n. [ L. abreptus, p. p. of abripere to snatch away; ab + rapere to snatch. ] A snatching away. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ overturning, fr. &unr_; to turn up or over; &unr_; + &unr_; too turn. ] Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. arripere, arreptum, to seize, snatch; ad + rapere to snatch. See Rapacious. ] The act of taking away. [ Obs. ] “This arreption was sudden.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arreptitius. ] Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; priv. + &unr_; nourishment. ] (Med.) Profound debility of children due to lack of food and to unhygienic surroundings. -- A*threp"tic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{ } n. 1. An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: An arrangement of flowers placed in the center of a table as an ornament while dining. [ PJC ]

3. The central or most important feature of an activity, plan, or object; as, the centerpiece of her campaign was a proposal to slash taxes. [ PJC ]

n. same as centerpiece.
Syn. -- centerpiece. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his charge or authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Chorepiscopi [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; chw^ros, chw`ra, place, country + &unr_; bishop. Cf. Bishop. ] (Eccl.) A “country” or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ko`rh pupil + -plasty. ] (Med.) A plastic operation on the pupil, as for forming an artificial pupil. -- Cor`e*plas"tic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ L. correptio, fr. corripere to seize. ] Chiding; reproof; reproach. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Angry, passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Countre- + plete to plead. ] To counterplead. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. L. crepare to crack. ] (Far.) An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖[ F. ] n. 1. Same as Crape. [ Also spelled crepe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any of various crapelike fabrics, whether crinkled or not.

3. A small thin pancake. [ wns16=2 ] [ PJC ]

4. Paper with a finely crinkle texture, usually sold in rolls of 2-3 inches width; crepe paper; -- it is usually colored brightly and used for decoration. [ wns16=1 ] [ PJC ]

Crêpe de Chine n. [ F. de Chine of China ], Canton crape or an inferior gauzy fabric resembling it. [ Also spelled crepe de Chine. ] --
Crêpe lisse ety>[ F. lisse smooth ], smooth, or unwrinkled, crape{ 2 }. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖def>Paper with a finely crinkle texture, usually sold in rolls of 2-3 inches width; crepe paper; -- it is usually colored brightly and used for decoration. Same as crepe{ 4 }. [ PJC ]

pl. or . [ F. ] n. A rolled or folded crepe{ 3 }, heated in an orange-flavored liqueur (or in a hot orange-butter sauce and moistened with a liqueur) and set on fire when served. [ PJC ]

prop. n. A genus of plants including the hawk's beard; cosmopolitan in the northern hemisphere.
Syn. -- genus Crepis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ See Crepitate. ] Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crepitant rale (Med.), a peculiar crackling sound audible with inspiration in pneumonia and other lung disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Crepitated p. pr. & vb. n. Crepitating ] [ L. crepitatus, p. p. of crepitare to crackle, v. intensive of crepare to crack. Cf. Crevice. ] To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. crépitation. ] 1. The act of crepitating or crackling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) (a) A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air. (b) A crepitant râle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. crepare to crack. ] (Med.) (a) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels. (b) Same as Crepitation, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Creep. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. crepusculum, fr. creper dusky, dark: cf. F. crépuscule. ] Twilight. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Crepuscular. [ Obs. ] Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. crépusculaire. ] 1. Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous. [ 1913 Webster ]

This semihistorical and crepuscular period. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. decrepitus, perhaps orig., noised out, noiseless, applied to old people, who creep about quietly; de- + crepare to make a noise, rattle: cf. F. décrépit. See Crepitate. ] Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out. “Beggary or decrepit age.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Already decrepit with premature old age. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decrepitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decrepitating. ] [ Cf. F. décrépiter. ] To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To crackle, as salt in roasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. décrépitation. ] The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Decrepitude. [ R. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. décrépitude. ] The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Contr. fr. demi-reputation. ] A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress. [ Colloq. ] De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biochem.) the process of testing samples of mixtures which are active in a screening process, so as to recognize and eliminate from consideration those active substances already studied; -- a stage subsequent to the preliminary screening in the process of discovery of new pharmacologically active substances in mixtures of natural products; -- also called counterscreening. See screening. In the process of pharmaceutical screening (testing a large number of substances to find those having desirable pharmacological activity), the testing of samples of substances extracted from living organisms (plants, microorganisms, etc.) often detects substances already detected in prior screening. Such “known” or “replicate” activities must be recognized at an early stage to avoid duplicating previous efforts at purification and structural identification. The process of testing an sample which is active in a primary screen, to determine if the activity is due to a previously known substance, is called dereplication or counterscreening. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. direptio, fr. diripere to tear asunder, plunder; di- = dis- + rapere to seize and carry off. ] The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away. [ R. ] Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by direption. [ R. ] Encyc. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With plundering violence; by violent injustice. [ R. ] Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. -ances -ancies [ L. disrepantia: cf. OF. discrepance. See Discrepant. ] The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety. [ 1913 Webster ]

There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. G. S. Faber. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. discrepans, -antis, p. pr. of discrepare to sound differently or discordantly; dis- + crepare to rattle, creak: cf. OF. discrepant. See Crepitate. ] Discordant; at variance; disagreeing; contrary; different. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Egyptians were . . . the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dissident. J. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render unprepared. [ Obs. ] Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being in bad condition, and needing repair. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being disreputable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why should you think that conduct disreputable in priests which you probably consider as laudable in yourself? Bp. Watson.

Syn. -- Dishonorable; discreditable; low; mean; disgraceful; shameful. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a disreputable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Loss or want of reputation or good name; dishonor; disrepute; disesteem. “A disreputation of piety.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit. [ 1913 Webster ]

At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute. Sir W. Scott.

Syn. -- Disesteem; discredit; dishonor; disgrace. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

More inclined to love them than to disrepute them. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Electro + Gr. tre`pein to turn. ] An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ F. ] 1. A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported with paying import duties; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepôt for shipping goods in transit.
Syn. -- transshipment center. [ WordNet 1.5 ]