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An enthusiast. [Obs.] J. Spencer.

One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to…

To flourish again.

To imprison again.

The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.

an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity. Debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place. Macaulay.

A taking by way of retaliation. [Obs.] Dryden.

To restore to an original state. [R.] Shedd.

Restoration to an original state; renewal of purity. [R.] R. Browning.

Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.

One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.

A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books.

An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.

A apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.

A member of the sanhedrin. Schaeffer (Lange's Com. ).

A sanitarian.

One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire. The mighty satirist, who . . . had spread through the Whig ranks. Macaulay.

, the Scriptures, or who endeavors to regulate his life by them. The Puritan was a Scripturist with all his heart, if as yet with imperfect intelligence . . . he cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory. Palfrey.

Risk of injury, destruction, or loss by the sea, or while at sea.

Sectarianism. [Obs.]