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8. 2. Especially, to experience such sorrow for sin as produces amendment of life; be grieved over one's past life, and seek forgivene ; be penitent. See repentance. Except ye repent , ye shall all likewise perish. Luke xiii, 3. Full seldom does a man repent , or use Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him, And make all clean, and plant himself afresh. Tennyson , Geraint. ping or going back; return. To take notice of the directions, stations, and repeda tions of those erratick lights, and from thence most convincingly to inform himself of that pleasant and true paradox of the annual motion of the earth. Dr. H. More, Antidote against Atheism, ii. 12. repel (re-pel'), v .; pret. and pp. repelled , ppr. repelling. [Formerly also repell ; len , repeller = Sp. repeler = Pg. repellir = It. repellere , repellere , pp. repulsus , drive back, re-, back, + pellere , drive: see pulse1 . Sir knyght, so fer haste thow gon that late it is to re pente , for he is longinge to me, and ther-fore I com hym for to chalenge. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 328. Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return. Ex. xiii. 17. 5†. To expre sorrow for something past. For dead, I surely doubt, thou maist aread Henceforth for ever Florimell to bee; That all the noble knights of May den head, Which her ador'd, may sore repent with mee. Spenser, F. Q., III. viii. 47. IMG:content-1983.png:[blocks in formation] Peraventur thu may repent it twyes, That thu hast askid of this lande trevage. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3342. Confe yourself to heaven; Repent what's past; avoid what is to come. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 150. My lo I mourn, but not repent it. Burns, To Major Logan. repetition The huge Cyclops did with molding Thunder sweat, And Ma ive Bolts on repercu ive Anvils bear. Congreve , Taking of Namure. 21. Repellent. After I have solemnly interr'd At Chertsey monastery this noble king, And wet his grave with my repentant tears. Shak ., Rich. III., i. 2. 216. Relentle walls! whose darksome round contains Repentant sighs and voluntary pains. =Syn. See repentance . Pope, Eloisa to Abelard. II. n. One who repents; a penitent. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia impersonally. It repenteth me not of my cost or labor bestowed in the service of this commonwealth. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 476. This was that which repented him , to have giv'n up to just punishment so stout a Champion of his designes. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, ii. Thou may'st repent thee yet The giving of this gift. Fry for or on account of dise, II. 47.) 21. To be sorry on of. "To that shalt thow come hastely," quod Gawein, "and that me repenteth sore, ffor moc he wolde I love thy com pan ye yef it the liked." Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 592. repent1 (re-pent'), n. [ Reproch the first, Shame next, Repent behinde. Spenser , F. Q., III. xii. 24. repent2 (rē'pent), a. [L. repen ( t- ) s, ppr. of repere (>It. repere ), creep; akin to serpere, creep, Gr. έρπειν, creep: see reptile and serpent.] 1. In bot., creeping; growing prostrate along the ground, or horizontally beneath the surface, and rooting progre ively.- 2. In zoöl., creeping, as an animalcule; specifically, of or pertaining to the Repent i a. repent able (re-pen′ta-bl), a. [ It seems scarce pardonable, because ʼtis scarce a repent able sin or repairable malice. Bp. Gauden , Tears of the Church, p. 65 ( Davies .)