1. To put again in poffeffion. This example is not very proper.Thy father

Levied an army, weening to reedem

And reinstal me in the diadem. Shak. Hen. VI. *To REINSTATE. v. a. [re and inftate.] To put again in poffeffion.-David, after that fignal victory which had preserved his life, reinstated him in his throne, and reftored him to the ark and fan&tuary, yet fuffered the lofs of his rebellious fon to overwhelm the fenfe of his deliverance. Gov. of the Tongue.-Modefty reinftates the widow in her virginity. Addifon.-The reinftating of this hero in the peaceable poffeffion of his kingdom, was acknowledged. Pope.

RE-INSURANCE is a fecond contract, made by an infurer, to transfer the risk he has engaged for to another. It is in general forbidden by 19 Geo. II. c. 37. but is permitted to the reprefentatives of an infurer in cafe of his death, or to his affignees in cafe of his bankruptcy; and it must be mentioned in the policy that it is a re-insurance. REINTAL, a town of Auftria: 4 miles ESE. of Feldsburg.

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TREINTEGRATE. v. a. [reinteger, Fr. re and integer, Lat. It perhaps fhould be written redintegerate.] To renew with regard to any ftate or quality; to repair; to restore.—This league drove out all the Spaniards out of Germany, and reintegrated that nation in their ancient liberty. Bacon. -The falling from a difeord to a concord hath an agreement with the affections, which are reintegrated to the better after some diflikes. Bacon. * To REINVEST. v. a. [re and invest.] To in. veft anew.

(1.)* To REJOICE. v. n. [rejouir, Fr.] To be glad; to joy; to exult; to receive pleasure from fomething paft.-This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelefly. Zeph. ii. 15.-I will make them rejoice from their forrow. Jer. xxxi. 13.-Let them be brought to confufion, that rejoice at mine hurt. Pfalm xxxv. 26.-Jethro rejoiced for all the goodnefs which the Lord had done. Exodus xviii. 9.They rejoice each with their kind. Milton. -We should particularly express our rejoicing by love and charity to our neighbours. Nelfon. (2.) To REJOICE. v. a. To exhilarate; to gladden; to make joyful; to glad.—

Prior.

She, great faint, rejoices heaven, And thou fuftain'ft the orb below. -I fhou'd give Cain the honour of the invention; were he alive, it would rejoice his foul to fee what mifchief it had made. Arbuthnot on Coins.

* REJOICER. n. f. [from rejoice.] One that rejoices. He that believes God to be cruel, or a rejoicer in the unavoidable damnation of the greatest part of mankind, thinks evil thoughts concerning God. Taylor.

(1.) * Ť。 REJOIN. v. a. [rejoindre, Fr.] 1. To join again. The grand fignior conveyeth his gal lies down to Grand Cairo, where they are taken in pieces, carried upon camels backs, and rejoined

together at Sues. Brown's Vulg. Err. 2. To meet one again.

Thoughts, which at Hyde-park-corner I forgot, Meet and rejoin me in the penfive grot. Pope. (2.) TO REJOIN. v. n. To answer to an answer. It will be replied, that he receives advantage by this lopping of his fuperfluous branches; but I rejoin, that a translator has no fuch right. Dryden.

(1.) * REJOINDER. n. /. [from rejoin.] 1. Reply to an answer.-The quality of the perfon makes me judge myself obliged to a rejoinder. Glanville, 2. Reply; anfwer.

Injury of chance rudely beguiles our lips Of all rejoinders. Shak. Troil, and Creff. (2.) REJOINDER, in law, is the defendant's anfwer to the plaintiff's replication or reply. Thus, in the court of chancery, the defendant puts in an anfwer to the plaintiff's bill, which is fometimes alfo called an exception; the plaintiff's answer to that is called a replication, and the defendant's answer to that a rejoinder.

*REJOLT. n. f. \rejaillir, Fr.] Shock; fuccuffion. As long as these inward rejolts and recoilings of the mind continue, the finner will find his account of pleasure very poor. South.

REIPOLTZKIRCHEN, a castle of Germany, now in the French empire, depart. of the Rhine and Mofelle, and late duchy of Deux Ponts: 23 miles N. of Deux Ponts.

REISBACH, a town of Lower Bavaria, on the Vils: 4 miles SE. of Dingelfingen, and 35 W. of Paffau.

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REISCHSTADT, a town of Bohemia, in Bomiles NW. of Nifmes. REISENBERG, a town of Auftria: 22 miles WSW. of Brugg, and 12 SE. of Vienna.

REISENBURG, a town of Pruffia, in Oberland, with an ancient caftle: 78 miles SW. of Koningsberg.

REISENPACH, a river of Austria, which runs into the Danube; 12 miles below Vienna.

REISHOFFEN. See REICHSHOFEN. (1.) REISKE, John, a learned German author, who was rector of the college of Wolfenbuttel, and published various works.

(2.) REISKE, John James, M. D. a moft profound oriental scholar and critic, born in 1706, at a town in the duchy of Anhalt. After the ufual fchool education, he went, in 1733, to Leipfick, where he ftudied 5 years, acquired the Arabic language, and tranflated and published a book in it. He next travelled on foot to Leyden, where he was employed in arranging the Arabian MSS. though but poorly compensated for it. He next tranflated from the German and French into Latin various Effays fent him by Dorville, whom he had vifited in his journey, and who inferted these in the Mifcellanea Critica. At Dorville's defire he also tranflated the whole of the Chariton from the Greek, and Abulfeda's Geography from the Latin. He continued 8 years at Leyden, and received his degree in it, with uncommon refpect, but left it on account of calumnies excited against him by Peter Burman, whofe translation of Petronius Arbiter he had criticised. (See BURMAN, N° 2.) He then travelled through Germany, and settled at Leipfic, where he was made profeffor of Arabic,

and

and continued for 12 years, writing for the book fellers, who did not pay him in proportion to his merits. The Alta Eruditorum were greatly indebted to him. On the death of Haltanfius, in 1756, he was made rector of the Academy at Leipfic, which placed him above want. Previously to this he had published his Animadverfiones in Autores Græcos, in 5 vols, a work of deep erudition. In 1764, he married Ernestina Christina Muller, a woman of extraordinary abilities, whofe learning, particularly in Greek, was hardly inferior to his own. She affifted him in all his literary labours, especially in his immortal work of the Edition of the Greek Orators: in 12 vols 8vo. Thus Reiske spent the remainder of his life in a moft agreeable manner; and died in 1774, univerfally refpected. The number of his publications is very great. The principal are thofe above mentioned, and the following: 1. Dionyfius Halicarnaffenfis; 7 vols. 2. Plutarch; 9 vols. 3. Theocritus, &c. REISNITZ, a town of Germany, in Carniola; 4 miles NW. of Gottschee.

REISSENBURG, a town of Pruffia in Oberland: 78 miles SW. of Konigfberg.

REISSENDORF, a town of Silefia, in Neiffe ; 4 miles N. of Patschkau.

REISTERTOWN, a town of Maryland, in Baltimore county, 16 miles NW. of Baltimore.

*REIT. n.. Sedge or fea weed. Bailey. * To REITERATE. v. a. [re and itero, Latin; reiterer, Fr.] To repeat again and again.—

You never fpoke what did become you lefs Than this; which to reiterate, were fin. Shak. With reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. Milton. -He hath taught us, that to reiterate the fame requests will not be vain. Smalridge.

* REITERATION. n. f. [reiteration, French; from reiterate.] Repetition. It is ufeful to have new experiments tried over again; fuch reiterations commonly exhibiting new phenomena. Boyle. -The words are a reiteration or reinforcement of an application. Ward.

REITTERECK, Į two towns of Stiria: the forREITTNAU, mer 7 miles E. of Voitsberg : the latter 2 N. of Hardeberg.

REITZ, a town of Portugal, in Beira. (1.) REITZBERG, a county of Germany, in Weftphalia, 15 miles long, and s broad: belong ing to the king of Pruffia.

(2.) REITZBERG, the capital of the above county, is feated near Paderborn.

*To REJUDGE, v. a. [re and judge.] To reexamine; to review; to recal to a new trial.

'Tis her's the brave man's lateft fteps to trace, Rejudge his acts, and dignify difgrace. Pope. *To REKINDLE. v. a. [re and kindle] To let on fire again.-Fixed ftars were actually extinguifhed, and would for ever continue fo, if not rekindled. Cheyne.

Rekindled at the royal charms,
Tumultuous love each bofom warms. Pope.
REKUM See RECKHEIM.

RELAND, Adrian, an eminent Orientalist, born at Ryp, in North Holland, in 1676; and educated three years under Surenhufius, from whom he acquired the Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldee, and Arabic languages. In 1701, he was, by the

This would but lead me to a worse relapfe And heavier fall. Milton. -We fee in too frequent inftances the relapfes of thofe who have refolved on a religious reformation. Rogers. 2. Regreffion from a ftate of recovery to fickness.-What is to be looked for, but a most dangerous relapfe? Spenfer. 3. Return to any state. The fenfe here is fomewhat obfcure.A fecond courfe of mischief,

Shak.

Killing in relapfse of mortality. *To RELAPSE. v. n. [relapfus, Lat.] 1. To flip back; to ffide or fall back. 2. To fall back into vice or errour.-The oftener he hath relapsed, the more fignifications he ought to give of the truth of his repentance. Taylor. 3. To fall back from a state of recovery to sickness. He was not well cured, and would have relapsed. Wifeman(1.) To RELATE. v. a. [relatus, Latin.] 1. To tell; to recite.

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Your wife and babes

-The drama represents to view, what the poem only does relate. Dryden. 2. To vent by words. Unauthorifed.-A man were better relate himself to a ftatue, than fuffer his thoughts to pass in fmother. Bacon. 3. To ally by kindred.Avails thee not,

To whom related, or by whom begot. Pope 4. To bring back; to reftore. A Latinifm. Spea

(2.)* To RELATE. v. n. To have reference; to have refpect.-All negative or privative words relate to pofitive ideas. Locke. As other courts de manded the execution of persons dead in law, this gave the last orders relating to thofe dead in reafon. Tatler.

* RELATER. ». f. [from relate.] Teller; nar rator; hiftorian-We fhall rather perform good offices unto truth, than any differvice unto their relaters. Brown.

Her husband the relater the preferr'd. Mil. The best English hiftorian, when his ftyle grows antiquated, will be only confidered as a tedious relater of facts. Swift.

(1.) * RELATION. n. J. [relation, Fr. from relate. 1. Manner of belonging to any perfon or thing.

Juft unto all relations known,
A worthy patriot, pious fon.

Waller.

So far as fervice imports duty and fubjection, all created beings bear the neceffary relation of fervants to God. South.-Our necessary relations

to

to a family, oblige all to use their reasoning powers upon a thousand occafions. Watts-Our interceffion is made an exercise of love and care for thofe amongst whom our lot is fallen, or who be long to us in a nearer relation. Laru, 2. Refpect; reference; regard.—I have been importuned to make fome observations on this art, in relation to its agreement with poetry. Dryden.-Relation confifts in the confideration and comparing oue idea with another. Locke. 3. Counexion between one thing and another.-Of the eternal relations and fitnesses of things we know nothing. "Beattie. 4. Kindred; alliance of kin,—

Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, fon, and brother

Milton. Be kindred and relation laid afide. Dryden. -Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? that cannot be the gospel stiles them all our brethren; nay, they have a nearer relation to us, our fellowmembers; and both these from their relation to our Saviour himself, who calls them his brethren. Spratt. 5. Perfon related by birth or marriage; kinfman; kinfwoman. A fhe coufin, of a good family and fmall fortune paffed months among all her relations. Sawift.

Dependants, friends, relations,

Savag'd by woe, forget the tender tie. Thomf 6. Narrative; tale; account; narration;" recital of facts. In an historical relation, we use the terms that are most proper. Burnet. The author of a just fable must please more than the writer of an hiftorical relation. Dennis.

(1.) RELATION is the mutual respect of two things, or what each is with regard to the other. See METAPHYSICS, Sec. XXI. XXIV,

See

(3.) RELATION is alfo ufed for analogy. ANALOGY, and METAPHYSICS, St&. XXIII. (4.) RELATION, in geometry. See RATIO. (1.) * RELATIVE. adj. [relativus, Lat. relatif, Fr.] 1. Having relation; refpecting.-The parts of which they confift are very often relative one to another. Locke. 2. Confidered not abfolutely, but as belonging to, or respecting fomething elfe.-Though capable it be not of inherent holiness, yet it is often relative. Holyday. The circumftances and relative confiderations of the perfons may differ. South-Every thing fuftains both an abfolute and a relative capacity: an abfolute, as it is fuch a thing, endued with fuch a nature; and a relative, as it is a part of the univerfe, and fo ftands in fuch relation to the whole. South-Wholesome and unwhotelome are relative, not real qualities. Arbuthnot. 3. Particular; pofitive; close in connection. Not in ufe.I'll have grounds

(3.) RELATIVE, in mufic. See MODE, § 4. (4.) RELATIVE PRONOUNS, (§ 2, def. 2.) in grammar, are thofe which answer to fome other word foregoing, called the antecedent; fuch are the Latin pronouns qui, quæ, quod, &c. in English, who, which, what, &c. The word anfwering to these relatives is often understood, as I know WHOM you mean, for I know the perfon whom you mean. See ENGLISH LANGUAGE, page 691.

(5.) RELATIVE TERMS, in logic, are words which imply relation; as master and fervant, hufband and wife, &c.

* RELATIVELY. adv. [from relative.] As it refpe&ts fomething elfe; not abfolutely.--All thofe things that feem fo foul and disagreeable in na. ture, are not really fo in themselves, but only relatively. More.-Thefe being the greatest good or the greatest evil, either abfolutely fo in themfelves, or relatively fo to us. Spratt.-Confider the abfolute affections of any being as it is in it. felf, before you confider it relatively. Watts. * RELATIVENESS. n. f. [from relative.] The state of having relation.

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(1.) To RELAX. v. a. [relaxo, Lat.] 1. To flacken; to make lefs tenfe.-The finews, when the southern wind bloweth, are more relax. Bac. Horrour chill

Ran through his veins, and all his joints relax'd.

Milton. 2. To remit; to make lefs fevere or rigorous.— The ftatute of mortmain was at several times relaxed. Swift. 3. To make lefs attentive or labo rious.

Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright. Vanity of Wishes. 4. To eafe; to divert: as, converfation relaxes the ftudent. 5. To open; to loose.

It ferv'd not to relax their ferried files. Milt. (2.)* To RELAX. v. n. To be mild; to be remifs; to be not rigorous.

In others the relax'd again,
And govern'd with a loofer rein.

Prior.

(1.) * RELAXATION, n. f. [relaxation, Fr. relaxatio, Lat.] 1. Diminution of tenfion; the act of loofening.-Cold fweats come by a relaxation, or forfaking of the fpirits. Bacon.-Many, who live healthy in a dry air, fall into all the diseases that depend upon relaxation in a moift one. Arbuthnot. 2. Ceflation of restraint.-Some imagined that the fea ftood upon heaps higher than the fhore, and at the deluge a relaxation being made, it over, flowed the land. Burnet. 3. Remiffion; abatement of rigour.-They childishly granted, under their town seal, a relaxation to one Bertelier. Hooker. -The relaxation of the ftatute of mortmain, is one of the reasons, which give the bishop terrible apprehenfions of popery coming on us. Swift. 4. Remiffion of attention or application.-He indulges the fame relaxation to our minds. Gov. of the Tongue. There would be no proper relaxations in bufinefs. Addison.

(2.) RELAXATION, in medicine, is ufed of the looseness or flackness of the fibres, nerves, mufcles, &c.

* RELAY. n. f. [relais, Fr.] Horses on the road 'to relieve others.

(1.) * RE

(1.) * RELEASE. n. f. [relafche, Fr. from the verb. 1. Difmiffion from confinement, fervitude or pain. 2. Relaxation of a penalty.

From years of pain, one moment of release.

Prior.

3. Remiffion of a claim.-The king made a great feaft, and made release to the provinces. Eh. ii. 18.-It might encourage other countries to pray the like release or mitigation. Bacon. 4. Acquit tance from a debt figned by the creditor.

(2.) RELEASE, in law, is a difcharge or convey. ance of a man's right in lands or tenements, to another that hath fome former eftate in poffeffion. The words generally used therein are," remifed, released, and for ever quit-claimed." And these releases may enure, either, 1. By way of enlarging an eftate, as, if there be tenant for life or years, remainder to another in fee, and he in remainder releases all his right to the particular tenant and his heirs, this gives him the eftate in fee: But in this cafe the releffee must be in poffeffion of fome eftate for the releafe to work upon; for, if there be leffee for years, and, before he enters and is in poffeffion, the leffor releases to him all his right in the reverfion, fuch releafe is void for want of poffeffion in the releffee. 2. By way of passing an. eftate, as, when one of two coparceners releaseth all his right to the other, this paffeth the fee-fimple of the whole. In both these cafes, there muft be a privity of estate between the releffor and releffee; that is, one of their eftates must be fo related to the other as to make but one and the fame eftate in law. 3. By way of paffing a right, as if a man be diffeifed, and releafeth to his dif feifor all his right; hereby the diffeifor acquires a new right, which changes the quality of his estate, and renders that lawful which before was tortious. 4. By way of extinguishment: as if my tenant for life makes a leafe to A for life, remainders to B and his heirs, and I release to A; this extinguishes my right to the reverfion, and fhall enure to the advantage of B's remainder as well as of A's particular estate. 5. By way of entry and feoffment as if there be two joint diffeifors, and the diffeifee releases to one of them, he fhall be fole feifed, and thall keep out his former companion; which is the fame in effect as if the diffeifee had entered, and thereby put an end to the difieifin, and afterwards had enfeoffed one of the diffeifors in fee. When a man has in himself the poffeffion of lands, he muft at the common law convey the freehold by feoffment and livery, which makes a notoriety in the country: but if a man has only a right or a future intereft, he may convey that right or interest by a mere release to him that is in poffeffion of the land: for the occupancy of the releffee is a matter of fufficient notoriety already.

*To RELEASE. v. a. [relafcher, relaxer, Fr.] 1. To fet free from confinement or fervitude. Pilate faid, whom will ye that I release unto you? Matth.

You releas'd his courage. Dryden. -Why should a reasonable man put it into the power of fortune to make him miferable, when Ais ancestors have taken care to release him from her? Dryden. 2. To fet free from pain. 3. To fee from obligation or penalty.

Too fecure, because releas'd from death fome days. Milton. 4. To quit; to let go.-Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour fhall release it. Deut. He had been base, had he releas'd his right.

Dryden. 5. To relax; to fiacken. Not in ufe. It may not feem hard, if in cases of neceffity certain profitable ordinances fometimes be released. Hooker. * To RELEGATE. v. a. releguer, Fr. relego, Lat. To banish; to exile.

* RELEGATION. n. f. [relegation, Fr. relega. tio, Lat.] Exile; judicial banishment.-The extraordinary punishment of adultery was deportation or relegation. Ayliffe.

(1.) To RELENT. v. n. [ralentir, Fr.] 1. To foften; to grow lefs rigid or hard; to give.-In fome houses, fweetmeats will relent more than in others. Bacon.--Pope

Earth relenting feels the genial ray. 2. To melt; to grow moift.-Crows seem to call upon rain, which is but the comfort they seem to receive in the relenting of the air. Bacon.-Salt of tartar, brought to fufion, and placed in a cellar, will, in a few minutes, begin to relent. Boyle2. To foften; to mollify. Obfolete.

The fkies relent in show'rs.

Pope.

RELESSOR.

2.

Milton

RELEVAMEN. See RELIEF, RELEVANCY, n.f. in Scots law. See Law, Part III. Chap. III. Sect. V. § 9.

* RELEVANT. adj. [Fr.] Relieving. Dia. * RELEVATION. n.. [relevatio, Latin.] & raifing or lifting up. RELEVATIO, or RELEVIUM,

See RELILF, § 2.

* RELIANCE. n. f. from rely.] Truft; dependance; confidence; repofe of mind: with or before the object of truft.

My reliance on his fracted dates Has fmit my credit.

Shak

That pellucid gelatinous fubftance which he

pitches