Syn. -- To condemn; reprehend; censure; disown; abandon; reject.
Rep"ro*bate*ness, n. The state of being reprobate.
Rep"ro*ba`ter (-b?`t?r), n. One who reprobates.
Rep`ro*ba"tion (-b?`sh?n), n. [F. réprobation, or L. reprobatio.] 1.
The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong
disapproval or censure.
The profligate pretenses upon which he was perpetually soliciting
an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming
reprobation.
Jeffrey.
Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin.
Dryden.
2. (Theol.) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as
reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment.
Rep`ro*ba"tion*er (-?r), n. (Theol.) One who believes in reprobation.
See Reprobation, 2. South.
Rep"ro*ba*tive (-b?-t?v), a. Of or pertaining to reprobation;
expressing reprobation.
Rep"ro*ba`to*ry (-b?`t?-r?), a. Reprobative.
Re`pro*duce" (r?`pr?-d?s"), v. t. To produce again. Especially: (a) To
bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges;
to reproduce a play. (b) To cause to exist again.
Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with
those their colors are mixed again they reproduce the same white
light as before.
Sir I. Newton.
(c) To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence
of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to
generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals
are reproduced by gemmation. (d) To make an image or other
representation of; to portray; to cause to exist in the memory or
imagination; to make a copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in
marble, or on canvas; to reproduce a design.
Re`pro*du"cer (-d?"s?r), n. One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
Re`pro*duc"tion (-d?k"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. reproduction.] 1. The act or
process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced; specifically
(Biol.), the process by which plants and animals give rise to
offspring.
There are two distinct methods of reproduction; viz.: asexual
reproduction (agamogenesis) and sexual reproduction (gamogenesis). In
both cases the new individual is developed from detached portions of
the parent organism. In asexual reproduction (gemmation, fission,
etc.), the detached portions of the organism develop into new
individuals without the intervention of other living matter. In sexual
reproduction, the detached portion, which is always a single cell,
called the female germ cell, is acted upon by another portion of living
matter, the male germ cell, usually from another organism, and in the
fusion of the two (impregnation) a new cell is formed, from the
development of which arises a new individual.