Rebekah
DAUGHTERS OF, a degree in the ritual of Odd Fellowship, to which women are admitted.
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These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Rebekah, Rebellion, Recanati.
Rebellion
the taking up of arms, whether by natural subjects or others, residing in the country, against a settled government. By international law rebellion is considered a crime, and all persons voluntarily abetting it are criminals, whether subjects or foreigners. When a rebellion has attained such dimensions and organization as to make of the rebel party a state de facto, and its acts reach the dimensions of war de facto, it is now the custom of the state to yield to the rebels such belligerent privileges as policy and humanity require, and to treat captives as prisoners of war, etc. RÉCAMIER
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Recanati
a town of Italy, 15 miles S. of Ancona; has a Gothic cathedral with a monument to Pope Gregory XII. Here Leopardi was born. Porto Recanati is 6 miles N. E. on the Adriatic coast.
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Recaption
in law, recaption or reprisal is another species of remedy by the mere act of the party injured. This happens when anyone has deprived another of his property in goods or chattels personal, or wrongfully detains one's wife, child, or servant; in which case the owner of the goods, and the husband, parent, or master, may lawfully claim and retake them, wherever he happens to find them; so it be not in a riotous manner, or attended with a breach of the peace.
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Receipt
a written document, declaring that certain goods or a sum of money have been received. A receipt, though evidence of payment, is not absolute proof, and this evidence may be rebutted by proving that it was given under misapprehension.
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Receiver
a person specially appointed by a court of justice to receive the rents and profits of land, or the produce of other property, which is in dispute in a cause in that court. The name is also given to a person appointed in suits concerning the estates of infants, or against executors, or between partners in business, or insolvents, for the purpose of winding up the concern.
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Receiver of Stolen Goods
one who takes stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen, and incurs the guilt of partaking in the crime. If the theft amounts to felony the punishment is penal servitude of from 3 to 14 years, or imprisonment for two years; if a misdemeanor, penal servitude from three to seven years, or imprisonment for not above two years. In the United States the penalty is fixed by statutes in the several States.
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Recent
in geology, a term applied to a division of the post-Tertiary in which all the mammalia, as well as all the shells, are identical with living species. In certain places it is difficult to draw a distinction between the Recent and the Pleistocene deposits. Alluvium brought down by rivers, modern peat, the Clyde marine strata with canoes, the kitchen middens of Denmark, and the lake dwellings of Switzerland belong to the Recent period.
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Receptacle
in botany: (1) Any part which supports another part. The receptacle of a flower is the top of the peduncle on which the flowers are inserted. It may be a flattened area, or a vanishing point, or may be greatly dilated. The receptable of a fruit is its torus. The receptacle of an ovule is the placenta. The receptacle of the sporangia in a fern is the vein passing through their axis. (2) A cavity for the reception of any substance. The receeptacle of oil is one of the cysts which contain it, as, for instance, those on the rind of the orange.
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Rechabite
a member of a section of the Kenites, called in Hebrew rechabim, from Rechab (= the horseman; rachab = to ride), the father of Jonadab, who enjoined his descendants to abstain from wine, from building houses, sowing seed, and planting vineyards, and commanded them to dwell in tents (Jer. xxxv: 2-19). Wolff mentions an interview he had with a nomadic Jew near Senaa, who claimed to be a descendant of Jonadab, stating that his tribe were 60,- 000 in number, and adhered to their ancient laws, and that they were a living fulfillment of the prophecy of Jer. xxxv: 19. Hence, one who abstains from alcoholic beverages; a teetotaler. Also a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a friendly society founded on temperance principles, "so that abstainers could be united together, and have the privileges of a benefit society as well." The first meeting was held at the Temperance Hotel, Bolton street, Salford, Lancaster, England, Aug. 25, 1835. The Rechabite pledge is extremely stringent and far-reaching, but the order is steadily increasing in Great Britain, and has been introduced into the United States, Canada and Australia. Their lodges are called "tents" in allusion to Jer. xxxv: 7. The Independent Order of Rechabite was established in the United States in 1842. Its headquarters are at Washington, D. C. The total number of members in the United States on Jan. 1, 1921, was 538,078.
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Reciprocal
in grammar, reflexive. Applied to verbs which have as an object a pronoun standing for the subject; as, "Bethink yourself." It is also applied Specifically, in mathematics, the quotient resulting from the division of unity by the quanti quantity; thus the reciprocal 1 1 of a is, of 2 is ½, of a + b is, etc. a+b a The product of a quantity, its reciprocal, is always equal to ind The reciprocal of a vulgar fraction is the denominator divided by the numerator; thus the reciprocal of 1/2 is 2, of 2/3 is 3/2, etc.
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Reciprocating Engine
the common form of engine, in which the piston and piston-rod move backward and forward in a straight line, absolutely or relatively to the cylinder, as in oscillating-cylinder engines. The term is used in contradistinction to rotary engines.
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Recitative
in music, a species of musical declamation, not necessarily in rhythmical form, but so arranged or designed as to assimilate musical sounds as signed It is used in operas, oratorios, etc., to nearly as possible to ordinary speech. relate a story, to express some action or passion, or to reveal a secret or design, and is of two kinds, unaccompanied and accompanied, the latter being the more common in modern music. Also, a piece of music intended to be sung in recitative.
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