English

Verb

repræsent ‎(third-person singular simple present repræsents, present participle repræsenting, simple past and past participle repræsented)

1. Obsolete spelling of represent
   • 1660–1672, Francis Willughby (edited by David Cram, Jeffrey L. Forgeng and Dorothy Johnston), Francis Willughby’s book of games: a seventeenth-century treatise on sports, games, and pastimes (republished in 2003 by Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 1859284604, 9781859284605), page 113:

     The motion of the table men round thorough the points repræsents the motion of the sun thorough the signes of zodiack. It is therefore likely that tables were at first round, but that beeing found inconvenient for the placing of the men they afterwards came to this oblong figure.

Related terms

• repræsentation

Anagrams

• terrapenes