requite

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.)

   “[T]hey requited Chriſts paſſion, and died for him vvho ſuffered for them.”

2. fiil To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward (someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.

   “Sir I am ſo poore to requite you, you muſt looke for nothing but thankes of me, […]”

3. fiil To respond to or reciprocate (feelings, especially affection or love which has been shown).

   “My loue is requyted ſo louyngly / That in euery thyng that may delyght my mynde, / My wyt can not wyſhe it ſo well as I fynde”

4. fiil To do or give a thing in return for (something).
5. fiil To retaliate or seek revenge for (an insult, a wrong, etc.).; to avenge.

   “Let me this craue, ſith firſt I vvas defyde, / That firſt I may that vvrong to him requite: / And if I hap to fayle, you ſhall recure my right.”

6. fiil To retaliate or seek revenge against (someone) for an insult, a wrong, etc.; also (reflexive, rare), to seek revenge for (oneself).

   “My Gratious Lord, not ſo much for the iniury hée offred me héere in your preſence, as to delight you with ſome mirth, hath Fauſtus worthily requited this iniurious knight, which being all I deſire, I am content to releaſe him of his hornes: […]”

7. fiil To greet (someone) in return.

   “They him ſaluted ſtanding far afore; / VVho vvell them greeting, humbly did requight, / And asked, to vvhat end they clomb that tedious hight.”

8. fiil To make up for (something); to compensate.
9. fiil To respond to (a question, a statement, etc.).

   “Jeſus […] requited their queſtion vvith an other, as though a man ſhoulde dryue out one nayle vvith an other.”

10. fiil To take the place of (someone or something); to replace.

    “This Roman Hierarchy ſhall be Politically killed, deveſted of all Povver and Authority: From vvhence vvill naturally flovv Mourning and Famine, grief of heart, vvith ſcarcity and poverty to requite their luxury before.”

11. fiil Of an action, a quality, etc.: to be a reward for (itself).

    “'Tis all vve beg thee, to conceal from Sight / Thoſe Acts of Goodneſs, vvhich themſelves requite.”

12. fiil To recompense, to repay.
13. fiil To retaliate, to seek revenge.

    “[…] Chriſt and his holy apoſtles, exhort euery man to pacience and ſufferance, without requiting of an euil dede or making anye defence but vſing further ſufferance, & doyng alſo good for euill, […]”

14. isim Chiefly in the form in requite for or of: synonym of requital (“compensation for damage or loss; return in kind, recompense, repayment, reward”).