Ready - READY, a. red'y. [Eng. to rid; redo, ready; rida, to ride; bereda, to prepare. Gr. easy. The primary sense is to go, move, or advance forward, and it seems to be clear that ready, ride, read, riddle, are all of one family, and probably from the root of L. gradior. See Read and Red.]
1. Quick; prompt; not hesitating; as ready wit; a ready consent.
2. Quick to receive or comprehend; not slow or dull; as a ready apprehension.
3. Quick in action or execution; dextrous; as an artist ready in his business; a ready writer. Psa 45.
4. Prompt; not delayed present in hand. He makes ready payment; he pays ready money for every thing he buys.
5. Prepared; fitted; furnished with what is necessary, or disposed in a manner suited to the purpose; as a ship ready for sea.
My oxen and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Mat 22.
6. Willing; free; cheerful to do or suffer; not backward or reluctant; as a prince always ready to grant the reasonable requests of his subjects.
The spirit is ready, but the flesh is weak. Mark 14.
I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. Acts 21.
7. Willing; disposed. Men are generally ready to impute blame to others. They are more ready to give than to take reproof.
8. Being at the point; near; not distant; about to do or suffer.
A Syrian ready to perish was my father. Deu 26. Job 29. Psa 88.
9. Being nearest or at hand.
A sapling pine he wrench'd from out the ground, the readiest weapon that his fury found.
10. Easy; facile; opportune; short; near, or most convenient; the Greek sense.
Sometimes the readiest way which a wise man has to conquer, is to flee.
Through the wild desert, not the readiest way.
The ready way to be thought mad, is to contend you are not so.
1. To make ready, to prepare; to provide and put in order.
2. An elliptical phrase, for make things ready; to make preparations; to prepare.
READY, adv. red'y. In a state of preparation, so as to need no delay.
We ourselves will go ready armed before the house of Israel. Num 32.
READY, n. red'y. For ready money.
Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts. [A low word.]
READY, v.t. red'y. To dispose in order; to prepare. [Not in use.]
Reason - REASON, n. re'zn. [L. ratio, which is from ratus, and which proves reor to be contracted from redo, redor, and all unite with rod, L. radius, &c. Gr. to say or speak, whence rhetoric. See Read.]
1. That which is thought or which is alleged in words, as the ground or cause of opinion, conclusion or determination. I have reasons which I may choose not to disclose. You ask me my reasons. I freely give my reasons. The judge assigns good reasons for his opinion, reasons which justify his decision. Hence in general,
2. The cause, ground, principle or motive of any thing said or done; that which supports or justifies a determination, plan or measure.
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness. 1 Pet 3.
3. Efficient cause. He is detained by reason of sickness.
Spain in thin sown of people, partly by reason of its sterility of soil
The reason of the motion of the balance in a wheel-watch is by motion of the next wheel.
4. Final cause.
Reason, in the English language, is sometimes taken for true and clear principles; sometimes for clear and fair deductions; sometimes for the cause, particularly the final cause.
5. A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, and good from evil, and which enables the possessor to deduce inferences from facts or from propositions.
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul, reason's comparing balance rules the whole - That sees immediate good by present sense, reason the future and the consequence.
Reason is the director of man's will.
6. Ratiocination; the exercise of reason.
But when by reason she the truth has found -
7. Right; justice; that which is dictated or supported by reason. Every man claims to have reason on his side.
I was promised on a time to have reason for my rhyme.
8. Reasonable claim; justice.
God brings good out of evil, and therefore it were but reason we should trust God to govern his own world.
9. Rationale; just account.
This reason did the ancient fathers render, why the church was called catholic.
10. Moderation; moderate demands; claims which reason and justice admit or prescribe.
The most probable way of bringing France to reason, would be by the making an attempt on the Spanish West Indies -
In reason, in all reason, in justice; with rational ground.
When any thing is proved by as good arguments as a thing of that kind is capable of, we ought not in reason to doubt of its existence.
RE'ASON, v.i.
1. To exercise the faculty of reason; to deduce inferences justly from premises. Brutes do not reason; children reason imperfectly.
2. To argue; to infer conclusions from premises, or to deduce new or unknown propositions from previous propositions which are known or evident. To reason justly is to infer from propositions which are known, admitted or evident, the conclusions which are natural, or which necessarily result from them. Men may reason within themselves; they may reason before a court or legislature; they may reason wrong as well as right.
3. To debate; to confer or inquire by discussion or mutual communication of thoughts, arguments or reasons.
And they reasoned among themselves. Mat 16.
1. To reason with, to argue with; to endeavor to inform, convince or persuade by argument. Reason with a profligate son, and if possible, persuade him of his errors.
2. To discourse; to talk; to take or give an account.
Stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord, of all the righteous acts of the Lord. Obs. 1 Sam 12.
RE'ASON, v.t.
1. To examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss. I reasoned the matter with my friend.
When they are clearly discovered, well digested and well reasoned in every part, there is beauty in such a theory.
2. To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief of truth; to reason one out of his plan; to reason down a passion.
Rebel - REB'EL, n. [L. rebellis, making war again.]
1. One who revolts from the government to which he owes allegiance, either by openly renouncing the authority of that government, or by taking arms and openly opposing it. A rebel differs from an enemy, as the latter is one who does not owe allegiance to the government which he attacks. Num 17.
2. One who willfully violates a law.
3. One who disobeys the king's proclamation; a contemner of the king's laws.
4. A villain who disobeys his lord.
REB'EL, a. Rebellious; acting in revolt.
REBEL', v.i. [L. rebello, to make war again; re and bello.]
1. To revolt; to renounce the authority of the laws and government to which one owes allegiance. Subjects may rebel by an open renunciation of the authority of the government, without taking arms; but ordinarily, rebellion is accompanied by resistance in arms.
Ye have built you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord. Josh 22. Isa 1.
2. To rise in violent opposition against lawful authority.
How could my hand rebel against my heart? How could your heart rebel against your reason?
Rebuke - REBU'KE, v.t. [See Pack and Impeach.]
1. To chide; to reprove; to reprehend for a fault; to check by reproof.
The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd, not to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.
Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor. Lev 19.
2. To check or restrain.
The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan. Zec 3. Isa 17.
3. To chasten; to punish; to afflict for correction.
O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger. Psa 6.
4. To check; to silence.
Master, rebuke thy disciples. Luke 19.
5. To check; to heal.
And he stood over her and rebuked the fever. Luke 4.
6. To restrain; to calm.
He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea. Mat 8.
REBU'KE, n.
1. A chiding; reproof for faults; reprehension.
Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?
2. In Scripture, chastisement; punishment; affliction for the purpose of restraint and correction. Ezek 5. Hosea 5.
3. In low language, any kind of check.
To suffer rebuke, to endure the reproach and persecution of men. Jer 15.
To be without rebuke, to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.
Rebuke - REBU'KE, v.t. [See Pack and Impeach.]
1. To chide; to reprove; to reprehend for a fault; to check by reproof.
The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd, not to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.
Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor. Lev 19.
2. To check or restrain.
The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan. Zec 3. Isa 17.
3. To chasten; to punish; to afflict for correction.
O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger. Psa 6.
4. To check; to silence.
Master, rebuke thy disciples. Luke 19.
5. To check; to heal.
And he stood over her and rebuked the fever. Luke 4.
6. To restrain; to calm.
He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea. Mat 8.
REBU'KE, n.
1. A chiding; reproof for faults; reprehension.
Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?
2. In Scripture, chastisement; punishment; affliction for the purpose of restraint and correction. Ezek 5. Hosea 5.
3. In low language, any kind of check.
To suffer rebuke, to endure the reproach and persecution of men. Jer 15.
To be without rebuke, to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.