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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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REPRESENTANCE n.
Representation; likeness. [Obs.] Donne.
REPRESENTANT a. 2 definitions
Appearing or acting for another; representing.
REPRESENTATION n. 7 definitions
The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
REPRESENTATIONARY a.
Implying representation; representative. [R.]
REPRESENTATIVE a. 12 definitions
Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
REPRESENTATIVELY adv.
In a representative manner; vicariously.
REPRESENTATIVENESS n.
The quality or state of being representative. Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with conssciousness and representativeness. Spectator.
REPRESENTER n. 2 definitions
A representative. [Obs.] Swift.
REPRESENTMENT n.
Representation. [Obs.]
RESE v.
To shake; to quake; to tremble. [Obs.] "It made all the gates for to rese." Chaucer.
RESEARCH n. 2 definitions
xamination in seeking facts or principles; laborius or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom. The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries. Macaulay.
RESEARCHER n.
One who researches.
RESEARCHFUL a.
Making researches; inquisitive. [R.] Coleridge.
RESEAT v. 2 definitions
To put a new seat, or new seats, in; as, to reseat a theater; to reseat a chair or trousers.
RESEAU n. 2 definitions
A system of lines forming small squares of standard size, which is photographed, by a separate exposure, on the same plate with star images to facilitate measurements, detect changes of the film, etc.
RESECT v.
To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.
RESECTION n. 2 definitions
The act of cutting or paring off. Cotgrave.
RESEDA n. 2 definitions
A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.
RESEEK v.
To seek again. J. Barlow.
RESEIZE v. 3 definitions
To put in possession again; to reinstate. And then therein [in his kingdom] reseized was again. Spenser.
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