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The act of perceiving again; a repeated perception of the same object. No external praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reperception and ratification of what is fine. Keats.

rcuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate. Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound. W. Pattison.

A second or repeated perusal.

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak.

One who repeats. [Obs.]

Repeating; containing repetition. [U.S.] Dr. T. Dwight.

Containing repetition; repeating. [R.]

unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description. Fuller.

To send on from an intermediate station by means of a repeater.

A versicle sung in answer to the priest, or as a refrain. Which, if should repeat again, would turn my answers into responsories, and beget another liturgy. Milton.

A second or repeated view; a reëxamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.

Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of. This having heard, straight I again revolved The law and prophets. Milton.

arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater.

To repeat in the same words; to reëcho. [Obs.] Shak.

Hence, one who recites or sings poems for a livelihood; one who makes and repeats verses extempore. The same populace sit for hours listening to rhapsodists who recite Ariosto. Carlyle.

To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly. To ring a peal, to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells. -- To ring the changes upon. See under Change. -- To ring in or out, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. Tennyson. -- To ring the bells backwa…

To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.

A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.

To learn or repeat by rote. [Obs.] Shak.

A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated. the trivial round, the common task. Keble.