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Representative
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(a.) Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
(2):
(a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.
(3):
(a.) Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
(4):
(a.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
(5):
(a.) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; - said of certain species and varieties.
(6):
(a.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.
(7):
(n.) One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
(8):
(n.) An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.
(9):
(n.) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.
(10):
(n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress.
(11):
(n.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group.
(12):
(n.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Representative'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/representative.html. 1828.
