Rejudge
(Re*judge") v. t. To judge again; to reëxamine; to review; to call to a new trial and decision.

Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace.
Pope.

Rejuvenate
(Re*ju"ve*nate) v. t. [Pref. re- re- + L. juventis young, youthful.] To render young again.

Rejuvenation
(Re*ju`ve*na"tion) n. Rejuvenescence.

Rejuvenescence
(Re*ju`ve*nes"cence) 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.

Rejuvenescency
(Re*ju`ve*nes"cen*cy) n. Rejuvenescence.

Rejuvenescent
(Re*ju`ve*nes"cent) a. Becoming, or causing to become, rejuvenated; rejuvenating.

Rejuvenize
(Re*ju`ve*nize) v. t. To rejuvenate.

Rekindle
(Re*kin"dle) v. t. & i. To kindle again.

Rekne
(Rek"ne) v. t. To reckon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Relade
(Re*lade") v. t. To lade or load again.

Relaid
(Re*laid") imp. & p. p. of Relay.

Relais
(||Re*lais") 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.

Reland
(Re*land") v. t. To land again; to put on land, as that which had been shipped or embarked.

Reland
(Re*land"), v. i. To go on shore after having embarked; to land again.

Relapse
(Re*lapse") 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.

Relapse
(Re*lapse"), n. [For sense 2 cf. F. relaps. See Relapse, v.]


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