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Webster 1913 Edition

(r?pˊ?-da′sh?n)

Noun.

[L.

repedare

to step back; pref.

re-

re- +

pes

pedis

, foot.]

A stepping or going back.

[Obs.]

Dr. H. More.

Noun.

[Low L. repedo; re and pes, the foot.] A stepping or going back. [Not in use.]

repedation ‎(plural repedations)

A stepping or going back.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 84:
  " […] to take notice of the Direction, Stations and Repedations of those Erratick Lights, and from thence most convincingly to inform himself of that pleasant and true Paradox of the Annual Motion of the Earth […]