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me to be ideas of these operations in the understanding. Locke. This delight grows and improves under thought and reflection. South.

To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals. The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one wil…

Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being proved false or erroneous.

To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant. There were so many witnesses in these two miracles that it is impossible to refute such multitudes…

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

nt or means of curbing, restraining, or governing; government; restraint. "Let their eyes rove without rein." Milton. To give rein, To give the rein to, to give license to; to leave withouut restrain. -- To take the reins, to take the guidance or government; to assume control.

mind upon what is deemed sufficient support or authority. In reliance on promises which proved to be of very little value. Macaulay.

in unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. 1 Cor. xv. 6. That . . . remains to be proved. Locke.

To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. I will remonstrate to you the third door. B. Jonson.

elling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move. It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire. J. H. Newman.

To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure. Chaucer. Aristippus being reprehended of luxury by one that was not rich, for that he gave six crowns for a small fish. Bacon. Pardon me for reprehending thee.…

To reprove. [Obs.] "Repreve him of his vice." Chaucer.

To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally. Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius for traveling into Egypt without his permission. Arbuthnot.

To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject. Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed appears. Ayliffe. Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other. Macaulay.…

Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices. There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear. Burke. And dislodge their reptile souls From the bodies and forms of men. Coleridge.

Wharton. -- Res judicata [L.] (Law), a thing adjudicated; a matter no longer open to controversy.

making clear; resolution; solution. "To give a full resolve of that which is so much controverted." Milton.

That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation.

To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.

The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.