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epartimiento 268
repartimiento [Sp], distribution; partition; also, an allotment or assessment;
in early Spanish America, a grant of land with the people on
it, made by the conquerors to their adherents, with right of peonage.
repas maigre [Fr], a meatless meal. See MAIGRE.
repertorium [L; pi. répertoria], a catalogue.
repetatur [L], let it be repeated: abbr. repet.
Repetent [Ger; pi. Repetenten], a tutor; coach: Ger. univ. cant.
replicato [It], repeated; doubled: music.
répondez, s'il vous plaît [Fr], answer, please: abbr. R.S.V.R Cf. UM
ANTWORT WIRD GEBETEN.
répondre en Normand [Fr], to reply like a Norman; give an evasive
answer.
repos! [Fr], at ease! stand easy!: mil.
repoussage [Fr], the art or process of hammering out metal on the
reverse side, as in repoussé work.
repoussé [Fr], formed in relief: said of ornamental metal work hammered
on the reverse side.
représaille [Fr], reprisal; retaliation.
reprise [Fr], repetition; continuation.
République Française [Fr], the French Republic: abbr. R.F.
requiescat in pace [L; pi. requiescant], may he (or she) rest in peace:
abbr. R.I.P.
requiescit in pace [L], he (or she) rests in peace.
rerum primordia [L], the first beginnings (or elements) of things.
res [L; pi. res], a thing; matter; affair; point; a cause or action. —res
adiudicata or res iudicata, a thing or matter already settled; a decided
case: law. —res alienae, things belonging to others. —res angusta
domi, straitened circumstances at home: Juvenal. —res corporales,
corporeal (or tangible) things: law. —res est ingeniosa dare, giving
requires good sense: Ovid. —res est sacra miser, a person in distress
is a sacred object. —res est solliciti plena timoris amor, love is full
of anxious fears: Ovid. —res gestae, things done; deeds; transactions;
exploits; law, the material facts; attendant circumstances. —res in
cardine est, lit., the matter is on the hinge; the affair is hanging in
the balance. —res incorporales, things incorporeal (or intangible):
law. —res ipsa loquitur, the thing speaks for itself. —res iudicata, a
decided case: law. See RES ADIUDICATA. —res iudicata pro veritate
accipitur, a case decided is considered as just: law. —res mobiles,
movable things: law. —res nihili (or nullius), a thing of naught;
nonentity. —res rustica, a country matter.
resa [Sw], journey; travel; voyage.
réseau [Fr; pi. réseaux], network; netlike pattern; lace making, finemeshed
ground or foundation; ostrón., network of small squares used
to facilitate measurements in stellar photography; optics, diffraction
grating.