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React v. t. To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

React v. i.

To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

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Etymology of 'React'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"React" Quotes from Famous Books

... suddenly be with us the day after to-morrow is the possibility with which the neutral observer must count. There is no need of directly reversing the prophecies, as there are many energies in the soul of the nation which may react against this new tendency and may automatically check this un-American economic capture. It is a fight with equal chances, and which side will win cannot be foreseen. But if socialism really has entered the realm of practical possibilities, it becomes the duty of everybody to study the new demands ...

— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg

... Story of The Wolf and Seven Kids, if told with the proper emphasis on the climax of triumph and conclusion of joy, would lead the child to react with a water-color sketch of the dance of the Goat and her Kids about the well. For here you have all the elements needed for a simple picture—the sky, the full moon, the hill-top, the well, and the animals dancing in a ring. After finishing their sketches the children ...

— A Study of Fairy Tales • Laura F. Kready

... are likely to attain this level; few, perhaps, aspire to do so. Nevertheless, the training which falls short of producing complete self-control may yet accomplish something in the way of fitting us, by taking the edge off our worry, to react more comfortably to our surroundings, thus not only rendering us more desirable companions, but contributing directly to ...

— Why Worry? • George Lincoln Walton, M.D.

... worry the body, which is essentially and inherently evil." "No," said others, "the sins of the body don't hurt the mind; the two things are distinct, don't react on one another." (St. Paul deals with all this in the Colossians.) The Incarnation is the solution or the culmination ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... her hands seemed to go against him. They were paupers, and Aunt Hannah hated them. The fact had been always there, but it had never meant anything substantial to him till now. Now, at last, that complete dearth of love, in which he had lived since his father died, began to react in ...

— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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