will return again; which is a peculiar way of refuge.

Poor refugees, at first they purchase here; And, soon as denizened, they domineer.

Browne.

Dryden.

Dreads the vengeance of her injured lord; Even by those gods, who refuged her, abhorred. Id. This is become more necessary in some of their governments, since so many refugees settled among them. Addison.

Those, who take refuge in a multitude, have an Arian council to answer for. Atterbury.

REFUGE, CITIES OF, were places provided as asyla, for such as against their will should happen to kill a man. Of these cities there were three on each side Jordan; on this side were Kedesh of Nephtali, Hebron, and Schechem; beyond Jordan were Bezer, Golan, and Ramoth-Gilead. When any of the Hebrews, or strangers that dwelt in their country, happened accidentally to kill a man, they might retire thither, to be out of the reach of the relations of the deceased, and to prepare for their defence and justification before the judges. The manslayer underwent two trials: first before the judges of the city of refuge to which he had fled; and secondly before the judges of his own city. If found guilty, he was put to death. If acquitted, he was not immediately set at liberty; but, to inspire a degree of horror against even involuntary homicide, he was reconducted to the place of refuge, and obliged to continue there in a sort of banishment till the death of the high priest. If, before this time, he ventured out, the avenger of blood might freely kill him; but after the high priest's death he was at liberty to go where he pleased without molestation. The cities of refuge were to be well supplied with water and necessary provisions; to be of easy access; to have good roads leading to them, with commodious bridges where there was occasion. The width of the roads was to be thirty-two cubits or forty-eight feet at least. At all cross roads direction posts were erected, with an inscription pointing out the road to the cities of refuge. The 15th of Adar, which answers to our February, was appointed for the city magistrates to see that the roads were in good condition. No persons in any of these cities were allowed to make weapons, lest the relations of the deceased should be furnished with the means of gratifying their revenge. REFULGENT, adj. Į Latin refulgens. REFULGENTLY, adv. Bright; shining; glittering: the adverb corresponding.

He neither might, nor wished to know
A more refulgent light.

Waller.

So conspicuous and refulgent a truth is that of God's being the author of man's felicity, that the dispute is not so much concerning the thing, as concerning the manner of it. Boyle.

Agamemnon's train, When his refulgent arms flashed through the shady plain,

Fled from his well-known face.

Dryden's Æneis.

REFUND', v. a. Lat. refundo. To pour or give back; repay; restore.

A governor that had pillaged the people, was, for receiving of bribes, sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken. L'Estrange. Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the ob

How to Icarius, in the bridal hour,
Shall I, by waste undone, refund the dower?
Fr. refuser; Ita
recusare; Lat. rev
To deny that

REFUSE', v. a., adj., &
REFUSAL, n. s.
REFUSER.

Tn. s. so..

which is requested or demanded; reject; not t accept or comply: the adjective, which as well as the noun substantive has its accent on the first syllable, means refused; left when the rest is taken: the noun substantive, something so left: refusal is, the act of refusing; denial; preemp tion; option: refuser, he who refuses.

Every thing vile and refuse they destroyed. Samuel.

We dare not disgrace our worldly superiours with God himself. offering unto them such refuse, as we bring unto Hooker.

If he should offer to chuse, and chuse the right casket, you should refuse to perform your father's will, if you should refuse to accept him.

Shakspeare. Many kinds have much refuse, which countervails that which they have excellent.

Bacon.

Having most affectionately set life and death be fore them, and conjured them to chuse one, and avoid the other, he still leaves unto them, as to free and rational agents, a liberty to refuse all his calls, to let his talents lye by them unprofitable.

Hammond.

demners of this catholick practice.
Some few others are the only refusers and con
Taylor.
Wonder not then what God saw for you good
If I refuse not, but convert, as you,
To proper substance.

Milton.

He never had vexatious law-disputes about his dues, but had his tithes fully paid, and not of the most refuse parts, but generally the very best. Fell.

Down with the falling stream the refuse run, To raise with joyful news his drooping son.

Dryden. Common experience has justly a mighty influence on the minds of men, to make them give or refus Locke. credit to any thing proposed.

Please to bestow on him the refuse letters; he hopes by printing them to get a plentiful provision. Spectator. This humourist keeps more than he wants, and gives a vast refuse of his superfluities to purchase

heaven.

Addison.

I know not whether it be more shame or wonder, to see that men can so put off ingenuity, as to descend to so base a vice; yet we daily see it done, and that not only by the scum and refuse of the people. Government of the Tongue. Women are made as they themselves would

choose;

Too proud to ask, too humble to refuse.

Garth.

God has borne with all his weak and obstinate refusals of grace, and has given him time day after day. Rogers.

REFUTE', v. a.

When employments go a begging for want of hands, they shall be sure to have the refusal. Swift. Fr. refuter; Span. and REFUTATION, n. s. 3 Port. refutur; Lat. refuto. To prove false or erroneous: the noun substantive corresponding.

These heathen Saxons, and regained our earth, As earth recovers from an ebbing tide. Dryden. As soon as the mind regains the power to stop or continue any of these motions of the body or thoughts, we then consider the man as a free agent. Locke.

RE'GAL, adj. & n. s. Į Fr. Span. and Ital. REGALITY, n. s. regal; Latin regalis. Royal; kingly: a kind of organ: regality is the noun substantive corresponding with regal as an adjective.

Behold the image of mortality,

nd feeble nature clothed with fleshy 'tire, When raging passion with fierce tyranny Robs reason of her due regality.

Edward, duke of York,

Spenser.

Usurps the regal title and the seat Of England's true anointed lawful heir. Shakspeare. The sounds that produce tones are ever from such bodies as are in their parts and ports equal; and such are in the nightingale pipes of regals or organs.

Bacon.

When was there ever a better prince on the throne than the present queen? I do not talk of her government, her love of the people, or qualities that are purely regal; but her piety, charity, temperance, Swift. and conjugal love.

REGALE', v. a. 1 Fr. regaler; Ital. reREGALEMENT, n. s. galare. To refresh; entertain; the entertainment given.

I with warming puff regaled chilled fingers. Philips. The muses still require

Humid regalement, nor will aught avail Id. Imploring Phoebus with unmoistened lips. REGALIA is also used for the apparatus of a coronation; as the crown, the sceptre with the cross, that with the dove, St. Edward's staff, the globe, and the orb with the cross, &c. See CORO

NATION.

REGARD', v. a. & n. s. REGARD'ABLE, adj. REGARDER, n. s. REGARD'FUL, adj. REGARD FULLY, adv. REGARDLESS, adj. REGARDLESSLY, adv. REGARDLESSNESS, n. 8.

account; relation; look; aspect: regardable is, observable; worthy of notice: regarder, he who pays attention or regard: regardful, observant; attention: the adverb corresponding: regardless, heedless; negligent; devoid of attention or care: the adverb and noun substantive corresponding. He that observeth the wind shall never sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall never reap. Proverbs.

To him they had regard, because long he had bewitched them. Acts viii. 11. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. Romans xiv. 6.

It is peninsula, which regardeth the mainland.

Sandys.

Throw out our eyes for brave Othello, Even till we make the main and the aerial blue An indistinct regard. Id. Othello. Is this the Athenian minion, whom the world Voiced so regardfully? Id. Timon of Athens. disposed any matter, but first he acquainted the Bryan was so regardful of his charge, as he never general.

Hayward. Tintoger, more famous for his antiquity than regardable for his present estate, abutteth on the sea. Carew.

He denies

To know their God, or message to regard. Milton.

How best we may

Compose our present evils, with regard Of what we are and where.

Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat, Second to thee, offered himself to die For man's offence.

Id.

Id. Paradise Lost.

The nature of the sentence he is to pronounce, the rule of judgment by which he will proceed, requires that a particular regard be had to our observation of this precept. Atterbury.

Their business is to address all the ranks of mankind, and persuade them to pursue and persevere in virtue, with regard to themselves; in justice and goodness with regard to their neighbours; and piety towards God.

Watts.

Id.

Through all the soil a genial ferment spreads, Regenerates the plants, and new adorns the meads Blackmore,

REGARDER, an ancient officer of the king's forest, sworn to make the regard of the forest every year; that is, to take a view of its limits, to enquire into all offences and defaults committed by the foresters within the forest, and to observe whether all the officers executed their respective duties.

REGATA, or REGATTA, a kind of boat race, formerly annually held at Venice, when that city was the capital of an independent republic. The race was performed in gondolas by gondoliers. The competitors were chosen from the families of the first rank; and no competitors at the ancient Olympic Games were ever more anxious for success. The course was about four miles. The gondolas, after starting, passed through the great winding canal, which divides the city into two parts, turned round a picket, and returning the same way, seized the prize, which was fixed at the acutest angle of the great canal, where it was visible by the spectators on both sides. On such occasions both the gondolas and the gondoliers were decorated in the most elegant and superb manner. Regattas, in imitation of the Venetian, have been often given on the Thames, and are still continued.

REGEN, a river in the interior of Germany, which rises on the southern frontier of Bohemia, unites with the Little Regen, and falls into the Danube, near Ratisbon.

REGEN, CIRCLE OF THE, is a province of Bavaria, adjacent to Bohemia, having the circle of the Upper Maine on the north-west, and that of the Lower Danube on the south-west. It has

an area of 3800 square miles. This province is hilly and woody, including part of the districts called the Fichtelberg and Bohemian forest; ye it has several plains of considerable extent. The sale of timber and working in wood are considerable occupations. The fields also abound in game, and have mines of iron. Ratisbon, in the south of the circle, is the seat of the provincial administration; and Amberg, in the north, that of the high court of justice. Inhabitants, of whom the great majority are Catholics, 358,000. REGENERATE, v. a. & adj. Lat. regeREGENERATION, n. s. nero. Re and generate. To reproduce; beget or create anew: as an adjective reproduced; born anew to the Christian life: regeneration corresponding. He saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.

Titus iii. 5.

Thou the earthly author of my blood, Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, Doth with a twofold vigour lift me up, To reach at victory. Shakspeare. Richard II. Albeit the son of this earl of Desmond, who lost his head, were restored to the earldom; yet could not the king's grace regenerate obedience in that degenerate house, but it grew rather more wild.

Davies.

For from the mercy seat above, Prevenient grace descending, had removed The stony from their hearts, and made new flesh Regenerate grow instead. Milton.

No sooner was a convert initiated, but by an easy figure he became a new man, and both acted and looked upon himself as one regenerated and

born a second time into another state of existence.

Addison.

An alkali, poured to that which is mixed with an acid, raiseth an effervescence, at the cessation o which, the salts, of which the acid is composed, will! be regenerated. Arbuthnot.

If you fulfil this resolution, though you fall sometimes by infirmity; nay, though you should fall in some greater act, even of deliberate sin, which you Presently retract by confession and amendinent, you are nevertheless in a regenerate estate, you live the life of a Christian here, and shall inherit the reward that is promised to such in a glorious immortality hereafter. Wake

REGENT, adj. & n. s. Fr. regent; Lat.reREGENCY, n. s. gens. Governing; rulREGENTSHIP. Sing; governor or ler: one exercising vicarious royalty: regency and regentship, his office or station.

As Christ took manhood, that by it he might be capable of death, whereunto he humbled himself: so because manhood is the proper subject of compassion and feeling pity, which maketh the sceptre of Christ's regency even in the kingdom of heaven amiable.

Lord regent, I do greet your excellence
With letters of commission from the king.

Hooker.

Id.

Shakspeare. If York have ill demeaned himself in France, Then let him be denied the regentship. Regions they passed, the mighty regencies Of seraphim.

He togther calls the regent powers Under him regent.

Milton.

Id. Paradise Lost. The operations of human life flow not from the corporeal molds, but from some other active regent principle that resides in the body, or governs it, which we call the soul.

Hale.

REGENT, one who governs a kingdom during the minority or absence of the king. In England the methods of appointing this guardian or re gent have been so various, and the duration of his power so uncertain, that from hence it might almost be collected that his office is unknown to the common law; and therefore, according to Sir Edward Coke, the surest way is to have him appointed by authority of the great council in parliament. The earl of Pembroke, by his own authority, assumed the regency of Henry III., who was then only nine years old, but was Ideclared of full age by the pope at seventeen, confirmed the great charter at eighteen, and took upon him the administration of the government at twenty. A guardian and councils of regency were named for Edward III. by the parliament which deposed his father; the young king being then fifteen, and not assuming the government till three years after. When Richard II. suc ceeded, at the age of eleven, the duke of Lan

Eugene, with regiments unequal prest, Awaits.

Wuller.

Philips. REGIMENT, in military affairs, a term applied to any body of troops, which, if cavalry, consists of one or more squadrons, commanded by a colonel; and, if infantry, of one or more battalions, each commanded in the same manner. The squadrons in cavalry regimerts are divided, sometimes into six, and sometimes into nine troops. The battalions of British infantry are generally divided into ten companies, two of which are called the flanks; one on the right consisting of grenadiers, and another on the left formed of light troops. There is not, however, any established rule on this head; as both cavalry and infantry regiments differ according to the exigencies of service in time of war, or the principles of economy in time of peace.

REGION, n. s. French region; Latin regio. Tract of land; country; space; place; rank. All the regions

Do seemingly revolt; and, who resist,.

Are mocked for valiant ignorance. Shakspeare. The bow is bent and drawn, make from the shaft. -Let it fall rather, though the fork invade The region of my heart.

Id. King Lear. The gentleman kept company with the wild prince and Poins; he is of too high a region; he knows too much. Shakspeare.

The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air below.

Bacon. Thus raged the goddess, and with fury fraught, The restless regions of the storms she sought.

Dryden. REGISTER, n. s. & v. a. Fr. registre ; Lat. REGISTRY.

regu

Šregistrum. A lar account of any thing; he who keeps it: to record or enrol in a register: registry is the act of doing so; the series of entries; or the place where they are kept.

Joy may you have and everlasting fame, Of late most hard atchievement by you done, For which inrolled is your glorious name In heavenly registers above the sun. Spenser. Sir John, as you have one eye upon my follies, as you hear them unfolded, turn another into the register of your own.

Shakspeare.

I wonder why a registry has not been kept in the college of physicians of things invented. Temple. For a conspiracy against the emperor Claudius, it was ordered that Scribonianus's name and consulate should be effaced out of all public registers and inscriptions. Addison. The Roman emperors registered their most remarkable buildings, as well as actions.

Id.

A REGISTER is a public book, in which are entered and recorded memoirs, acts, and minutes, to be had recourse to occasionally for knowing and proving matters of fact. Of these there are several kinds; as, 1. Register of deeds in Yorkshire and Middlesex, in which are regis tered all deeds, conveyances, wills, &c., that affect any lands or tenements in these counties, which are otherwise void against any subsequent purchasers or mortgages, &c.: but this does not extend to any copyhold estate, nor to leases at a rack-rent, or where they do not exceed twentyone years. The registered memorials must be engrossed on parchment, under the hand and seal of some of the granters or grantees, attested by witnesses who are to prove the signing of sealing of them and the execution of the deed. But these registers, which in England are confined to two counties, are in Scotland general. of these there are two kinds; the one general, fixed at Edinburgh, under the direction of the lord register; and the other is kept in the several shires, stewartries, and regalities, the clerks of which are obliged to transmit the registers of their respective courts to the general register. 2. Parish registers are books in which are registered the baptisms, marriages, and burials of each parish.

Among dissenters who admit of infant bap tism, the minister is generally supposed to keep a register of the several children baptized him. But as these are frequently lost, by the succession of new ministers to the same congregation; or at best do not give an account of the date of the births, which may have hap pened many weeks or months before baptism, it is now generally the custom among dissenters of all denominations to register the births of their children at the library in Redcross Street, Cripplegate, for which the charge is 1s. This register is admitted in the courts of law.

REGISTERS were kept both at Athens and Rome, in which were inserted the names of children, as soon as they were born. Marcus Aurelius required all free persons to give in accounts of their children, within thirty days after the birth, to the treasurer of the empire, in order that they might be deposited in the temple of Saturn, where the public acts were kept. Officers were also appointed as public registers in the provinces, that recourse might be had to their list of names, for settling disputes, or proving any person's freedom.

REGISTERS, in chemistry, are holes, with stop

Such follow him, as shall be registered; Part good; part bad; of bad the longer scrowl. Milton.

A little fee was to be paid for the registry. Graunt. Of these experiments our friend, pointing at the register of this dialogue, will perhaps give you more particular account.

Boyle.

late the fire; that is, to make the heat more intense or remiss, by opening them to let in the air, or keeping them close to exclude it.

REGISTRY OF A SHIP is a printed instrument, containing the names of the owner and master, the name and exact description of the vessel, the place to which she belongs, when and where