representamen (rep rez ent a men)

[ represent anceł (rep-re-zenʼtans), n. [= It.rap presentanza; as represent an (t) + -ce.] Representation; likene . They affirm foolishly that the images and likene es they frame of stone or of wood are the representances and forms of those who have brought something profitable, by their inventions, to the common use of their living. Donne, Hist. of the Septuagint, p. 93. represented four several times. Burney, Hist. Music, IV. 362. (b) To enact; personate; present by mimicry or action. He so entirely a ociated himself with the characters he represented on the stage that he lost himself in them, or rather they were lost in him. J. H. Short house , Counte Eve, i. 5. To state; describe or portray in words; give one's own impre ions, idea, or judgment of; declare; set forth. This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate. Add is on. The Jesuits strongly represented to the king the danger which he had so narrowly escaped. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. représentant, ppr. of représenter, represent, = Sp. Pg. ppr. represent ante = It. rip resent ante, rap present ante, II. n . A representative. IMG:content-2012.png:[blocks in formation] If all reasoning be the re - presentation of what is now absent but formerly was present and can again be made present-in other words, if the test of accurate reasoning is its reduction to fact - then is it evident that Philosophy, dealing with transcendental objects which cannot be present, and employing a method which admits of no verification (or reduction to the test of fact), must be an impo ible attempt. G. H. Lewes. It is quite evident that the growth of perception involves representation of sensations; that the growth of simple reasoning involves representation of perceptions; and that the growth of complex reasoning involves representation of the results of simple reasoning. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 482. A imilation involves retentivene and differentiation, as we have seen, and prepares the way for re - presentation ; but in itself there is no confronting the new with the old, no determination of likene , and no subsequent cla ification. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 53. (c) A singular conception; a thought or idea of something as having a definite place in space at a definite epoch in time; the image of an object produced in consciousne . (d) A representative cognition; a mediate or vicarious cognition. A mediate cognition, inasmuch as the thing known is held up or mirrored to the mind in a vicarious represent a tion , may be called a representative cognition. Sir W. Hamilton , Reid's Works, Note B, § 1. 7. In law: ( a ) The standing in the place of another, as an heir, or in the right of taking by inheritance; the personating of another, as an heir, executor, or administrator. ( b ) More specifically, the coming in of children of a deceased heir apparent, devisee dying before the testator, etc., to take the share their parent would have taken had he survived, not as succeeding as the heirs of the parent, but as together representing him among the other heirs of the ancestor. See representative, n., 3. In Scots law the term is usually applied to the obligation incurred by an heir to pay the debts and perform the obligations incumbent upon his predece or. Wotton.