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plural reprises
A recurrence or resumption of an action. examples
(music) A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical. examples
(fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position. examples
A taking by way of retaliation. quotations examples
Your care about your banks infers a fear Of threatening floods ,and inundations near; If so, a just reprise would only be Of what the land usurped upon the sea
1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […]
(law, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes examples
A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate. examples
(construction) In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle. examples
third-person singular simple present reprises, present participle reprising, simple past and past participle reprised
(obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again. quotations
How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
To repeat or resume an action or a role. examples
(obsolete) To recompense; to pay.