Search the Dictionary

To exclaim against; to gainsay. [Obs.] Fuller.

Testimony; witness; attestation. John bare record, saying. John i. 32 .

To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat. That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. Milton. You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin. Shak.

To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a substantive clause; as, he remarked that it was time to go.

nce, uncommon; extraordinary. 'T is remarkable, that they Talk most who have the least to say. Prior. There is nothing left remarlable Beneath the visiting moon. Shak.

To repay or refund (an excess received). To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters.

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.

principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay.

im as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property. Shall I say to Cæsar What you require of him Shak. By nature did what was by law required. Dryden.

To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

ton; sluggish; also, restive. [Obs.] Burton. Where the master is too resty or too rich to say his own prayers. Milton.

A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.

touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.

contracted form of Save your reverence. Such a one as a man may not speak of, without he say. "Sir reverence." Shak. -- To do reverence, to show reverence or honor; to perform an act of reverence. Now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. Shak.

A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.

According to truth or fact; correctly; not erroneously; exactly. "I can not rightly say." Shak. Thou didst not rightly see. Dryden.

which may be rolled up; a scroll. Busy angels spread The lasting roll, recording what we say. Prior.

ining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.

A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton; or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.

imp. & p. p. of Say.