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ies, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).

Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.

The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one. Dunglison.

palm of the hand. -- Recurrent sensibility (Physiol.), the sensibility manifested by the anterior, or motor, roots of the spinal cord (their stimulation causing pain) owing to the presence of sensory fibers from the corresponding sensory or posterior roots.

A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease. Cruise.

utterflies (Fugacia) including the common yellow species and the cabbage butterflies. The antennæ are usually red.

A drawn game; specif. (Trente et quarante),

To direct inquiry for information or a quarantes of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective. -- Re*flex"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flex"ive*ness, n.

for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

Sumptuous food; delicacies. [Obs.] Cotton. Regalia of a church, the privileges granted to it by kings; sometimes, its patrimony. Brande & C.

Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.

Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience. Mitford.

r vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to re In such a night Medea gathered the enchanted herbs That did renew old Shak.

That may be planted again.

ing, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again. Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo. Blackstone.

A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.

ing is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.

The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.

The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.