Rebuke - Receptacle

Rebuke (r�būk), n. 1. A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.
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For thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Jer. xv. 15.
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Why bear you these rebukes and answer not? Shak.
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2. Check; rebuff. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
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Coloq. To be without rebuke , to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.
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Rebukeful (r�būkfụl), a. Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke. [Obs.] -- Rebukefully, adv. [Obs.]
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Rebuker (r�būkẽr), n. One who rebukes.
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Rebukingly, adv. By way of rebuke.
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Rebullition (rēbŭllĭshŭn), n. The act of boiling up or effervescing. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.
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Rebury (rēbĕrr�), v. t. To bury again. Ashmole.
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Rebus (rēbŭs), n.; pl. Rebuses (rēbŭsĕz). [L. rebus by things, abl. pl. of res a thing: cf. F. rébus. Cf. 3d .] 1. A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.
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☞ A gallant, in love with a woman named Rose Hill, had, embroidered on his gown, a rose, a hill, an eye, a loaf, and a well, signifying, Rose Hill I love well.
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2. (Her.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under .
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Rebus, v. t. To mark or indicate by a rebus.
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He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it. Fuller.
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Rebut (r�bŭt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rebutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rebutting.] [OF. rebouter to repulse, drive back; pref. re- + bouter to push, thrust. See 1st , .]
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1. To drive or beat back; to repulse.
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Who him, rencount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight,
Perforce rebutted back. Spenser.
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2. (Law) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof. Abbott.
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Rebut, v. i. 1. To retire; to recoil. [Obs.] Spenser.
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2. (Law) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
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The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which the defendant may rebut. Blackstone.
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Rebuttable (r�bŭttȧb'l), a. Capable of being rebutted.
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Rebuttal (r�bŭtt�l), n. (Law) The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.
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Rebutter (r�bŭttẽr), n. (Law) The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
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Recadency (rēkād�ns�), n. A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse. W. Montagu.
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Recalcitrant (r�kălsĭtr�nt), a. [L. recalcitrans, p. pr. of recalcitrare to kick back; pref. re- re- + calcitrare to kick, fr. calx heel. Cf. .] Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.
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Recalcitrate (r�kălsĭtrāt), v. t. To kick against; to show repugnance to; to rebuff.
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The more heartily did one disdain his disdain, and recalcitrate his tricks. De Quincey.
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Recalcitrate, v. i. To kick back; to kick against anything; hence, to express repugnance or opposition.
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Recalcitration (r�kălsĭtrāshŭn), n. A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.
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Recall (r�k�l), v. t. 1. To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
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If Henry were recalled to life again. Shak.

2. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
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Passed sentence may not be recall'd. Shak.
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3. To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
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Recall, n. 1. A calling back; a revocation.
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'T is done, and since 't is done, 't is past recall. Dryden.
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2. (Mil.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc. Wilhelm.
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3. (Political Science) (a) The right or procedure by which a public official, commonly a legislative or executive official, may be removed from office, before the end of his term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. (b) Short for Coloq. recall of judicial decisions , the right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
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Recallable (r�k�lȧb'l), a. Capable of being recalled.
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Recallment (r�k�lm�nt), n. Recall. [R.] R. Browning.
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Recant (r�kănt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Recanting.] [L. recantare, recantatum, to recall, recant; pref. re- re- + cantare to sing, to sound. See 3d , .] To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.
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How soon . . . ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void! Milton.
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Syn. -- To retract; recall; revoke; abjure; disown; disavow. See .
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Recant, v. i. To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant. Dryden.
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Recantation (rēkăntāshŭn), n. The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.
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The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation. Bp. Stillingfleet.
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Recanter (r�kăntẽr), n. One who recants.
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Recapacitate (rēkȧpăsĭtāt), v. t. To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. Atterbury.
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Recapitulate (rēkȧpĭt�lāt), v. t. [L. recapitulare, recapitulatum; pref. re- re- + capitulum a small head, chapter, section. See .] To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.
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Recapitulate (rēkȧpĭt�lāt), v. i. To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
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Recapitulation (rēkȧpĭt�lāshŭn), n. [LL. recapitulatio: cf. F. recapitulation.] 1. The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.
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2. (Zoöl.) That process of development of the individual organism from the embryonic stage onward, which displays a parallel between the development of an individual animal (ontogeny) and the historical evolution of the species (phylogeny). Some authors recognize two types of recapitulation, palingenesis, in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced during development; and cenogenesis (kenogenesis or coenogenesis), the mode of individual development in which alterations in the development process have changed the original process of recapitulation and obscured the evolutionary pathway.
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This parallel is explained by the theory of evolution, according to which, in the words of Sidgwick, the developmental history of the individual appears to be a short and simplified repetition, or in a certain sense a recapitulation, of the course of development of the species. Examples of recapitulation may be found in the embryological development of all vertebrates. Thus the frog develops through stages in which the embryo just before hatching is very fish-like, after hatching becomes a tadpole which exhibits many newt-like characters; and finally reaches the permanent frog stage. This accords with the comparative rank of the fish, newt and frog groups in classification; and also with the succession appearance of these groups. Man, as the highest animal, exhibits most completely these phenomena. In the earliest stages the human embryo is indistinguishable from that of any other creature. A little later the cephalic region shows gill-slits, like those which in a shark are a permanent feature, and the heart is two-chambered or fish-like. Further development closes the gill-slits, and the heart changes to the reptilian type. Here the reptiles stop, while birds and mammals advance further; but the human embryo in its progress to the higher type recapitulates and leaves features characteristic of lower mammalian forms -- for instance, a distinct and comparatively long tail exists. Most of these changes are completed before the embryo is six weeks old, but some traces of primitive and obsolete structures persist throughout life as vestiges or rudimentary organs, and others appear after birth in infancy, as the well-known tendency of babies to turn their feet sideways and inward, and to use their toes and feet as grasping organs, after the manner of monkeys. This recapitulation of ancestral characters in ontogeny is not complete, however, for not all the stages are reproduced in every case, so far as can be perceived; and it is irregular and complicated in various ways among others by the inheritance of acquired characters. The most special students of it, as Haeckel, Fritz Mütter, Hyatt, Balfour, etc., distinguish two sorts of recapitulation palingenesis, exemplified in amphibian larvae and coenogenesis, the last manifested most completely in the metamorphoses of insects. Palingenesis is recapitulation without any fundamental changes due to the later modification of the primitive method of development, while in coenogenesis, the mode of development has suffered alterations which obscure the original process of recapitulation, or support it entirely. Encyclopedia Americana, 1961.
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Recapitulator (rēkȧpĭt�lātẽr), n. One who recapitulates.
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Recapitulatory (rēkȧpĭt�lȧt�r�), a. Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation.
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Recapper (r�kăppẽr), n. (Firearms) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.
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Recaption (r�kăpshŭn), n. (Law) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them. Blackstone.
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Coloq. Writ of recaption (Law), a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent or service, are distrained again for the same cause. Wharton.
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Recaptor (r�kăptẽr), n. One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.
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Recapture (r�kăpt�r; 135), n. 1. The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
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2. That which is captured back; a prize retaken.
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Recapture, v. t. To capture again; to retake.
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Recarbonize (r�kärbŏnīz), v. t. (Metal.) To restore carbon to; as, to recarbonize iron in converting it into steel.
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Recarnify (r�kärnĭfī), v. t. To convert again into flesh. [Obs.] Howell.
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Recarriage (r�kărrĭj), n. Act of carrying back.
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Recarry (r�kărr�), v. t. To carry back. Walton.
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Recast (rēkȧst), v. t. 1. To throw again. Florio.
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2. To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.
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3. To compute, or cast up, a second time.
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Recche (rĕkk�), v. i. To reck. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Reccheles (rĕklĕs), a. Reckless. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Recede (r�sēd), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Receded; p. pr. & vb. n. Receding.] [L. recedere, recessum; pref. re- re- + cedere to go, to go along: cf. F. recéder. See .] 1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
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Like the hollow roar
Of tides receding from the insulted shore. Dryden.
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All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley.
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2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.
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Syn. -- To retire; retreat; return; retrograde; withdraw; desist.
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Recede (rēsēd), v. t. [Pref. re- + cede. Cf. , v. i.] To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.
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Receipt (r�sēt), n. [OE. receite, OF. recete, recepte, F. recette, fr. L. recipere, receptum, to receive. See .] 1. The act of receiving; reception. “At the receipt of your letter.” Shak.
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2. Reception, as an act of hospitality. [Obs.]
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Thy kind receipt of me. Chapman.
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3. Capability of receiving; capacity. [Obs.]
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It has become a place of great receipt. Evelyn.
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4. Place of receiving. [Obs.]
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He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom. Matt. ix. 9.
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5. Hence, a recess; a retired place. [Obs.] “In a retired receipt together lay.” Chapman.
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6. A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.
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She had a receipt to make white hair black. Sir T. Browne.
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7. A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.
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8. That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.
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Coloq. Gross receipts . See under , a.
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Receipt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Receipted; p. pr. & vb. n. Receipting.] 1. To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.
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2. To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.
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Receipt, v. i. To give a receipt, as for money paid.
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Receiptment (r�sētm�nt), n. (O. Eng. Law) The receiving or harboring a felon knowingly, after the commission of a felony. Burrill.
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Receiptor (r�sētẽr), n. One who receipts; specifically (Law), one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff.
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Receit (r�sēt), n. Receipt. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Receivability (r�sēvȧbĭlĭt�), n. The quality of being receivable; receivableness.
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Receivable (r�sēvȧb'l), a. [Cf. F. recevable.] Capable of being received. -- Receivableness, n.
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Coloq. Bills receivable . See under 6th .
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Receive (r�sēv), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Received (r�sēvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Receiving.] [OF. receveir, recevoir, F. recevoir, fr. L. recipere; pref. re- re- + capere to take, seize. See , , and cf. , , .] 1. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.
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Receyven all in gree that God us sent. Chaucer.
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2. Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.
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Our hearts receive your warnings. Shak.
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The idea of solidity we receive by our touch. Locke.
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3. To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.
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Many other things there be which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots. Mark vii. 4.
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4. To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.
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They kindled a fire, and received us every one. Acts xxviii. 2.
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5. To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.
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The brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings. 1 Kings viii. 64.
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6. To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.
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Against his will he can receive no harm. Milton.
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7. To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.
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8. (Lawn Tennis) To bat back (the ball) when served.
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Coloq. Receiving ship , one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service.
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Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- , . To receive describes simply the act of taking. To accept denotes the taking with approval, or for the purposes for which a thing is offered. Thus, we receive a letter when it comes to hand; we receive news when it reaches us; we accept a present when it is offered; we accept an invitation to dine with a friend.
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Who, if we knew
What we receive, would either not accept
Life offered, or soon beg to lay it down. Milton.
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Receive (r�sēv), v. i. 1. To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.
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2. (Lawn Tennis) To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.
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Receivedness, n. The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion. Boyle.
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Receiver (r�sēvẽr), n. [Cf. F. receveur.] 1. One who takes or receives in any manner.
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2. (Law) A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases. Bouvier.
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3. One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen. Blackstone.
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4. (Chem.) (a) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation. (b) A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
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5. (Pneumatics) The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. , and see Illust. of .
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6. (Steam Engine) (a) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine. (b) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
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7. That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.
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8. (Firearms) In portable breech-loading firearms, the steel frame screwed to the breech end of the barrel, which receives the bolt or block, gives means of securing for firing, facilitates loading, and holds the ejector, cut-off, etc.
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Coloq. Exhausted receiver (Physics), a receiver, as that used with the air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel the interior of which is a more or less complete vacuum.
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Receiver's certificate (?). An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that of bonds or other securities.
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Receivership, n. The state or office of a receiver.
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Recelebrate (rēsĕl�brāt), v. t. To celebrate again, or anew. -- Recelebration (rēsĕl�brāshŭn), n.
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Recency (rēs�ns�), n. [LL. recentia, fr. L. recens. See .] The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.
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Recense (r�sĕns), v. t. [L. recensere; pref. re- again + censere to value, estimate: cf. F. recenser.] To review; to revise. [R.] Bentley.
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Recension (r�sĕnshŭn), n. [L. recensio: cf. F. recension.] 1. The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration. Barrow.
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2. Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.
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3. The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.
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Recensionist, n. One who makes recensions; specifically, a critical editor.
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Recent (rēs�nt), a. [L. recens, -entis: cf. F. récent.] 1. Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news.
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The ancients were of opinion, that a considerable portion of that country [Egypt] was recent, and formed out of the mud discharged into the neighboring sea by the Nile. Woodward.
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2. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.
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Recenter (rēsĕntẽr), v. t. [Pref. re- + center.] To center again; to restore to the center. Coleridge.
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Recently (rēs�ntl�), adv. Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.
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Recentness, n. Quality or state of being recent.
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Receptacle (r�sĕptȧk'l), n. [F. réceptacle, L. receptaculum, fr. receptare, v. intens. fr. recipere to receive. See .] 1. That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as for examople, a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.
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O sacred receptacle of my joys! Shak.
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2. (Bot.) (a) The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of , and . (b) The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers. (c) An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters. (d) A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.
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