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Rh but clothing, food and air. When a requirement partakes of the nature of a legal or authoritative or even popular demand, it then becomes a requisition; as, a requisition for accounts; to be in requisition.

resemble. Compare.

reside, residence: Somewhat stately words, not to be indiscriminately used for live, house or home. In the legal sense, as affecting, for instance, the right to vote, a man's residence may be in a cheap lodging-house; but commonly the word would be understood to designate a building of some pretensions. "Where does he live?" is ordinarily better than "Where does he reside?" and to call a plain little cottage "my residence" is a bit of petty affectation.

resource. Compare.

respectfully is often confounded by the thoughtless with respectively. While the former means "in a respectful manner" the latter signifies "singly, in the order designated, or as singly considered." Respectively must also be distinguished from severally, the meaning of which is "separately, or each for himself or itself." For example, "The three men severally undertook to do the share of work allotted to them respectively, that is, A, B, C, each promised for himself to do work in the following proportions—A, one-sixth, B, one-third, and C, one-half of the whole."

restive: Objection has been made to the use of this word in the sense of restless, as commonly applied to 185