built or captured, and, if a prize-ship, the date of condemnation, whether British, foreign, or British plantation built, her precise dimensions, tonnage, and the port at which she was registered. REGIUM, REGIUM LEPIDI, or REGIUM LEPIDIUM, in ancient geography, a town of Cisalpine Gaul, on the Via Emilia, so called from Emilius Lepidus, who was consul with Caius Flaminius. It is now called Reggio. REGIUS (Urban), a learned writer of the sixteenth century, born at Langenargen. He studied at Basil, and read lectures at Ingoldstadt. Being afterwards involved by some friends in debt, he was obliged to sell his books and enlist as a soldier. From this situation he was rescued and restored to literature by professor Eccius; and he obtained the poetical and oratorical crown from the emperor Maximilian. He afterwards became a protestant, and took refuge at Zell, where he died in 1541. REGIUS PROFESSOR, in universities, a professor appointed by royal authority. REGLEMENT, n. s. Fr. reglement. Regulation. Not used. To speak of the reformation and reglement of asury, by the balance of commodities and discommodities thereof, two things are to be reconciled. Bacon's Essays. REGNANT, adj. Fr. regnant. Reigning; having sovereign authority; predominant. Princes are shy of their successors, and there may be reasonably supposed of queens regnant a little proportion of tenderness that way, more than in kings. Wotton. The law was regnant, and confined his thought, Hell was not conquered when the poet wrote. Waller. His guilt is clear, his proofs are pregnant, A traytor to the vices regnant. Swift's Miscellanies. REGNARD (John Francis), a French comic poet, was born at Paris, February 8th, 1655 Having received a good education he went to Italy in 1676, or 1677. Being fond of play, and very fortunate, he was returning home with a considerable sum of money, when he was captured by an Algerine corsair, and being sold for a slave was carried to Constantinople. His skill in cookery here rendered him a favorite; but at length he was ransomed, and returned to France. Ile did not however remain; for in April 1681 he set off on a journey to Lapland, and returned through Sweden, Poland, and Germany. He then retired to Dourdan, eleven leagues from Paris, where he died in September 1709. He wrote an account of his Northern Tour; a number of dramatic pieces, poems, and other works, which have been often published. REGNAULT (Noel), a learned French Jesuit, born at Arras, in 1683. He wrote, 1. Entretiens Physiques, 3 vols. 12mo. 2. Origine Ancienne de la Physique nouvelle, 3 vols. 12mo. 3. Entretiens Mathematiques, 3 vols. 12mo. Logique, 12mo. 4 REGNER, surnamed Lodbrog, a king of Denmark, who flourished in the ninth century. He was also a warrior, a poet, and a painter. His poems are extant, but savour of the wildness and fanaticism of the age in which he lived. REGNI, an ancient people of South Britain, who inhabited the country now called Surrey, Sussex, and the coast of Hampshire, and resided next to the Cantii, the ancient inhabitants of Kent.-Camden. REGNIER (Mathurin), a French poet, was born at Chartres in 1573. He was brought up to the church, for which his debaucheries rendered him very unsuitable. Yet he obtained a canonry in the church of Chartres, with other benefices; and died in 1613. There is a neat Elzevir edition of his works, 12mo. 1652, Leyden; but the most elegant is that with notes by M. Brossette, 4to. 1729, London. REGNIER DES MARETS (Francis Seraphin), a French poet, born at Paris in 1632. He distinguished himself early by his poetical talents, and in 1684 was made perpetual secretary to the French Academy on the death of Mezeray; when he drew up the papers against Furetierre; the king gave him the priory of Grammont, and an abbey. He died in 1713. His works are French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin poems, 2 vols.; a French grammar; and an Italian translation of Anacreon's Odes, with some other translations. REGNUM, in ancient geography, a town of South Britain, the capital of the Regni (Camden), situated by the Itinerary numbers, on the confines of the Belge, in a place now called Ringwood, in Hampshire, on the Avon, about ten miles from the sea. REGORGE. v. a. Re and gorge. To vomit up; throw or swallow back; swallow largely. It was scoffingly said, he had eaten the king's goose; and did then regorge the feathers. Hayward. Drunk with wine, And fat regorged of bulls and goats. Milion. As tides at highest mark regorge the flood, So fate, that could no more improve their joy, Took a malicious pleasure to destroy. Dryden. REGRAFT', v. a. Fr. regrer. Re and graft. To graft again. Oft regrafting the same cions, may greater. REGRANT', v. a. Re and grant. back. make fruit Bacon. To grant He, by letters patent, incorporated them by the name of the dean and chapter of Trinity church in Norwich, and regranted their lands to them. Ayliffe's Parergon. REGRATE, v. a. From GRATE, which see. To offend; shock; also, from the French regrater, to engross; forestall. Neither should they buy any corn, unless it were to make malt thereof; for by such engrossing and regrating, the dearth, that commonly reigned in Eng land, hath been caused. Spenser. The clothing of the tortoise and viper rather regrateth than pleaseth the eye. Derham's Physico-Theology. REGREET', v. a. Re and greet. To resalute; greet a second time. And shall these hands, so newly joined in love, Un oke this seizure, and this kind regreet? Play fast and loose with faith? Shakspeare. REGRESS, n. s. & v. n. Fr. regrès; Lat. REGRESSION, n. s. Sregressus. Passage I never bare any touch of conscience with greater regret. King Charles. A passionate regret at sin, a grief and sadness at its memory, enters us into God's roll of mourners. Decay of Piety. Is it a virtue to have some ineffective regrets to damnation, and such a virtue too as shall balance all our vices? Id. Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant, than his majesty did for this great man; in all offices of grace towards his servants, and in a wonderful solicitous care for the payment of his debts. Clarendon. Those, the impiety of whose lives makes them regret a deity, and secretly wish there were none, will greedily listen to atheistical notions. Glanville. I shall not regret the trouble my experiments cost me, if they be found serviceable to the purposes of respiration. Boyle. Though sin offers itself in never so pleasing a dress, yet the remorse and inward regrets of the soul, upon the commission of it, infinitely overbalance those faint gratifications it affords the senses. South's Sermons. If her regrets should waken thine. Calmly he looked on either life, and here Prior. Nature, in the production of things, always de signs them to partake of certain, regulated, established essences, which are to be the models of all things to be produced; this, in that crude sense, would need some better explanation. Locke. Being but stupid matter, they cannot but continue any regular and constant motion, without the guidance and regulation of some intelligent being. Rav. Regularity is certain, where it is not so apparent, as in all fluids; for regularity is a similitude continued. Grew. The regularity of corporeal principles sheweth them to come at first from a divine regulator. Id. The common cant of criticks is, that though the lines are good, it is not a regular piece. Guardian. Our understanding traces them in vain,— The ways of heaven are dark and intricate ;Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends. In the Romish church, all persons are said to be regulars, that do profess and follow a certain rule of Ayliffe's Parergon. life, in Latin styled regula. With one judicious stroke A circle regularly true. Addison. Prior. He was a mighty lover of regularity and order; and managed all his affairs with the utmost exactness. Atterbury. Regulate the patient in his manner of living. Wiseman. There is no universal reason, not confined to haman fancy, that a figure, called regular, which hath equal sides and angles, is more beautiful than any irregular one. Bentley. So when we view some well-proportioned dome, No monstrous height or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular. Pope. Id. Strains that neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold and regularly low. More people are kept from a true sense and taste of religion, by a regular kind of sensuality and indulgence, than by gross drunkeuness. Law. A REGULAR FIGURE, in geometry, is one whose sides, and consequently angles, are equal; and a regular figure with three or four sides is commonly termed an equilateral triangle or square, as all others with more sides are called regular polygons. REGULBIUM, or REGULVIUM, an ancient town of the Cantii in Britain, mentioned in the Notitia Imperii, now called Reculver. REGULUS (M. Attilius), a Roman consul during the first Punic war. He reduced Brundusium, and, in his second consulship, took sixty-four and sunk thirty galleys of the Carthaginian fleet, on the coasts of Sicily. Afterwards he landed in Africa; and so rapid was his success, that in a short time he made himself master of about 200 important places on the coast. The Carthaginians sued for peace, but he refused to grant it; and soon after he was de feated by Xantippus, and 30,000 of his men were killed, and 15,000 taken prisoners. Regulus himself was also taken, and carried in triumph to Carthage. He was then sent to Rome, to propose an accommodation; and, if his commission was unsuccessful, he was bound by the most solemn oaths to return to Carthage. When he came to Rome, Regulus dissuaded his countrymen from accepting the terms which the enemy proposed; and, when his opinion had influenced the senate, Regulus returned to Carthage agreeable to his oaths. The Carthaginians, hearing that their offers of peace had been rejected at Rome through the influence of Regulus, prepared to punish him with the greatest severity. His eye-lids were cut off, and he was exposed for some days to the excessive heat of the meridian sun, and afterwards confined in a barrel, whose sides were stuck with iron spikes, till he died in the greatest agonies. His sufferings being heard of at Rome, the senate permitted his widow to inflict whatever punishment she pleased on some of the most illustrious captives of Carthage, who were in their hands. She confined them in presses filled with sharp iron points; and was so exquisite in her cruelty that the senate at length interfered, and stopped her barbarity. Regulus died about A. A. Č. 251. REGULUS (Memmius), a Roman, made governor of Greece by Caligula. While Regulus governed this province, the emperor wished to bring the celebrated statue of Jupiter Olympius by Phidias to Rome; but this was supernaturally prevented, according to ancient authors, the ship which was to convey it being destroyed by lightning. REGULUS, in chemistry, diminutive of rex, a king: so called because the alchemist expected to find gold, the king of metals, collected at the bottom of the crucible after fusion. The name regulus was given by chemists to metallic matters when separated from other substances by fusion. It was afterwards applied to the metal extracted from the ores of the semi-metals, which formerly bore the name that is now given to the semi-metals themselves. To procure the regulus or mercurial parts of metals, &c., flux powders were formerly used, as nière, tartar, &c., to purge the sulphureous part adhering to the metal, by attracting it to themselves, and absorbing it. REGURGITATE, v. a. & v. n. Į REGURGITATION, n. s. Fr. regorger: Latin re and gurges. To throw back; pour back: be poured back: the act of resorption or swallowing back. With gaping mouths to these rehearsals come. Dryden. Great master of the muse! inspired The pedigree of nature to rehearse, And sound the Maker's work in equal verse. Id. What respected their actions as a rule or admonition, applied to yours, is only a rehearsal, whose zeal in asserting the ministerial cause is so generally known. South. My design is to give all persons a rehearing, who have suffered under my unjust sentence. Of modest poets be thou just, The lover, in melodious verses, Was ever such a wretch as I! Addison. Swift. Burns. Cowper. REHER, a district of Delhi, Hindostan, situated between lat. 28° and 29°. It formerly was the northern limit of Kuttaher or Rohilcund, and was ceded to the British by the nabob of Oude. It is bounded on the west by the Ganges, and watered by several other rivers. The principal towns are Reher, Nijibabad, and Darnagur. REHER, a town of Hindostan, formerly the capital of the above district, became in 1774 the of a chief named Nijif Khan, who reproperty moved the seat of government to Nijibabad, in town and district are now included in the Briconsequence of which Reher has declined. The tish collectorship of Bareily. Long. 78° 44′ E., lat. 29° 23′ N. REHOBOAM, the son of Solomon, king of Israel, succeeded his father about A. M. 3029. By his folly, in totally refusing the people any redress of grievances, he occasioned the revolt of the ten tribes. See 1 Kings xii. 1-24. After an unfortunate reign of seventeen years, during which his capital was invaded and the temple plundered of its treasures by Shishak, or Sesacus, king of Egypt, he died A. M. 3046. REJANG, a country of Sumatra, divided to the north-west from the kingdom of Anak Sunger by the river Uri, near that of Kattaun; which last, with the district of Labun, bounds it on the north side. The country of Musi is its limit to the eastward. Bencoolen River confines it on the south-east. REICHENBACH, one of the four governments of Prussian Silesia. It is in the west of that province, and comprises the county of Glatz, the principalities of Munsterberg, Brieg, and Schweidnitz, and a considerable part of the Jauer. Its area is 2500 square miles. It is divided into the circles of Frankenstein, Glatz, Hirchberg, Jauer, Nimptsch, Munsterberg, Reichenbach, Schweidnitz, Striegau, and Bolkenhayn-Landshut. Population 470,000. This province is hilly, particularly in the county of Glatz; but has also many plains, fertile in corn, fruits, hops, and occasionally mulberrytrees. Among the mountains wood forms an article of export. In general this is the most active part of Silesia, and consequently of the Prussian states. The chief manufactures are linen, glass, and hardware. The number of villages is very great. The province being very populous, it is necessary to import corn. In the county of Glatz, and the principality of Munsterberg, the Catholics form the majority; but throughout the rest the Protestants. REICHENBACH, the chief town of the above government, is eleven miles south-east of Schweidnitz, and thirty south-west of Breslau. It has manufactures of cotton, canvas, starch, and a trade in woollens. A convention was concluded here in 1790 between Prussia and Austria. Inhabitants 3300. Long. 16° 36′ 37′′ E., lat. 50° 39′ 15' N. REICHENBACH, a town of Saxony, in the Vogtland. Its inhabitants, about 3000, are employed chiefly in the manufacture of woollens. Their mode of dyeing scarlet is much esteemed. This town suffered much from fire in 1681 and 1720. Thirteen miles N. N. E. of Plauen. REICHENBACH, a river of the canton of Berne, Switzerland, in the district of Oberland. It is small, but, when swelled by the melted snow of the Alps, pours a large mass of water over a tremendous precipice. REICHENBERG, a thriving town of Bohemia, in the northern circle of Buntzlau, on the Neisse; the chief place of a lordship belonging to the count of Clam-Galla. It has three churches, and great manufacturing establishments for woollens, with fulling-mills and dye-houses. The value of the woollen, linen, and stockings, annually made, is estimated at more than half a million; there is also a traffic in wool and yarn. In the neighbourhood are found precious stones of the finer and semi-transparent kinds. On the 21st of April, 1757, the Prussians, under the duke of Brunswick, obtained a victory here over the Austrians. Inhabitants 12,000. Fifty-two miles N. N. E. of Prague, and twenty-five N.N. E. of Jurg Bunzlau. REICHENHALL, a town in the south-east of Bavaria, on the Sala, sixty-five miles E. S. E. of Munich, and eleven S. S.W. of Salzburg. It is of great importance on account of its saltworks, at which 16,000 tons of that mineral are annually produced. REID (Thomas), D. D., a late eminent Scottish writer, was the son of the Rev. Lewis Reid. He was born at Strachan in April, 1710, and Lord hath rejected thee from being king. rows. 1 Samuel xv. 26. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorIsaiah. Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest. Hosea iv. 6. Barbarossa was rejected into Syria, although he perceived that it tended to his disgrace. Knolles. Medicines urinative do not work by rejection and indigestion, as solutive do. Bacon. Have I rejected those that me adored To be of him, whom I adore, abhorred ? Browne. Whether it be a divine revelation or no, reason must judge, which can never permit the mind to reject a greater evidence, to embrace what is less evident. Locke. 1 REI'GLE. n. s. guide any thing. Fr. regle. A hollow cut to A flood gate is drawn up and let down through the reigles in the side posts. Carew. REIGN, v. n. & n. s. Fr. regner; Span. and Port. reyne; Ital. and Lat. regno. To exercise sovereign authority; obtain power; be predominant: royal authority; sovereignty; power. And he schal regne in the hous of Jacob withouten ende, and of his rewme schal be noon ende. Wiclif. Luk. 1. A king shall reign in righteousness, and princes rule in judgment. Isaiah xxxi. 1. That, as sin reigned unto death, even so might grace reign, through righteousness, unto eternal life by Jesus Christ. Romans. This, done by them, gave them such an authority, that, though he reigned, they in effect ruled, most men honouring them, because they only deserved honour. Sidney. Tell me, shall Banquo's issue ever Reign in this kingdom? Shakspeare. Macbeth. More are sick in the summer, and more die in the winter, except in pestilent diseases, which commonly reign in summer or autumn. Bacon. The year againe Was turning round; and every season's raigne Renewed upon us. Chapman. Did he not first seven years, a life-time reign? Cowley. Great secrecy reigns in their publick councils. Addison. Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean, and deep hell beneath. Prior. The following licence of a foreign reign, Did all the dregs of bold Socinus drain. Pope. That wrath which hurled to Pluto's gloomy reign, The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. Russel's blood Id. imbursement. REIMBURSE', v. a. Fr. re, in, and bourse a purse. To repay; repair loss or expense. If any person has been at expence about the funeral of a scholar, he may retain his books for the reAyliffe. Hath he saved any kingdom at his own expences to give him a title of reimbursing himself by the destruction of ours? Swift. REIMPREGNATE, v. a. Re and impregnate. To impregnate anew. The vigour of the loadstone is destroyed by fire, nor will it be reimpregnated by any other magnet than the earth. Browne. REIMPRESSION, n. s. Re and impression. A second or repeated impression. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. Fr. Johnson. Ital. redeni. for any instrument of government: to give the reins' is to give licence: to rein, to govern; restrain: reins, always in the plural, are from Lat. renes, Gr. ρειν, the kidneys. Whom I shall see for myself, though my reins be Job. consumed. Every horse bears his commanding rein, And He mounts and reins his horse. Chapman. War to disordered rage, let loose the reins. Milton. He, like a proud steed reined, went haughty on. Id. Take you the reins, while I from cares remove, And sleep within the chariot which I drove. His son retained Dryden. REINDEER. See CERVUS. REINECCIUS (Reinier), a learned German of the sixteenth century, born at Steinheim. He taught the belles lettres in the universities of Frankfort and Helmstadt. He published Historia Julia, and Historia Orentalis; with some other tracts. He died in 1595. REINESIUS (Thomas), a learned German physician and philosopher, born at Gotha in Thuringia in 1587. He settled as a physician at Altemberg, where he was elected a burgomaster. He was afterwards appointed counsellor to the elector of Saxony, and resided at Leipsic. He wrote some tracts on medicine, but his chief works are on philology and criticism. His most celebrated work is Variarum Lectionum Libri Tres; 4to. He died at Leipsic in 1587. REINHOLD (Erasmus), a learned German astronomer and mathematician, born at Salfeldt in Upper Saxony in 1511. He wrote several mathematical and astronomical works; and died in 1535. REINSPIRE', v. a. Re and inspire. To inspire anew. Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire Milton. The mangled dame lay breathless on the ground, When on a sudden, reinspired with breath, Again she rose. Dryden. That alone can truly reinstall thee Shakspeare. Milton. In David's royal seat, his true successor. resnes; REINSTATE', v. a. Re and instate. To put again in possession. REIN, n. s. & REINS. [v. a. The part of a bridle which governs the horse's head; used metaphorically |