RESPEAK', v. n.

swer.

Re and speak. To an

The great cannon to the clouds shall tell, And the king's rowse the heaven shall bruit again, Respeaking earthly thunder. Shakspeare. Hamlet. French respecter; Lat. respectus. To regard; have relation to; look to ward; regard with esteem or reverence: as a noun

RESPECT, v. a. & n. s.) RESPECTABLE, adj. RESPECTER, n. s. RESPECTFUL, adj. RESPECT FULLY, adv. RESPECT FULNESS, n. s. RESPECTIVE, adj. RESPECTIVELY, adv. substantive, attention; regard; honor; consideration; relation; venerated character: respectable, venerable : respecter, one who has partial respect or regard : respectful, attentive; ceremonious; manifesting a degree of reverence: the adverb and noun substantive corresponding: respective, particular; relative; worthy of reverence; careful (the last two senses obsolete): and the adverb corresponding.

The Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering. Genesis.

Bacon.

Id.

You must use them with fit respects, according to the bonds of nature; but you are of kin to their persons, not errors. The impressions from the objects of the senses do mingle respectively every one with his kind. Bacon's Natural History.

The blest gods do not love Ungodly actions; but respect the right, And in the works of pious men delight. Chapman.

The duke's carriage was to the gentlemen of fair respect, and bountiful to the soldier, according to any special value which he spied in any. Wotton's Buckingham. There have been always monsters amongst them, in Wilkins. respect of their bodies.

Palladius adviseth, the front of his house should so respect the South, that in the first angle it receive the rising rays of the winter sun, and decline a little from the winter setting thereof.

Browne.

I have represented to you the excellency of the Christian religion, in respect of its clear discoveries of the nature of God, and in respect of the perfection of its laws. Tillotson. In judgment-seats, not men's qualities, but causes only ought to be respected. Kettleworth,

To your glad genius sacrifice this day, Let common meats respectfully give way. Dryden. Æneas must be drawn a suppliant to Dido, with respect in his gestures, and humility in his eyes. Id. Dufresnoy. He that will have his son have a respect for him, must have a great reverence for his son. Locke.

Whoever tastes, let him with grateful heart Respect that ancient loyal house.

Philips.

The medium intended is not an absolute, but a respective medium; the proportion recommended to all is the same but the things to be desired in this proportion will vary. Rogers. I always loved and respected Sir William. Swift. Neither is any condition more honourable in the sight of God than another; otherwise he would be a respecter of persons; for he hath proposed the same salvation to all.

Id.

RESPIRE', v. n. Fr. respirer; Lat. respiro. To breathe; catch breath: hence to pause;

rest.

Till breathless both themselves aside retire, Where foaming wrath, their cruel tusks they whet, And trample the' earth the whiles they may respire. Spenser

Apollonius of Tyana affirmed that the ebbing and flowing of the sea was the respiration of the world, drawing in water as breath, and putting it forth again. Bacon.

Syrups or other expectoratives do not advantage in coughs, by slipping down between the epiglottis ; for, as I instanced before, that must necessarily occasion a greater cough and difficulty of respiration. Harvey on Consumptions.

I, a prisoner chained, scarce freely draw The air imprisoned also, close and damp, Unwholesome draught; but here I feel amends, The breath of heaven fresh blowing, pure, and sweet, With day-spring born; here leave me to respire.

Till the day

Appear of respiration to the just, And vengeance to the wicked.

Milton.

Id.

The ladies gasped, and scarcely could respire; The breath they drew no longer air but fire. Dryden. The author of nature foreknew the necessity of rains and dews to the present structure of plants, and the uses of respiration to animals; and therefore created those correspondent properties in the atmosphere. Bentley's Sermons.

Hark! he strikes the golden lyre; And see! the tortured ghosts respire, See shady forms advance.

Pope's St. Cecilia. RESPIRATION. See ANATOMY and PHYSIOLOGY. Though the muscles of respiration, having a mixed motion, are in some measure dependent on the will, yet no human being, after having once respired, can live many moments without it. In an attempt to hold one's breath, the blood soon begins to distend the veins, which cannot empty their contents into the heart, and we are able only during a very little time to resist the stimulus to inspiration. In drowning, the circulation seems to be stopped upon this principle; and, in hanging, the pressure made on the jugular veins co-operates with the stoppage of respiration in bringing on death Amphibious animals respire by means of lungs: but they can suspend their motion even whilst they are in the air; as has been observed with regard to frogs, which stop their respiration at pleasure. See PHYSIOLOGY.

RESPITE, n. s. & v. a. Fr. respit. Reprieve; suspension of a capital sentence; pause: to suspend; delay; relieve by delay.

The fox then counselled the' ape for to require Respite till morrow to answer his desire. Spenser.

This customary war, which troubleth all the world, giveth little respite or breathing time of peace, doth usually borrow pretence from the necessity, to make itself appear more honest. Raleigh.

Some pause and respite only I require, Till with my tears I shall have quenched my fire. Denham.

An act passed for the satisfaction of the officers of the king's army, by which they were promised payment in November following; till which time they were to respite it, and be contented that the common soldiers and inferior officers should be satisfied upon their disbanding. Clarendon.

I had a hope to spend
Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day,
That must be mortal to us both.

In what bower or shade

Milton.

Though find'st him, from the heat of noon retired,
To respite his day-labour with repast,
Or with repose.
Id. Paradise Lost.

Wisdom and eloquence in vain would plead One moment's respite for the learned head; Judges of writings and of men have died. RESPLEN'DENT, adj. RESPLEN'DENTLY, adv. RESPLEN'DENCY, n. s. substantive corresponding.

Prior.

Latin resplendens. Bright; shining: lustrous: the nour.

There all within full rich arrayed he found, With royal arras and resplendent gold. Spenser. The ancient electrum had in it a fifth of silver to the gold, and made a compound metal, as fit for most uses as gold, and more resplendent. Bacon. Rich in commodities, beautiful in situation, res plendent in all glory. Camden's Remains.

Son! thou in whom my glory I behold In full resplendence, heir of all my might. Milton. Empress of this fair world, resplendent Eve! Id. To neglect that supreme resplendency that shines in God, for those dim representations of it in the creature, is as absurd as it were for a Persian to offer his sacrifice to a parhelion instead of adoring. Boyle.

Every body looks most splendid and luminous in the light of its own colour; cinnaber in the homogeneal light is most resplendent, in the green light it is manifestly less resplendent, in the blue light still less. Newton's Opticks.

Resplendent brass and more resplendent dames.

Pope.

RESPONSIVE, adj. RESPON SORY.

gally answers in a recitation dispute or suit: response, the

countable; capable of giving answer or satisfacanswer made responsible is, answerable; action; pecuniarily competent: the noun-substantive corresponding: responsion, the act of answering (not used): responsive, making answer; corresponding responsory, containing answer.

The oracles, which had before flourished, began to droop, and, from giving responses in verse, descended to prose, and within a while were utterly silenced. Hammond.

Heathens, who have certainly the talent of natural knowledge, are responsible for it.

Id.

How becomingly does Philopolis exercise his office, and seasonably commit the opponent with the respondent, like a long practised moderator? More.

The necessity of a proportion of money to trade depends on money as a pledge, which writing cannot supply the place of; since the bill I receive from one man will not be accepted as security by another, he not knowing that the bill is legal, or that the man bound is honest or responsible. Locke.

In giving an answer, the respondent should be in court, and personally admonished by the judge to answer the judge's interrogation.

Ayliffe's Parergon. A certificate is a responsive letter, or letter by way of answer. Id. Mere natural piety has taught men to receive the responses of the gods with all possible veneration. Government of the Tongue. He as much satisfies the itch of telling news; he as much persuades his hearers; and all this while he has his retreat secure, and stands not responsible for the truth of his relations. Id.

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REST, n. s., adj., v. a., &- Sax. pert; Dan. REST'FUL, adj. rast; Belg. rust. RESTLESS, adj. Quiet; stillness; RESTLESSLY, adv. repose; sleep; cessation from toil; that on which any thing rests; remainder; place of repose; hope: as an adjective, others; those not previously included: as a verb neuter, to be quiet, or in slumber; be acquiescent; lean; sleep; be asleep; cease from labor; die; be left or remain: as a verb active, to lay to rest; place as a support: the adjectives and adverb following correspond with the

common senses of rest.

Six days shalt thou do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest. Exodus xxiii. 12. out a resting place Numbers x. 33. Job ili. 17.

The ark went before to search for them.

Proverbs.

There the weary be at rest. He will not rest content, though thou givest many gifts. Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest unto your souls. Matthew. Is not my arm of length,

That reacheth from the restful English court, As far as Calais to my uncle's head? Shakspeare. Putrefaction asketh rest; for the subtle motion, which putrefaction requireth, is disturbed by any agitation. Bacon.

A man may think, that a musket may be shot off as well upon the arm, as upon a rest; but when all is done, good counsel setteth business straight. Id.

There resteth the comparative; that is, its being granted, that it is either lawful or binding, yet whether other things be not preferred before it, as extirpation of heresies. Id.

Forth pricked Clorinda from the throng, And 'gainst Tancredie set her spear in rest.

Fairfax.

Where can a frail man hide him? in what arms Fanshaw. Shall a short life enjoy a little rest? When you enter into the regions of death, you rest from all your labours and your fears. Taylor. Could we not wake from that lethargick dream, But to be restless in a worse extreme? Denham. This answer would render their counsels of less reverence to the people, if upon those reasons, they should recede from what they had, with that confidence and disdain of the house of peers, demanded of the king; they therefore resolved to set up their rest upon that stake, and to go through it, or perish in the atClarendon. tempt. What cause moved the Creator, in his holy rest, So late to build? Milton.

Sustained by him with comforts, till we end
In dust, our final rest and native home.
All things retired to rest.
Mind us of like repose,

Over the tent a cloud shall rest by day.
From work

Id.

Id.

id.

The trembling restlessness of the needle, in any but the north point of the compass, manifests its inclination to the pole; which its wavering and its rest Boyle. bear equal witness to.

As the vexed world, to find repose, at last,
Itself into Augustus' arms did cast;
So England now doth, with like toil opprest,
Her weary head upon your bosom rest.

Waller.

Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the present comfort of having done our duty; and, for the rest, it offers us the best security that heaven can give. Tillotson.

Plato, and the rest of the philosophers, acknowledged the unity, power, wisdom, goodness, and providence of the supreme God. Stilling fleet.

Oft with holy hymns he charmed their ears;
For David left him, when he went to rest,
His lyre.

Dryden's Parson,
With what a load of vengeance am I prest,
Yet never, never, can I hope for rest;
For when my heavy burden I remove,
The weight falls down, and crushes her I love.

Dryden.

Armed like the rest, the Trojan prince appears, And by his pious labour urges theirs. Dryden. There yet survives the lawful heis Of Sancho's blood, whom, when I shall produce, I rest assured to see you pale with fear. On him I rested,

ld.

Id.

Jd.

And, not without consid'ring; fixed my fate. He's proud, fantastic, apt to change, Restless at home, and ever prone to range. Every creature has a share in the common blessings of providence; and every creature should rest well satisfied with its proportion in them.

L'Estrange.

All things past are equally and perfectly at rest; and to this way of consideration of them are al

We find our souls disordered and restless, tossed and disquieted by passions, ever seeking happiness in the enjoyments of this world, and ever missing what Atterbury.

they seek.

The protestants, having well studied the fathers, were now willing to rest their cause, not upon scripture only, but fathers too; so far at least as the three first centuries. Waterland.

My tost limbs are wearied into rest.
I sought my bed, in hopes relief to find,
But restlessness was mistress of my mind.
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown.
But hawks will rob the tender joys
That bless the lintwhite's nest;
And frost will blight the fairest flowers,

Pope.

Harte.

Gray.

And love will break the soundest rest. Burns. REST, in military affairs, an instrument in the snape of a fork, formerly used to support the old heavy musket, when the men were ordered to present and fire. Sometimes these rests were armed with a weapon called a swine's feather, which was a sort of sword blade that issued from the staff of the rest, at the head; this being placed before the musketeers when loading, served, like the stakes placed before the archers and the lancers, to keep off the cavalry. Rests were of different lengths, according to the heights of the men who were to use them; and, when the musket was shouldered on the march, were carried in the right hand, or hung upon it, by means of a loop.

RESTAG'NATE, v. n. Į Re and stagnate. RESTAG'NANT, adj. To stand without flow remaining without flow or motion. Upon the tops of high mountains, the air, which bears against the restagnant quicksilver, is less pressed by the less ponderous incumbent air.

Boyle. The blood returns thick, and is apt to restagnute. Wiseman.

RESTAURATION, n. s. Lat. restauro. The act of recovering to the former state. Adam is in us an original cause of our nature, VOL. XVIII.

That it gave occasion to some men's further restiveness is imputable to their own depraved tempers. King Charles.

Palsies oftenest happen upon the left side; the most vigorous part protecting itself, and protruding the matter upon the weaker and restive side. Browne's Vulgar Errours. All, who before him did ascend the throne, Laboured to draw three restive nations on.

Roscommon.

Some, with studious care,
Their restiff steeds in sandy plains prepare.

Dryden. under any pretence whatsoever. This restiff stubbornness is never to be excused L'Estrange. Have not other hands been tried and found resty? but we stick at nothing. Davenant.

Men of discretion, whom people in power may with little ceremony load as heavy as they please, find them neither resty nor vicious. Swift.

like Pyrrhus on his elephant; and the way to have Every great genius seems to ride upon mankind, the absolute ascendant of your resty nag, and to keep your seat, is, at your first mounting, to afford him the whip and spurs plentifully; after which you may travel the rest of the day with great alacrity. Once kick the world, and the world and you live together at a reasonable good understanding.

Id.

RESTIO, in botany, a genus of the triandria order, and diœcia class of plants: MALE CAL. an ovate spike of membranaceous scales: COR. proper, hexapetalous, and persistent: FEMALE CAL. and COR. as in the male; the germ roundish, and sex-fulcated; styles, three erect and persistent: CAPS. roundish, with six plaits, and is rostrated and trilocular: SEEDS oblong and cylindrical. Twenty-eight species, all natives of the Cape, several resembling rushes, and used in making ropes, &c.

RESTITUTION, n. s. Lat. restitutio. The act of restoring what is lost or taken away; or of restoring a former state.

Sandys.

He restitution to the value makes; Nor joy in his extorted treasure takes. To subdue an usurper should be no unjust enterprise or wrongful war, but a restitution of ancient rights unto the crown of England, from whence they were most unjustly expelled and long kept out. Spenser on Ireland.

He would pawn his fortunes To hopeless restitution, so he might Be called your vanquisher. Shakspeare. Coriolanus. Whosoever is an effective real cause of doing a neighbour wrong, by what instrument soever he does it, is bound to make restitution. Taylor.

In case our offence against God hath been complicated with injury to men, it is but reasonable we should make restitution. Tillotson.

In the woody parts of plants, which are their bones, the principles are so compounded as to make them flexible without joints, and also elastick; that so their roots may yield to stones, and their trunks to the wind, with a power of restitution. Grew.

A great man, who has never been known willingly to pay a just debt, ought not all of a sudden to be introduced, making restitution of thousands he has cheated: let it suffice to pay twenty pounds to a

friend who has lost his note.

Arbuthnot.

RESTITUTED MEDALS, or COINS, is a term used by antiquaries for such coins and medals as were struck by the emperors, to retrieve the memory of their predecessors. Hence, in several medals, we find the letters REST. This practice was first begun by Claudius, by his striking afresh several medals of Augustus. Nero did the same; and Titus struck restitutions of most of his predecessors. Gallienus struck a general restitution of all the preceding emperors on two medals; the one bearing an altar, the other an eagle, without the rest.

RESTITUTOR, in numismatology, was a title very frequently applied to the emperors on coins, by the people to whom they restored any privileges, or on whom they conferred any political favors. In such cases, the emperor is commonly represented in the act of lifting up a figure symbolical of the country that has received the benefit, as in the annexed figure, where the female with the ears of corn in her hand is symbolical of Africa, who is raised up by the emperor Adrian." RESTORE, v. a. Fr. restaurer; RESTO'RABLE, Ital. restorare; RESTORATION, n. s. Lat. restauro. To RESTORATIVE, n. s. & adj.) give or bring back what has been lost or taken away; retrieve; cure the derivatives corresponding.

Restore the man his wife. Genesis xx. 7. He shall restore in the principal, and add the fifth part more. Leviticus vi. 5.

I will kiss thy lips; Haply some poison yet doth hang upon them, To make me die with a restorative. Shakspeare. These artificial experiments are but so many essays, whereby men attempt to restore themselves from the first general curse inflicted upon their Wilkins's Mathematical Magick.

labours.

She lands him on his native shores, And to his father's longing arms restores. Dryden. I foretel you, as the restorer of poetry. Id. Asses' milk is an excellent restorative in consumptions. Mortimer.

God saw it necessary by such mortifications to quench the boundless rage of an insatiable intemperance, to make the weakness of the flesh the physick and restorative of the spirit.

South's Sermons.

difficulties may be overcome by labour, and our forIn his Odyssey, Homer explains, that the hardest

tune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. The change is great in this restoration of the man, from a state of spiritual darkness to a capacity of perceiving divine truth. Rogers.

He prescribes an English gallon of asses' milk, especially as a restorative. Arbuthnot. Garth, faster than a plague destroys, restores. Granville. By cutting turf without any regularity great quantities of restorable land are made utterly desperate.

Swift.

that was able to recover their losses, repent of their The Athenians, now deprived of the only person rashness, and endeavour in vain for his restoration.

Id.

RESTORATION, a small island in the South Pacific, on the east coast of New Holland, discovered by captain Bligh in 1789. It is about a league in circuit; the trees are small, and the soil scanty. Oysters are plentiful, and it abounds in water.

RESTORATION COVE, a bay visited by Vancouver, on the north-west coast of North America, in Burke's Canal, not far from Fitzhugh's Sound. It was discovered on the 29th May, 1792, the anniversary of the Restoration. The breadth at the entrance, in a north and south direction, is about a mile and a quarter, and its depth from the centre of the entrance, in a north-east direction, three-quarters of a mile. The soundings, though deep, are regular, from sixty fathoms at the entrance, to five and ten fathoms close to the shore. The land on the opposite side of the arm is about two miles and a half distant. Skins were here offered for sale of the animal whence the wool is procured of which the garments made by the inhabitants of North-west America are formed. They appeared too long to belong to any animal of the canine race; and were, exclusively of the head or tail, fifty inches long, and thirty-six inches broad, exclusively of the legs. The wool seemed to be afforded princi