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Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay.

One who reprimands.

A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.

To renew the impression of. The whole business of our redemption is . . . to reprint God's image upon the soul. South.

One who reprints.

om an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity. Debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place. Macaulay.

or and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like. [Written also reprizes.] Burrill.

To restore to an original state. [R.] Shedd.

Restoration to an original state; renewal of purity. [R.] R. Browning.

To reprieve. [Obs.] Howell.

See Reprise. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Repise, n., 2.

isgrace. [Obs.] I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, For that he knew you, might reproach your life. Shak.

Deserving reproach; censurable.

One who reproaches.

Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. Shak.

Being without reproach.

Reprobation. [R.]

Reprobation. [Obs.] Shak.

enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. [Obs.] Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. vi. 30.