repercept (repersept)

[ .. "No external Keats writes to his publisher, ception and ratification of what is fine." praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reper Lowell , Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 313. repercolation (rē-pėr-kō-lā'shon), n . [ re- + percolation .] Repeated percolation; in phar ., the succe ive application of the same percolating menstruum to fresh parts of the substance to be percolated. repercu (rë-për-kus'), v. t. [ It. ripercuotere = Sp. Pg. repercutir = Pr. repercutir = F. réper cuter ), strike, push or drive back, reflect, reverberate, Echo, fair Echo, speak,... Salute me with thy repercu ive voice. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, i. 1. Amid Carnarvon's mountains rages loud The repercu ive Roar. Thomson , Summer, 1. 1162. II. n. A repellent. repertoire (rep-er-twor'), n. [ performer or company of performers has carefully studied, and is ready to perform. repertort (re-per'tor), n. [L. repertor, a finder, discoverer, reperire, pp. repertus, find out, discover: see repertory.] A finder. [Rare.] Let others dispute whether Anah was the inventor or only the repertor of mules, the industrious founder or the casual finder of them. Fuller , Pisgah Sight, IV. ii. 32. ( Davies .) repertorium (rep-er-to'ri-um), n.; pl. reperrepertory (reper-to-ri), n.; pl. repertories répertoire = Sp. Pg. It. repertorio, LL. reper torium, an inventory, list, repertory, toria (-a). [LL.] Same as repertory. (-riz). [OF. * repertorie , later repertoire , F. Hermippus, who wrote of... the poëme of Zoroastes, containing a hundred you sand verses twentie times told, of his making; and made besides a repertorie or index to every book of the said poësie. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxx. 1. IMG:content-1986.png:[blocks in formation] A great academic, artistic theatre,. rich in its reper- tory, rich in the high quality and the wide array of its servants. H. James , Jr., The Tragic Muse, xxix. [ reperuse + -al . ] reperusal (rē-pē-röʻzal), n . A second or a repeated perusal. Air in ovens, though it doth... boil and dilate itself, and is repercu ed , yet it is without noise. reperuse (re-pe-röz'), v. t. [ Evelyn , Diary, Oct. 4, 1641. repercu ion (rē-pėr-kush'on), n. [OF. re percu ion, F. répercu ion = Pr. repercu io = Sp. repercusion = Pg. repercu ão = It. riper cu ione, In echoes (whereof some are as loud as the original voice) there is no new elision, but a repercu ion only. Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 124. The streams... appearing, by the repercu ion of the water in manie places, to be full of great stones in the bottome. J. Brende, tr. of Quintus Curtius, viii. The peculiar style of this critic [Hazlitt] is at once The volcano of his criticism sparkling and vehement. heaves; the short, irruptive periods clash with quick re percu ion . I. D'Israeli , Amen. of Lit., II. 99. 2. In music: (a) That tone in a Greg or i an mode which is most frequently repeated; the dominant. (b) The reappearance of the subject and answer of a fugue in regular order after the general development with its episodes. (c) Any reiteration or repetition of a tone or chord. repercu ive (rē-pèr-kus'iv), a. and n. [ Whose dishevell'd locks, Like gems against the repercu ive sun, Give light and splendour. repetend (rep'ē-tend), n. [ 3 and.029. See repeater, 3. 2. Something which is or has to be repeated, as the burden of a song. [Rare.] In "The Raven," "Lenore," and elsewhere, he [Poe] employed the repetend also, and with still more novel results. Stedman , Poets of America, p. 251.