Search the Dictionary

Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable. A reverend sire among them came. Milton. They must give good example and reverend deportment in the face of their children. Jer. Taylor.

Reverently. [Obs.] Foxe.

Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples. "They . . . prostrate fell before him reverent." Milton.

Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe. "A reverential esteem of things sacred." South.

In a reverential manner.

In a reverent manner; in respectful regard.

One who reveres.

ain of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. "Rapt in nameless reveries." Tennyson. When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. Locke.

A part turned or folded back so as to show the inside, or a piece put on in imitation of such a part, as the lapel of a coat.

Intended to reverse; implying reversal. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

rd; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method. "A vice reverse unto this." Gower.

nd; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zoöl.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.

In a reversed way.

Irreversible. [R.] A. SEward.

In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite. Bp. Pearson.

One who reverses.

The quality of being reversible. Tyndall.

Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.

In a reversible manner.

Serving to effect reversal, as of motion; capable of being reversed. Reversing engine, a steam engine having a reversing gear by means of which it can be made to run in either direction at will. -- Reversing gear (Mach.), gear for reversing the direction of rotation at will.