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▪ I. reˈquite, n. rare.
[f. the vb.]
Requital.
1561Preston Cambyses D j, For councel giuen vnto the King is this thy iust requite? 1862A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 3 A drap and a bite's but a sma' requite.
▪ II. requite, v.|rɪˈkwaɪt|
Also 6 -quyte, -quight.
[f. re- (as in repay) + quite, var. of quit v.]
1. trans. To repay, make return for, reward (a kindness, service, etc.).
1529Wolsey in Four C. Eng. Lett. (1880) 11 So I shal not fayle to requyte your kyndnes. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. Ded., There be two whose benifites to vs can neuer be requited: God, and our parents. 1639Fuller Holy War ii. xlvi. (1840) 114 They requited Christ's passion, and died for him who suffered for them. 1683J. Gadbury Wharton's Wks. Pref., He served his Soveraign faithfully, the King as bountifully requites his Services. 1778Cowper Let. 1 Jan., The pleasure of requiting an obligation has always been out of my reach. 1819Shelley Cenci ii. ii. 34 Requiting years of care with contumely. 1854Macaulay Biog. (1867) 16 His servility was requited with cold contempt.
refl.1711Pope Temp. Fame 363 To conceal from sight Those acts of goodness, which themselves requite.
b. To repay, make retaliation or return for, to avenge (a wrong, injury, etc.).
1555Eden Decades 131 With so gentell a reuenge requitynge thingratitude of hym. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. vi. 9 Let me this crave,..That first I may that wrong to him requite. 1611Bible Gen. l. 15 Ioseph..will certainely requite vs all the euill which we did vnto him. 1654Bramhall Just Vind. vi. (1661) 153 To requite their invectives, he made the statutes of provisors. 1820Shelley Hom. Merc. lxv, I will requite..His cruel threat. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §6. 409 Drake..had requited the wrongs inflicted by the Inquisition on English seamen.
absol.1611Bible Jer. li. 56 The Lord God of recompenses shall surely requite.
2. To repay, make return to (one) for some service, etc.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 275, I am fully determined to requite your Prince with lyke thankefulnes. 1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle D.'s Wks. 1873 III. 164, I am so poore to requite you, you must looke for nothing but thankes of me. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. vi. (1701) 228/1 This place, to which Aristotle owed his Birth, he afterwards requited with extraordinary Gratitude. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 244, I was as well able to requite him for a large present as he was to make it. 1790Cowper Mother's Pict. 86, I should ill requite thee to constrain Thy unbounded spirit into bonds again. 1864Skeat Uhland's Poems 163 [He] Expects from him some tale or minstrel-lay, And afterward requites him with the like.
b. To pay back, make retaliation on (one) for some injury, etc.
c1590Marlowe Faust. x, Not so much for the injury..hath Faustus worthily requited this injurious knight. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. xiii. 61 Hee payes vs shot for shot; Well, wee shall requite him. 1656Bramhall Replic. 47 It is hard when they come to accuse us of blood guiltiness, I could requite him with a black list of murthers and Massacres. 1819Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. 392 He but requites me for his own misdeed. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) II. xxx. 313 The lady had the last word, but was requited with a blow.
†c. refl. To avenge (oneself). Obs. rare—1.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage vii. iii. (1614) 669 The Indians..slew many Tartars, who could not see to requite themselues thorow the smoke.
†3. To repay with the like; to return (a visit).
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xxi. 102 b, Jesus..requited their question with an other. a1648Ld. Herbert in Life (1886) 202, I spent my time much in the visits of the princes,..who did ever punctually requite my visits.
†b. To salute (one) in return. Obs. rare.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. x. 49 They him saluted, standing far afore; Who, well them greeting, humbly did requight. 1591― M. Hubberd 587 Lowly they him saluted in meeke wise; But he..scarce vouchsafte them to requite.
4. To make return of; to give or do in return for something. † Also with double obj.
a1547Surrey æneid ii. 185 If I speake truth, and..For graunt of life requite thee large amendes. 1555Eden Decades 7 They serue them with lyke sause, requitinge deathe for deathe. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 779 They are iustified freely, because working nothing, and requiting nothing, they are iustified by onely faith. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §60. 296 In case of talio, or requiting like for like. 1877C. Geikie Christ xxxvi. (1879) 431 To requite like for like was assumed as both just and righteous.
†5. To take the place of, to make up for, to counterbalance or compensate. Obs.
1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 5 Pembrokshere reacheth to the Ryver Taf, and then Carmarthenshere requiteing it, reaches to the Ryver Cledde. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. iii. (1672) 80 Which is a way of intelligence very strange, and would requite the lost Art of Pythagoras, who could read a reverse in the Moon. 1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 184 From whence will naturally flow..scarcity and poverty to requite their luxury before. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. iv. 76 Thy Mother well deserves that short delight, The nauseous Qualms of..Travel to requite.
Hence reˈquited ppl. a. (only in ill- or well-requited); reˈquiting vbl. n. Also † reˈquite-ful a., making due return; † reˈquiteless a., unrequited, without requital; reˈquitement, requital, revenge.
1730–46Thomson Autumn 899 Wallace.., Great patriot heroe! ill *requited chief! 1828Scott F.M. Perth xv, There is enough of employment for them; well requited employment, too.
1607Middleton Five Gallants ii. i, Yet were you never that *requiteful mistress That grac'd me with one favour. 1607Norden Surv. Dial. v. 227 It would not beare a crop of requitefull increase.
1603J. Davies Microcosmos (Grosart) 68 For this, his loue *requitelesse doth approue, He gaue her beeing, meerly of free grace. 1606Chapman Gentl. Usher iii. i, Why fayth, deare friend, I would not die requiteless.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV, 17 b, The erle Douglas sore beyng greued with the losse of his nacion and frendes, entendyng a *requitement if it were possible of the same..did gather a houge armie. 1893Strand Mag. V. 347/2 Dark deeds of requitement.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 18 b, Thankefulnesse is a *requityng of loue, for loue. 1578Golding tr. Seneca's Benef. (title-p.), The Dooing, Receyving, and Requyting of Good Turnes. |