n. Private end or view; by-interest. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To show disrespect to. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have disrespected and slighted God. Comber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of respectability. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not respectable; disreputable. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disrespects. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wanting in respect; manifesting disesteem or lack of respect; uncivil; as, disrespectful behavior. -- Dis`re*spect"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis`re*spect"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Showing lack of respect; disrespectful. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Obs. ] See Forspeak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To foretell; to predict. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

My mother was half a witch; never anything that she forespake but came to pass. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A prediction; also, a preface. [ Obs. ] Camden. Huloet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A preface. [ Obs. ] Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Fore + spent. ] Already spent; gone by; past. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Obs. ] See Forspent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent; impartial; as, an irrespective judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

According to this doctrine, it must be resolved wholly into the absolute, irrespective will of God. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disrespectful. [ Obs. ] Sir C. Cornwallis. [ 1913 Webster ]

Irrespective of, regardless of; without regard to; as, irrespective of differences. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Without regard to conditions; not taking circumstances into consideration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prosperity, considered absolutely and irrespectively, is better and more desirable than adversity. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To speak or utter again. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To answer; to echo. [ Obs. or Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Respected; p. pr. & vb. n. Respecting. ] [ L. respectare, v. intens. from respicere, respectum, to look back, respect; pref. re- re- + specere, spicere, to look, to view: cf. F. respecter. See Spy, and cf. Respite. ] 1. To take notice of; to regard with special attention; to regard as worthy of special consideration; hence, to care for; to heed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou respectest not spilling Edward's blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground for fruits, trees, and herbs. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To consider worthy of esteem; to regard with honor. “I do respect thee as my soul.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To look toward; to front upon or toward. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Palladius adviseth the front of his house should so respect the &unr_;&unr_;uth. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To regard; to consider; to deem. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To whom my father gave this name of Gaspar,
And as his own respected him to death. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To have regard to; to have reference to; to relate to; as, the treaty particularly respects our commerce. [ 1913 Webster ]

As respects, as regards; with regard to; as to. Macaulay. --
To respect the person or
To respect the persons, to favor a person, or persons on corrupt grounds; to show partiality. “Ye shall not respect persons in judgment.” Deut. i. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To regard; esteem; honor; revere; venerate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. respectus: cf. F. respect. See Respect, v., and cf. Respite. ] 1. The act of noticing with attention; the giving particular consideration to; hence, care; caution. [ 1913 Webster ]

But he it well did ward with wise respect. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Esteem; regard; consideration; honor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seen without awe, and served without respect. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

The same men treat the Lord's Day with as little respect. R. Nelson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Reputation; repute. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Relation; reference; regard. [ 1913 Webster ]

They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the various benefits men received from him, had several titles. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Particular; point regarded; point of view; as, in this respect; in any respect; in all respects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Everything which is imperfect, as the world must be acknowledged in many respects. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

In one respect I'll be thy assistant. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Consideration; motive; interest. [ Obs. ] “Whatever secret respects were likely to move them.” Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

To the publik good
Private respects must yield. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In respect, in comparison. [ Obs. ] Shak. --
In respect of. (a) In comparison with. [ Obs. ] Shak. (b) As to; in regard to. [ Archaic ] “Monsters in respect of their bodies.” Bp. Wilkins. “In respect of these matters.” Jowett. (Thucyd.) --
In respect to, or
With respect to, in relation to; with regard to; as respects. Tillotson. --
To have respect of persons, to regard persons with partiality or undue bias, especially on account of friendship, power, wealth, etc. “It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.” Prov. xxiv. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Deference; attention; regard; consideration; estimation. See Deference. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. respectable, LL. respectabilis. ] 1. Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen. “The respectable quarter of Sicca.” J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable. Madison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moderate in degree of excellence or in number; as, a respectable performance; a respectable audience. [ 1913 Webster ]

--Re*spect"a*ble*ness,n. -- Re*spect"a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., p. pr. of respecter. See Respect. ] (Her.) Placed so as to face one another; -- said of animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who respects. [ 1913 Webster ]

A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked or characterized by respect; as, respectful deportment. [ 1913 Webster ]

With humble joy and with respectful fear. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*spect"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*spect"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. With regard or relation to; regarding; concerning; as, respecting his conduct there is but one opinion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf.LL. respectio. ] The act of respecting; respect; regard. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Without difference or respection of persons. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. respectif, LL. respectivus. See Respect. ] 1. Noticing with attention; hence, careful; wary; considerate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If you look upon the church of England with a respective eye, you can not . . . refuse this charge. A&unr_;p. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Looking towardl having reference to; relative, not absolute; as, the respective connections of society. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own; as, they returned to their respective places of abode. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Fitted to awaken respect. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Rendering respect; respectful; regardful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With respective shame, rose, took us by the hands. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

With thy equals familiar, yet respective. Lord Burleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each; as each refers to each in order; as, let each man respectively perform his duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The impressions from the objects or the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relatively; not absolutely. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Partially; with respect to private views. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. With respect; regardfully. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no respect; without regard; regardless. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rather than again
Endure, respectless, their so moving c&unr_;ies. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*spect"less*ness, n. [R.] Shelton. [1913 Webster]

a. 1. Respectful; as, a respectuous silence. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Respectable. [ Obs. ] Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To spell again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. respersus, p. p. of respergere; pref. re- re- + spargere to srew, sprinkle. ] To sprinkle; to scatter. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. respersio. ] The act of sprinkling or scattering. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Respect for one's self; regard for one's character; laudable self-esteem. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disrespect. [ Obs. ] “Unrespect of her toil.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

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