Repair, rē-pār′, v.i. to betake one's self to: to go: to resort.—n. a retreat or abode. [O. Fr. repairer, to return to a haunt—Low L. répatriāre, to return to one's country—L. re-, back, patria, native country.]
Repair, rē-pār′, v.t. to restore after injury: to make amends for: to make good, as a loss: to mend: (Spens.) to recover into position, as a weapon.—n. restoration after injury or decay: supply of loss.—ns. , one who restores or amends; ; .—adj. , that may be repaired.—adv. .—n. , repair: supply of what is wasted: amends.—adj. , amending defect or injury.—n. that which restores to a good state: that which makes amends. [O. Fr. reparer—L. reparāre—re-, again, parāre, to prepare.]
Repand, rē-pand′, adj. bent or curved backward or upward: (bot.) of leaves with uneven, slightly sinuous margin.—adjs. , repand and toothed; , curved convexly upward. [L. repandus—re-, back, pandus, bent.]
Repart, rē-part′, v.t. to divide, share.
Repartee, rep-ar-tē′, n. a smart, ready, and witty reply.—v.i. to make witty replies. [O. Fr. repartie—repartir, to go back again—re-, back, partir, to set out—L. partīri, to divide.]
Repartimiento, re-pär-ti-mi-en′tō, n. a division: an assessment: allotment. [Sp.]
Repartition, rē-par-tish′un, n. a second partition: a division into smaller parts.
Repass, rē-pas′, v.t. to pass again: to travel back.—v.i. to pass or move back.—n. , the process of passing a second coat of glue as a finish over unburnished surfaces.
Repassion, rē-pash′un, n. the reception of an effect from one body to another.
Repast, rē-past′, n. a meal: the food taken: victuals: repose—(obs.) .—v.t. to feed.—v.i. to take food.—n. , one who takes repast. [O. Fr.,—Low L. repastus (whence Fr. repas)—L. re-, inten. pastus, food—pascĕre, pastum, to feed.]
Repastination, rē-pas-tin-ā′shun, n. (obs.) a second digging up, as of a garden.
Repatriate, rē-pā′tri-āt, v.t. to restore to one's country.—n. .
Repay, rē-pā′, v.t. to pay back: to make return for: to recompense: to pay again or a second time.—v.i. to requite.—adj. , that is to be repaid: due, as a bill due in thirty days.—n. , act of repaying: the money or thing repaid.
Repeal, rē-pēl′, v.t. to revoke by authority, as a law: to abrogate: to recall: to dismiss.—n. a revoking or annulling.—ns. , .—adj. , that may be repealed.—ns. , one who repeals: one who seeks for a repeal, esp. of the union between Great Britain and Ireland; , recall.—Repeal agitation, a movement for the repeal of the legislative union between Great Britain and Ireland. [O. Fr. rapeler—re-, back, apeler—L. appellāre, to call.]
Repeat, rē-pēt′, v.t. to do again: to speak again, to iterate: to quote from memory: to rehearse: (Scots law) to refund.—v.i. to strike the hours, as a watch: to recur: the act of repeating.—n. (mus.) a part performed a second time: a mark directing a part to be repeated.—adjs. ; , done again: frequent.—adv. , many times repeated: again and again: frequently.—ns. , one who, or that which, repeats: a decimal in which the same figure or figures are continually repeated: a watch that strikes again the previous hour at the touch of a spring: a frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat any signal he makes: (teleg.) an instrument for automatically retransmitting a message: in calico-printing, a figure repeated at equal intervals in a pattern; , the fraud of voting at an election for the same candidate more than once.—Repeating firearm, a firearm that may be discharged many times in quick succession; Repeat one's self, to say again what one has said already; Repeat signals, to repeat those of the senior officer: to make a signal again. [O. Fr. repeter (Fr. répéter)—L. repetĕre, repetitum—re-, again, petĕre, to seek.]
Repel, rē-pel′, v.t. to drive back: to repulse: to check the advance of, to resist.—v.i. to act with opposing force: (med.) to check or drive inwards:—pr.p. pa.t. and pa.p. —ns. , .—adj. , driving back: able or tending to repel.—n. that which repels.—n. .—adj. . [O. Fr.,—L. repellĕre—re-, back, pellĕre, to drive.]
Repent, rē-pent′, v.i. to regret or sorrow for what one has done or left undone: to change from past evil: (theol.) to feel such sorrow for sin as produces newness of life.—v.t. to remember with sorrow—often used impersonally, as 'it repenteth me.'—adj. .—n. , sorrow for what has been done or left undone: contrition for sin, producing newness of life.—adj. , repenting or sorry for past conduct: showing sorrow for sin.—n. a penitent.—adv. .—n. .—adv. .—adj. . [O. Fr. repentir—re-, and O. Fr. pentir—L. pœnitēre, to cause to repent.]