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Rigorism
(Rig"or*ism) n.
1. Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; — opposed to laxity.
2. Severity, as of style, or the like. Jefferson.
Rigorist
(Rig"or*ist), n. [Cf. F. rigoriste.] One who is rigorous; — sometimes applied to an extreme
Jansenist.
Rigorous
(Rig"or*ous) a. [F. rigoureux, LL. rigorosus. See Rigor.]
1. Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as,
a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian Rock
With rigorous hands.
Shak.
We do not connect the scattered phenomena into their rigorous unity.
De Quincey. 2. Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.
3. Violent. [Obs.] "Rigorous uproar." Spenser.
Syn. — Rigid; inflexible; unyielding; stiff; severe; austere; stern; harsh; strict; exact.
— Rig"or*ous*ly, adv. — Rig"or*ous*ness, n.
Rigsdaler
(||Rigs"da`ler) n. [Dan. See Rix- dollar.] A Danish coin worth about fifty-four cents. It was
the former unit of value in Denmark.
Rig-Veda
(||Rig`-Ve"da) See Veda.
Riksdaler
(||Riks"da`ler) n. [Sw. See Rix- dollar.] A Swedish coin worth about twenty-seven cents. It
was formerly the unit of value in Sweden.
Rile
(Rile) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riled (rild); p. pr. & vb. n. Riling.] [See Roil.]
1. To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.
2. To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex.
In both senses provincial in England and colloquial in the United States.
Rilievo
(||Ri*lie"vo) n.[It. See Relief.] (Sculp. & Arch.) Same as Relief, n., 5.
Rill
(Rill) n. [Cf. LG. rille a small channel or brook, a furrow, a chamfer, OE. rigol a small brook, F.
rigole a trench or furrow for water, W. rhill a row, rhigol a little ditch. &radic11.]
1. A very small brook; a streamlet.
2. (Astron.) See Rille.
Rill
(Rill), v. i. To run a small stream. [R.] Prior.
Rille
(Rille) n. [G. rille a furrow.] (Astron.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the
telescope, on the surface of the moon.
Rillet
(Rill"et) n. A little rill. Burton.
