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Of the nature of recompense; serving to recompense. Sir T. Browne.

Of the nature of a recrement. See Recrement,2 (b). "Recrementitial fluids." Dunglison.

Restoration of a mixed body or matter to its former nature and state. [Achaic.] Coxe.

To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror. Nature is the glass reflecting God, As by the sea reflected is the sun. Young.

Pertaining to regicide, or to one committing it; having the nature of, or resembling, regicide. Bp. Warburton.

e kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day Marlowe. The law of nature doth now require of necessity some kind of regiment. Hocker.

absolute and a relative capacity: an absolute, as it is such a thing, endued with such a nature; and a relative, as it is a part of the universe, and so stands in such a relations to the whole. South.

at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed.

Of or pertaining to a relic or relics; of the nature of a relic. [R.]

theory, which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature. Woodward.

Specifically, to substitute for (an old obligation or right) a new one of the same nature; to continue in force; to make again; as, to renew a lease, note, or patent.

To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson.

Of the nature of, or containing, repetition. [R.]

o finish; to complete; to perfect. [Obs.] We smothered The most replenished sweet work of nature. Shak.

generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation.

y followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature. [His sword] repugnant to command. Shak. There is no breach of a divine law but is more or less repugnant unto the will of the Lawgiver, God himself. Perkins.

require the surrender of property. Shall I say to Cæsar What you require of him Shak. By nature did what was by law required. Dryden.

ss. J. M. Mason. God gave her the child, and gave her too an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements. Hawthorne.

Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; All truth requisite for men to know. Milton.

Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. Resinous electricity (Elec.), electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative.