REHETING AND REHETOURS

In answer to Dr. Todd's inquiries, I would say, first of all, the "rehatours" of Douglas and the other Scots are beside his question, and a totally different word. Feelings cherished in the mind will recur from time to time; and those malevolent persons, who thus retain them, were said to *re-hate*, as they are now said to re-sent. But the verb really in question is, *per se*, a perfectly plain one, to re-heat. The difficulty is as to its use. The primary use, of course, is to *heat again*. The nearest secondary use is "to cherish, cheer, or comfort, to refocillate;" which is too plain to requ…