Associations to the word «Reprise»

Wiktionary

REPRISE, noun. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
REPRISE, noun. (music) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme.
REPRISE, noun. (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position.
REPRISE, noun. A taking by way of retaliation.
REPRISE, noun. (legal) (in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
REPRISE, noun. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
REPRISE, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To take (something) up or on again.
REPRISE, verb. To repeat or resume an action
REPRISE, verb. (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.

Dictionary definition

REPRISE, verb. Repeat an earlier theme of a composition.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats