{ } n. [ L. crepusculum, fr. creper dusky, dark: cf. F. crépuscule. ] Twilight. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Crepuscular. [ Obs. ] Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. crépusculaire. ] 1. Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous. [ 1913 Webster ]

This semihistorical and crepuscular period. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being disreputable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why should you think that conduct disreputable in priests which you probably consider as laudable in yourself? Bp. Watson.

Syn. -- Dishonorable; discreditable; low; mean; disgraceful; shameful. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a disreputable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Loss or want of reputation or good name; dishonor; disrepute; disesteem. “A disreputation of piety.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit. [ 1913 Webster ]

At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute. Sir W. Scott.

Syn. -- Disesteem; discredit; dishonor; disgrace. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

More inclined to love them than to disrepute them. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Idio- + repulsive. ] Repulsive by itself; as, the idiorepulsive power of heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Bad reputation; notoriety. [ PJC ]

house of ill repute A brothel; bordello. [ PJC ]

a. Disreputable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. Former name of the Republic of Madagascar, a nation in Africa occupying the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean east of Mozambique. [ PJC ]

v. t. To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the pubis; pertaining to the prepubis. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Pre-, and Pubis. ] (Anat.) A bone or cartilage, of some animals, situated in the middle line in front of the pubic bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. prépuce, L. praeputium. ] (Anat.) The foreskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prepuce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. république, L. respublica commonwealth; res a thing, an affair + publicus, publica, public. See Real, a., and Public. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Common weal. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In some ancient states called republics the sovereign power was exercised by an hereditary aristocracy or a privileged few, constituting a government now distinctively called an aristocracy. In some there was a division of authority between an aristocracy and the whole body of the people except slaves. No existing republic recognizes an exclusive privilege of any class to govern, or tolerates the institution of slavery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Republic of letters, The collective body of literary or learned men. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. républicain. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a republic. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

Republican party. (U.S. Politics) (a) An earlier name of the Democratic party when it was opposed to the Federal party. Thomas Jefferson was its great leader. (b) One of the existing great parties. It was organized in 1856 by a combination of voters from other parties for the purpose of opposing the extension of slavery, and in 1860 it elected Abraham Lincoln president. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who favors or prefers a republican form of government. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (U.S.Politics) A member of the Republican party. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together. (b) A South African weaver bird (Philetaerus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw. [ 1913 Webster ]

Red republican. See under Red. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. républicanisme. ] 1. A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The principles and policy of the Republican party, so called [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Republicanized p. pr. & vb. n. Republicanizing ] [ Cf. F. républicaniser. ] To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. LL. republicare. ] To make public again; to republish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A second publication, or a new publication of something before published, as of a former will, of a volume already published, or the like; specifically, the publication in one country of a work first issued in another; a reprint. [ 1913 Webster ]

If there be many testaments, the last overthrows all the former; but the republication of a former will revokes one of a later date, and establishes the first. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Republished p. pr. & vb. n. Republishing. ] To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive (a will) by re&unr_;xecution or codicil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Subsecquent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republished his will. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who republishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See repudiate. ] Admitting of repudiation; fit or proper to be put away. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Repudiated p. pr. & vb. n. Repudiating. ] [ L. repudiatus, p. p. of repudiare to repudiate, reject, fr. repudium separation, divorce; pref. re- re- + pudere to be ashamed. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject. [ 1913 Webster ]

Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. Prynne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry. [ 1913 Webster ]

His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward. Bolingbroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf.F. répudiation, L. repudiatio. ] The act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated; as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a rejecter, contemner. ] One who repudiates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. répugner, L. repugnare, repugnatum; pref. re- + pugnare to fight. See Pugnacious. ] To fight against; to oppose; to resist. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Stubbornly he did repugn the truth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being repugned or resisted. [ R. ] Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. répugnance, L. repugnantia. ] The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which causes us to lose most of our time is the repugnance which we naturally have to labor. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the foes quietly cut their throats,
Without repugnancy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Aversion; reluctance; unwillingness; dislike; antipathy; hatred; hostility; irreconcilableness; contrariety; inconsistency. See Dislike. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. répugnant, or L. repugnans, -antis, p. pr. of repugnare. See Repugn. ] Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ His sword ] repugnant to command. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no breach of a divine law but is more or less repugnant unto the will of the Lawgiver, God himself. Perkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Opposite; opposed; adverse; contrary; inconsistent; irreconcilable; hostile; inimical. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a repugnant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ From L. repugnare. See Repugn. ] To oppose; to fight against. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who repugns. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. repullulare, repullulatum. See Pullulate. ] To bud again. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of budding again; the state of having budded again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Repulsed p. pr. & vb. n. Repulsing. ] [ L. repulsus, p. p. of repellere. See Repel. ] 1. To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Complete to have discovered and repulsed
Whatever wiles of foe or seeming friend. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. repulsa, fr. repellere, repulsum. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back. [ 1913 Webster ]

By fate repelled, and with repulses tired. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

He received in the repulse of Tarquin seven hurts in the body. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Figuratively: Refusal; denial; rejection; failure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not capable of being repulsed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who repulses, or drives back. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. repulsio: cf. F. répulsion. ] 1. The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A feeling of violent offence or disgust; repugnance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physics) The power, either inherent or due to some physical action, by which bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede from each other, or to resist each other's nearer approach; as, molecular repulsion; electrical repulsion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. répulsif. ] 1. Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force. [ 1913 Webster ]

Repulsive of his might the weapon stood. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*pul"sive*ly, adv. -- Re*pul"sive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. repulsorius. ] Repulsive; driving back. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of repurchasing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To buy back or again; to regain by purchase. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]