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f keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise. But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge. Shak.

Same as 3d Rebate, v.

Same as Rabato. Burton.

Recumbence. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

ing proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. [Obs.] Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. vi. 30.

The state of being reprobate.

One who reprobates.

The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure. The profligate pretenses upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation. Jeffrey. Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin. Dryden.…

One who believes in reprobation. See Reprobation,2. South.

Of or pertaining to reprobation; expressing reprobation.

Reprobative.

Robbed; borrowed. Temple rubato. Etym: [It.] (Mus.) Borrowed time; -- a term applied to a style of performance in which some tones are held longer than their legitimate time, while others are proportionally curtailed.

In mediæval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.

A strict observer of the Sabbath.

The tenets of Sabbatarians. Bp. Ward. (1673).

m the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex. xx. 8.

Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor. Sabbatical year (Jewish Antiq.), every seventh year, in which the Israelites were commanded to suffer their fields and vineyards to rest, or lie without tillage.

Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest. Dr. H. More.

A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.