Re*judge" (r?-j?j"), v. t. To judge again; to reëxamine; to review; to
call to a new trial and decision.
Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace.
Pope.
Re*ju"ve*nate (r?-j?"v?-n?t), v. t. [Pref. re- re- + L. juventis young,
youthful.] To render young again.
Re*ju`ve*na"tion (-n?"sh?n), n. Rejuvenescence.
Re*ju`ve*nes"cence (-n?s"sens), n. 1. A renewing of youth; the state of
being or growing young again.
2. (Bot.) A method of cell formation in which the entire protoplasm of
an old cell escapes by rupture of the cell wall, and then develops a
new cell wall. It is seen sometimes in the formation of zoöspores, etc.
Re*ju`ve*nes"cen*cy (-sen-s?), n. Rejuvenescence.
Re*ju`ve*nes"cent (-sent), a. Becoming, or causing to become,
rejuvenated; rejuvenating.
Re*ju`ve*nize (r?-j?"v?-n?z), v. t. To rejuvenate.
Re*kin"dle (r?-k?n"d'l), v. t. & i. To kindle again.
Rek"ne (r?k"ne), v. t. To reckon. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Re*lade" (r*ld"), v. t. To lade or load again.
Re*laid" (r*ld"), imp. & p. p. of Relay.
||Re*lais" (re*l"), n. [F. See Relay, n.] (Fort.) A narrow space
||between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving
||to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and
||prevent its falling into the ditch. Wilhelm.
Re*land" (r?-l?nd"), v. t. To land again; to put on land, as that which
had been shipped or embarked.
Re*land", v. i. To go on shore after having embarked; to land again.
Re*lapse" (r?-l?ps"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Relapsed (-l?pst"); p. pr. &
vb. n. Relapsing.] [L. relapsus, p. p. of relabi to slip back, to
relapse; pref. re- re- + labi to fall, slip, slide. See Lapse.] 1. To
slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back. [Obs.] Dryden.
2. To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back
from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a
state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a
stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as,
to relapse into slumber after being disturbed.
That task performed, [preachers] relapse into themselves.
Cowper.
3. (Theol.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or
unbelief; to backslide.
They enter into the justified state, and so continue all along,
unless they relapse.
Waterland.
Re*lapse", n. [For sense 2 cf. F. relaps. See Relapse, v.] 1. A sliding
or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or
morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.
Alas! from what high hope to what relapse Unlooked for are we
fallen!
Milton.
2. One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider;
specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.
[Obs.]
Re*laps"er (-l?ps"?r), n. One who relapses. Bp. Hall.
Re*laps"ing, a. Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to
a former worse state.
Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which
prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions.
It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and
muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral
bacterium (Spirochæte) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called
also famine fever, and recurring fever.
Re*late" (r?-l?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Related; p. pr. & vb. n.
Relating.] [F. relater to recount, LL. relatare, fr. L. relatus, used
as p. p. of referre. See Elate, and cf. Refer.] 1. To bring back; to
restore. [Obs.]
Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of
heaven and strength of men relate.
Spenser.