Search the Dictionary

The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.

Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.

Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory. [R.]

Paid for ransom; serving to redeem. "Hector's redemptory price." Chapman.

Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault.

A room for refreshment; originally, a dining hall in monasteries or convents.

Tending to produce reformation; reformative.

Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast. Raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory. Shak.

Mitigating heat; cooling.

Tending tu refute; refuting.

Having power to renew; tending to reproduce; regenerating. G. S. Faber.

A returning or giving of thanks. [Obs.] Skelton.

Of or relating to rehibition; as, a rehibitory action.

Remunerative. Johnson.

Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a renunciation; as, renunciatory vows.

A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a commonplace book, or the like.

Repletive. [R.]

ace where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. Locke.

Reprobative.

Reproductive.