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597 words match “BURKE”

REPUBLICANISM n.
Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government. Burke.
RESCRIPTIVELY adv.
By rescript. Burke.
RESOURCELESS a.
Destitute of resources. Burke. -- Re*source"less*ness, n. R. Browning.
RETRIEVE v.
ow, and retrieve my fall. Prior. There is much to be done . . . and much to be retrieved. Burke.
REVERSE n.
e. To make everything the reverse of what they have seen, is quite as easy as to destroy. Burke.
REVOLT v.
the feelings. This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds. Burke. To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creatuure revolted his conscience and offended his reason. J. Morley.
REVOLUTIONIST n.
One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke.
RIANT a.
from the other sources, with a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and riant. Burke.
RIG n.
Eng.] Wright. That uncertain season before the rigs of Michaelmas were yet well composed. Burke. To run a rig, to play a trick; to engage in a frolic; to do something strange and unbecoming. He little dreamt when he set out Of running such a rig. Cowper.
RIGHT n.
thou not right to all created things Milton. Men have no right to what is not reasonable. Burke.
RING v.
To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound. The assertion is still ringing in our ears. Burke.
RIPE a.
ust ripe for a war. Addison. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies. Burke.
ROCHET n.
between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet. Burke.
ROTATORY a.
Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles. Burke.
ROTUND n.
A rotunds. [Obs.] Burke.
ROUNDABOUT a.
; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech. We have taken a terrible roundabout road. Burke.
RUMPLE v.
's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scoth paper for twenty of your fairest assignats. Burke.
RUN n.
their arrangements in the first run of misadventure . . . put a seal on their calamities. Burke.
SABER; SABRE v.
r; to cut down, as with a saber. You send troops to saber and bayonet us into submission. Burke.
SALIENT a.
ing; projecting. He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action. Burke.
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