respecter

[Eng. respect, v.; -er.] One who respects. (Rarely used except in the phrase a respecter of persons, that is, one who regards the external circumstances of others in his judgment, and suffers his opinion to be biased by them, to the prejudice of candor, right, and equity.) "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons." Acts x. 34. IMG:content-0516.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0517.png:[blocks in formation] "They speak thus particularly in the matter of the Holy Sacrament, as appears in the instances above reck- oned, and in others respersed over this treatise." -Bp. Taylor : Real Presence , § 10. *rě-sper-sion, s. [Lat. respersio , from respur- sus , pa. par. of respergo .] [RESPERSE.] The act of scattering or sprinkling. rès-pi-ra-ble, rě-spïr-a-ble, adj . [English respir(e); -able .] 1. Capable of respiring; that can respire. 2. Capable of being respired or breathed; fit to be "Ev'ry breath, by respiration strong Forc'd downward." Cowper : Task , iv. 348. "And to those places straight repair, Where your respective dwellings are." not absolute. rě-spěct-ive-ly, adv . [Eng.respective; -ly .] *1. With respect or deference; respectfully. "You are very respectively welcome." acid being given out by the blood, and oxygen tak- ing its place. When respiration is interfered with, asphyxia takes place, except in hibernation (q.v.). The action of respiration exposes the blood to the air, and, by mutual diffusion, the two actions of oxygenating the blood and freeing it of carbonic acid are accomplished by the same act, thus resem- bling the endosmose and exosmose of liquids. In the higher animals, the capillaries are connected with the arteries immediately i uing from the heart, effecting a constant renewal in the blood, and, by a series of muscular movements, fresh air is supplied, and vitiated air removed alternately, owing to nervous reflex action, not dependent on the will, as the same proce goes on in sleep and in other unconscious states. The lungs themselves are almost pa ive in the proce . In the lowest and simplest forms of animals, the aquatic, no special apparatus is provided for the aeration of the fluids of the body, this being effected by the IMG:content-0518.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0519.png:[blocks in formation] general movements of the body, or by cilia (q. v.), producing the nece ary currents. In bivalve mol- lusks, the internal surface of the mantle or skin- lining of the valves is in some cases the special organ of respiration; in others, the mantle is con- voluted into four folds, fringed at the edges, with the same action as gills in tishes. The transition from gill-like tufts in animals which can either breathe air or water, as the leech and the earth- worm, is seen in the formation in them of small sacs at regular intervals on each side of the body, opening by a row of pores termed spiracles or stig- mat a. In insects, the spiracles open into tubes, which communicate with each other through the body, and are prevented from closing by an elastic spiral fiber winding round them, serving the pur- pose of the cartilaginous rings in the trachea and bronchi of the air-breathing vertebrata; in spiders, the respiratory apparatus becomes more concen- trated, and through the different cla es of animals there is a gradual leading-up to the delicate and highly organized apparatus seen in the higher ver- tebrata. [LUNGS.] The number of the respiratory An instrument for ascertaining the state of the per minute. Besides carbonic acid, watery vapor and minute quantity of organic matter are *5. To recover, to rouse one's self. "Then shall the Britons, late dismay'd and weake, From their long va alage gin to respire ." IMG:content-0520.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0521.png:[blocks in formation] "The recognisances of the witne es for the prosecution were respited sine die."- London Daily Telegraph. rès-pite-le , a. [Eng.respite; -le .] Without respite or relief. *rě-splende', v. i . [Lat. resplendeo .] [RESPLEND ENT,] To shine. ( Lydgate .)