regest

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin regesta, plural: compare Old French regestes, plural. See register.

Noun

regest (plural regests)

  1. (obsolete) A register.
    • 1670, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. , London: J M for James Allestry, , →OCLC, page 134:
      But who was cheif among the Britans in this exploit, had bin worth remembring, whether it were Maglocune of whose prowess hath bin spok’n, or Teudric King of Glamorgan, whom the regest of Landaff recounts to have bin alwaies victorious in fight; […]

Etymology 2

Verb

regest (third-person singular simple present regests, present participle regesting, simple past and past participle regested)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To throw back.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “regest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Verb

regest

  1. second-person singular subjunctive I of regen
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