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▪ I. repartee, n.|rɛpəˈtiː, rɛpɑː-|
Also 7 reparty, 7–8 repartie; 7 reperte(e, rapartee.
[ad. F. repartie, fem. pa. pple. of repartir to start or set out again, to reply promptly, f. re- re- + partir to part.]
1. A ready, witty, or smart reply; a quick and clever retort.
c1645Howell Lett. i. i. xviii, He would passe by any thing with some repartie, som witty strain. 1664Dryden Rival Ladies Ded., In the quickness of Reparties (which in Discoursive Scenes fall very often) it [rhyme] has so particular a Grace. 1672Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Rehearsal iii. i, First one speaks, then presently t'other's upon him slap, with a Rapartee. 1673Marvell Reh. Transp. II. 10 This reparty of Theodorus he recommends there for so ingenious. 1712Addison Spect. No. 487 ⁋4 The Grave abound in Pleasantries, the Dull in Repartees and Points of Wit. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. xxvii, His mistress looked a little disconcerted at this blunt repartee. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. iv. vi. §17 The foolish alternation of repartees in a series of single lines will never be found in Racine. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt i, The smiling glances of pretty barmaids, and the repartees of jocose ostlers.
2. Without article: Sharpness or wit in sudden reply; such replies collectively; the practice or faculty of uttering them.
1668Dryden Even. Love Pref., As for reparty in particular, as it is the very Soul of Conversation, so it is the greatest grace of Comedy. a1704T. Brown On the Beauties Wks. 1730 I. 44 Unite two Stocks, to form the witty She, Dorinda's sense, and Flavia's repartee. 1765Goldsm. Double Transform. 40 Skill'd in no other arts was she, But dressing, patching and repartee. 1829Lytton Devereux i. iii, Nothing was so favourite a topic as the extent of my rudeness and the venom of my repartee. 1868Farrar Seekers ii. v. (1875) 255 A power of swift repartee is necessary to him.
attrib.1671Butler Rem. (1759) I. 149 [To] speak by Repartee-rotines Out of the most authentic of Romances.
▪ II. repartee, v.|rɛpəˈtiː, rɛpɑː-|
Also 7 repartie, -ty, repertee.
[f. prec., or ad. F. repartir.]
1. a. intr. To make witty or smart replies. Also const. to. Now rare.
a1668Denham Martial Poems (1668) 80 If wise thou wilt appear, and knowing, Repartie, repartie To what I'm doing. 1676D'Urfey Mme. Fickle iv. ii, I am not so old, but I can Repertee as well as another, if occasion serve. 1689N. Lee Princ. Cleve i. ii, I know how to Repartee with the best. 1710Tatler No. 242 ⁋8 Replies, to which all the Malice in the World will not be able to repartee. a1774Goldsm. tr. Scarron's Com. Romance (1775) II. 32 Perceiving that he has not reparteed to what she has advanced. 1838Fraser's Mag. XVII. 120 He punned not..like Theodore Hook; nor reparteed like George Colman. 1910G. B. Shaw Let. 9 Dec. (1972) II. 957, I spent an hour and a half shouting, bullying..& reparteeing until I was as one in a Turkish bath.
†b. To retort upon a person. (Cf. next.) Obs.—1
1687Settle Refl. Dryden 85 Now to repartee upon him in his own beloved style.
†2. trans. To say by way of repartee or retort. Also const. upon. Obs.
1682Natural Hist. Coffee, etc. 30 We cannot but Repartee upon these Alamode Persons, that while they Worship so much only Foreign Creatures, they cannot but be wholly ignorant of those at home. 1686F. Spence tr. Varillas' Ho. Medicis 13 Farganaccio reparteed, that he was only his treasurer. Ibid. 299 Piero..cou'd not fail of repartying that when the French king was master of Naples [etc.].
†3. To answer (a person or something said) with a repartee or retort. Obs. rare.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 72 If Pits had been so Ironically against Bale, he had been deservedly reparteed with his Plagiary Shifts. 1743G. Carleton Mem. (1809) 29 A piece of raillery..which was as handsomely reparteed.
Hence reparˈteeing vbl. n.
1680Aubrey Lives (1813) 545 He was incomparably readie at repartying and his witt most sparkling when most sett upon and provoked. 1760Sterne Tr. Shandy III. Auth. Pref., There would be so much..scoffing and flouting, with raillying and reparteeing of it. |