Syn. — To crush; overpower; subdue; suppress; restrain; quell; curb; check.
Repress
(Re*press"), n. The act of repressing. [Obs.]
Represser
(Re*press"er) n. One who, or that which, represses.
Repressible
(Re*press"i*ble) a. Capable of being repressed.
Repression
(Re*pres"sion) n. [Cf. F. répression.]
1. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.
2. That which represses; check; restraint.
Repressive
(Re*press"ive) a. [Cf. F. répressif. LL. repressivus.] Having power, or tending, to repress; as,
repressive acts or measures. — Re*press"ive*ly, adv.
Reprevable
(Re*prev"a*ble) a. Reprovable. [Obs.]
Repreve
(Re*preve") v. t. [See Reprieve, v. t.] To reprove. [Obs.] "Repreve him of his vice." Chaucer.
Repreve
(Re*preve"), n. Reproof. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Repriefe
(Re*priefe") n. Repreve. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Reprieval
(Re*priev"al) n. Reprieve. Overbury.
Reprieve
(Re*prieve) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprieved (-pr?vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reprieving.] [OE. repreven
to reject, disallow, OF. reprover to blame, reproach, condemn F. réprouver to disapprove, fr. L. reprobare
to reject, condemn; pref. re- re- + probare to try, prove. See Prove, and cf. Reprove, Reprobate.]
1. To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as,
to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.
He reprieves the sinnner from time to time.
Rogers. 2. To relieve for a time, or temporarily.
Company, thought it may reprieve a man from his melaneholy yet can not secure him from his conscience.
South.
Reprieve
(Re*prieve") n.
1. A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death.
The morning Sir John Hotham was to die, a reprieve was sent to suspend the execution for three days.
Clarendon. 2. Interval of ease or relief; respite.
All that I ask is but a short reprieve,
ll I forget to love, and learn to grieve.
Denham.
