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4. ( Davies.) republic (rē-pubʻlik), n . [Early mod. E. also re publick , republique (= D. republick Sw. republik ); republique , F. république = Sp. república = Pg. republic a = It. republic a , placed by the name Democratic. See Democratic party , under democratic . (2) A party formed in 1854, having as its original purpose opposition to the extension of slavery into the Territories. It was composed of Free-soilers, of antislavery Whigs, and of some Democrats (who unitedly formed the group known as Anti-Nebraska men), and was joined by the Abolitionists, and eventually by many many war Democrats acted with it. It first nominated a candidate for President in 1856. It controlled the executive from 1861 to 1885 and again in 1889 (Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, and Har resumption of specie payments. - Republican swallow, the cliff or eaves-swallow. See def. 4, and cut under eaves- swallow . IMG:content-2027.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A member of a republican party; specifically [ cap .], in U. S. hist . , a member of the Repub lican party. 3. In ornith ., the republican swal low. Black Republican, in U. S. hist . , an extreme or radical Republican; who after the civil war advocated The reasons that on each side make them differ are such as make the authority itself the le authentic and more repudiable . Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 339. repudiate (re-pu'di-āt), v . t .; pret. and pp. re pudiated , ppr. ppr.repudiating . [ repudiatus , pp. of repudiare , put away, divorce (one's spouse), in gen. cast off, reject, refuse, repudiate (> It. ripudiare = Sp. Pg. repudiar = OF. repudier , F. répudier , repudiate), repudium , a putting off or divorce of one's spouse or betrothed, repudiation, lit. a rejection of what one is ashamed of, re- , away, back, + pudere , feel shame: see pudency.] 1. To put away; divorce. His separation from Terentia, whom he repudiated not long afterward, was perhaps an affliction to him at this time. Bolingbroke , Exile. strong measures in dealing with persons in the States lately in rebellion. The term arose before the war; the epithet "black" was used intensively, in offensive allusion to the alleged friendline of the party toward the negro.- National Republican, in U. S. hist ., a name a umed during the administration of J. Q. Adams (1825-9) by that wing of the Democratic party which sympathized with him and his measures, as distinguished from the followers of Jackson. The National Republicans in a few years took the name of Whigs. See Whig . - Red republican, an extreme or radical republican; specifically, in French hist ., one of the more violent republicans, especially in the first revolution, at the time of the ascendancy of the Moun- tain, about 1793, and at the time of the Commune in 1871. In the first period the phrase was derived from the red cap which formed part of the costume of the carmagnole. - Stalwart Republican. See stalwart. republicanism (re-pub'li-kan-izm), n. republican is me = Sp. Pg. republicanismo = It. repubblicanismo = G. republikanismus Dan.re- publikanisme = Sw. republikanism ; as repub- lican + -ism .] 1. A republican form or system of government.-2. Attachment to a republi- can form of government; republican princi- repudiated by several of the States. 2. To cast away; reject; discard; renounce; disavow. He [Phalaris] is defended by the like practice of other writers, who, being Dorians born, repudiated their vernacular idiom for that of the A then i ans.