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Rejuvenescence.

A second ordination.

Restoration to an original state; renewal of purity. [R.] R. Browning.

igning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.

Stagnation. [Obs.]

of being resupinate, or reversed. Our Vitruvius calleth this affection in the eye a resupination of the figure. Sir H. Wotton.

The inoculation of a cow with human vaccine virus.

The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.

The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud. Rumination is given to animals to enable them at once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward to chew it. Arbuthnot.

The act of fettening or pampering. [R.] Topsell.

The act of washing with salt water. [R. & Obs..] Greenhill.

The act of healing or curing. [Obs.] Wiseman.

Condemnation of one's self by one's own judgment.

Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.

An examination into one's own state, conduct, and motives, particularly in regard to religious feelings and duties.

Indignation at one's own character or actions. Baxter.

The act of sowing or spreading. [R.]

The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing. [Obs.] Peacham.

Sign given; marking. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

tion of flowing or circulation, as of a fluid; the state of being motionless; as, the stagnation of the blood; the stagnation of water or air; the stagnation of vapors.