reprise
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reprise
- /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/
- /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/
Rhymes with -iːz, -aɪz
Where it comes from
From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre. In some senses borrowed anew from Modern French reprise.
noun reprises
- A recurrence or resumption of an action.
- 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.
- A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
- A taking by way of retaliation. 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
- Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
- A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
- In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
verb reprises · reprising · reprised
- To take (something) up or on again. 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.
- To repeat or resume an action or a role. The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.
- To recompense; to pay.
Similar: reimburse
