reprise

plural reprises

1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
2. entertainmentA repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
3. fencingA renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
4. A taking by way of retaliation.

   Your care about your banks infers a fear Of threatening floods ,and inundations near; If so, a just reprise would only be Of what the land usurped upon the sea

   1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC

5. in plurallawDeductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
6. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
7. businessIn masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.

present singular third person reprises · participle present reprising · participle past reprised · past reprised

1. obsoletetransitiveTo take (something) up or on again.

   How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

2. To repeat or resume an action or a role.

   The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.

   1 more example

   The notion of a "psychological wage" originated with Du Bois, was later employed by Fredrickson, and has been reprised in the context of northern industrialism by Roediger.

   2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 161

   Synonyms: repeat

3. obsoleteTo recompense; to pay.

   Synonyms: compensate