repellency (repelensi)

[ As repellence (see -cy).] The character of being repellent; the property of repelling; repulsion. repellent (re-pel'ent), a. and n. [= Sp. re peliente = Pg. It. repellente, Why should the most repellent particles be the most attractive upon contact? Bp. Berkeley. Siris, § 237. Its repellent plot deals with the love of a man who is more than half a monkey for a woman he saves from the penalty of murder. Athenæum, No. 2867, p. 474. There are some men whom destiny has endowed with the faculty of external neatne , whose clothes are repel lent of dust and mud. Lowell . Fireside Travels, p. 47. 2. Specifically, capable of repelling water; water-proof: as, repellent cloth or paper. II. n . 1. In med . , an agent which is used to prevent or reduce a swelling. Astringents, ice, cold water, etc., are repellents .-2. A kind of water-proof cloth. repeller (re-pel'èr), n . One who or that which repels. repelle t (re-pel'les), a . [ repel + -le .] In- vincible; that cannot be repelled. [Rare.] Two great Armados how relie plow'd their way, And by a aulte made knowne repelle e might. G. Markham , Sir R. Grinuile (Arber rep.), p. 71. repent1 (re-pent'), v. [ repenten , repentir , refl., = Pr. repentir , repene dere = Cat. repenedir = OSp. repentir (cf. mod. Sp. arrepentir = Pg. ar - repender , refl.) = It. ri pentire , ripentere, repent, * repeni tere, repent (ppr. repeniten (t-)s, repentant), re- , again, + pænitere (>OF. pentir ), repent: see penitent .] I. in trans. 1. To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for something one has done or left undone. Yef the myght the i wolde repente with gode will of the stryfe that the i hadde a-gein Merlin, but to late the i were to repente. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 176. I never did repent for doing good, Nor shall not now. Shak ., M. of V., iii. 4. 10. Thus Grief still treads upon the Heels of Pleasure; Marry'd in haste, we may repent at Leisure.