms from the common language, find themselves under a necessity of recasting them in a mould of their own to fit them for purposes that were not wanted in the usual intercourses of life. Search. Light of Nature, vol. i. pt. i. c. 6.

1573

a written particular of things taken, (sc. ) as medicine of things taken and used to make a composition. A prescription, prescribed form, a formulary.

— And thanne, gyf eny wolde Come as to defense, that ner wounded were, Other wery, as in a castel recetted were there. R. Gloucester, p. 214. For Scotlond hath euer y be a luther recet y [whi] lome, Wan ther any werrours toward this lond come.—Id. p.98,

For thilke londes were

A luther recet euer a geyn Engelonde.-Id. p. 137.
After Sir Edred was his brother Edwy,

He resceyued the croune of the seignory.-R. Brunne, p.34.
I am castelle for gow, toure, hous, and rescette.-Id. p.291.
Ac he that receyveth oth receitteth hure, ys recettor of gyle.
Piers Plouhman, p. 63.

He came into hise owne thingis, and hise resceyueden him not. But hou manye euere rescryueden him, he gaf to hem power to be maad the sones of God, to hem that bileueden in his name.-Wiclif. Jon, c. 1.

He came amonge his owne, and his owne receaued him not. But as manye as receaued hym, to them he gaue power to be the sonnes of God in that they beleued on his name.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

For the feastes of the Jewes bee small, and receiuable but of fewe persones.-Udal. Mark, c. 2.

Unto this question of the disciples, the Lorde Jesus made a doubtfull answere, for that they were not as yet receyuable of the whole mystery hereof.-Id. Ib. c. 9.

He was of suche liberalitie, yt oftentimes he gaue greater things then ye receivers could haue wished for of God. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 303.

The receiving of the sacrament, as it noteth the act of him who receiveth, it may be that it neither availeth or profiteth him who receiveth, nor any other, but also hurts the receiver, if he presume to take it rashly or unworthily. Burnet. Records, vol. ii. b. i. No. 25.

That they shoulde in the wynter season cause as manye newe shippes to be buylded as they could, and the olde to be mended, declaring of what receite and fasshyon he wold haue them made.-Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 108.

Beside this, least his neighbor's countrey might be an harborugh, or receptacle of his foes and aduersaries, he concluded a newe league with James the iii. kyng of Scottes. Hall, Edw. III. an. 10.

In the same valley stands the famous towne of Bristow, with an hauen belonging thereunto, which is a commodious and safe receptacle for all ships directing their course for the same.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 127.

Nor is it so much princes' weaknesses,
As the corruption of their ministers,
Whereby the commonwealth receives distress.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iii.

To one of your receiving
Enough is shewne.-Shakes. Twelfth Night, Act iii. sc. 1.

That the third ground be employed in convenient recepIncles for all sorts of creatures which the professors shall judge necessary for their more exact search into the nature of animals, and the improvement of their uses to us. Cowley. The College. Nor can they which behold the present state of things, and controversie of points so long received in divinity, condemn our sober enquiries in the doubtful appertinancies of arts, and receptaries of philosophy.

Brown. Vulgar Errours. To the Reader.

Baptista Porta; in whose works, although there be contained many excellent things, and verified upon his own experience, yet are there many also receptary, and such as will not endure the test.-Id. Ib. b. i. c. 8.

The peripatetick matter is a pure unactuated power: and this conceited vacuum a meer receptibility.

Glanvill. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, b. xvi.

And therefore we will acknowledge one speciall faculty of a spirit. which after penetration it doth either naturally or arbitrariously exert, which is this. to fill the receptivity or capacity of a body or matter so far forth as it is capable or receptive of a soul or spirit.

More. Antidote against Atheism, App. c. 3. Because whatever is received is received according to the capacity of the recipient. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 725.

But by educing the affirmers only mean a producing in it, with a subjective dependence on its recipient: a very fine signification of eduction; which answers not the question whence 'tis derived, but into what it is received.

Glanvill. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 16.

And give a dosse for everie disease,
In prescripts long and tedious recipes,
All for so leane reward of art and me.

Bp. Hall, b. iii. Sat. 4.

For when, after the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life, he was, contrary to his expectation, well receired among the Prætorian guards and afterwards declared their emperor.

Addison. On Ancient Medals.

His reception is here recorded on a medal, in which one of the ensigns presents him his hand, in the same sense as Anchises gives it in the following verses.-Id. Ib.

Justification always supposes two parties, one to give, and another to receive, whether without any act at all on the

receptive side, as in the case of infants, or whether accompanied by receptive acts, as in the case of adults, who may be properly said to accept and assent to as well as to receive and enjoy.—Waterland. Works, vol. ix. p. 428.

From files a random recipe they take,
And many deaths of one prescription make.

Dryden, Ep. 13. Something should have been inserted to signify that when the recipient is fitly qualified, and duly disposed, there is a salutary life-giving virtue annexed to the sacrament. Waterland. Works, vol. v. p. 423.

They who endeavour not to correct themselves, according to so exact a model, are just like the patients, who have open before them a book of admirable receipts for their diseases, and please themselves with reading it, without comprehending the nature of the remedies, or how to apply them to the cure.-Dryden. Juvenal, Ded.

The unfrequented temples, spoiled of their immense treasures, sunk in ruins; and the images, stript of their gorgeous robes and costly jewels, were thrown into the Tyber, or into the common receptacles of filth and ordure.

Bp. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 17. Force is only another name for an efficient cause; it is that which impresses motion, the passive recipient of a foreign impulse.-Id. vol. ii. Ser. 19.

RE-CELEBRATE, v. Fr. Célébrer; It. Celebrare; Sp. Celebrar; Lat. Celebrare, to proclaim, make known or renowned.

To commemorate again, as worthy of renown, of honour, of praise.

Who did this knot compose,

Againe hath brought the lilly to the rose;
And, with their chained dance,
Recelebrates the joyfull match with France.

RE-CENSE, v. Į

B. Jonson. To Edward Filmer.

Fr. Recenser; Lat. Re

RECENSION. } censere, (re, ad censere.)

To review, to revise, to re-examine, to reconsider.

Sixtus and Clemens, at a vast expence, had an assembly of learned divines to recense and adjust the Latin Vulgate. Bentley, Let. 1. p. 232.

It is also observable, that in the recensions of the Roman bishops, sometimes the apostles are reckoned in, sometimes excluded.-Barrow. Of the Pope's Supremacy.

RECENT.
RECENTLY.
RE'CENCY.

RECENTNESS.

Fr. Récent; It. Recente; Sp.

Recente, reziente; Lent. Recens: of uncertain etymology. Vossius prefers re, and candere ; for new things are recommended candore, which time destroys. Martinius,-re, and cendo, tanquam iterum accensus.

Newly or lately made or done; new, fresh, modern.

By this time we have made it unquestionably evident, that this opinion of incorporeal substance being vnextended, indistant, and devoid of magnitude, is no novel or recent thing.-Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 776.

But this inference of the recentness of mankind from the recentness of these apotheoses and origination of Gentile deities seems also too weak to bear up this supposition of the novitas humani generis.—Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 167. O'er recent meads th' exulting streamlets flie.

Thomson. Castle of Indolence, c. 2. Those tubes, which are most recently made of fluids, are most flexible and most easily lengthened.-Arbuthnot.

So also a scirrhus in its recency, whilst it is in its auginveterate one.-Wiseman. Surgery, b. i. c. 19. ment, requireth milder applications than the confirmed or

No more with thee in any mortal's cause
I combat, tho' thy favour'd Tydeus draws
On Hyllus, or should menace with his spear
Amphitryon recent from the nether sphere.

Lewis. Statius. Thebaid, b. viii.

RE-CHARGE, v. Fr. Recharger, to give a new charge, a fresh charge unto; also (in English)—

To retort a charge or accusation, to charge or attack again.

When you blow the death of your fox in the field, or covert, then must you sound 3 notes, with 3 windes, and recheat; mark you, sir, upon the same, with 3 windes.

Returne from Pernassus, Act ii. sc. 5.

Rechating with his horn, which then the hunter chears, Whilst still the lusty stag his high-palm'd head upbears. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 13.

That I will have a rechate winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an inuisible baldricke, all women shall pardon me.-Shakespeare. Much Adoe about Nothing, Acti. sc. 1.

RE-CHOOSE, v. A. S. Ceosan, to take, take out, or elect.

To elect or select again; to re-elect.

act of the 4th and 5th Anne, which permits those to be The patriots have triumphed with a quotation from an rechosen, whose seats are vacated by the acceptance of a place of profit.-Johnson. The False Alarm.

RECIDIVA'TION. Fr. Recidiver, to recidivate, to relapse, fall back or again, (Cotgrave.) It. Recidivo; Lat. Recidivus, (re, and cadivus, from cadere, to fall.)

A falling back or again, a relapse.

Wo is mee; the swept house is repossessed with seven devils; this recidivation is desperate; although indeed there would not be a revolt without an inward unsoundnesse. Bp. Hall. St. Paul's Combat.

RECIPROCAL, adj. RECIPROCAL, N. RECIPROCALLY. RECIPROCALNESS. RECIPROCATE, v. RECIPROCA'TION. RECIPROCITY. RECIPROCOUS.

In our old writers, reciproque. Fr. Réciproque, réciproquer; It. Reciproco; Sp. Receproco, reciprocarse ; Lat. Reciprocus, reciprocare.―re. and precare; (Vossius-from

Festus;) reciprocare pro ultro citroque poscere usi sunt antiqui, quia procare est poscere.

To come and go alternately, (as the tide, to ebb and flow ;) to act alternately or interchangeably; to return (in kind) one for another; to alternate, to interchange.

Reciproque is not uncommon in old documents. The king is bound by the treaty; and if he will be helped by that treaty, he must do the reciproque. Burnet, vol. ii. b. ii. King Edward's Rem.

It was answered thereto, that partly for the great zeal we have to the universal quiet of Christendom, which were very like to be established by that marriage; partly for the entire love and affection which we do bear to our good brother the French king, we could be content upon convenient reciproque.-Wyatt. The King to SirT. Wyatt, 17th May, 1538.

And if the French king will not condescend to this reciproque of the two points before expressed, then we have resolved that the overture in no wise be set forth by any our orators, or that they should affirm in any presence that we be agreeable that it should be proponed.—İd. Ib.

For the removing of which imparity, the cardinal acquainted Taylor, "That he had devised to make the band reciprocous and egal."

Strype. Memorials. Hen. VIII. vol. i. b. i. c. 5.

But that this being sent into France, out of design to have particular resolution of their liking or disliking, no fruitful answer to the same was sent, but letters of instruction and commission, authorizing the French ambassador to conclude an obligation reciprocous, after such force as the instructions purported.-Id. Ib.

Had Thetis and Eurynome, in either's silver breast
Not rescu'd me, Eurynome, that to her father had
Reciprocall Oceanus.-Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xviii.
Apollo answered: Strangers! though before
Yee dwelt in wooddie Gnossus; yet no more
Yee must be made, your own reciprocalls

To your lou'd eittie, and faire seueralls

Nttle and little, so they entertaine reciprocally the visuall beames of our eyes; and for all the spissitude and thicknesse that they seeme to haue, they admit gently our sight to pierce into their bottome.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvii. c.5.

That we may not think this reciprocation into motion and rest belongs onely to terrestrial particles; that the heavens themselves be of the same matter, is apparent from the ejections of comets into our vortex, and the perpetuall rising of those spots and scum upon the face of the sun.

More. Immortality of the Soul, b. i. c. 11. For the libration or reciprocation of the spirits in the tensility of the muscles would not be so perpetual, but cease in a small time, did not some more mystical principle then what is merely mechanical give assistance.-Id. Ib. b.ii. c. 10. The Aristotelians, who believe water and air to be reciprocally transmutable, do thereby fancy an affinity between them, that I am not yet convinced of Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 342. Subdued in fire the stubborn metal lies, One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws and blows reciprocating air.

Dryden. Virgil. Georgies, b. iv.

The censuring of heretics may often provoke them to return the like censures, and thus a kind of reciprocation | of censures may be carried on to the great disturbance of the public peace, and the destruction of Christian charity.

Waterland. Works, vol. v. p. 144.

On entering into society, it was stipulated, between the magistrate and the people, that protection and obedience should be the reciprocal conditions of each other.

Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. i. s. 2.

A law is a compact reciprocally made by the legislative powers; and therefore not to be abrogated but by all the parties. Johnson. The False Alarm.

How is the union of any mind to any body to be understood, without a constant sympathy between the two, by virtue of which they are reciprocally appropriated to each other, in such sort that this individual mind becomes the soul of that individual body, and that body the body of this mind?-Bp. Horsley, vol. iii. Ser. 43.

This atonement was the end of the incarnation: and the two articles reciprocate: for an incarnation is implied and presupposed in the Scripture doctrine of atonement, as the necessary means to the end.-Id. vol. i. Ser. 9.

Who seeks a friend should come disposed

T exhibit in full bloom disclos'd

The graces and the beauties

That form the character he seeks,

For 'tis a union that bespeaks
Reciprocated duties.

Cowper. Friendship.

is able to recite.

Turbervile. The Louer to Cupid for Mercy. Which booke (de Ratione Studii et de Liberis Educandis) is oft recited, and moch praysed, in the fragmentes of Nonius, even for authoritie sake. Ascham. The Schole-master, b. ii.

Till that, as comes by course, I doe recite
What fortune to the Briton prince did lite,
Pursuing that proud knight, the which whileare
Wrought to Sir Calepine so foule despight.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 6.

Plinie maketh a great recitall of these.

Hacklnyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 565. But Hester, the historian, in his thirteenth of his histories of Attica, maketh a recital far contrary to other, saying, that some hold opinion, that Paris Alexander was slain in battle by Achilles and Patroclus in the country of Thessaly. North. Plutarch, p. 14. In Italy they have solemne declamations of certaine select young gentlemen in Florence, (like those reciters in old Rome.) and publike theatres in most of their cities, for stage-players and others to exercise and recreate themselves.-Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 270.

If menaces of Scripture fall upon men's persons, if they are but the recitations and descriptions of God's decreed wrath, and those decrees and that wrath have no respect to the actual sins of men; why should terrors restrain me from sin, when present advantage invites me to it? Hummond.

་ (one o'clock in the Latin account, with us seven in the The way has been to recite it at the prime, or first hour, morning,) every Lord's day; and in some places every day. Waterland. Works, vol. iv. p. 231.

From this time forwards, I presume, the Athanasian Creed has been honoured with a public recital, among the other sacred hymns and church offices, all over the west. Id. Ib.

This, added to all former recites or observations, either of long-lived races or persons in any age or country, makes it ings of the poor, not of the rich, and the fruits of temperance, easy to conclude, that health and long life are usually blessrather than of luxury and excess.-Sir W. Temple. Of Health. Some men employ their health, an ugly trick, In making known how oft they have been sick, And give us, in recitals of disease, A doctor's trouble, but without the fees.

Couper. Conversation.

What daunger it wer for vs negligently and rechelesse to execute the office, whiche we take in hande. Udal. The Acles of the Apostles, c. 1.

But also euen that same which he semed to haue shal bee taken awaie from him, because he so rechelessely kept the euangelicall treasoure.-Id. Luke, c. 8.

My Ratelif, when thy reichless youth offendes,
Receue thy scourge by others' chastisement.
Surrey. Exhorlacion to learne.
Over-many good fortunes began to breede a proud reck
lessness in them.-Sidney. Arcadia, b. i.

As also ytt wold be a meanes to causse the marchaunts the souner to come to a reconyng wth me, and to put me in good sewretysse here, as thaye have dowen here to fore.Lodge. Illus. Sir T. Gresham to the D. of Northumberland, Aprill, 1553.

Whilst through the forest rechlesse they did goe,
Lo! where they spide, how, in a gloomy glade,
The lyon sleeping. lay in secret shade.

Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale.

I giue consent to go along with you,
Wreaking as little what betideth me,
As much, I wish all good befortune you.
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iv. sc. 3.

Ile after; more to be reuenged on Eglamoure,
Then for the love of recklesse Siluia.-Id. Ib. Act v. sc. 2.
Beholding all the way

The goodly workes, and stones of rich assay,
Cast into sundry shapes by wondrous skill,
That like on earth no where I recken may.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 10. made of straunge and wonderfull hearbes. I cannot chuse To discharge and acquit myselfe of the promise which I but in this place write a little of those which the magicians make such reckoning of.—Holland. Plinie, b. xxiv. c. 17.

stricter signification we turn the Reckoning of the conse By this imposition of names, some of larger, some of quences of things imagined in the mind, into a Reckoning of the consequences of Appellations-Hobbs. Of Man, c. 4.

The Latins called Accounts of Money rationes, and ac-
counting Ratiocinatio: and that which we in bills or books
of account call Items, they called Nomina, that is names :
and thence it seems to proceed, that they extended the word
Ratio, to the faculty of Reckoning in all things.-Id. Ib.
Retchless of laws, affects to rule alone,
Anxious to reign and restless on the throne.
Dryden. Palamon & Arcite,
But what? an author cannot live on fame
Or pay a reckoning with a lofty name.

Id. The Art of Poetry, c. 4.
But retrospects with bad reckoners are troublesome things.
Warburton. Works, vol.xi. On Occasional Reflections.
RE-CLAIM, v.
RECLAIM, n.
RECLAIMABLE.
RECLAIMANT.
RECLAMATION.
RECLAIMING, N.
RECLAIMLESS.

See CLAMOur. Fr. Clamer, réclamer; It. Reclamare; Sp. Reclamar ; Lat. Reclamare, (re, and clamare, to call aloud,) to call back again; to call out against. To call out against, (sc.) in answer to; to gainsay or contradict; to recall or

After a longe season the lorde of those seruauntes came call back, (met.) from evil courses, and (consequen

Id. The Reves Tale, v. 8771.

Eke looke how false and rescheles
Was to Briseida Achilles,
And Paris to Oenone.-Id. The House of Fame, b. ii.

tially) to restore, to reform, to recover; to restore reclaim is to reduce or bring from their wild to a or reduce to order :-applied to wild animals, to tame or manageable state.

With harte right devoute, and humble affection,
As one to repentaunce reclaymed by grace.
R. Gloucester, p. 581.
Another day he wol paraventure
Recleimen thee, and bring thee to the lure.
Chaucer. The Manciples Tale, v. 17,021.
Adam and Eue also
Virgines comen bothe two
Into the worlde and hem ashamed,
Till that nature hath hem reclaimed
To loue.

Gower. Con. A. b. viii.

Hast thou not said in blaspheme of the goddis,
Through pride, or through thy gret rekelness,
Onely the deuyl reclameth and shutteth vp the bowels of
Such things as in the law of loue forbode is?
mercye, oure myndis he puffeth vp, and entyseth vnto
Id. A Ballade of the Village without Paint. vnrightwysnes to make vs his perpetuall captiues.

And if that ye the terme reken would,
As I or other true lovers doe should,
I plain not (God wot) before my day."

Id. The Legend of Good Women.
How longe time will ye reken and cast
Your summes, and your bookes, and your tninges?
The devil have part of all swiche rekeninges.
Id. The Shipmannes Tale, v. 13,149.
He recketh not be so he wynne,
Of that another man shall lese.

Gower, Con. 4. b. ii.

Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 4. Hereunto Polomar reclaiming againe, began to aduance and magnifie the honour and dignitie of generall councels. Fox. Martyrs, p. 637. an. 1438,

And willed him for to reclayme with speed His scattred people, ere they all were slaine. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 12. For by this means also the wood is reclaimed and repressed from running out in length beyond all measure. Holland. Plinie, b. xvii. o. 22.