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ivine to state cases of conscience, and to remonstrate against any growing corruptions in practice, and especially in principles. Waterland.

The act of removing; removal. [Obs.] This remotion of the duke and her Is practice only. Shak.

To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin. Except ye repent, ye shall likewise perish. Luke xii. 3.

f mind, or a conversion from sin to God. Hammond. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. Sorrow, fear, and anxiety are properly not parts, but adjuncts, of repentance; yet they are too closely connected with it to be easily separated. Rambler.

Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.

The principles and practices of the Ribbonmen. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.

to rest. Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides. Shak. On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy! Shak.

uscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed. After the third reading, a foolish man stood up to propose a rider. Macaulay. This [question] was a rider…

Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness. [Obs.] To see the ridicule of this practice. Addison.

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

To practice making music with bells. Holder.

The act or practice of rioting; riot. "Electioneering riotry." Walpole.

Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so- called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of…

One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.

The act or practice of robbing; theft. Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves. Shak.

The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden.

ies. Moment of rotation. See Moment of inertia, under Moment. -- Rotation in office, the practice of changing public officers at frequent intervals by discharges and substitutions. -- Rotation of crops, the practices of cultivating an orderly succession of different crops on the same land.

the practice of doing things with undiscriminating, mechanical regularity.

To practice robbery on the seas;to wander about on the seas in piracy. [Obs.] Hakluyt.

One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate. Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships. Holland.