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eturn, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds. No merit their aversion can remove, Nor ill requital can efface their love. Waller.

In return, repayment, or requital. What have I to give you back! Shak.

icient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital. [Obs.] Surely, the present pleasure of a sinful act is a poor countervail for the bitterness of the review. South.

A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life. Thy slanders I forgi…

To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven. And their sins should be forgiven them. Mark iv. 12. He forgive injures so readily that he might be said to invite them. Macaulay.

A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense. Macaulay. So young as to regard men's frown or smile As loss or guerdon of a glorious lot. Byron. He shall, by thy revenging hand, at once receive the just guerdon of all his former villainies. Knolles.

Brought into debt; being under obligation; held to payment or requital; beholden. By owing, owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged. Milton.

The rendering to every one his due or right; just treatment; requital of desert; merited reward or punishment; that which is due to one's conduct or motives. This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips. Shak.

To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt. The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again. Ps. xxxvii. 21.

ischarge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return. Shak.

Return; requital; quittance. [Obs.]

To give recompense; to make amends or requital. [Obs.]

Recompense; requital. [Obs.] Fabyan.

The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. Tennyson.

od that you redub that negligence. Wyatt. God shall give power to redub it with some like requital to the French. Grafton.

To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury. Benefits which can not be repaid . . . are not commonly found to increase affection. Rambler.

Requital [Obs.] E. Hall.

To give in requital or recompense; to requite. The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head. 1 Kings ii. 44.

inment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital. Thou returnest From flight, seditious angel, to receive Thy merited reward. Milton. Rewards and punishments do always presuppose something willingly done well or ill. Hooker.

A small bag; a wallet; a satchel. [Archaic] Chaucer. And in requital ope his leathern scrip. Milton.