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Show REE RE 4. Though on itfelf or the abfent but at the'moft an human, yet fuc may have no doubting mixed with back upon the paft throw The three firit parts I dedicate to my old friends th i w ns ti le re l h n l m f th of k to t {enfe of age, infirmity, and death may give them She ceas'd all farther hope; and now bega e y D n m p h u th o ti fe r¢ k m T at ef i t r o f c o hi o n ti le re ' Jo and éncourage him Atterbury What wounding reproaches of foul muft he feel from the refleéfions on his ows ingratitude. Rogers did at the fame time afi 5. The attion of the mind upon itfelf Reflection is the. perception of the operations o mind Solomon tells us life and death are in the powe of the tongue, and that not only diretly in regar of the goo Rerroa'T reflux Virtue given for lof Revives, reflourifbes, then vigorous moft Milton's Agomiffes When moft unattive deem'd 7o REFLO'W. @. n. [refluer, French; r and flow.] To flow back REFLUENT. adj. [refluens, Latin.] Running back ; flowing back The liver receives the refluent blood almoft fro Arbuthnot all the parts of the abdomen Tell, by what paths Back to the fountain's head the fea convey The refluent rivers, and the land repays. Blackmore REFLU'X. 7./. [reflux, French; refluxus Lat.] Backward courfe of water Befide Mine own that 'bide upon me z. Confidering things paft; confiderin the operations of the mind Prior Con ReFLe'cTor. #n. /. [from reffez. Gderer *Ebb [re and float. To flourith anew ReFLE CTIVE. adj. [from refled?. 1. Throwing back images Forc'd by reflective reafon I confefs That human fcience is uncertajin guefs #. J 7 REFLOU'RISH. @. a. [re and flourifh. He dy'd; and oh! may no reflecFion the Prior Its pois'nous venom on the royal dead When the weary king gave place to night His beams he to his royal brother lent Dryden And fo fhone ftill in his reflecive light In the reflefive ftream the fighing bride Viewing her charms impair'd, abafh'd fhall hid Prior Her penfive head but re Bacon 6. Artentive confideration . Cenfure do to others The main float and reflaat of the fea, is by confent of the univerfe, as part of the diurnal motion Locke This delight grows and improves under though and refleétion; and while it exercifes, does alfo endear itfelf to the mind; at the fame time employSouth's Scrm ing and inflaming the meditations or ill we ma flexiwvely alfo in refpect of what may rebeund t Gowvernment of the Tongue ‘ourfelves within us, as it is employed abou the ideas it has got as perhaps Hammond REFLEXIVELY. adw. [from reflexive.] I a backward direction Denbam This dreadful image fo poffefs'd her mind our ow Lat. ReFLE'X. adj. [reflexus backward Brown n. f. [refocillo The motions of my mind are as obvious to th reflex alt of the foul, or the turning of the intelle¢tual eye inward upon its own actions, as th paffions of my fenfe are obvious to my fenfe the objedt, and I perceive that T fee it The order and beaut the world of th the difcernible end by a reflex argument tha not of blind mechanif Lat. n. / do evinc or blinder chance [reflexus, Latin. Bentley Reflec Hooker 'l fay yon gray is not the morning's eye *Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow. Shakefp RerLExIBI'LITY. 2./. [from reflexible. The quality of being reflexible Reflexibility of rays is thein difpofition to be reflected or turned back into the fame medium fro any other medium, wpon whofe furface they fall and rays are more or lefs reflexible, which ar Newton turned back more or lefs eafily REFLR'XIBLE. adj. [from reflexus, Lat. Capable to be thrown back Sir Ifaac Newton has demonftrated, by convincing experiments And now prevailing lov One cannot attemp languages of the world ridiculous The example alone o rupt an age; but that o but o There was no other way for angels to fin, bu by reffex of. their underftandings upon themfelves that the light of the fun confift of rays differently refrangible and reflexible; an that thofe rays are differently reflexible, that ar differently refrangible Cheyne REFLE'XIVE. adj. [reflexus, Lat. ing refpeét to fomething paft Hav That affurance r¢flexive cannot be a divine faith from worf very fam the Frenc all dregs o Hooker was old Milton May no fuch ftor Fall on our times, where ruin muft reform. Denb Now low'ring looks prefage approaching ftorms Hale it is the workmanthip an intelligent and benign agent REFLE'X tion I fe inanimate parts of of the chang A fe€ in England, following th rule of policy, feeketh to reform eve reformation, and purge out from thenc popery Seat worthier of Gods, was buil With fecond thoughts, reforming wha Dire@e i her face reforms. Dryden the perfect r{/brminé' th without rendering himfel Locke a vicious prince will cora good one will not refur Saift 7o REFO'RM. @w. #n. T from worfe to better pafs by chang Was his do&rine of the mafs ftruck out in thi conflié? or did it give him occafion of reforming i this point Arterbury REFO'RM. n. /. [French.] Reformation RerorMA‘T1ON. 7. /. [reformation, Fr from reform. 1 thoulders Luthe Chang fro worf t better monly ufed of human manners com Never came reformation in a floo With fuch a heady current, fcow'ring fault Nor ever Hydra-headed wilfulnef So foon did lofe his feat, as in this king Shak Satire lathes vice into reformation Dryden The pagan converts mention this great reformation of thofe who had been the greateft finners with that fudden and furprifing change, which th chrittian religion made in thelives of the moft profligate Addifen 2. [B way of eminence. The chang REFO'RMER. 7, _/: '[fTOm rmr"';] 1. One who makes a cha g fo th b an a ender Publick reformers had need § pradt their ow hearts others which they rpuf;:g'f;flflm / T'he complaint is more general, thy King Chal, (48 N the;;efldfl. fifi' oul man a eve abr ef i vours to red Jformers how very few athom It was honour enough to behold the F;SP churches, reformed; that is, del vered from the ormers s:. 2. Thofe who changed religion fropym pith correptions and innovations, Our fir reformer wer martyrs all over the world 70 REFRACT famous confeffor B «. a. (refradtus, Lay Tq .break the natural courfe of rays If its angle of incidence be large, and th fractive power of the medium not ver throw it far from the perpendicular, it willb Sfraéted Cheyne's Philofsphical Rays of light are urged by the refracting m Refraéted from yon eaftern cloud The grand etherial bow fhoots up Tha REeFra"cTION. 2. /. [refraction, Fr Refraétion in general, i the incuryatio of light fro reformer, Fr.] T to better Boyle on Colaurs burden of the reformatigy lay on The variety of the flux and reflux of Euripus, o whether the fame do ebb and flow feven timesa day RerocirLa'rioN cannot take an occafion of an afpiring meditation Th all from m Milton Shall with a fierce refflux on me redound Reftoration of ftrength by refrefhment 7 REFO'RM w a [reformo Latin d m r ha There is fcarce any thing that nat or that me Prion pery to its primitive ftage change of determination in the body moved wh happens to it whilft it enters or penctrates any is incontrovertible do fuffer, whence the devout reflefo of religion from the corr dium : in dioptricks, it is the variation of pafle on in that right line, which it would had not the denfity of th turned it afide Refraction, out of the rarer medium into th¥ denfer, is made towards the perpendicular, Ne REeFRA'CTIVE. adj. [from refrad. ing the power of refraction Thofe fuperficies of tranfparent bodies reflet greateft quantity of light, which have the refralting power; that is, which interced diums that differ moft in their refraffive den Neawton's Optick REFRA'CTORINESS, #. /. [from rfiac] . Sullen obftinacy tory. T did never allow any man's refyafforines gin the privileges and orders of the houfes. KinChr Grea complain ang, of m Bacy. refraforincfs to obe REFRA'CTORY was/madebby !::C P'fifi;‘ adj the partia . [refradiair FI:; refradarius, Latin; anfl fo fhoul accen e no 1 I re ra ia y writte on the firit fyllable, but by Sbfl"/?'?' on the fecond.] Obftinate; perveitit contumacious on ng re rd l- we ea i la There is ar th tc e; ap in ra f th To cur yfo ra re an e d b f d Mof r bef ug br n be n mf A rough hewn fe jg' wife juftic for fome mifdemeanch, was ordered to be fent away to prifon, and was 770 a c m f i o d hi r he after h a h r wh c pl th o f not fir a fo l‘; l'l r wh n ft t te be ing, it wa B"{";‘ d flM to a worfe place ill an wi c a l m c a Vul m"fl io mo le vi li y w vagan W r i d e an grows weary of itfelf lennefs b -q N.; ! fl ? 3: wi th i a r m Refratfory at follows; know : hun v friends, take w wi th th o m next ful 2}; .7"5' a f H t n t b A chains l e . h r e t o "Thefe atom : e l f a r t a f they are r f m t men o feted into reafon |