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Show R E RE French. [redrefir 4 w > REDRE(SS fet right; to amend v1. T ‘ In yonder fpring of rofes Milton Find what to redrefs till noon %4 2. To relieve; to remedy; to eafe. It i " fometimes ufed of perfons, but mor properly of things She felt with me, what I felt of my captivity and ftreight laboured to redrefs my pain, which wa Sid her pain *Tis thine th' afflicted to redr Dryden Lighter affronts and injuries: Chrift commands u not to redrefs by law, but to bear with patience Kettlewell O king 2 bve In countries of freedom Rin princes are bound t protect their fubjects in liberty, property, and religion, to receive their petitions, and redrefs thei Saift grievances "i0 v REDRE'ss 7./. [from the verb. To feek reformation of evil laws is commendable but for us the- more neceflary is a fpeedy redrefs o Hooker ourfelves 2. Relief; remedy No humble fuitors prefs to fpeak for right No, not a raan comes for redrefs to thee. Shakefp Such people as break the law of nations, all nations are interefted to fupprefs, confidering that th particular ftates, being the delinquents, can give n Bacan redrefs Grief, finding no redrefs, ferment and rage 14755 Milton but ther s occafion for redrefs when the cry is univerfal Dawenant One who gives relief Fair majefty, the refuge and redref Of thofe whom fate purfues, and wants opprefs. Dry [red and fear. If iron be too cold, it will not feel the weigh of the hammer, when it will not batter under th hammer; and if it be too hot, it will redfear, tha I, break or crack under the hammer Moxon » Re‘pseaNk. #. f. [red and fhank. " L. This feems to be a contemptuous ap pellation for fome of the people o o qe# Scotland He fent over his brother Edward with a powe Lof Scots and redfbasks unto Ireland, where they go footing Spenfer 2. A bird Ainfworth Re‘pstarT, or RE'DTAIL. 7. /o [ phanicurys, Latin.] A bird Re'psTrREAK, 7. /. [red and freak. 1. An apple (. The redftreak, of all cyder fruit, hath obtaine the preference, being but a kin - thoug kept long . palate ther ar of wilding yet is neve fevera pleafin an to th forts of redfireak: fom forts of them have red veins running through th whole fruit, which is efteemed to give the cyder th ticheft tin&ure Mortimer 2. Cyder preffed from the redftreak Redfreak he quaffs beneath the Chianti vine Gives Tufcan yearly for thy Scudmore's wine. Smith %o REDU'CE duire, F r. o, a. [reduco, Latin ; re 1. To bring back Repv'cTion render bac 3. To reform from any diforder That temper in the archbithop, who licenfed thei moft pernicious writings, left his fuccetior a ver difficult work to do, to reform and redwce a churc into order, that had been fo long neglected, and f il filled Clarendon 4. To bring into any ftate of diminution A diaphanous body, reduced to very minut parts, thereby acquires many littie fusfaces in natrow compafs Boyle His ire will quite confume us, and reduc To nothing this effential Milton The ordinary fmalicft meafure is losked on as a unit in number, when the mind by divifion woul reduce them into lefs fra&ions Locke There is nothing fo bad, but a man may lay hold of fomething about it, that will afford matter o excufe 5 nor nothing fo excellent, but a man ma faften upon fomeching belonging to it, whereby t reduce it Tillotfon 6. T bring into any flate of mifery o meannefs The moft prudent part was his moderation an indulgence, not reducing them to defperation Arbuthnot on Coins 7. 'T'o fubdue as head {upreme Thrones, princedoms, pow'rs, dominions I reduce Milton 8. To bring into any ftate mor reach or power To have this proje withi reduced to prafice, ther to want nothing There left defert utmoft hell Obfolete Abate the edge of traitors, gracious lord That would reduce thefe bloody days again, Shakefp 10. To fubje& to a rule; to bring into clafs: as, the infe&ts are reduced t tribes; the variations of language ar reduced to rules Repu'cemeEnT 2. [ [from reduce. The a&t of bringing back, fubduing reforming, or diminifhing; reduction The navy received blefling from Pope Sixtus and was affigned as an apoftolical miflion for th reducement of this kingdom to the obedierice o Rome Repu'cer. . / that reduces [fro Bacon reduce. On They could not learn to digeft, that the man which they fo long had ufed to mafk their ow appetites, fhould now be the 7educer of them int order REpu'cIBLE. adj. [from reduce. Sidney Poflibl to be reduced All law that a man is obliged by, is reduciblc t the law of nature, the pofitive law of God in hi word, and the law of man enaéted by the civi power South Aétions that promote fociety and mutual fellowthip, feem reducible to a pronenefs to do good t others, and a ready fenfe of any good done b others South All the parts of painting are reducible into thef mentioned by our author Dryden's Dufrcfioy If minerals ‘are not convertible into anothe fpecies, though of the fame genus, much lefs ca they be furmifed reducible into a fpecies of anothe genus Harvey on Confumptions OQur damps in England are reducible to.the fuffocating or the fulminating Woodzvard Repvu'cieLENESs. z. /. [from reducible. Quality of being reducible Spirit of wine, by its pungent tafte, and efpe . f [reduftion, Br. fro 1. The a& of reducing ; ftate of being reduced Some will hav thefe years to be but months but we have no certain evidence that they ufed t account a month g year; and if we had, yet tha reduétion will not ferve Hale Every thing vifibly tended to the reduéfion of hi facred majefty, and all perfons in their feveral fta tions began to make way and prcpare for it. ~ Fe/l 2. In arithmetick, reducion brings two o more numbers of different denominations into one denomination Cocker Repvu'crive. adj dultus, Latin. ducing [reduftif, French Havin Hale re the power of re- Itis ufed as a fubftantiv b Thus far concerning thefe reduéives by inundations and conflagrations. Hale's Origs of Mankind Repvu'crTiveELY By redu&ion adv. [from reduftive. by confequence If they be our fuperiors then 'tis modefty an reverence to all fuch in general ther niceties thoug at leaft redutively Hammond they are not matter o confeience, fingly and apart, e yet fo reduétively that is, though they are not fo in the abftra&, the become fo by affinity and connection. L'Effrange REpU'NDANCE. | n. /. [redundantia, Lat ' REpu'NDANCY from redundant.] Superfluity; fuperabundance ; exuberance The caufe of generation feemeth to be fulnefs for generation is from redundancy: this fulnef arifeth fro 9. To reclaim to order Boyle redulius, Lat. Milton Milton The generous band Who, touch'd with human woe, redreffive fearch' Into the horrors of the gloomy jail Thomfort 7o REpsea'r. @.n term of workmen Defirous to refign an Ali T receiv'd Reduc'd in careful watch round their metropolis not authorifed 4 as a fulphureous nature And equal to reduce me to my duft feem REDRE'SSIVE. adj. [from redrefs. Succouring; afferding remedy A wor s cially by its reduciblencfs, according to Helmont into alcali and water, . {cems to beas well of a falin It were but juf Under thee Nor lefs than wounds immedicable Rankle, and fefter, and gangten WIEES 2. To bring to the former flate s« To degrade ; to impair in dignity 1. Reformation ; amendment To black mortification A few may complain without reafon RE th natur of the creature if it b hot, and moift and fanguine; or from plenty o food Bacon It is-a quality, that confines a man wholl within himfelf, leaving him yoid of that principle which alone fhould difpofe him to communicat and impart thofe redundancies of good, that he i pofieffed of South I fhall thow our poet's redundanc nef of comparifons Labour ferment of wit, juft and elegance of defcriptions Garth the humours caft the int their proper channels, and throws off redundancies REDU'NDANT A'dd'fjbn ad; 1. Superabundant [redundans, Lat. exuberant ; fuperflu ous His head With burnifh'd neck of verdant gold, ereé Amidft his circling fpires, that on the graf ¥loated redundant Milton's Parzdife Lofs Nothwithftandith ng redurdant oil in fithes, the do not encreafe fat fo much as fleth Arbuthror 2. Ufing more words or image ufeful than ar Where the author is redundant, mark thofe paragraphs to be retrenched ; when he trities, abandon thofe pailages Watts Repu'~pantiy. adv. [from redundant. Superfluoufly; {uperabundantly 7o Repu'pLiCcATE. @. @ [re and duplicate. 'T'o double Repuverica'rion. #. [ [from seduplicate.] The act of doubling This is evident put as whe w when the mar fpea ing the reduplication, a all other confiderations Repv'rricative from reduplicate. Som logician of exclufion i of a white thing, - addwhite whic exclude Digby adj. [reduplicatsf, Fr Double mentio reduplicative propofi tions ; as men, confidered as men tures 3 i e, becaufe they are men 200 are rationab crea Wares's ReDwixne |
