The Collaborative International Dictionary
Respecting \Re*spect"ing\, prep. With regard or relation to; regarding; concerning; as, respecting his conduct there is but one opinion.
Respect \Re*spect"\ (r?*sp?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Respected; p. pr. & vb. n. Respecting.] [L. respectare, v. intens. from respicere, respectum, to look back, respect; pref. re- re- + specere, spicere, to look, to view: cf. F. respecter. See Spy, and cf. Respite.]
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To take notice of; to regard with special attention; to regard as worthy of special consideration; hence, to care for; to heed.
Thou respectest not spilling Edward's blood.
--Shak.In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground for fruits, trees, and herbs.
--Bacon. To consider worthy of esteem; to regard with honor. ``I do respect thee as my soul.''
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To look toward; to front upon or toward. [Obs.]
Palladius adviseth the front of his house should so respect the ??uth.
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To regard; to consider; to deem. [Obs.]
To whom my father gave this name of Gaspar, And as his own respected him to death.
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To have regard to; to have reference to; to relate to; as, the treaty particularly respects our commerce.
As respects, as regards; with regard to; as to.
--Macaulay.To respect the person or To respect the persons, to favor a person, or persons on corrupt grounds; to show partiality. ``Ye shall not respect persons in judgment.''
--Deut. i. 17.Syn: To regard; esteem; honor; revere; venerate.
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vb. (present participle of respect English)
Usage examples of "respecting".
Teatro Argentino, then he should be able to establish his identity, and also to prosecute his researches respecting him with perfect facility and freedom.
John of Cagshoe in Bedfordshire, and they differ equally respecting his mother.
A committee was appointed to confer with her respecting the Burman Mission, and at her suggestion several important measures were adopted.
Notwithstanding we thus restricted ourselves, and even loaded the carioles with part of the luggage, instead of embarking in them ourselves, we did not set out without considerable grumbling from the voyagers of both Companies, respecting the overlading of their dogs.
We here saw two hunters who were Chipewyan half-breeds, and made many inquiries of them respecting the countries we expected to visit, but we found them quite ignorant of every part beyond the Athabasca Lake.
I had left the Tuileries at the moment he returned, but Duroc sent to me where I was dining the following billet: The First Consul desires me, my dear Bourrienne, to inform you that he accepts your resignation, and to request that you will give me the necessary information respecting your papers.
The Emperor on recalling Duroc from Berlin did not manifest the least apprehension respecting Prussia.
In many works by theological writers, and by scientific writers, of free habits of thought, like Strauss and Spencer, collections have been made of the fancies and theories of mankind respecting the survival of the spirit and the conditions of its experience after the death of the body.
Nothing very definite is known respecting the functions of this fluid.
Polo de Ondegardo informed him respecting the administrative system of the Incas, so admirably adapted to the genius of the people, and he had the wisdom to see that there was much to learn from it.
The scribes whose duties pertained to making records respecting this business, used both red and black inks, contained in different receptacles in a desk, which, when not in use, was placed in a box or trunk, with leather handles at the sides, and in this way was carried from place to place.
Emily remembered all that Valancourt had told her, on the eve of her departure from Languedoc, respecting Montoni, and all that he had said to dissuade her from venturing on the journey.
Their intensely cherished preconceptions respecting the Messiah, their persecution and crucifixion of Jesus, the glaring inconsistency of his teachings and experience with most that they expected, these things compelled their incredulity to every proof of the Messiahship of the contemned and murdered Nazarene.
We obtained some information respecting the Molokans, and were directed to Nicolai Schmidt in Steinbach, who often has communication with them.
Northern mudsills whom you affect to despise, and we came down here to lick you into respecting us.