1. To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to
reject.
Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed appears.
Ayliffe.
Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other.
Macaulay. 2. To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.
Syn. — To condemn; reprehend; censure; disown; abandon; reject.
Reprobateness
(Rep"ro*bate*ness), n. The state of being reprobate.
Reprobater
(Rep"ro*ba`ter) n. One who reprobates.
Reprobation
(Rep`ro*ba"tion) 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.
Reprobationer
(Rep`ro*ba"tion*er) n. (Theol.) One who believes in reprobation. See Reprobation, 2.
South.
Reprobative
(Rep"ro*ba*tive) a. Of or pertaining to reprobation; expressing reprobation.
Reprobatory
(Rep"ro*ba`to*ry) a. Reprobative.
Reproduce
(Re`pro*duce") 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.
Reproducer
(Re`pro*du"cer) n. One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
Reproduction
(Re`pro*duc"tion) 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 In both cases the new individual is developed from detached portions of the parent organism.
In asexual reproduction the detached portions of the organism develop into new individuals without the
