Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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REPONE, v., n. Also repon. [rə′pon]
I. v. †1. To restore to office, or to rights formerly held, to reinstate (Sc. 1808 Jam.). Hence reponement, restoration.Lnk. 1709 Minutes J.P.s (S.H.S.) 72:
The said defender ought and should be decerned to repone and restore the said purswer and his servants to their possessione.Edb. 1738 Caled. Mercury (4 Dec.):
The Magistrates interposed on their Behalf with the Officers, who reponed the Corporal to his Shoulder-Knot.Inv. 1775 A. Ross Freemasonry (1877) 95:
Reinstated and reponed to all his privileges as a Brother Mason of this Lodge.Sc. 1819 Edb. Ev. Courant (11 Feb.) 1:
Hugh Munro, late Messenger in Tain, who was suspended, from the 5th day of April 1816, for want of caution, has been this day reponed to his office.Sc. 1879 M. Dods Haggai, etc. 152:
The reponement of the law by Ezra in the mind and life of Israel.
†2. Specif. in Sc. Church usage: to restore a deposed minister to his charge; also less freq. of minor offices in the church. Vbl.n. reponing.Abd. 1716 Auchterless Kirk Session Rec. MS. (15 July):
The Presbytery had recommended Mr. Wm. Badiehell to this Session to be repon'd to his offices of precenter and Session Clerk which the Session Considering Did repon him to his saids offices.Sc. 1748 Acts Gen. Assembly Index 6:
Presbyteries are bound up from reponing Ministers deposed for Immoralities to their former Charge.Sc. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 291:
After deposition, the party is not be be regarded as a minister of the church, . . . even if he should be reponed, unless he is again settled in a ministerial charge.Lth. 1884 J. Plenderleith Kittlegairy Vacancy 111:
The Free Kirk folk would get all the malcontents if they reponed the Doctor.
3. Sc. Law: to restore (a defender) to his right to defend his case, esp. after judgment has been given against him in his absence. Vbl.n., ppl.adj., reponing.Wgt. 1707 Arch. and Hist. Coll. Ayr. and Wgt. IV. 221:
The defender craved to be reponed and gave in ane lybell of compensatione.Sc. 1721 Rec. Conv. Burghs (1885) 275:
The convention . . . reponed the said burgh against the said sentence.Sc. 1834 Session Cases (1833–4) 654:
A reclaiming note for Kenneth, praying to be reponed against the interlocutor in absence.Sc. 1931 Encycl. Laws Scot. XI. 590:
Reponing notes are reclaiming notes taken for the purpose of being reponed against decrees in absence or decrees by default.Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 76:
To repone a defender is to restore him to his position as a litigant when decree in absence has been given against him. Also competent in e.g., case of failure to lodge documents in appeal to Court of Session.
†4. To reply (Ayr. 1825 Jam.).
†II. n. A reply.Ayr. 1825 Jam.:
To make a repone, to give a reply.
