Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 47
Repulsive (a.) 使人反感的；令人厭惡的；可憎的；擊退的；驅逐的 [Z] Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners. -- Re*pul"sive*ly, adv. -- Re*pul"sive*ness, n.
Repulsive (a.) Offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels" [syn: {abhorrent}, {detestable}, {obscene}, {repugnant}, {repulsive}].
Repulsive (a.) Possessing the ability to repel; "a repulsive force" [ant: {attractive(a)}].
Repulsive (a.) So extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask" [syn: {hideous}, {repulsive}].
Repulsory (a.) Repulsive; driving back.
Repurchase (v. t.) 再買，買回 To buy back or again; to regain by purchase. -- Sir M. Hale.
Repurchase (n.) 買回 The act of repurchasing.
Repurchase (n.) The act of purchasing back something previously sold [syn: redemption, repurchase, buyback].
Repurchase (v.) Buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away; "He bought back the house that his father sold years ago" [syn: buy back, repurchase].
Repurify (v. t.) 再純化；再提純 To purify again.
Repurpose (v. t.) Adapt for use in a different purpose.
‘They've taken a product that was originally designed for a CD-ROM and repurposed it for the Microsoft Network.’
Repurpose (v. i. or v. t.) 重新利用；改變…的用途；為…找到新用途 To find a new use for an idea, product, or building.
// The company's role is to repurpose print data for use on the Web.
// Cinemas are harder to repurpose than ordinary shops.
Reputable (a.) 受好評的，有聲望的，卓越的 Having, or worthy of, good repute; held in esteem; honorable; praiseworthy; as, a reputable man or character; reputable conduct.
In the article of danger, it is as reputable to elude an enemy as defeat one. -- Broome.
Syn: Respectable; creditable; estimable. -- Rep"u ta*ble*ness, n. -- Rep"u*ta*bly, adv.
Reputable (a.) Having a good reputation; "a reputable business"; "a reputable scientist"; "a reputable wine" [ant: disreputable].
Reputation (n.) [U] [S] 名譽，名聲 [（+for）]；好名聲，聲望；信譽 The estimation in which one is held; character in public opinion; the character attributed to a person, thing, or action; repute.
The best evidence of reputation is a man's whole life. -- Ames.
Reputation (n.) (Law) The character imputed to a person in the community in which he lives. It is admissible in evidence when he puts his character in issue, or when such reputation is otherwise part of the issue of a case.
Reputation (n.) Specifically: Good reputation; favorable regard; public esteem; general credit; good name.
I see my reputation is at stake. -- Shak.
The security of his reputation or good name. -- Blackstone.
Reputation (n.) Account; value. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
[Christ] Made himself of no reputation. -- Phil. ii. 7.
Syn: Credit; repute; regard; estimation; esteem; honor; fame. See the Note under Character.
Reputation (n.) The state of being held in high esteem and honor [syn: repute, reputation] [ant: discredit, disrepute].
Reputation (n.) Notoriety for some particular characteristic; "his reputation for promiscuity"
Reputation (n.) The general estimation that the public has for a person; "he acquired a reputation as an actor before he started writing"; "he was a person of bad report" [syn: reputation, report].
Reputation, () evidence. The opinion generally entertained by persons who know another, as to his character, (q.v.) or it is the opinion generally entertained by person; who know a family as to its pedigree, and the like.
Reputation, () In general, reputation is evidence to prove, 1st. A man's character in society. 2d. A pedigree. (q.v.) 3d. Certain prescriptive or customary rights and obligations and matters of public notoriety. (q.v.) But as such evidence is in its own nature very weak, it must be supported. 1st. When it relates to the exercise of the right or privilege, by proof of acts of enjoyment of such right or privilege, within the period of living memory; 1 Maule & Selw. 679; 5 T. R. 32; afterwards evidence of reputation may be given. 2d. The fact must be of a public nature. 3d. It must be derived from persons likely to know the facts. 4th. The facts must be general and, not particular. 5th. They must be free from suspicion. 1 Stark. Ev. 54 to 65. Vide 1 Har. & M'H. 152; 2 Nott & M'C. 114 5 Day, R. 290; 4 Hen. & M. 507; 1 Tayl. R. 121; 2 Hayw. 3; 8 S. & R. 159; 4 John. R. 52; 18 John. R. 346; 9 Mass. R. 414; 4 Burr. 2057; Dougl. 174; Cowp. 594; 3 Swanst. 400; Dudl. So. Car. R. 346; and arts. Character; Memory.
Reputation (n.) [ C usually singular, U ] (B2) 名譽；聲望；名望 The opinion that people in general have about someone or something, or how much respect or admiration someone or something receives, based on past behaviour or character.
// The company has a worldwide reputation for quality.
// She has the reputation of being a good doctor.
// His reputation was destroyed when he was caught stealing some money.
// The hotel has a bad/ good reputation.
// He earned/ established/ gained/ acquired a reputation as an entertaining speaker.
Idiom:
By reputation 因知名度；聽說 Not directly, by hearing what other people say.
// The two men know each other only by reputation.
Reputatively (adv.) By repute.
Reputed (imp. & p. p.) of Repute.
Reputing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repute.
Repute (n.) 名氣；美名；聲望；名譽 [U] Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate.
He who regns Monarch in heaven, till then as one secure Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute. -- Milton.
Repute (n.) Specifically: Good character or reputation; credit or honor derived from common or public opinion; -- opposed to disrepute. "Dead stocks, which have been of repute." -- F. Beaumont.
Repute (v. t.) 把……稱為，認為 [H] [（+as）] [O2] To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? -- Job xviii.
The king your father was reputed for A prince most prudent. -- Shak.
Repute (n.) The state of being held in high esteem and honor [syn: repute, reputation] [ant: discredit, disrepute].
Repute (v.) Look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent" [syn: think of, repute, regard as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to be].
Reputed (a.) (Believed) 據說的；普遍認為的；號稱的 Said to be the true situation although this is not known to be certain and may not be likely.
// She is reputed to be 25 years younger than her husband. They employed him because of his reputed skill in dealing with the press.
Reputed (a.) (Famous) 有名望的，有聲望的 Famous and with a good reputation.
// These comments were provided by reputed experts on the subject.
Reputedly (adv.) 據說；一般認為 In common opinion or estimation; by repute.
Reputedly (adv.) By repute; according to general belief; "fish with reputedly poisonous flesh".
Reputeless (a.) Not having good repute; disreputable; disgraceful; inglorius. [R.] -- Shak.
Requere (v. t.) To require. [Obs.]
Request (n.) 要求，請求 [C] [U] [（+for）] [+to-v] [+that]；請求的事；（電臺等的）點播曲 [C] The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.
I will marry her, sir, at your request. -- Shak.
Request (n.) That which is asked for or requested. "He gave them their request." -- Ps. cvi. 15.
I will both hear and grant you your requests. -- Shak.
Request (n.) A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for; demand.
Knowledge
and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now. -- Sir W. Temple.
Court of Requests. A local tribunal, sometimes called Court of Consience,
founded by act of Parliament to facilitate the recovery of small debts from
any inhabitant or trader in the district defined by the act;
-- now mostly
abolished.
Court of Requests. A court of equity for the relief of such persons as addressed the sovereign by supplication; -- now.
abolished. It was inferior to the Court of Chancery. [Eng.] -- Brande & C.
Syn: Asking; solicitation; petition; prayer; supplication; entreaty; suit.
Requested (imp. & p. p.) of Request.
Requesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Request.
Request (v. t.) 要求，請求；請求給予 [（+from/ of）] [+to-v] [O2] [+that] To ask for (something); to express desire ffor; to solicit; as, to request his presence, or a favor.
Request (v. t.) To address with a request; to ask.
I request youTo give my poor host freedom. -- Shak.
Syn: To ask; solicit; entreat; beseech. See Beg.
Request (n.) A formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority [syn: request, petition, postulation].
Request (n.) The verbal act of requesting [syn: request, asking].
Request (v.) Express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service" [syn: request, bespeak, call for, quest].
Request (v.) Ask (a person) to do something; "She asked him to be here at noon"; "I requested that she type the entire manuscript".
Request (v.) Inquire for (information); "I requested information from the secretary".
Request, () contracts. A notice of a desire on the part of the person making it, that the other party shall do something in relation to a contract.
Request, () In general when a debt exists payable immediately, the law does not impose on the creditor to make a request of payment. But when by the express terms of a contract, a request is necessary, it must be made. And in some cases where there is no express agreement a request is also requisite; as where A sells a horse to B to be paid for on delivery, a demand or request to deliver must be made before B can sustain an action; 5 T. R. 409; 1 East, 209; or, it must be shown that A has incapacitated himself to deliver the horse because he has sold the horse to another person. 10 East. 359; 5 B. & A. 712. On a general promise to marry, a request must be made before action, unless the proposed defendant has married another. 2 Dow. & Ry. 55. Vide Demand.
Request, () A request, like a notice, ought to be in writing and state distinctly what is required to be done without any ambiguous terms. 1 Chit. Pr. 497, 498.
Request, () pleading. The statement in the plaintiff's declaration that a demand or request has been made by the plaintiff from the defendant, to do some act which he was bound to perform, and for which the action is brought.
Request, () A request is general or special. The former is called the licet saepius requisitus, (q.v.) or "although often requested so to do;" though generally inserted in the common breach to the money counts, it is of no avail in pleading, and the omission of it will not vitiate the declaration. 2 Hen. Bl. 131; 1 Bos. & Pull. 59, 60; and see 1 John. Cas. 100. Whenever it is essential to the cause of action, that the plaintiff should have requested the defendant to perform his contract, such request must be stated in the declaration and proved. The special request must state by whom, and the time and place when it was made, in order that the court may judge of its sufficiency. 1 Str. 89, Vide Com. Dig. Pleader, C 69, 70; 1 Saund. 33; 2 Ventr. 75; 3 Bos. & Pull. 438; 3 John. R. 207; 1 John. Cas. 319; 10 Mass. R. 230; 3 Day's R. 327; and the articles Demand; Licet saepius requisitus.
Requester (n.) 提問者 One who requests; a petitioner.
Requester (n.) One praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her favors" [syn: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant, requester].
Requicken (v. t.) 使復活，使甦醒過來；再加快 To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to. -- Shak.
Requiem (n.) (R. C. Ch.) （亦作R-）追思彌撒；安魂彌撒；安魂曲；輓歌 A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul.
We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls. -- Shak.
Requiem (n.) Any grand musical composition, performed in honor of a deceased person.
Requiem (n.) Rest; quiet; peace. [Obs.]
Else had I an eternal requiem kept, And in the arms of peace forever slept. -- Sandys.
Requiem (n.) A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person [syn: dirge, coronach, lament, requiem, threnody].
Requiem (n.) A musical setting for a Mass celebrating the dead.
Requiem (n.) A Mass celebrated for the dead.
Requiem, () A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us thewinds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way ofproviding a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.
Requietory (n.) A sepulcher. [Obs.] -- Weever.
Requin (n.) (Zool.) The man-eater, or white shark ({Carcharodon carcharias); -- so called on account of its causing requiems to be sung.
Requirable (a.) 需要的 Capable of being required; proper to be required. -- Sir M. Hale.
Required (imp. & p. p.) of Require.
Requiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Require.
Require (v. t.) 需要 [+v-ing] [+that]；【書】要求，命令 [（+of）] [O2] [+that] To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.
Shall I say to Caesar What you require of him? -- Shak.
By nature did what was by law required. -- Dryden.
Require (v. t.) To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.
Just gave what life required, and gave no more. -- Goldsmith.
The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed. -- J. A. Symonds.
Require (v. t.) To ask as a favor; to request.
I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way. -- Ezra viii. 22.
Syn: To claim; exact; enjoin; prescribe; direct; order; demand; need.
Require (v.) Require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of].
Require (v.) Consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons" [syn: ask, require, expect].
Require (v.) Make someone do something [syn: command, require].
Require (v.) Have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" [syn: want, need, require].
Requirement (n.) 需要，要求，請求，規定，必要條件 The act of requiring; demand; requisition.
Requirement (n.) That which is required; an imperative or authoritative command; an essential condition; something needed or necessary; a need.
One of those who believe that they can fill up every requirement contained in the rule of righteousness. -- J. M. Mason.
God gave her the child, and gave her too an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements. -- Hawthorne.
Requirement (n.) Required activity; "the requirements of his work affected his health"; "there were many demands on his time" [syn: {requirement}, {demand}].
Requirement (n.) Anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" [syn: {necessity}, {essential}, {requirement}, {requisite}, {necessary}] [ant: {inessential}, {nonessential}].
Requirement (n.) Something that is required in advance; "Latin was a prerequisite for admission" [syn: {prerequisite}, {requirement}].
Requirer (n.) One who requires.
Requorer (n. pl. -s) (Archaic) One that requires.
Requisite (n.) 必需品；必要條件 [C] That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable.
God, on his part, has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know. -- Wake.
Requisite (a.) 需要的，必不可少的 [Z] [B] Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; so needful that it can not be dispensed with; necessary; indispensable.
All truth requisite for men to know. -- Milton.
Syn: Necessary; needful; indispensable; essential. -- Req"ui*site*ly, adv. -- Req"ui*site*ness, n.
Requisite (a.) Necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful" [syn: needed, needful, required, requisite].
Requisite (n.) Anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" [syn: necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary] [ant: inessential, nonessential].
Requisition (n.) 正式請求，正式要求 [C] [U] [（+for）]；（要求調撥的）申請單；調撥單 [C] The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority. Specially:
Requisition (n.) (International law) A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice. -- Kent.
Requisition (n.) (Law) A notarial demand of a debt. -- Wharton.
Requisition (n.) (Mil.) A demand by the invader upon the people of an invaded country for supplies, as of provision, forage, transportation, etc. -- Farrow.
Requisition (n.) A formal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service; as, a requisition for clothing, troops, or money.
Requisition (n.) That which is required by authority; especially, a quota of supplies or necessaries.
Requisition (n.) A written or normal call; an invitation; a summons; as, a reqisition for a public meeting. [Eng.]
Requisition (v. t.) 徵用；向……徵用；（書面）申請領取 To make a reqisition on or for; as, to requisition a district for forage; to requisition troops.
Requisition (v. t.) To present a requisition to; to summon request; as, to requisition a person to be a candidate. [Eng.]
Requisition (n.) The act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use.
Requisition (n.) An official form on which a request in made; "first you have to fill out the requisition" [syn: requisition, requisition form].
Requisition (n.) Seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized [syn: sequestration, requisition].
Requisition (v.) Make a formal request for official services
Requisition (v.) Demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service [ant: derequisition].
Requisitionist (n.) One who makes or signs a requisition.
Requisitionist (In British English) (n.) A person who requisitions; a person who makes a requisition.
Requisitive (a.) Expressing or implying demand. [R.] -- Harris.
Requisitive (n.) One who, or that which, makes requisition; a requisitionist.
Requisitor (n.) One who makes reqisition; esp., one authorized by a requisition to investigate facts.
Requisitory (a.) Sought for; demanded. [R.] -- Summary on Du Bartas (1621).
Requitable (a.) 可回報的 That may be requited.
Requital (n.) 報酬；報復 The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds.
No merit their aversion can remove, Nor ill requital can efface their love. -- Waller.
Syn: Compensation; recompense; remuneration; reward; satisfaction; payment; retribution; retaliation; reprisal; punishment.
Requital (n.) A justly deserved penalty [syn: retribution, requital].
Requital (n.) An act of requiting; returning in kind [syn: requital, payment].
Requited (imp. & p. p.) of Requite.
Requiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Requite.
Requite (v. t.) 報答；回報 [（+with）]；酬謝（某人）；向（某人）報復[（+with）]；【罕】以……回報 To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to punish.
He can requite thee; for he knows the charma That call fame on such gentle acts as these. -- Milton.
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand. -- Ps. x. 14.
Syn: To repay; reward; pay; compensate; remunerate; satisfy; recompense; punish; revenge.
Requite (v.) Make repayment for or return something [syn: requite, repay].
Requitement (n.) Requital [Obs.] -- E. Hall.
Requiter (n.) One who requites.
Rerebrace (n.) 上腕甲（保護自肩至肘的甲冑） Armor for the upper part of the arm. -- Fairholt.
Rerebrace (n.) Cannon that provides plate armor for the upper arm [syn: rerebrace, upper cannon].
Reredemain (n.) A backward stroke. [Obs.]
Reredos (n.) (Arch.) 祭壇背後有裝飾的屏風 A screen or partition wall behind an altar.
Reredos (n.) (Arch.) The back of a fireplace.
Reredos (n.) (Arch.) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls. [Also spelt reredosse.] -- Fairholt.
Reredos (n.) A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table [syn: altarpiece, reredos].
Rerefief (n.) (Scots Law) A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an under tenant. -- Blackstone.
Rereign (v. i.) To reign again.
Re-reiterate (v. t.) To reiterate many times. [R.] "My re-reiterated wish." -- Tennyson.
Rearmouse, Reremouse (n.) (Zool.) The leather-winged bat ({Vespertilio murinus). [Written also reermouse.] Re-arrange
Reremouse (n.) 【古】蝙蝠 A rearmouse.
Re-resolve (v. t. & i.) To resolve again.
Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. --Young.
Rereward (n.) The rear guard of an army. [Obs.]
Rereward, () (Josh. 6:9), the troops in the rear of an army on the march, the rear-guard. This word is a corruption of the French arriere-garde. During the wilderness march the tribe of Dan formed the rear-guard (Num. 10:25; comp. 1 Sam. 29:2; Isa. 52:12; 58:8).
Res (n. pl. ) of Res.
Res (n.) A thing; the particular thing; a matter; a point.
Res gestae (Law), The facts which form the environment of a litigated issue. -- Wharton.
Res judicata [L.] (Law), A thing adjudicated; a matter no longer open to controversy.
RES (n.) A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells [syn: reticuloendothelial system, RES]
RES, () Remote Entry Services.
RES, property. Things. The terms "Res," "Bona," "Biens," used by jurists who have written in the Latin and French languages, are intended to include movable or personal, as well as immovable or real property. 1 Burge, Confl. of Laws, 19. See Biens; Bona; Things.
Resail (v. t. & i.) 再航行；重航海；回航 To sail again; also, to sail back, as to a former port.
Resale (n.) 轉售；零售 A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale. -- Bacon.
Resale (n.) The selling of something purchased.
Resale () A second sale made of an article; as, for example, if A sell a horse to B, and the latter not having paid, for him, refuse to take him away, when by his contract he was bound to do so, and then A sells the horse to C.
Resale () The effect of a resale, is not always to annul the first sale, because, as in this case, B would be liable to A for the difference of the price between the sale and resale. 4 Bing. 722; Blackb. on Sales, 336; 4 M. & G. 898.
Resalgar (n.) Realgar. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Resalute (v. t.) 再敬禮；答禮 To salute again.
Resaw (v. t.) 再鋸；解鋸 To saw again; specifically, to saw a balk, or a timber, which has already been squared, into dimension lumber, as joists, boards, etc.
Rescat (v. t.) To ransom; to release; to rescue. [Obs.] -- Howell.
Rescat (n.) Ransom; release. [Obs.]
Rescinded (imp. & p. p.) of Rescind.
Rescinding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rescind.
Rescind (v. t.) 廢止；取消；撤回 To cut off; to abrogate; to annul.
The blessed Jesus . . . did sacramentally rescind the impure relics of Adam and the contraction of evil customs. -- Jer. Taylor.
Rescind (v. t.) Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment.
Syn: To revoke; repeal; abrogate; annul; recall; reverse; vacate; void.
Rescind (v.) Cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate].
Rescindable (a.) Capable of being rescinded.
Rescindable (a.) Capable of being rescinded or voided; "the judgment was rescindable"; "voidable contracts" [syn: rescindable, voidable].
Rescindment (n.) The act of rescinding; rescission.
Rescission (n.) 廢止；取消；撤回；【律】解約 The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment.
Rescission (n.) (Law) The act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made; "recission may be brought about by decree or by mutual consent" [syn: recission, rescission].
Rescissory (a.) 廢止的 Tending to rescind; rescinding.
To pass a general act rescissory (as it was called), annulling all the Parliaments that had been held since the year 1633. -- Bp. Burnet.
Rescous (n.) Rescue; deliverance. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Rescous (n.) (Law) See Rescue, 2. [Obs.]
Rescous, () crim. law, torts. This word is used synonymously with rescue, (q.v.) and denotes the illegal taking away and setting at liberty a distress taken, or a person arrested by due process of law. Co. Litt. 160.
Rescous, () In civil cases when a defendant is rescued the officer will or will not be liable, as the process under which the arrest is made, is or is not final. When the sheriff executes a fi. fa. or ca. sa. he may take the posse comitatus; Show. 180; and, neglecting to do so, he is responsible; but on mesne or original process, if the defendant rescue himself, vi et armis, the sheriff is not answerable. 1 Holt's R. 537; 3 Eng. Com. Law Rep. 179, S. C. Vide Com. Dig. h.t.; Yelv. 51; 2 T. R. 156; Woodf. T. 521 Bac. Ab. Rescue, D; Doct. Pl. 433.
Rescowe (v. t.) To rescue. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Rescribe (v. t.) To write back; to write in reply. -- Ayliffe.
Rescribe (v. t.) To write over again. -- Howell.
Rescript (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) （羅馬皇帝，羅馬教宗的）敕答書；重寫的東西；副本；法令；布告 The answer of an emperor when formallyconsulted by particular persons on some difficult question; hence, an edict or decree.
In their rescripts and other ordinances, the Roman emperors spoke in the plural number. -- Hare.
Rescript (n.) (R. C. Ch.) The official written answer of the pope upon a question of canon law, or morals.