repri

n. Reprieve. Overbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reprieved p. pr. & vb. n. Reprieving. ] [ OE. repreven to reject, disallow, OF. reprover to blame, reproach, condemn (pres. il reprueve), F. réprouver to disapprove, fr. L. reprobare to reject, condemn; pref. re- re- + probare to try, prove. See Prove, and cf. Reprove, Reprobate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days. [ 1913 Webster ]

He reprieves the sinnner from time to time. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To relieve for a time, or temporarily. [ 1913 Webster ]

Company, thought it may reprieve a man from his melaneholy yet can not secure him from his conscience. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death. [ 1913 Webster ]

The morning Sir John Hotham was to die, a reprieve was sent to suspend the execution for three days. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Interval of ease or relief; respite. [ 1913 Webster ]

All that I ask is but a short reprieve,
ll I forget to love, and learn to grieve. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. réprimande, fr. L. reprimendus, reprimenda, that is to be checked or suppressed, fr. reprimere to check, repress; pref. re- re + premere to press. See Press, and cf. Repress. ] Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. [ 1913 Webster ]

Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reprimanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Reprimanding. ] [ Cf. F. réprimander. See Reprimand, n. ] 1. To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally. [ 1913 Webster ]

Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius for traveling into Egypt without his permission. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To reprove; reprehend; chide; rebuke; censure; blame. See Reprove. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who reprimands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Firearms) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To print again; to print a second or a new edition of. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To renew the impression of. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whole business of our redemption is . . . to reprint God's image upon the soul. South. [ 1913 Webster ]