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REAMPUTATION n.

The second of two amputations performed upon the same member.

raction. The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

RECAPACITATE v.

To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. Atterbury.

RECITATION n. 3 definitions

The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences. Hammond.

RECITATIVE n. 2 definitions

A species of musical recitation in which the words are delivered in manner resembling that of ordinary declamation; also, a piece of music intended for such recitation; -- opposed to melisma.

To reëstablish. [Obs.] Walis.

REEXPORTATION n.

The act of reëxporting, or of exporting an import. A. Smith.

The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof. Same of his blunders seem rather to deserve a flogging than a refutation. Macaulay.…

Tending tu refute; refuting.

REGURGITATE v. 2 definitions

To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back. The food may regurgitatem the stomach into the esophagus and mouth. Quain.

REGURGITATION n. 3 definitions

The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance; specifically (Med.),

REHABILITATE v.

he again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law. Restoring and rehabilitating the party. Burke.

REHABILITATION n.

The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated. Bouvier. Walsh.

REIMPORTATION n.

The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.

To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom. For the just we have said already thet some of them were reinstated in their pristine happiness and felicity. Glanvill.…

REINSTATEMENT n.

The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated; re

Reinstatement. [R.]

To struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose. [Obs.] "To delude their reluctating consciences." Dr. H. More.

Repugnance; resistance; reluctance. [Obs.] Bacon.