Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To replace; specifically, in Scots law, to restore to a position or a situation formerly hold.
- To reply.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To replace.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
replace .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She is clearly a near relative of that Oedipus who, in the _Phoenissae_, begs Antigone to lead him to the rock where the Sphinx sat of old (120): dirige huc gressus pedum, hic siste patrem. dira ne sedes vacet. monstrum repone maius. hoc saxum insidens obscura nostrae verba fortunae loquar, quae nemo solvat.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Some time after, his friends prevailed with the bishop of Glasgow to repone him, upon condition he would take back his declinature, and for that purpose, wrote to Mr. Dickson to come to Glasgow.
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Mo pas conner si sa arrive zots souvent, mais moi boucou fois kan mo coz ek certains dimounes en creole zots repone moi en francais
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43, Magni fecit Bentleius, audo - ritatebonaciforaeCodicum repone - leAkfe ytoAfe: quid refcrt fcU re an hoc refte fecerit?
Q. Horatii Flacci eclogae: cum scholiis veteribus Horace, William Baxter, Johann Matthias Gesner, Johann Carl Zeune 1788
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