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More readily or willingly; preferably. My soul chooseth . . . death rather than my life. Job vii. 15.

rmy, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul Addison.

is wife. Chapman. The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. Evelyn.

Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective. The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. Sir M. Hale.

Restoration. "This doctrine of the refusion of the soul." Bp. Warbuton.

Ruling; governing; regnant. "Some other active regent principle . . . which we call the soul." Sir M. Hale.

hile she, great saint, rejoices heaven. Prior. Were he [Cain] alive, it would rejoice his soul to see what mischief it had made. Arbuthnot.

The body from which the soul has departed; a corpse; especially, the body, or some part of the body, of a deceased saint or martyr; -- usually in the plural when referring to the whole body. There are very few treasuries of relics in Italy that have not a tooth or a bone of this saint. Addison. Thy relics, Rowe, to thi…

tive innocence; rely On what thou hast of virtue. Milton. On some fond breast the parting soul relies. Gray.

To merge again. "Remerging in the general Soul." Tennyson.

To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow. I do repent it from my very soul. Shak.

tively, to remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms. It is upon these that the soul may repose. I. Taylor.

ression of. The whole business of our redemption is . . . to reprint God's image upon the soul. South.

ptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear. Burke. And dislodge their reptile souls From the bodies and forms of men. Coleridge.

A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul. We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls. Shak.

ll. See Resent, v. i. [Obs.] This bird of prey resented a worse than earthly savor in the soul of Saul. Fuller. Our King Henry the Seventh quickly resented his drift. Fuller.

Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined, Left all reserve, and all the sex, behind. Prior. The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. Hawthorne.

of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees. The resettlement of my discomposed soul. Norris.

e. At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. Shak. In no fixed place the happy souls reside. Dryden.

is too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Shak. Ye immortal souls, who once were men, And now resolved to elements again. Dryden.