‖n. [ F. See Enterprise. ] (Polit. Econ.) One who takes the initiative to create a product or establish a business for profit; generally, whoever undertakes on his own account an enterprise in which others are employed and risks are taken. F. A. Walker. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an entrepreneur or entrepreneurship; as, entrepreneurial risks. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. willing to undertake a project requiring initiative and involving risk, for one's own purposes; -- of people. [ PJC ]

n. the activity of organizing, managing, and assuming the risks of a business enterprise. The individual doing the organizing is called the entrepreneur. [ PJC ]

a. Proof against fire; incombustible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To prize or rate beforehand. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. irreprehensibilis: cf. F. irrépréhensible. See Reprehensible. ] Not reprehensible; blameless; innocent. -- Ir*rep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rep`re*hen"si*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not capable of being represented or portrayed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict. W. H. Steward. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ir- not + reproachable: cf. F. irréprochable. ] Not reproachable; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Berkely ] erred, -- and who is free from error? -- but his intentions were irreproachable. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of being justly reproved; irreproachable; blameless; upright. -- Ir`re*prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*prov"a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfavorably); to give a false or erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignorantly, or carelessly. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make an incorrect or untrue representation. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional untruth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who misrepresents. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Art) not intended to realistically represent a physical object; -- of visual art work. Opposite of representational. [ Narrower terms: abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective ; conventional, formal, schematic ; geometric, geometrical ; protogeometric ; semiabstract ] Also See: abstract.
Syn. -- nonobjective. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. Not standing for something else. Opposite of representative.
Syn. -- unsymbolic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Not giving a true representation of the characteristics of a group; -- of a sample or subgroup of a group; as, the weather we had in the summer of 1996 gave a nonrepresentative view of our normal weather.
Syn. -- biased, unrepresentative. [ PJC ]

v. t. To provide beforehand. “The materials preprovided.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Reproof. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reprehended; p. pr. & vb. n. Reprehending. ] [ L. reprehendere, reprehensum, to hold back, seize, check, blame; pref. re- re- + prehendere to lay hold of. See Prehensile, and cf. Reprisal. ] To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aristippus being reprehended of luxury by one that was not rich, for that he gave six crowns for a small fish. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pardon me for reprehending thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In which satire human vices, ignorance, and errors . . . are severely reprehended. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

I nor advise nor reprehend the choice. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who reprehends. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. reprehensibilis: cf. F. répréhensible. ] Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable. -- Rep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. -- Rep`re*hen"si*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. reprehensio: cf. F. répréhension. ] Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval. [ 1913 Webster ]

This Basilius took as though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension that he had not showed more gratefulness to Dorus. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Censure; reproof; reprimand. See Admonition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. répréhensif. ] Containing reprehension; conveying reproof. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Rep`re*hen"sive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Containing reproof; reprehensive; as, reprehensory complaint. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. représenter, L. repraesentare, repraesentatum; pref. re- re- + preesentare to place before, present. See Present, v. t. ] 1. To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before him burn
Seven lamps, as in a zodiac representing
The heavenly fires. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To portray by pictoral or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To portray by mimicry or action of any kind; to act the part or character of; to personate; as, to represent Hamlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To stand in the place of; to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of; to speak and act with authority in behalf of; to act the part of (another); as, an heir represents his ancestor; an attorney represents his client in court; a member of Congress represents his district in Congress. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To exhibit to another mind in language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of; to bring before the mind; to set forth; sometimes, to give an account of; to describe. [ 1913 Webster ]

He represented Rizzio's credit with the queen to be the chief and only obstacle to his success in that demand. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words represent ideas or things. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present. [ 1913 Webster ]

Among these. Fancy next
Her office holds; of all external things
Which he five watchful senses represent,
She forms imaginations, aery shapes. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Metaph.) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

The general capability of knowledge necessarily requires that, besides the power of evoking out of unconsciousness one portion of our retained knowledge in preference to another, we posses the faculty of representing in consciousness what is thus evoked . . . This representative Faculty is Imagination or Phantasy. Sir. W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being represented. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Representation; likeness. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. repr&unr_;sentant. ] Appearing or acting for another; representing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. representant. ] A representative. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. repr&unr_;sentation, L. representatio. ] 1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which represents. Specifically: (a) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like. (b) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet. (c) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate. (d) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress. (e) (Insurance Law) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being represented. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Description; show; delineaton; portraiture; likeness; resemblance; exhibition; sight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Implying representation; representative. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. repr&unr_;sentatif. ] 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Nat.Hist.) (a) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family. (b) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Metaph.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. repraesentativus. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

A statute of Rumor, whispering an idiot in the ear, who was the representative of Credulity. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Difficulty must cumber this doctrine which supposes that the perfections of God are the representatives to us of whatever we perceive in the creatures. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The executor or administrator is ordinarily held to be the representative of a deceased person, and is sometimes called the legal representative, or the personal representative. The heir is sometimes called the real representative of his deceased ancestor. The heirs and executors or administrators of a deceased person are sometimes compendiously described as his real and personal representatives. Wharton. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Nat.Hist.) (a) That which presents the full character of the type of a group. (b) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a representative manner; vicariously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being representative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with consciousness and representativeness. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A representative. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Representation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. re- + press. ] To press again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. re- + press: cf. L. reprimere, repressum. Cf. Reprimand. ] 1. To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back. [ 1913 Webster ]

Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, . . .
Thou couldst repress. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To crush; overpower; subdue; suppress; restrain; quell; curb; check. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of repressing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, represses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being repressed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. répression. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which represses; check; restraint. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. répressif. LL. repressivus. ] Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures. -- Re*press"ive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]