REPLEV'IN, v. a. I Low Lat. replegio, of REPLEV'Y. re and plevir, or Fr. plegir, to give a pledge. To take back or set at liberty, upon security, any thing seized.-A legal term.

That you're a beast, and turned to grass,
Is no strange news, nor ever was;
At least to me, who once, you know,
Did from the pound replevin you.

Hudibras.

REPLEVIN, in law, a remedy granted on a distress, by which the first possessor has his goods restored to him again on his giving security to the sheriff that he will pursue his action against the party distraining, and return the goods or cattle if the taking them shall be adjudged lawful. In a replevin the person distrained becomes plaintiff; and the person

distraining is called the defendant or avowant, and his justification an avowry. At the common law replevins are by writ, either out of the king's bench or common pleas; but by statute they are by plaint in the sheriff's court, and court baron, for a person's more speedily obtaining the goods distrained. If a plaint in replevin be removed into the court of king's bench, &c., and the plaintiff make default and become nonsuit, or judgment is given against him, the defendant in replevin shall have the writ of retorno habendo of the goods taken in distress.

REPLEVY, in law, is a tenant's bringing a writ of replevin, or replegiari facias, where his goods are taken by distress for rent; which must be done within five days after the distress, otherwise at the five days' end they are to be appraised and sold.

REPLICATION, n. s. Lat. replico. Rebound; repercussion. Not in use. Reply. Tyber trembled underneath his banks To hear the replication of your sounds Made in his concave shores.

Shakspeare.

To be demanded of a spunge, what replication should be made by the son of a king? Id. This is a replication to what Menelaus had before offered, concerning the transplantation of Ulysses to Sparta.

Broome.

REPLY', v. n., v. a. & n. s. Į Fr. repliquer.
REPLIER, n. s.
To answer; make

a return to an answer; return for answer; the return made: replier, he who answers.

O man! who art thou that repliest against God?

Romans ix. If I sent him word it was not well cut, he would send me word he cut it to please himself; if again, it was not well cut, this is called the reply churlish.

Shakspeare.

At an act of the commencement, the answerer gave for his question, that an aristocracy was better than a monarchy: the replyer did tax him, that, being a private bred man, he would give a question of state. Bacon's Apophthegms.

Perplexed The tempter stood, nor had what to reply. Milton. His trembling tongue invoked his bride; With his last voice Eurydice he cried : Eurydice the rocks and river-banks replied.

Peter and Paul's faces: that it was true in their life. time they were pale mortified men, but that since they were grown ruddy, by blushing at the sins of their successors. Atterbury's Sermons. To whom, with sighs, Ulysses gave reply ; Ah, why ill-suiting pastime must try? Pope. One rises up to make replies to establish or confute what has been offered on each side of the question. Watts.

REPOLISH, v. a. Fr. repolir; re and polish. To polish again.

REPORT, v. a. & n.s. REPORT'ER, n. s.

A sundred clock is piecemeal laid Not to be lost, but by the maker's hand Repolished, without error then to stand. Donne. Fr. rapporter. To give back; noise by poputhe report or account given; sound; repercussion: REPORT'INGLY, adv. Slar rumor; give report; a reporter is a relater; one who gives an account: the adverb corresponding with the verb. Report, say they, and we will report it.

Jeremiah. There is a king in Judah; and now shall it be reported to the king. Nehemiah vi. 7. Timotheus was well reported of by the brethren.

Acts xvi. honour and dishonour, by evil report and good reApproving ourselves as the ministers of God, by

port. 2 Corinthians iv. Is it upon record? or else reported successively from age to age? Shakspeare. Richard III.

My body's marked With Roman swords; and my report was once First with the best of note. Id. Cymbeline. There she appeared; or my reporter devised well for her. Shakspeare. Others say, thou dost deserve; and I Believe it better than reportingly. Id. In Ticinum is a church with windows only from above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times, if you stand by the close end wall over against the door.

Bacon.

The stronger species drowneth the lesser: the report of an ordnance the voice. Id. Natural History.

Rumours were raised of great discord among the nobility; for this cause the lords assembled gave order to apprehend the reporters of these surmises. Hayward.

Sea nymphs enter with the swelling tide; From Thetis sent as spies to make report, And tell the wonders of her sovereign's court. Waller.

The lashing billows make a long report, And beat her sides. Dryden's Ceyx and Alcyone. If I had known a thing they concealed, I should never be the reporter of it.

Pope. After a man has studied the general principles of the law, reading the reports of adjudged cases will richly improve his mind.

Watts.

REPOSE', v. a. & v. n. Į Lat. repono. To place as in confidence; to rest; sleep: the rest REPO'SAL, N. s. lay to rest; lodge; or sleep taken; confidence placed; cause of rest: reposal, the act of reposing.

Dost thou think,

If I would stand against thee, would the reposal
Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee,
Make thy words faithed?

Shakspeare.
Rome's readiest champions, repose you here,
Secure from wordly chances and mishaps;
Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells.
And, for the ways are dangerous to pass,

Id.

Consume in meditation deep, recluse From human converse; nor at shut of eve Enjoy repose. Pebbles, reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth, being not so dissoluble and more bulky, are left be

Woodward.

hind. That prince was conscious of his own integrity in the service of God, and relied on this as a foundation for that trust he reposed in him, to deliver him out of his distresses. Rogers. REPOSITE, v. a. Lat. repositus. To lay ? REPOSITION, n. s. up; lodge as in a place REPOSITORY. Sof safety: act of lodging or of replacing the place of deposit. The mind of man not being capable of having many ideas under view at once, it was necessary to have a repository to lay up those ideas.

Locke.

SO

He can take a body to pieces, and dispose of them, to us not without the appearance of irretrievable confusion, but with respect to his own knowledge into the most regular and methodical repositories. Rogers's Sermons. Others reposite their young in holes, and secure themselves also therein, because such security is wanting, their lives being sought. Derham.

REPOSSESS', v. a. Re and possess. possess again.

To

How comes it now, that almost all that realm is repossessed of them? Spenser's State of Ireland. Her suit is now to repossess those lands,

Which we in justice cannot well deny. Shakspeare.
Nor shall my father repossess the land,
The father's fortune never to return.

REPREHEND', v. a.

REPREHENDER, n. s. REPREHEN'SIBLE, adj.

Pope's Odyssey.

Lat. reprehendo. To reprove; chide;

REPREHEN'SIBLENESS, n. s. blame; detect or

REPREHEN'SIBLY, adv. REPREHEN'SION, n. s. REPREHENSIVE, adj.

ing.

charge with fault:

the derivatives all correspond

Which when I saw, I reprehended them;

• lence?

This color will be reprehended or encountered, by imputing to all excellencies in compositions a kind of poverty. Bacon.

To a heart fully resolute, council is tedious, but reprehension is loathsome.

Id.

He could not reprehend the fight, so many strewed the ground. Chapman.

The admonitions, fraternal or paternal, of his fellow christians, or the governors of the church; then more public reprehensions and increpations.

Hammond.

This council of four hundred was chosen, one hundred out of each tribe, and seems to have been a body representative of the people; though the people collective reserved a share of power. Swift.

My muse officious ventures On the nation's representers. REPRESS', v. a. & n. s. REPRESSION, n. s. REPRESSIVE, adj.

Id.

Lat. repressus; Fr. reprimer. To crush; put down;

subdue: act of repressing: repressive is the better word for this last sense.

Discontents and ill blood having used always to repress and appease in person, he was loth they

Repress the horror of my thoughts, which fly

The sad remembrance?

Such kings

Favour the innocent, repress the bold,

Denham.

And, while they flourish, make an age of gold.

Waller.

He cannot thrive,

Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear,
And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath
Of greatest justice.
Shakspeare.

I hope it is some pardon or reprieve
For Claudio.
Id. Measure for Measure.
All that I ask is but a short reprieve,
Till I forget to love, and learn to grieve. Denham.

The morning Sir John Hotham was to die, a reprieve was sent to suspend the execution for three days.

Clarendon.

Company, though it may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet cannot secure him from his conSouth.

science.

Having been condemned for his part in the late rebellion, his majesty had been pleased to reprieve him, with several of his friends, in order to give them their lives.

Addison.

He reprieves the sinner from time to time, and continues and heaps on him the favours of his providence, in hopes that, by an act of clemency so undeserved, he may prevail on his gratitude and repentance. Rogers's Sermons.

REPRIEVE, in criminal law (from Fr. reprendre, i. e. to take back), is the withdrawing of a sentence for an interval of time; whereby the execution is suspended. This, says judge Blackstone, may be, first, ex arbitrio judicis, either before or after judgment: as, where the judge is not satisfied with the verdict, or the evidence is suspicious, or the indictment is insufficient, or he is doubtful whether the offence be within clergy; or sometimes if it be a small felony, or any favorable circumstances appear in the criminal's character, to give time to apply to the crown for either an absolute or conditional pardon. These reprieves may be granted or taken off by the justices of gaol-delivery, although their session be finished, but this rather by usage than of right. Reprieves may also be ex necessitate legis as where a woman is capitally convicted, and pleads her pregnancy. Though this is no cause to stay judgment, yet it is to respite the execution till she be delivered. This is a mercy dictated by the law of nature, in favorem prolis; and therefore no part of the bloody proceedings in the reign of queen Mary I. hath been more justly detested than the cruelty exercised in the VOL. XVIII.

island of Guernsey, of burning a woman big with child; and when, through the violence of the flames, the infant sprang forth at the stake, and was preserved by the by-standers, after some deliberations of the priests who assisted at the sacrifice, they cast it into the fire as a young heretic: a barbarity which they never learned from the laws of ancient Rome; which direct, with the same humanity as our own, quod prægnantis mulieris damnatæ pœna differatur quoad pariat : which doctrine has also prevailed in England as early as the first memorials of the English law will reach. When this plea is made, in stay of execution, the judge must direct a jury of twelve matrons or discreet women to enquire into the fact; and if they bring in their verdict quick with child (for barely with child, unless it be alive in the womb, is not sufficient), execution shall be staid generally till the next session; and so, from session to session, till either she is delivered, or proves by the course of nature not to have been with child at all. But if she once hath had the benefit of this reprieve, and been delivered, and afterwards becomes pregnant again, she shall not be entitled to the benefit of a farther respite for that cause. For she may now be executed before the child is quick in the womb; and shall not, by her own incontinence, evade the sentence of justice. Another cause of regular reprieve is, if the offender become non execution: for regularly, though a man be comcompos between the judgment and the award of become non compos after, he shall not be inpos when he commits a capital crime, yet, if he dicted; if after indictment, he shall not be conVicted; if after conviction, he shall not receive judgment; if after judgment, he shall not be ordered for execution; for furiosus solo furore punitur; and the law knows not but he might have offered some reason, if in his senses, to have stayed these respective proceedings. It is therefore an invariable rule when any time intervenes between the attainder and the award of execution, to demand of the prisoner what he hath to allege why execution should not be awarded against him; and, if he appears to be insane, the judge in his discretion may and ought to reprieve him.

execution, either pregnancy, the king's pardon, Or the party may plead, in bar of an act of grace, or diversity of person, viz. that he is not the same that was attainted. In this last case a jury shall be impannelled to try the identity of his person; and not whether guilty or innocent, for that has been decided before. And in these collateral issues the trial shall be instanter; and no time allowed the prisoner to make his defence or produce his witnesses, unless he will make oath that he is not the person attainted: neither shall any peremptory challenges of the jury be allowed the prisoner, though formerly such challenges were held to be allowable whenever a man's life was in question. If neither pregnancy, insanity, non-identity, nor other plea, will avail to avoid the judgment, and stay the execution consequent thereupon, the last and surest resort is in the king's most gracious pardon; the granting of which is the sole prerogative of the crown. See PARDON. REPRIMAND', v. a. & n. s. Fr. repriman

der; Lat. reprimo. To chide; check; reprehend; reprove reproof given.

He enquires how such an one's son and wife do, whom he has not seen at church; which is understood as a secret reprimand to the person absent. Addison's Spectator. Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius, for travelling into Egypt without his permission. Arbuthnot.

They saw their eldest sister once brought to her tears, and her perverseness severely reprimanded. Law.

REPRINT, v. a. Re and print. To print again; to renew the impression of any thing. The business of redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of creation, to reprint God's image upon the soul, and to set forth nature in a second and a fairer edition. South. My bookseller is reprinting the Essay on Criticism. Pope. REPRISE, n. s. Į Fr. reprise. The act of REPRISAL. Staking something in retaliation of injury: the thing taken.

The English had great advantage in value of reprisals, as being more strong and active at sea.

Hayward.

Your care about your banks infers a fear Of threatening floods and inundations near; If so, a just reprise would only be Of what the land usurped upon the sea. Sense must sure thy safest plunder be, Since no reprisals can be made on thee.

Dryden.

Dorset.

REPRISAL, OF RECAPTION, is a species of remedy allowed to an injured person. This happens when any one hath deprived another of his property in goods or chattels personal, or wrong fully detains one's wife, child, or servant: in which case the owner of the goods, and the husband, parent, or master, may lawfully claim and retake them, wherever he happens to find them; so it be not in a riotous manner, or attended with a breach of the peace. The reason is, that it may often happen that the owner may have this only opportunity of doing himself justice his goods may be afterwards conveyed away or destroyed, and his wife, children, or servants, concealed or carried out of his reach, if he had no speedier remedy than the ordinary process of law. If therefore he can gain possession of his property again, without force or terror, the law will justify his proceeding. But, as the public peace is a superior consideration to any one man's private property, it is provided that this natural right of recaption shall never be exerted where such exertion must occasion strife and bodily contention, or endanger the peace of society. In such cases the loser must have recourse to an action at law.

REPROACH', v. a. & n. s. Fr. and Span. REPROACH'ABLE, adj. reproche, of Lat. REPROACH FUL, reprobatio. To REPROACH FULLY, adv. censure opprobriously; upbraid: the adjectives and noun substantive corresponding.

I will that the younger women marry, and give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. 1 Timothy v. 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy 1 Peter iv. 14.

are ye.

To make religion a stratagem to undermine government is contrary to this superstructure, most scandalous and reproachful to Christianity. Hammond. That shame

There sit not, and reproach us as unclean. Milton. Thy punishment

ld.

He shall endure, by coming in the flesh To a reproachful life and cursed death. The French writers do not burthen themselves too much with plot, which has been reproached to them as a fault. Dryden.

An advocate may be punished for reproachful language in respect of the parties in suit. Ayliffe.

The very regret of being surpassed in any valuable quality, by a person of the same abilities with ourselves, will reproach our own laziness, and even shame us into imitation. Rogers.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

REPROBATE, adj., n. s., &
REPROBATION, n. s.

[v. a. § bus.

Johnson.

Lat. reproLost to

stantive corresponding. virtue or to grace; abandoned: the noun sub

him, being abominable, and to every good work reThey profess to know God, but in works deny probate.

What if we omit

Titus i. 16.