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To reduce again to barbarism. -- Re*bar`ba*ri*za"tion, n. Germany . . . rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars. Sir W. Hamilton.

A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. Brande & C.

int. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches. The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith. Macaulay.

A free city of the former German empire.

The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath.

A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally. Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius for traveling into Egypt without his permission. Arbuthnot.

, or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character. Among the rising theologians of Germany. Hare.

Of or pertaining to the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen, or the rays discovered by him; as, Röntgen apparatus.

[So named from its first describer, J. C. Rosenmüller, a German anatomist.] (Anat.) The parovarium.

eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.

A German wine made near Rüdesheim, on the Rhine.

and founded on the observations of Tycho Brahe; - - so named from Rudolph II., emperor of Germany.

A name given in the sixteenth century to those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist.

hes, and other ceremonies. There are several ancient books of the same kind in France and Germany.

A singers' union; an association of singers or singing clubs, esp. German.

A festival of singers; a German singing festival.

Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a German dish.

One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the nothern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries. (b) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon. (c) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.

rom the small imbricated scalelike leaves of most of the species. See Hepatica, 2, and Jungermannia.