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notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body. Mæcenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, whose praises . . . have made…

The crusaders or the cause they represented.

Explanation; representation. [R.] The reddition or application of the comparison. Chapman.

s), acts of Parliament passed in 1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular representation in Parliament. -- Reform school, a school established by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habit…

To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.

arliament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives.

The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath.

To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner. He did render him the most unnatural That lived amongst men. Shak.

, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc.,, which represent government indebtedness.

To make an image or other representation of; to portray; to cause to exist in the memory or imagination; to make a copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in marble, or on canvas; to reproduce a design.

in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2.

That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness. These sensible things, which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual. Hooker.

To liken; to compare; to represent as like. [Obs.] The other . . . He did resemble to his lady bright. Spenser.

A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferrior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister,4.

To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification. Milton.

tic, than such a persuasion South. Zeal for the good of one's country a party of men have represented as chimerical and romantic. Addison.

A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.

The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines each other.

A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow.

-- Saint George's cross (Her.), a Greek cross gules upon a field argent, the field being represented by a narrow fimbriation in the ensign, or union jack, of Great Britain. -- Saint George's ensign, a red cross on a white field with a union jack in the upper corner next the mast. It is the distinguishing badge of shi…