v. t. [ F. représenter, L. repraesentare, repraesentatum; pref. re- re- + preesentare to place before, present. See Present, v. t. ]
Before him burn
Seven lamps, as in a zodiac representing
The heavenly fires. Milton. [ 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 ]
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 ]
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. ]
a. Implying representation; representative. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. LL. repraesentativus. ] [ 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 ]
☞ 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 ]
a. [ Cf. F. repr&unr_;sentatif. ]
adv. In a representative manner; vicariously. [ 1913 Webster ]