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Definition of Representative
Rep`re`sent´a`tive Pronunciation: ~z?nt`?-t?v | a. | 1. | Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude. | | 2. | Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people. | | 3. | Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government. | | 4. | (Nat.Hist.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family. | | 5. | (Metaph.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. | | n. | 1. | | | 1. | One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude. | | 2. | An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority. | | 3. | (Law) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another. | | 4. | A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress. | | 5. | (Nat.Hist.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group. |
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