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verb

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"React" Quotes from Famous Books

... centuries they have been rooted in diverse nationalisms; they differ from each other, group by group; the only thing they have in common is the pressure which holds them together. All humiliated peoples have Jewish characteristics, and as soon as the pressure is removed they react ...

— The Jewish State • Theodor Herzl

... Public Improvements was reached, and he straightened. Mr. Beck, a railroad lawyer from Belfast, led it. Mr. Crewe arose, as any man of spirit would, and walked with dignity up the aisle and out of the house. This deliberate attempt to crush genius would inevitably react on itself. The Honourable Hilary Vane and Mr. Flint should be informed of it ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... conquest of Naples, to which the crown of Aragon had just claims. His plan was to oppose to the mighty consolidated power of France a family alliance with the Austro-Burgundian House, with Portugal, above all with England: he hoped that this would react on Italy, always wont to adhere to the most powerful party. Ferdinand offered the King of England a marriage between his youngest daughter Catharine and the Prince of Wales. In the English Privy Council many objections were made to this; they did not wish to draw the enmity of France on themselves ...

— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke

... and material force do pass into one another; a conflict of opinion often ends in a fight. Putting it the other way, there is no material conflict without attendant clash of opinion. Opinion and matter act and react as do all things else; they come up hand in hand out of something which is both and neither, but, so far as we can catch sight of either first on our mental horizon, it is opinion that is ...

— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler

... am inclined to believe that root stocks and scion varieties worked in the north and grown in the north or worked in the south and grown in the south may not react ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting - Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 • Various

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