KJV Dictionary Definition: repeat

repeat

REPE'AT, v.t. L. repeto; re and peto, to make at or drive towards. this verb ought to be written repete, in analogy with compete, and with repetition.

1. To do, make, attempt or utter again; to iterate; as, to repeat an action; to repeat an attempt or exertion; to repeat a word or discourse; to repeat a song; to repeat an argument.

2. To try again.

I the danger will repeat.

3. to recite; to rehearse.

He repeated some lines of Virgil.

To repeat signals, in the navy, is to make the same signal which the admiral or commander has made, or to make a signal again.

REPE'AT, n.

1. In music, a mark directing a part to be repeated in performance.

2. Repetition.

repeated

REPE'ATED, pp. done, attempted or spoken again; recited.

repeater

REPE'ATER, n.

1. One that repeats; one that recites or rehearses.

2. A watch that strikes the hours at will, by the compression of a spring.

repeating

REPE'ATING, ppr. Doing or uttering again.