Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 45
Represent (v. t.) (v. t.) 描繪，（抽象地）表現；象徵；表示 (v. i.) 代表，代理；提出異議；提出抗議 To exhibit to another mind in language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of; to bring before the mind; to set forth; sometimes, to give an account of; to describe.
He represented Rizzio's credit with the queen to be the chief and only obstacle to his success in that demand. -- Robertson.
This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate. -- Addison.
Represent (v. t.) To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words represent ideas or things.
Represent (v. t.) To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.
Among these. Fancy next Her office holds; of all external things Which he five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes. -- Milton.
Represent (v. t.) (Metaph.) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative, 3.
The general capability of knowledge necessarily requires that, besides the power of evoking out of unconsciousness one portion of our retained knowledge in preference to another, we posses the faculty of representing in consciousness what is thus evoked . . . This representative Faculty is Imagination or Phantasy. -- Sir. W. Hamilton.
Represent (v.) Take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to; "Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in Greek stands for an 's' in Latin" [syn: {represent}, {stand for}, {correspond}].
Represent (v.) Express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol; "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?" [syn: {typify}, {symbolize}, {symbolise}, {stand for}, {represent}].
Represent (v.) Be representative or typical for; "This period is represented by Beethoven".
Represent (v.) Be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute; "I represent the silent majority".
Represent (v.) Serve as a means of expressing something; "The flower represents a young girl".
Represent (v.) Be characteristic of; "This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue" [syn: {exemplify}, {represent}].
Represent (v.) Form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: {constitute}, {represent}, {make up}, {comprise}, {be}].
Represent (v.) Be the defense counsel for someone in a trial; "Ms. Smith will represent the defendant" [syn: {defend}, {represent}] [ant: {prosecute}].
Represent (v.) Create an image or likeness of; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl" [syn: {represent}, {interpret}].
Represent (v.) Play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master" [syn: {act}, {play}, {represent}].
Represent (v.) Perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'" [syn: {stage}, {present}, {represent}].
Represent (v.) Describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality; "He represented this book as an example of the Russian 19th century novel".
Represent (v.) Point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance; "our parents represented to us the need for more caution".
Represent (v.) Bring forward and present to the mind; "We presented the arguments to him"; "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason" [syn: {present}, {represent}, {lay out}].
Represent (v.) To establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) [syn: {map}, {represent}].
Represent (v.) (Act for) (C2) [ T ] 作為…的代表（或代理人）；作為…的代言人 To speak, act, or be present officially for another person or people.
// They chose a famous barrister to represent them in court.
// Union officials representing the teachers met the government today.
// I sent my husband to represent me at the funeral.
// Women were well/ poorly represented at the conference (= there were many/few present).
Represent (v.) (Act for) [ T ] （在議會或國會中等）代表某一地區 To be the Member of Parliament, or of Congress, etc. for a particular area.
// Ed Smythe represents Barnet.
Represent (v.) (Act for) (Formal) 提出；表達；向…抗議 To express or complain about something, to a person in authority.
// We represented our grievances/ demands to the boss.
Represent (v.) (Describe) (C2) [ T ] 表現；展現；描繪；描述 To show or describe something or someone.
// [ + -ing verb ] The statue represents St. George killing the dragon.
// This new report represents the current situation in our schools.
// He represents himself as an expert, but he knows nothing.
Represent (v.) (Describe) (B2) [ T ] 表示；象徵；代表 To be a sign or symbol of something.
// To many people the White House represents the identity of the United States.
Represent (v.) (BE) (B2) [ L only + noun ] 意味著；等於；相當於 To be the result of something, or to be something.
// This book represents ten years of thought and research.
// The new offer represented an increase of 10 percent on the previous one.
Representable (a.) 能被描繪的；能被代表的；能上演的 Capable of being represented.
Representable (a.) Expressible in symbolic form; "uniquely representable in the form...".
Representance (n.) Representation; likeness. [Obs.] -- Donne.
Representant (a.) Appearing or acting for another; representing.
Representant (n.) A representative. [Obs.] -- Sir H. Wotton.
Representation (n.) 表示法，表現，陳述，請求，代表，扮演，繼承 The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
Representation (n.) That which represents. . Specifically:
Representation (n.) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like.
Representation (n.) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet.
Representation (n.) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate.
Representation (n.) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress.
Representation (n.) (Insurance Law) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.
Representation (n.) The state of being represented.
Syn: Description; show; delineaton; portraiture; likeness; resemblance; exhibition; sight.
Re-presentation (n.) The act of re-presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.
Representation (n.) A presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image [syn: {representation}, {mental representation}, {internal representation}].
Representation (n.) A creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something.
Representation (n.) The act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf.
Representation (n.) The state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent [syn: {representation}, {delegacy}, {agency}].
Representation (n.) A body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency; "a Congressional vacancy occurred in the representation from California".
Representation (n.) A factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract; "the sales contract contains several representations by the vendor".
Representation (n.) A performance of a play [syn: {theatrical performance}, {theatrical}, {representation}, {histrionics}].
Representation (n.) A statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting; "certain representations were made concerning police brutality".
Representation (n.) The right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body.
Representation (n.) An activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent.
Representation, () Insurances. A representation is a collateral statement, either by writing not inserted in the policy, or by parol, of such facts or circumstances relative to the proposed adventure, as are necessary to be communicated to the underwriters, to enable them to form a just estimate of the risk.
Representation, () A representation, like a warranty, may be either affirmative, as where the insured avers the existence of some fact or circumstance which may affect the risk; or promissory, as where he engages the performance of, something executory.
Representation, () There is a material difference between a representation and a warranty.
Representation, () A warranty, being a condition upon which the contract is to take effect, is always a part of the written policy, and must appear on the face of it. Marsh. Ins. c. 9, Sec. 2. Whereas a representation is only a matter of collateral information or intelligence on the subject of the voyage insured, and makes no part of the policy. A warranty being in the nature of a condition precedent, must be strictly and literally complied with; but it is sufficient if the representation be true in substance, whether a warranty be material to the risk or not, the insured stakes his claim of indemnity upon the precise truth of it, if it be affirmative, or upon the exact performance of it, if executory; but it is sufficient if a representation be made without fraud, and be not false in any material point, or if it be substantially, though not literally, fulfilled. A false warranty avoids the policy, as being a breach of the condition upon which the contract is to take effect; and the insurer is not liable for any loss though it do not happen in consequence of the breach of the warranty; a false representation is no breach of the contract, but if material, avoids the policy on the ground of fraud, or at least because the insurer has been misled by it. Marsh. Insur. B. 1, c. 10, s. 1; Dougl. R. 247: 4 Bro. P. C. 482.
See 2 Caines' R. 155; 1 Johns. Cas. 408; 2 Caines' Cas. 173, n.; 3 Johns. Cas. 47; 1 Caines' Rep. 288; 2 Caines' R. 22; Id. 329; Sugd. Vend. 6; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t. and Concealment; Misrepresentation.
Representation, () Scotch law. The name of a plea or statement presented to a lord ordinary of the court of sessions, when his judgment is brought under review.
Representation (n.) (Acting for) (C2) [ U ] 作為…的代表（或代理人）；作為…的代言人 A person or organization that speaks, acts, or is present officially for someone else.
// Can he afford legal representation?
Representation (n.) (Description) (C2) [ U ] 表現；展現；描繪；描述 The way that someone or something is shown or described.
// He gave a talk on the representation of women in 19th-century art.
Representation (n.) (Description) [ C ] 表示；象徵；代表 A sign, picture, model, etc. of something.
// This statue is a representation of Hercules.
Idiom:
Make representations/ a representation to sb/ sth (Formal) （正式）向…投訴，向…抗議 To complain officially to a person or organization.
// We made representations to the boss about the long working hours.
Representationary (a.) Implying representation; representative. [R.]
Representative (a.) 描寫的，表現的，代理的，代表性的，代議制的，典型的 Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
Representative (a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people. -- Swift.
Representative (a.) Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
Representative (a.) (Nat. Hist.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
Representative (a.) (Nat. Hist.) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.
Representative (a.)
(Metaph.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally
presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative
knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.
Representative (n.) 代表，眾議員，典型 One who, or that
which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
A statute of Rumor, whispering an idiot in the ear, who was the representative of Credulity. -- Addison.
Difficulty must cumber this doctrine which supposes that the perfections of God are the representatives to us of whatever we perceive in the creatures. -- Locke.
Representative (n.) An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.
Representative (n.) (Law) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.
Note: The executor or administrator is ordinarily held to be the representative of a deceased person, and is sometimes called the legal representative, or the personal representative. The heir is sometimes called the real representative of his deceased ancestor. The heirs and executors or administrators of a deceased person are sometimes compendiously described as his real and personal representatives. -- Wharton. Burrill.
Representative (n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress. [U.S.]
Representative (n.) (Nat.Hist.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group.
Representative (n.) (Nat. Hist.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.
Representative (a.) Serving to represent or typify; "representative moviegoers"; "a representative modern play".
Representative (a.) Standing for something else; "the bald eagle is representative of the United States" [ant: {nonrepresentative}, {unsymbolic}].
Representative (a.) Being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives; "representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people".
Representative (n.) A person who represents others.
Representative (n.) An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government" [syn: {spokesperson}, {interpreter}, {representative}, {voice}].
Representative (n.) A member of the United States House of Representatives [syn: {congressman}, {congresswoman}, {representative}].
Representative (n.) An item of information that is typical of a class or group; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10" [syn: {example}, {illustration}, {instance}, {representative}].
Representative (n.) In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.
Representative (n.) [ C ] (B2) 代表；代理人 Someone who speaks or does something officially for another person or group of people.
// The firm has representatives in every major city.
Representative （美國）衆議院議員 Someone who has been elected to the US House of Representatives.
Representative (a.) (Typical) 有代表性的；典型的；代表…的 Typical of, or the same as, others in a larger group of people or things.
// Are your views/ opinions representative of all the workers here?
// A representative sample/ cross-section/ selection.
Representative (a.) (Acting for) 代議制政體 A representative system of government is one in which people vote for politicians to represent them.
Representatively (adv.) In a representative manner; vicariously.
Representativeness (n.) The quality or state of being representative.
Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with consciousness and representativeness. -- Spectator.
Representer (n.) One who shows, exhibits, or describes. -- Sir T. Browne.
Representer (n.) A representative. [Obs.] -- Swift.
Representment (n.) Representation. [Obs.]
Repress (v. t.) (v. t.) 鎮壓，抑制，壓制 (v. i.) 壓制 To press again.
Repress (v. t.) To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.
Repress (v. t.) Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.
Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, . . . Thou couldst repress. -- Milton.
Syn: To crush; overpower; subdue; suppress; restrain; quell; curb; check.
Repress (n.) The act of repressing. [Obs.]
Repress (v.) Put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land" [syn: {repress}, {quash}, {keep down}, {subdue}, {subjugate}, {reduce}].
Repress (v.) Conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn" [syn: {smother}, {stifle}, {strangle}, {muffle}, {repress}].
Repress (v.) Put out of one's consciousness [syn: {suppress}, {repress}].
Repress (v.) Block the action of.
Represser (n.) One who, or that which, represses.
Represser (n.) An agent that represses [syn: repressor, represser].
Repressible (a.) 可抑制的；可鎮壓的 Capable of being repressed.
Repression (n.) [U] 抑制，壓制；鎮壓；制止；【心】壓抑 The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.
Repression (n.) That which represses; check; restraint.
Repression (n.) A state of forcible subjugation; "the long repression of Christian sects".
Repression (n.) (Psychiatry) The classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious.
Repression (n.) The act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence".
Repressive (a.) 壓抑的；鎮壓的；壓迫性的 Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures. -- Re*press"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*press"ive*ness, n.
Repressive (a.) Restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline" [syn: inhibitory, repressive, repressing].
Reprevable (a.) Reprovable. [Obs.]
Repreve (v. t.) To reprove. [Obs.] "Repreve him of his vice." -- Chaucer.
Repreve (n.) Reproof. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Repriefe (n.) Repreve. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Reprieval (n.) Reprieve. -- Overbury.
Reprieved (imp. & p. p.) of Reprieve
Reprieving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reprieve
Reprieve (v. t.) 暫緩對……處刑；暫時解救 To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.
He reprieves the sinnner from time to time. -- Rogers.
Reprieve (v. t.) To relieve for a time, or temporarily.
Company, thought it may reprieve a man from his melaneholy yet can not secure him from his conscience. -- South.
Reprieve (n.) 緩刑；暫緩；暫免 A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death.
The morning Sir John Hotham was to die, a reprieve was sent to suspend the execution for three days. -- Clarendon.
Reprieve (n.) Interval of ease or relief; respite.
All that I ask is but a short reprieve, ll I forget to love, and learn to grieve. -- Denham.
Reprieve (n.) A (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort [syn: {reprieve}, {respite}].
Reprieve (n.) An interruption in the intensity or amount of something [syn: {suspension}, {respite}, {reprieve}, {hiatus}, {abatement}].
Reprieve (n.) A warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence).
Reprieve (n.) The act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment [syn: {reprieve}, {respite}].
Reprieve (v.) Postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution [syn: {reprieve}, {respite}].
Reprieve (v.) Relieve temporarily.
Reprieve, () Crim. law practice. This term is derived from reprendre, to take back, and signifies the withdrawing of a sentence for an interval of time, and operates in delay of execution. 4 Bl. Com. 394. It is granted by the favor of the pardoning power, or by the court who tried the prisoner.
Reprieve, () Reprieves are sometimes granted ex necessitate legis; for example, when a woman is convicted of a capital offence, after judgment she may allege pregnancy in delay of execution. In order, however, to render this plea available she must be quick with child, (q.v.) the law presuming, perhaps absurdly enough, that before that period, life does not commence in the foetus. 3 Inst. 17; 2 Hale, 413; 1 Hale, 368; 4 Bl. Com. 395.
Reprieve, () The judge is also bound to grant a reprieve when the prisoner becomes insane. 4 Harg. St. Tr. 205, 6; 3 Inst. 4; Hawk B. 1, c. 1, s. 4; 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 757.
Reprimand (n.) Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. -- Macaulay.
Reprimanded (imp. & p. p.) of Reprimand
Reprimanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reprimand
Reprimand (v. t.) To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally.
Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius for traveling into Egypt without his permission. -- Arbuthnot.
Reprimand (v. t.) To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded.
Syn: To reprove; reprehend; chide; rebuke; censure; blame. See Reprove.
Reprimand (n.) An act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face" [syn: rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand].
Reprimand (v.) Rebuke formally [syn: reprimand, censure, criminate].
Reprimand (v.) Censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast].
Reprimand, () Punishment. The censure which in some cases a public office pronounces against an offender.
Reprimand, () This species of punishment is used by legislative bodies to punish their members or others who have been guilty of some impropriety of conduct towards them. The reprimand is usually pronounced by the speaker.
Reprimander (n.) One who reprimands.
Reprimer (n.) (Firearms) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.
Reprint (v. t.) To print again; to print a second or a new edition of.
Reprint (v. t.) To renew the impression of.
The whole business of our redemption is . . . to reprint God's image upon the soul. -- South.
Reprint (n.) A second or a new impression or edition of any printed work; specifically, the publication in one country of a work previously published in another.
Reprint (n.) A publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale [syn: reissue, reprint, reprinting].
Reprint (n.) A separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication [syn: offprint, reprint, separate].
Reprint (v.) Print anew; "They never reprinted the famous treatise" [syn: reprint, reissue].
Reprinter (n.) One who reprints.
Reprisal (n.) The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity.
Debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place. -- Macaulay.
Reprisal (n.) Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation.
Reprisal (n.) The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity. -- Vattel (Trans.)
Reprisal (n.) Any act of retaliation. -- Waterland.
Letters of marque and reprisal. See under Marque.
Reprisal (n.) A retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime.
Reprise (n.) A taking by way of retaliation. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Reprise (n.) pl. (Law) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like. [Written also reprizes.] -- Burrill.
Reprise (n.) A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
Reprise (v. t.) [Written also reprize.] To take again; to retake. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Reprise (v. t.) To recompense; to pay. [Obs.]
Reprise (v.) Repeat an earlier theme of a composition [syn: reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate].
Repristinate (v. t.) To restore to an original state. [R.] -- Shedd.
Repristination (n.) Restoration to an original state; renewal of purity. [R.] -- R. Browning.
Reprive (v. t.) To take back or away. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Reprive (v. t.) To reprieve. [Obs.] -- Howell.
Reprize (v. t.) See Reprise. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Reprize (v.) Repeat an earlier theme of a composition [syn: reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate].
Reprizes (n. pl.) (Law) See Reprise, n., 2.
Reproached (imp. & p. p.) of Reproach
Reproaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reproach
Reproach (v. t.) 責備，申斥，使丟臉 To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. [Obs.]
I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, For that he knew you, might reproach your life. -- Shak.
Reproach (v. t.) To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ. -- 1 Peter iv. 14.
That this newcomer, Shame, There sit not, and reproach us as unclean. -- Milton.
Mezentius . . . with his ardor warmed His fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight. Repelled the victors. -- Dryden.
Syn: To upbraid; censure; blame; chide; rebuke; condemn; revile; vilify.
Reproach (n.) 責備，恥辱 The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.
No reproaches even, even when pointed and barbed with the sharpest wit, appeared to give him pain. -- Macaulay.
Give not thine heritage to reproach. -- Joel ii. 17.
Reproach (n.) A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.
Reproach (n.) An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.
Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. -- Neh. ii. 17.
Syn: Disrepute; discredit; dishonor; opprobrium; invective; contumely; reviling; abuse; vilification; scurrility; insolence; insult; scorn; contempt; ignominy; shame; scandal;; disgrace; infamy.
Reproach (n.) A mild rebuke or criticism; "words of reproach".
Reproach (n.) Disgrace or shame; "he brought reproach upon his family".
Reproach (v.) Express criticism towards; "The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior" [syn: {reproach}, {upbraid}].
Reproachablr (a.) Deserving reproach; censurable.
Reproachablr (a.) Opprobrius; scurrilous. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Elyot. -- Re*proach"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*proach"a*bly, adv.
Reproacher (n.) One who reproaches.
Reproacher (n.) Someone who finds fault or imputes blame [syn: upbraider, reprover, reproacher, rebuker].
Reproachful (a.) Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.
The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. -- Shak.
Reproachful (a.) Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life.
Syn: Opprobrious; contumelious; abusive; offensive; insulting; contemptuous; scornful; insolent; scurrilous; disreputable; discreditable; dishonorable; shameful; disgraceful; scandalous; base; vile; infamous. -- Re*proach"ful*ly (adv.) -- Re*proach"ful*ness, n.
Reproachful (a.) Expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective [syn: admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving].
Reproachless (a.) Being without reproach.
Reprobacy (n.) Reprobation. [R.]
Reprobance (n.) Reprobation. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Reprobate (a.) Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. [Obs.]
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. -- Jer. vi. 30.
Reprobate (a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved.
And strength, and art, are easily outdone By spirits reprobate. -- Milton.
Reprobate (a.) Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct. "Reprobate desire." -- Shak.
Syn: Abandoned; vitiated; depraved; corrupt; wicked; profligate; base; vile. See Abandoned.
Reprobate (n.) One morally abandoned and lost.
I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. -- Sir W. Raleigh.