6. To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words
represent ideas or things.
7. To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to
present.
Among these. Fancy next
Her office holds; of all external things
Which he five watchful senses represent,
She
forms imaginations, aery shapes.
Milton. 8. (Metaph.) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something
which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative, 3.
The general capability of knowledge necessarily requires that, besides the power of evoking out of unconsciousness
one portion of our retained knowledge in preference to another, we posses the faculty of representing in
consciousness what is thus evoked . . . This representative Faculty is Imagination or Phantasy.
Sir. W.
Hamilton. Representable
(Rep`re*sent"a*ble) a. Capable of being represented.
Representance
(Rep`re*sent"ance) n. Representation; likeness. [Obs.] Donne.
Representant
(Rep`re*sent"ant) a. [Cf. F. reprsentant.] Appearing or acting for another; representing.
Representant
(Rep`re*sent"ant), n. [F. representant.] A representative. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.
Representation
(Rep`re*sen*ta"tion) n. [F. reprsentation, L. representatio.]
1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
2. That which represents. Specifically: (a) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of
the human face, or figure, and the like. (b) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a
representation of Hamlet. (c) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a
witness, or an advocate. (d) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as,
the representation of a State in Congress. (e) (Insurance Law) Any collateral statement of fact, made
orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.
3. The state of being represented.
Syn. — Description; show; delineaton; portraiture; likeness; resemblance; exhibition; sight.
Re-presentation
(Re-pres`en*ta"tion) n. [See Re-present.] The act of re- presenting, or the state of
being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.
Representationary
(Rep`re*sen*ta"tion*a*ry) a. Implying representation; representative. [R.]
Representative
(Rep`re*sent"a*tive) a. [Cf. F. reprsentatif.]
1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
2. Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of
the people. Swift.
3. Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative
government.
