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Recommit
- verb - commit again; "It was recommitted into her custody"
- commit once again, as of a crime
- send back to a committee; "The bill was recommitted three times in the House"
Reductio
- noun - (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction
Reduviid
- noun - a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals
Reordain
- - To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective.
Replevin
- - A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention.
Reptilia
- noun - class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates; once the dominant land animals
Republic
- noun - a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president"
- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them