For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. Isaiah. In what place, or upon what consideration soever it be, they do it, were it in their own opinion of no force being done, they would undoubtedly refrain to do it. Nor from the holy one of heaven Hooker. Milton. That they fed not on flesh, at least the faithful before the flood, may become more probable, party because they refrained therefrom some time after. Browne's Vulgar Errours. Neptune atoned, his wrath shall now refrain, Or thwart the synod of the gods in vain. Pope. REFRAN'GIBLE, adj. Į Lat. re and franREFRANGIBILITY, n. s. go. Capable of, or tending to, refraction: the noun substantive corresponding. As some rays are more refrangible than others, that is, are more turned out of their course, in passing from one medium to another; it follows that, after such refraction, they will be separated, and their distinct colour observed. Locke. REFRANGIBILITY OF LIGHT is chiefly applied to the disposition of rays to produce different colors. See OPTICS. REFRESH', v. a. Fr. refraischer, refresREFRESH'ER, n. s. cher; Lat. refrigero. To REFRESHMENT. Srevive; recreate; relieve; improve; refrigerate a refresher is that which refreshes refreshment, relief, or that which gives relief. A dew coming after heat refresheth. Eccl. xliii. 22. Service shall with steel sinews toil; And labour shall refresh itself with hope. Shakspeare. The rest refresh the scaly snakes, that fold The shield of Pallas, and renew their gold. Dryden. If you would have trees to thrive, take care that no plants be near them, which may deprive them of nourishment, or hinder refreshings and helps that they might receive. Mortimer. Such honest refreshments and comforts of life, our christian liberty has made it lawful for us to use. Sprat. His meals are coarse and short, his employment' warrantable, his sleep certain and refreshing, neither interrupted with the lashes of a guilty mind, nor the aches of a crazy body. South. He was full of agony and horrour upon the approach of a dismal death, and so had most need of the refreshments of society, and the friendly assistance of his disciples. The kind refresher of the summer heats. REFRIGERATE, v. a, South. cooling, or having the power to cool: refrigeration, the act of cooling, or state of being cooled: refrigeratory, noun substantive, the part of old distilling vessels that was placed about the head of a still, and filled with water to cool the condensing vapors; any thing internally cooling: refrigerium, cool refreshment; refrigeration. In the cure of gangrenes, you must beware of dry heat, and resort to things that are refrigerant, with an inward warmth and virtue of cherishing. Bacon. The great breezes, which the motion of the air in great circles, such as the girdle of the world produceth, do refrigerate; and therefore in those parts noon is nothing so hot, when the breezes are great, as about ten of the clock in the forenoon. Id. If it arise from an external cause, apply refrigerants, without any preceding evacuation. Wiseman. REFT, part. pret. of REAVE, which see. Deprived; taken away. Obsolete. Thus we well left, he better reft, In heaven to take his place, That like by life and death, at last, We may obtain like grace. Ascham's Schoolmaster. About his shoulders broad he threw An hairy hide of some wild beast, whom he In savage forest by adventures slew, And reft the spoil his ornament to be. Spenser. Another ship had seized on us, And would have reft the fishers of their prey. Shakspeare. REFUGE, n. s. & v. a. French refuge; Ital. Port. and Span. refugio; Lat. refugium. Shelter or protection from danger or distress; expedient: to shelter a refugee is one who seeks a refuge. They shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood. Joshua. The Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. Psalm ix. 9. This last old man, Whom with a cracked heart I have sent to Rome, Loved me above the measure of a father: Their latest refuge was to send him. Shakspeare. Silly beggars, Id. Who, sitting in the stocks, refuge their shame Find place or refuge. The young vipers supposed to break through the belly of the dam, will, upon any fright, for protection run into it; for then the old one receives them in at her mouth, which way, the fright being past, they Those, who take refuge in a multitude, have an Arian council to answer for. Atterbury. REFUGE, CITIES OF, were places provided as asyla, for such as against their will should happen to kill a man. Of these cities there were three on each side Jordan; on this side were Kedesh of Nephtali, Hebron, and Schechem; beyond Jordan were Bezer, Golan, and Ramoth-Gilead. When any of the Hebrews, or strangers that dwelt in their country, happened accidentally to kill a man, they might retire thither, to be out of the reach of the relations of the deceased, and to prepare for their defence and justification before the judges. The manslayer underwent two trials: first before the judges of the city of refuge to which he had fled; and secondly before the judges of his own city. If found guilty, he was put to death. If acquitted, he was not immediately set at liberty; but, to inspire a degree of horror against even involuntary homicide, he was reconducted to the place of refuge, and obliged to continue there in a sort of banishment till the death of the high priest. If, before this time, he ventured ont, the avenger of blood might freely kill him; but after the high priest's death he was at liberty to go where he pleased without molestation. The cities of refuge were to be well supplied with water and necessary provisions; to be of easy access; to have good roads leading to them, with commodious bridges where there was occasion. The width of the roads was to be thirty-two cubits or forty-eight feet at least. At all cross roads direction posts were erected, with an inscription pointing out the road to the cities of refuge. The 15th of Adar, which answers to our February, was appointed for the city magistrates to see that the roads were in good condition. No persons in any of these cities were allowed to make weapons, lest the relations of the deceased should be furnished with the means of gratifying their revenge. REFULGENT, adj. Latin refulgens. REFULGENTLY, adv.) Bright; shining; glittering: the adverb corresponding. He neither might, nor wished to know Waller. So conspicuous and refulgent a truth is that of God's being the author of man's felicity, that the dispute is not so much concerning the thing, as concerning the manner of it. Boyle. Agamemnon's train, When his refulgent arms flashed through the shady plain, Fled from his well-known face. Dryden's Æneis. REFUND', v. a. Lat. refundo. To pour or give back; repay; restore. A governor that had pillaged the people, was, for receiving of bribes, sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken. L'Estrange. Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the ob ject, and so it would not be represented as in itself it is. Ray. Such wise men as himself account all that is past to be also gone; and know that there can be no gain in refunding, nor any profit in paying debts. South. How to Icarius, in the bridal hour, Shall I, by waste undone, refund the dower? &r [n. s. so. Pope. REFUSE', v. a., adj., Fr. refuser; Ital. REFUSAL, n. s. recusare; Lat. recuREFU'SER. To deny that which is requested or demanded; reject; not to accept or comply: the adjective, which as well as the noun substantive has its accent on the first syllable, means refused; left when the rest is taken: the noun substantive, something so left: refusal is, the act of refusing; denial; preemption; option: refuser, he who refuses. Every thing vile and refuse they destroyed. Samuel. We dare not disgrace our worldly superiours with offering unto them such refuse, as we bring unto God himself. Hooker. I know not whether it be more shame or wonder, to see that men can so put off ingenuity, as to descend to so base a vice; yet we daily see it done, and that not only by the scum and refuse of the people. Government of the Tongue. Women are made as they themselves would choose; Too proud to ask, too humble to refuse. Garth. God has borne with all his weak and obstinate refusals of grace, and has given him time day after day. Rogers. When employments go a begging for want of hands, they shall be sure to have the refusal. Swift. REFUTE', v. a. ? Fr. refuter; Span. and REFUTATION, n. s. § Port. refutar ; Lat. refuto. To prove false or erroneous: the noun substantive corresponding. Milton. Self-des-ruction sought, refutes such multitudes. Addison. 'Tis such miserable absurd stuff, that we will not honour it with especial refutation. Bentley. REGAIN', v. a. Fr. regagnar; re and gain. To recover; gain anew. Hopeful to regain Thy love, from thee I will not hide What thoughts in my unquiet breast are risen. These heathen Saxons, and regained our earth, As earth recovers from an ebbing tide. Dryden. As soon as the mind regains the power to stop or continue any of these motions of the body or thoughts, we then consider the man as a free agent. Locke. REGAL, adj. & n. s. Į Fr. Span. and Ital. REGALITY, n. s. regal; Latin regalis. Royal; kingly: a kind of organ: regality is the noun substantive corresponding with regal as an adjective. Behold the image of mortality, nd feeble nature clothed with fleshy 'tire, When raging passion with fierce tyranny Robs reason of her due regality. Edward, duke of York, Spenser. Bacon. Usurps the regal title and the seat Of England's true anointed lawful heir. Shakspeare. The sounds that produce tones are ever from such bodies as are in their parts and ports equal; and such are in the nightingale pipes of regals or organs. He neither could nor would yield to any diminution of the crown of France, in territory or regality. Id. The majesty of England might hang like Mahomet's tomb by a magnetick charm, between the privileges of the two houses, in airy imagination of regality. King Charles. With them comes a third of regal port, With faded splendour wan, who by his gait And fierce demeanour seems the prince of hell. Milton. When was there ever a better prince on the throne than the present queen? I do not talk of her government, her love of the people, or qualities that are purely regal; but her piety, charity, temperance, and conjugal love. Swift. REGALE', v. a. 7 Fr. regaler; Ital. reREGALEMENT, n. s. galare. To refresh; entertain; the entertainment given. I with warming puff regaled chilled fingers. Philips. The muses still require Humid regalement, nor will aught avail Imploring Phœbus with unmoistened lips. Id. REGALIA is also used for the apparatus of a coronation; as the crown, the sceptre with the cross, that with the dove, St. Edward's staff, the globe, and the orb with the cross, &c. See CORO NATION. To es REGARD', v. a. & n. s.) Fr. regarder; Ital. tice; attend to; observe: account; relation; look; aspect: regardable is, observable; worthy of notice: regarder, he who attention: the adverb corresponding: regardless, pays attention or regard: regardful, observant; heedless; negligent; devoid of attention or care: the adverb and noun substantive corresponding. He that observeth the wind shall never sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall never reap. Proverbs. To him they had regard, because long he had bewitched them. Acts viii. 11. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. Romans xiv. 6. It is peninsula, which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. Mac Ferlagh was a man of meanest regard amongst them, neither having wealth nor power. Spenser. Id. He likeliest is to fall into mischance, That is regardless of his governance. Change was thought necessary, in regard of the great hurt which the church did receive by a number of things then in use. This aspect of mine, The best regarded virgins of our clime Have loved. Hooker. Shakspeare. Merchant of Venice. If much you note him, You offend him; feed, and regard him not. Shakspeare. Throw out our eyes for brave Othello, Even till we make the main and the aerial blue An indistinct regard. Id. Othello. Is this the Athenian minion, whom the world Voiced so regardfully? disposed any matter, but first he acquainted the Id. Timon of Athens. Bryan was so regardful of his charge, as he never general. Hayward. Tintoger, more famous for his antiquity than regardable for his present estate, abutteth on the sea. Carew. He denies To know their God, or message to regard. Milton. How best we may Compose our present evils, with regard Of what we are and where. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat, Second to thee, offered himself to die For man's offence. Id. Id. Paradise Lost. legs, although the regardable side be defined, and pious motion made by the spirit of God to his heart. South. The nature of the sentence he is to pronounce, the rule of judgment by which he will proceed, requires that a particular regard be had to our observation of this precept. Atterbury. kind, and persuade them to pursue and persevere in virtue, with regard to themselves; in justice and goodness with regard to their neighbours; and piety towards God. Their business is to address all the ranks of man Watts. things, besides the present subject of our meditation. We must learn to be deaf and regardless of other REGARDANT, in heraldry, observe signifies looking behind, and is religiously; as noun REGARD LESSNESS, n. s. a applied to beasts represented substantive, on coats of arms, as in the an attention; respect; nexed figure. Id. Through all the soil a genial ferment spreads, Regenerates the plants, and new adorns the meads. Blackmore. REGARDER, an ancient officer of the king's forest, sworn to make the regard of the forest every year; that is, to take a view of its limits, to enquire into all offences and defaults committed by the foresters within the forest, and to observe whether all the officers executed their respective duties. REGATA, or REGATTA, a kind of boat race, formerly annually held at Venice, when that city was the capital of an independent republic. The race was performed in gondolas by gondoliers. The competitors were chosen from the families of the first rank; and no competitors at the ancient Olympic Games were ever more anxious for success. The course was about four miles. The gondolas, after starting, passed through the great winding canal, which divides the city into two parts, turned round a picket, and returning the same way, seized the prize, which was fixed at the acutest angle of the great canal, where it was visible by the spectators on both sides. On such occasions both the gondolas and the gondoliers were decorated in the most elegant and superb manner. Regattas, in imitation of the Venetian, have been often given on the Thames, and are still continued. REGEN, a river in the interior of Germany, which rises on the southern frontier of Bohemia, unites with the Little Regen, and falls into the Danube, near Ratisbon. REGEN, CIRCLE OF THE, is a province of Bavaria, adjacent to Bohemia, having the circle of the Upper Maine on the north-west, and that of the Lower Danube on the south-west. It has an area of 3800 square miles. This province is hilly and woody, including part of the districts called the Fichtelberg and Bohemian forest; ye it has several plains of considerable extent. The sale of timber and working in wood are considerable occupations. The fields also abound in game, and have mines of iron. Ratisbon, in the south of the circle, is the seat of the provincial administration; and Amberg, in the north, that of the high court of justice. Inhabitants, of whom the great majority are Catholics, 358,000. REGENERATE, v. a. & adj. Į regeREGENERATION, N. S. nero. Re and generate. To reproduce; beget or create anew: as an adjective reproduced; born anew to the Christian life: regeneration corresponding. Lat An alkali, poured to that which is mixed with an acid, raiseth an effervescence, at the cessation of which, the salts, of which the acid is composed, will be regenerated. Arbuthnot. times by infirmity; nay, though you should fall into If you fulfil this resolution, though you fall somesome greater act, even of deliberate sin, which you are nevertheless in a regenerate estate, you live the presently retract by confession and amendment, you life of a Christian here, and shall inherit the reward that is promised to such in a glorious immortality hereafter. Wake. RE'GENT, adj. & n. s. Fr. regent; Lat. reREGENCY, n. s. gens. Governing; rulREGENTSHIP. Sing; governor or m ler: one exercising vicarious royalty: regency and regentship, his office or station. As Christ took manhood, that by it he might be capable of death, whereunto he humbled himself: so because manhood is the proper subject of compassion. and feeling pity, which maketh the sceptre of Christ's regency even in the kingdom of heaven amiable. Lord regent, I do greet your excellence With letters of commission from the king. Hooker. REGENT, one who governs a kingdom during the minority or absence of the king. In England the methods of appointing this guardian or regent have been so various, and the duration of his power so uncertain, that from hence it might almost be collected that his office is unknown to the common law; and therefore, according to Sir Edward Coke, the surest way is to have him appointed by authority of the great council in parliament. The earl of Pembroke, by his own authority, assumed the regency of Henry III., who was then only nine years old, but was declared of full age by the pope at seventeen, confirmed the great charter at eighteen, and took upon him the administration of the government at twenty. A guardian and councils of regency were named for Edward III. by the parliament which deposed his father; the young king being then fifteen, and not assuming the government till three years after. When Richard II. succeeded, at the age of eleven, the duke of Lan caster took upon him the management of the kingdom till the parliament met, which appointed a nominal council to assist him. Henry V. on his death bed named a regent and a guardian for his infant son Henry VI., then nine months old: but the parliament altered his disposition, and appointed a protector and council, with a special limited authority. Both these princes remained in a state of pupilage till the age of twenty-three. Edward V., at the age of thirteen, was recommended by his father to the care of the duke of Gloucester; who was declared protector by the privy council. The statutes 25 H. VIII. c. 12, and 28 H. VIII. c. 7, provided that the successor, if a male and under eighteen, or if a female and under sixteen, should be till such age in the governance of his or her natural mother (if approved by the king), and such other counsellors as his majesty should by will or otherwise appoint: and he accordingly appointed his sixteen executors to have the government of his son Edward VI., and the kingdom, which executors elected the earl of Hartford protector. And during the illness of George III. in the end of 1788, there were repeated debates in parliament, respecting a regency, the mode of settling it, and the most proper persons to fill it; but his majesty's recovery rendered it totally unnecessary. These debates were renewed in the end of 1810, and a limited regency for a year was committed to the prince of Wales, who, in consequence of the continued indisposition of his royal father, became regent with full power on the 18th of February 1812, till his father's death in 1820. REGENT also signifies a professor of arts and sciences in a college, having pupils under his care; but it is generally restrained to the lower classes, as to rhetoric, logic, &c.: those of philosophy being called professors. In the English universities it is applied to masters of arts under five years standing, and to doctors under two. REGERMINATION, n. s. Re and germination. The act of sprouting again. The streets delightful track on the Tessino. A murderer of his king; the murder of a king. for any to think they may venture upon perjury, sa- I through the mazes of the bloody field Dryden. Pope's Odyssey. Rome on the 24th of February in commemoraREGIFUGIUM was a feast celebrated at tion of the expulsion of Tarquin II., and the abolition of regal power. It was also performed on the 26th of May, when the Rex Sacrorum, king of the sacrifices, offered bean flour and bacon, in the place where the assemblies were hasted away with all speed, to denote the preciheld. The sacrifice being over, the people pitate flight of Tarquin. of Italy, in the country of the Sabines, famous REGILLÆ, or REGILLUM, an ancient town for a battle fought near it, A. U. C. 258, between 24,000 Romans and 40,000 Etrurians, headed by the Tarquins. The Romans obtained so complete a victory that hardly 10,000 of the Etrurians escaped.—Livy. REGILLUS, in ancient geography, a lake with the Anio, east of Rome. of Italy, in Latium, which had a communication Posthumius, the dictator, defeated the Latins near it.-Livy. REG'IMEN, n. s. Lat. regimen. Care in diet and living. REGGIO, Regium Julii, a large town in the south of Naples, and capital of Calabria Ultra, REGILLIANUS (Q. Nonius), a Dacian, who at the extremity of which it is situated, on the entered into the Roman army, and was promoted Faro di Messina, or strait which separates He was elected emperor by the people in oppoto the highest military honors under Valerian. Sicily from the main land. It stands on an emi-sition to Gallienus, but was soon after murdered nence, and its environs are delightful, abounding by the soldiers, A. D. 262. in the fruits of a tropical climate. It is the see of an archbishop, and several of the houses are constructed of the remains of ancient buildings. Its public edifices consist of a cathedral, eleven churches, seven convents, and two colleges. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the manufacture of silk, partly raised in the environs, and partly procured from the pinna marina: it is made into gloves, stockings, and other small articles of extreme fineness. Wine, oil, and fruit are likewise objects of export. Reggio was almost destroyed by the dreadful earthquake of February 1783. Population 16,500. Six miles south-east of Messina, in Sicily, and thirty-three 1orth by west of Nicotera. REGGIO, anciently Regium Lepide, a town in the north of Italy, the capital of a small duchy of the same name, belonging to Modena. It is surrounded with a rampart, and situated in a VOL. XVIII. Swift Yet should, some neighbour feel a pain, The corruption of our nature being presupposed, |