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Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc.

plation; hence, also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationally, especially in view of a moral rule or standard. By reflection, . . . I would be understood to mean, that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of…

ctive. The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. Sir M. Hale.

To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.

hedule. As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the register of your own. Shak.

he successions of the seasons. Macaulay. The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police. Bancroft.

The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. The temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay.

The parliament of Austria (exclusive of Hungary, which has its own diet, or parliament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives.

To make reference; to take account. [R.& Obs.] Reckoning by the years of their own consecration without relating to any imperial account. Fuller.

e, of a higher object. Coleridge. According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by "unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs." W. Irving.

wed by for or against, formerly by to. What may else be remedy or cure To evils which our own misdeeds have wrought, He will instruct us. Milton.

To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.

To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

To restore to one's own country.

repeated perception of the same object. No external praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reperception and ratification of what is fine. Keats.

lete; superabundant fullness. The tree had too much repletion, and was oppressed with its own sap. Bacon. Replecioun [overeating] ne made her never sick. Chaucer.

To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker.

To exhibit to another mind in language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of; to bring before the mind; to set forth; sometimes, to give an account of; to describe. He represented Rizzio's credit with the queen to be the chief and only obstacle to his success in that demand. Robertson. This bank is t…

the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights against his own majesty and kingship. Milton.

welling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.