A flood gate is drawn up and let down through the reigles in the side posts. Carew. REIGN, v. n. & n. s. Fr. regner; Span. and Port. reyne; Ital. and Lat. regno. To exercise sovereign authority; obtain power; be predominant: royal authority; sovereignty; power. And he schal regne in the hous of Jacob withouten ende, and of his rewme schal be noon ende. Wiclif. Luk. 1. A king shall reign in righteousness, and princes rule in judgment. Isaiah xxxi. 1. That, as sin reigned unto death, even so might grace reign, through righteousness, unto eternal life by Jesus Christ. Romans. This, done by them, gave them such an authority, that, though he reigned, they in effect ruled, most men honouring them, because they only deserved Sidney. honour. Stained the sad annals of a giddy reign. Thomson. REIMBO'DY, v. n. embody again. Quicksilver, broken into little globes, the parts brought to touch immediately reimbody. Boyle. REIMBURSE', v. a. Fr. re, in, and bourse a purse. To repay; repair loss or expense. If any person has been at expence about the funeral of a scholar, he may retain his books for the reimbursement. Auliffe. struction of ours? Hath he saved any kingdom at his own expences to give him a title of reimbursing himself by the deSwift. REIMPREGNATE, v. a. Re and impregnate. To impregnate anew. The vigour of the loadstone is destroyed by fire, nor will it be reimpregnated by any other magnet than the earth. Browne. REIMPRES'SION, n. s. Re and impression. A second or repeated impression. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. Johnson. REIN, n. s. & I Fr. resnes; Ital. redeni. REINS. [v. a. The part of a bridle which governs the "horse's head; used metaphorically for any instrument of government: ' to give the reins' is to give licence: to rein, to govern; restrain: reins, always in the plural, are from Lat. renes, Gr. pav, the kidneys, Whom I shall see for myself, though my reins be Job. consumed. Every horse bears his commanding rein, And may direct his course as please himself. Shakspeare. The hard rein, which both of them have borne Against the old kind king. Id. King Lear. Being once chaft, he cannot Be reined again to temperance; then he speaks What's in his heart. Id. Coriolanus. He mounts and reins his horse. Chapman. War to disordered rage, let loose the reins. Milton. He, like a proud steed reined, went haughty on. Id. Take you the reins, while I from cares remove, And sleep within the chariot which I drove. His son retained Dryden. His father's art, and warriour steeds he reined. Id. Pope. When to his lust Ægisthus gave the rein, Did fate or we the' adultrous act constrain? Id. Strip them of those false colours that so often deceive us; correct the sallies of the imagination, and leave the reins in the hand of reason. Mason. REINDEER. See CERVUS. REINECCIUS (Reinier), a learned German of the sixteenth century, born at Steinheim. He taught the belles lettres in the universities of Frankfort and Helmstadt. He published Historia Julia, and Historia Orentalis; with some other tracts. He died in 1595. REINESIUS (Thomas), a learned German physician and philosopher, born at Gotha in Thuringia in 1587. He settled as a physician at Altemberg, where he was elected a burgomaster. He was afterwards appointed counsellor to the elector of Saxony, and resided at Leipsic. He wrote some tracts on medicine, but his chief works are on philology and criticism. His most celebrated work is Variarum Lectionum Libri Tres; 4to. He died at Leipsic in 1587. REINHOLD (Erasmus), a learned German astronomer and mathematician, born at Salfeldt in Upper Saxony in 1511. He wrote several mathematical and astronomical works; and died in 1535. REINSPIRE', v. a. Re and inspire. To inspire anew. Time will run, On smoother, till Favonius reinspire Milton. mine hurt. : Psalm xxxv. 26. I will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. Jeremiah xxxi. 13. This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said, there is none beside me. Zephaniah ii. 15. Whatsoever faith entertains, produces love to God; but he that believes God to be cruel, or a rejoicer in the unavoidable damnation of the greatest part of mankind, thinks evil thoughts concerning Taylor's Rule of Holy Living. They rejoice each with their kind. Milton. We should particularly express our rejoicing by love and charity to our neighbours. God. Alone to thy renown, 'tis given, Unbounded through all worlds to go; While she great saint rejoices heaven, And thou sustains't the orb below. Nelson. Prior. I should give Cain the honour of the invention; were he alive, it would rejoice his soul to see what mischief it had made. Arbuthnot. REJOIN', v. a. & v. n. Į Fr. rejoindre. To REJOIN'DER, n. s. join or meet again; to reply to an answer: rejoinder is the reply made. Injury or chance rudely beguiles our lips Of all rejoindure. Shakspeare. Troilus and Cressida. The quality of the person makes me judge myself obliged to a rejoinder. Glanville to Albius. The grand signior conveyeth his galleys down to Grand Cairo, where they are taken in pieces, carried upon camels' backs, and rejoined together at Suez. Browne's Vulgur Errours. It will be replied that he receives advantage by this lopping of his superfluous branches; but I rejoin, that a translator has no such right. Dryden. Thoughts, which at Hyde-park-corner I forgot, Meet and rejoin me in the pensive grot. Pope. REJOINDER, in law, is the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication or reply. Thus, in the court of chancery, the defendant puts in an answer to the plaintiff's bill, which is sometimes also called an exception; the plaintiff's answer to that is called a replication, and the defendant's answer to that a rejoinder. REJOLT', n. s. Fr. rejaillir. Shock; suc cussion. The sinner, at his highest pitch of enjoyment, is not pleased with it so much, but he is afflicted more; and, as long as these inward rejolts and recoilings of the mind continue, the sinner will find his accounts of pleasure very poor. South. REISKE (John James), M. D., a celebrated oriental scholar and critic, born in 1706, at a town in the duchy of Anhalt. After the usual school education he went, in 1733, to Leipsic, where he studied five years, acquired the Arabic language, and translated and published a book in it. He next travelled on foot to Leyden, MSS. though but poorly compensated for it. where he was employed in arranging the Arabian He next translated from the German and French into Latin various Essays sent him by Dorville, whom he had visited in his journey, and who inserted these in the Miscellanea Critica. At Dorville's desire he also translated the whole of the Chariton from the Greek, and Abulfeda's Geography from the Latin. He continued eight years in Leyden, and received his degree in it, but left it on account of calumnies excited against him by Peter Burian, whose translation of Petronius Arbiter he had criticised. He then travelled through Germany, and settled at Leipsic, where he was made professor of Arabic, and continued for twelve years, writing for the booksellers. The Acta Eruditorum were greatly indebted to him. On the death of Haltansius, in 1756, he was made rector of the Academy at Leipsic, which placed him above want. Previously to this he had published his Animadversiones in Auctores Græcos, in five vols, a work of deep erudition. In 1764 he married Ernestina Christina Muller, a woman of extraordinary abilities, whose learning, particularly in Greek, was hardly inferior to his own. She assisted him in all his literary labors, especially in his immortal work of the Edition of the Greek Orators in 12 vols, 8vo. Thus Reiske spent the remainder of his life; and died in 1774, universally respected. The number of his publications is very great. The principal are those abovementioned and the following: Dionysius Halicarnassensis, seven vols; Plutarch, nine vols.; Theocritus, &c. REITERATE, v. a. ¿ Fr. reiterer; Lat. re REITERATION, n. s. § and itero. To repeat again and again : repetition. You never spoke what did become you less Than this, which to veiterate were sin. Shakspeare. With reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. Milton. It is useful to have new experiments tried over phenomena. again; such reiterations commonly exhibiting new Boyle. Although Christ hath forbid us to use vain repetitions when we pray, yet he hath taught us that to reiterate the same requests will not be vain. Smalridge. sic, became a private tutor, and then a corrector of the press in the printing-office of Breitkopf. He held the professorships of philosophy, Latin and Greek, and poetry, and was director of the library belonging to the university of Leipsic. He died February 2, 1790. Reiz is principally known as the editor of Herodotus; but he published editions of other classics, and two Dissertations on Prosody. REKIN'DLE, v. a. Re and kindle. To set on fire again. These disappearing, fixed stars, were actually extinguished, and would for ever continue so, if not rekindled, and new recruited with heat and light. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles. Rekindled at the royal charms, Tumultuous love each beating bosom warms. Pope. RELAND (Adrian), an eminent Orientalist, born at Ryp, in North Holland, in 1676; and educated three years under Surenhusius, from whom he acquired the Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldee, and Arabic languages. In 1701 he was, by the recommendation of king William, appointed professor of Oriental languages and ecclesiastical antiquities in the university of Utrecht; and died of the small-pox in 1718. He was distinguished by his modesty, humanity, and learning; and carried on a correspondence with the most eminent scholars of his time. His works are written in Latin; viz. An excellent description of Palestine. Five dissertations on the Medals of the ancient Hebrews, and several other dissertations on different subjects. An Introduction to the Hebrew Grammar. The Antiquities of the Ancient Hebrews. On the Mahometan Religion. RELAPSE', v. n. & n. s. Lat. relapsus. To slip back; slide or fall back; particularly from good to ill relapse is regression; falling back into evil; return. It was even as two physicians should take one sick body in hand; of which, the former would purge and keep under the body, the other pamper and strengthen it suddenly; whereof what is to be looked for, but a most dangerous relapse. Spenser. Mark a bounding valour in our English; That being dead like to the bullet's grazing, Breaks out into a second course of mischief, Killing in relapse of mortality. Shakspeare. Henry V. The oftener he hath relapsed, the more significations he ought to give of the truth of his repentance. Taylor. Milton. This would but lead me to a worse relapse And heavier fall. We see in too frequent instances the relapses of those, who under the present smart, or the near apprehension of the divine displeasure, have resolved on a religious reformation. Rogers. He was not well cured, and would have relapsed. RELATE', v.a.&v.n.) Lat. relatus. To tell; recite; utter; give vent by words RELATIVE, adj. & n. s. (a sense only used by RELATIVELY, adv. Bacon); ally by kinRELATIVENESS, n. s. dred or marriage: as a verb neuter, have reference or respect: a relater is, a narrator; historian: relation, narration; tale; connexion; manner of connexion, or of belonging to a person or thing; respect; reference; alliance; kindred; person related by birth or Confining our care either to ourselves and relatives. Fell. The drama presents to view, what the poem only does relate. Dryden. I have been importuned to make some observations on this art, in relation to its agreement with poetry. Id. Be kindred and relation laid aside, And honour's cause by laws of honour tried. Id. All negative or privative words relate to positive ideas, and signify their absence. Locke. Relation consists in the consideration and comparing of one idea with another. Id. Not only simple ideas and substances, but modes are positive beings; though the parts of which they consist are very often relative one to another. Id. When the mind so considers one thing that it sets it by another, and carries its own view from one to the other, this is relation and respect; and the denominations given to positive things, intimating that respect, are relatives. Id. As other courts demanded the execution of persons dead in law; this gave the last orders relating to those dead in reason. Tatler. Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation! that cannot be: the gospel stiles them all our brethren; nay, they have a nearer relation to us, our fellowmembers; and both these from their relation to our Saviour himself, who calls them his brethren. Sprat. These being the greatest good or the greatest evil, either absolutely so in themselves, or relatively so to us; it is therefore good to be zealously affected for the one against the other. Id. As God has not so devoted our bodies to toil, but that he allows us some recreation; so doubtless he indulges the same relaxation to our minds. In an historical relation, we use terms that are most proper. Burnet's Theory of the Earth, The ecclesiastical, as well as the civil governour, has cause to pursue the same methods of confirming himself; the grounds of government being founded upon the same bottom of nature in both, though the circumstances and relative considerations of the perSouth. sons may differ. So far as service imports duty and subjection, all created beings bear the necessary relation of servants to God. ld. The author of a just fable must please more than the writer of an historical relation. Dennis. Wholesome and unwholesome are relative, not real qualities. Arbuthnot on Aliments. Avails thee not, Id. To whom related, or by whom begot : A heap of dust alone remains. Pope. The best English historian, when his style grows antiquated, will be only considered as a tedious relater of facts. Swift. A she-cousin, of a good family and small fortune, passed months among all her relations. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively or survey the various relations in which it stands to other beings. Watts. Our necessary relations to a family, oblige all to use their reasoning powers upon a thousand occaId. sions. Of the eternal relations and fitnesses of things we know nothing; all that we know of truth and falsehood is, that our constitution determines us in some cases to believe, in others to disbelieve. Beattie. RELATIVE PRONOUNS, in grammar, are those which answer to some other word foregoing, called the antecedent; such are the Latin pronouns qui, quæ, quod, &c.: in English, who, which, what, &c. The word answering to these relatives is often understood, as, I know whom you mean, for I know the person whom you mean. RELAX', v. a. & v. n. Lat. relaxo. To RELAXATION, n. s. slacken to make less tense; remit; ease; to be mild; remiss: the noun-substantive corresponding. They childishly granted, by common consent of their whole senate, under their own seal, a relaxation to one Bertelier, whom the eldership had excommunicated. Hooker. The sinews, when the southern wind bloweth, are more relaxed. Bacon's Natural History. Cold sweats are many times mortal; for that they come by a relaxation or forsaking of the spirits. Bacon. Adam, amazed, Milton. Government of the Tongue. If in some regards she chose In others she relaxed again, And governed with a looser rein. Prior. Many who live healthy in a dry air, fall into all the diseases that depend upon relaxation in a moist Arbuthnot. one. The statute of mortmain was at several times relaxed by the legislature. Swift. The relaxation of the statute of mortmain is one of the reasons which gives the bishop terrible apprehensions of popery coming on us. Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright. ld. Vanity of Wishes. RELAY', n. s. Fr. relais. Horses on the road to relieve others. RELEASE', v. a. Fr. relascher, relaxer, of Lat. relaxo. To set free from confinement, servitude, pain, or penalty; free from obligation; quit; let go; relax: the noun-substantive corresponding. Every creditor that lendeth aught unto his neighbour shall release it. Deuteronomy. The king made a great feast, and made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts. Esther ii. 18. Pilate said, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Matthew. It may not seem hard, if in cases of necessity, certain profitable ordinances sometimes be released, rather than all men always strictly bound to the general rigour thereof. Hooker. The king would not have one penny abated, of what had been granted by parliament; because it might encourage other countries to pray the like release or mitigation. Bacon. Too secure, because from death released some days. Milton. You released his courage, and set free RELEASE, in law, is a discharge or conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements, to another that hath some former estate in possession. The words generally used therein are, remised, released, and for ever quit-claimed.' And these releases may enure, either, 1. By way of enlarging an estate, as, if there be tenant for life or years, remainder to another in fee, and he in remainder releases all his right to the particular tenant and his heirs, this gives him the estate in fee. But in this case the relessee must be in possession of some estate for the release to work upon; for, if there be a lessee for years, and, before he enters and is in possession, the lessor releases to him all his right in the reversion, such release is void for want of possession in the relessee. 2. By way of passing an estate, as, when one of two coparçeners releaseth all his right to the other, this passeth the fee-simple of the whole. In both these cases there must be a privity of estate between the relessor and relessee; that is, one of their estates must be so related to the other as to make but one and the same estate in law. 3. By way of passing a right, as if a man be disseised, and releaseth to his disseisor all his right; hereby the disseisor acquires a new right, which changes the quality of his estate, and renders that lawful which before was tortious. 4. By way of extinguishment: as if my tenant for life makes a lease to A for life, remainders to B and his heirs, and I release to A; this extinguishes my right to the reversion, and shall enure to the advantage of B's remainder as well as of A's particular estate. 5. By way of entry and feoffment: as if there be two joint disseisors, and the disseisee releases to one of them, he shall be sole seised, and shall keep out his former companion; which is the same in effect as if the disseisee had entered, and thereby put an end to the disseisin, and afterwards had enfeoffed one of the disseisors in fee. When a man has in himself the possession of lands, he must at the common law convey the freehold by feoffment and livery, which makes a notoriety in the country: but if a man has only a right or a future interest he may convey that right or interest by a mere release to him that is in possession of the land: for the occupancy of the relessee is a matter of sufficient notoriety already. RELEGATION, n. s. Fr. relegation; Lat. relegatio. Exile; judicial banishment. According to the civil law, the extraordinary punishment of adultery was deportation or relegation. RELENT, v. n. & v. a. Į Ayliffe. Fr. ralentir. Το soften, grow less rigid or hard; melt; as a verb neuter, to slacken; remit; mollify, but rarely used: the adjective corresponds with the verb active. 1 have marked in you a relenting truly, and a slacking of the main career, you had so notably begun, and almost performed. Sidney. Apace he shot, and yet he fled apace, Can you behold My tears, and not once relent? Spenser. Shakspeare. Henry VI. In some houses, sweetmeats will relent more than in others. Bacon. Crows seem to call upon rain, which is but the comfort they seem to receive in the relenting of the Id. air. The workmen let glass cool by degrees in such retentings of fire, as they call their nealing heats, lest it should shiver in pieces by a violent succeeding of Digby on Bodies. air. Undoubtedly he will relent and turn From his displeasure. Milton. Only in destroying, I find ease To my relentless thoughts. Id. Paradise Lost. Salt of tartar brought to fusion, and placed in a cellar, will in a few minutes begin to relent, and have its surface softened by the imbibed moisture of the air, wherein, if it be left long, it will totally be Why should the weeping hero now Prior. Hush'd are the birds, and closed the drooping flow'rs; Jd. spectable divine and naturalist, was educated at Up dreary dame of darkness queen, Spenser. Of her o'ereaten faith are bound to Diomede. Shakspeare. Thrifty wench scrapes kitchen stuff, The labour of an age in piled stones? Milton. But long contracted filth even in the soul remains; Dryden's Eneis. This church is very rich in relicks; among the rest, they show a fragment of Thomas à Becket, as indeed there are very few treasuries of relicks in Italy that have not a tooth or a bone of this saint. Addison on Italy. Prior. Shall our relicks second birth receive? Pope. RELICS, in the Romish church, the remains of the bodies or clothes of saints or martyrs, death, devoutly preserved, in honor of their meand the instruments by which they were put to mory: revered, and carried in procession. The respect which was due to the martyrs and teachers of the Christian faith in a few ages increased almost to adoration. Relics, therefore, were, and still are preserved on the altars of the Romanists whereon mass is celebrated. The city of Cologne was famous for its relics. Many precious relics were also discovered and exposed to ridi |