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To advance again.

The act of adverting to again, or of reviewing. [R.] Norris.

Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to march; ready for the journey. "When she redy was." Chaucer.

Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.

Having ready wit.

To affirm again.

A second affirmation.

To convert again into the forest, as a region of country.

The act or process of converting again into a forest.

A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.

The last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication.

To agree again.

A rush. [Obs.] "Feeds on reaks and reeds." Drant.

Royal; regal; kingly. [Obs.] "The blood real of Thebes." Chaucer.

Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.

An opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).

One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.

Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

In the realistic manner.

The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact. A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning. Addison.