Respired vs Respited - What's the difference?
respired | respited |
(respire)
To breathe in and out.
To engage in the process of respiration.
To recover one's breath or breathe easily following stress.
* 1671 , (John Milton), (Samson Agonistes) , lines 10-11:
To inhale and exhale; to breathe.
(obsolete) Rest, respite.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
(respite)
A brief interval of rest or relief.
* Denham
* Shakespeare
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, title= * 2013 May 23, (Sarah Lyall), "
(legal) A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death.
(legal) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
To delay or postpone.
As verbs the difference between respired and respited
is that respired is (respire) while respited is (respite).respired
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(head)Anagrams
*respire
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Verb
(en-verb)- The breath of heav'n fresh-blowing, pure and sweet, / With day-spring born; here leave me to respire .
Synonyms
* (to breathe in and out) seeNoun
(en noun)- He cast to suffer him no more respire , / But gan his sturdie sterne about to weld, / And him so strongly stroke, that to the ground him feld.
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* * ----respited
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(head)respite
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(en noun)- Some pause and respite only I require.
- I crave but four day's respite .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite , and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.
