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compound repetend is that in which two or more figures are re-peated. To find the value of any repetend, or to reduce it toa vulgar fraction.— Rule. Take the given repeating figure orfigures for the numerator, and f r the denominator, take as many9’s as there are recurring figures or places in the given repetend :

thus, 3 =

1

3 ’

and 123 =

123

yya

41

333 ‘

Repetition, in music, denotes a reiterating or playing overagain the same part of a composition, whether it he a whole strain,part of a strain, or double strain, Ac . When the song ends witha repetition of the strain, or part of it, the repetition is denoted byda capo, or D. C. i. e. from beginning.

Repetition, in rhetoric, a figure which gracefully and em-phatically repeats either the same word or the same sense in dif-ferent words. See Oratory.

REPLEGIARE, in law', signifies to redeem a thing taken ordetained by another, by putting in legal sureties. See Replevin ,and Replevy .

REPLETION, in medicine, a plenitude or plethora. SeePlethora.

Repletion, in the canon law, is where the revenue of a bene-fice or benefices is sufficient to fill or occupy the whole right ortitle of the graduate who holds them. Where there is a repletion,the party can demand no more by virtue of his degrees. In Eng-land, where benefices are not appropriated to degrees, repletion,strictly speaking, has no place.

REPLEVIN, in law, a remedy granted on a distress, by whichthe first possessor has his goods restored to him again, on his givingsecurity to the sheriff that he will pursue his action against theparty distraining, and return the goods or cattle if the taking themshall be adjudged lawful. In a replevin the person distrained be-comes plaintiff; and the person distraining is called the defendantor avowant, and his justification an avowry.

REPLEVY , in law, is a tenant’s bringing a writ of replevin, orreplegiari facias, where his goods are taken by distress for rent;which must be done within five days after the distress, otherwiseat the five days end they are to be appraised and sold. This wordis also used for bailing a person, as in the case of a homine replegi-ando.

REPLICATION, in logic, the assuming or using the sameterm twice in the same proposition.

Replication, in the courts of common law, signifies an excep-tion or answer made by the plaintiff to the defendant's plea; inthe court of chancery, it is what the complainant replies to the de-fendant’s answer.

REPORT, is the relation made upon oath, by officers or per-sons appointed to visit, examine, or estimate the state, expences,Ac. of any thing.

REPOSE, in painting, certain masses or large assemblages oflight and shade, which being well conducted, prevent the con-fusion of objects and figures, by engaging and fixing the eye sothat it cannot attend to the other parts of the painting for somebine ; and thus leading it to consider the several groups gradually,proceeding as it were from stage to stage.

Repose, in music. See Music.

Repose, in poetry, Ac . the same with rest and pause. SeeRest, &c.

Repository, a store-house, or place in which things arelaid up, and preserved. In this sense we say, the repository ofthe royal society.

REPRESENTATION, in the drama, is the exhibition of atheatrical piece, together with the scenes, machinery, Ac .

Representative, is one who supplies the place of

another, and is-invested with his right and authority. Thus thenouse of commons are the representatives of the people in parlia-)n T5c ^ ee f'° MM oN s > an( l Parliament .

REPRIEVE, in criminal law [from reprendre, Fr, i. e. to takeba ck,] is the withdrawing of a sentence for an interval of time ;" ,lle execl 'tion is suspended. See Judgement.

REPRISAL, or RECAP TION, is a species of remedy allowed0 ,n jured person. This happens when any one hath deprivedj”? . 1 ol , property in goods or chattels personal, or wrongfully.. talns ? ne s w 'f e > child, or servant; in which case the owner of

• goods, and the husband, parent,, or master, may lawfully claim

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and retake them, whenever he happens to find them ; so it benot in a riotous manner, or attended with a breach of thepeace.

Reprisals, are also a right which princes claim of taking fromtheir enemies any thing equivalent to what they unjustly detainfrom them or their subjects, by issuing letters of marque.

REPROBATION, in theology, is applied to that decree or re ■solve which God has taken trom all eternity to punish sinners whoshall die in impenitence. Sec Predestination.

REPRODUC I ION is usually understood to mean the res-toration of a thing before existing, and since destroved. It is wellknown that trees and plants may be raised from slips and cuttings;and some late observations have shewn, that there are some ani-mals which have the same property. The polype was the first in-stance we had of this. The water-insects are’ not the only crea-tures which have this power of recovering their lost parts. Thecommon earth-worms are of tins kind. Some of these wormshave been divided into two, others into three or four pieces;and some of these pieces, after having passed two or threemonths without any appearance of life or motion, have thenbegun to reproduce a head, or tail, or both. The reproduc-tion of several parts of lobsters, crabs, Ac . makes also one ofthe great curiosities in natural history. This has been decisivelyof lobsters, Ac. consist each of five articulations: when any of theproved by the experiments of Reaumur and Perrault. T he legs ;legs happen to break by any accident, as in walking, Ac. whichfrequently happens, the iracture is always found to he in a partnear the fourth articulation; and what they thus lose is completelyreproduced some time afterwards ; that is, a part of a le<* shootsout, consisting of lour articulations, the first whereof has two clawsas before ; so that the loss is entirely repaired. If a lobster’s legbe broken off by design at the fourth or fifth articulation, what isthus broken off always comes again; but not if the fracture bemade in the first, second, or third articulation. In those cases thereproduction is very rare if things continue as they are. But whatis exceedingly surprising is, that they do not; for, upon visitingthe lobster maimed in these barren and unhappy articulations, atthe end of two or three days, all the other articulations are foundbroken off to the fourth ; and it is suspected they have performedthe operation on themselves, to make the reproduction of a legcertain. The part reproduced is not only perfectly like that re.trenched, but also in a certain space of time, grows equal to it.Hence we frequently see lobsters, which have their two big legs'unequal, in all proportions. This shews the smaller leg to be anew one. A part thus reproduced being broken, there is a secondreproduction.

REPT ILES, in zoology, a kind of animals denominated from-their creeping or advancing on the belly. Or reptiles are a genusof animals and insects, which, 'instead of feet rest on one part ofthe body, while they advance forward with the rest. Such areearthworms, snakes, caterpillars, Ac. See Zoology .

Reptile is also used, by some botanical writers, to signifyplants which creep upon the earth, unless sustained by some otherplant, Drop, Ac. As cucumbers, melons, the vine, Ac .

REPT1L1A, an order of Amphibia, the character of which is,that they breathe through the mouth ; have feet, and flat nakedears, without auricles. T here are five genera of reptiles, viz. Tes-tudo, Lacerta, Draco, Rana, and Siren.

REPUBLIC , or commonwealth, a popular state or govern-ment ; or a nation where the people have the government in theirown hands. See Aristocracy, Government, Democracy ,and Monarchy .

REPUDIA TION, in the civil law. See Divorce.

REPULSE BAY, a name given to three bays: 1. on the coastiof Kerguelen’s Land. 2. in the N. Pacific Ocean , on the W.coast ot America. Lon. 85. 1. W. Lat. 66. 40. N. 3. in the S.Pacific Ocean, on the E. coast of New Holland. Lon. 14s 33E. Lat. 20. 36. S.

REPULSION, in physics, that property in bodies, by which,if they are placed just beyond the sphere of each other’s attrac-tion of cohesion, they mutually fly front each other. See Elec-tricity, Magnetism, and Physics.

REQUEST’, in law, is a petition preferred to a prince, or to acourt of justice; begging relief in some conscionable cases wherethe common law grants no immediate redress.

Requests,