To respit after sentence of death; to suspend or delay the execution of for a time; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days. He reprieves the sinner from time to time.

To grant a respit to; to relieve for a time for any suffering. Company, though it may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet cannot secure a man from his conscience.

The temporary suspension of the execution of sentence of death on acriminal.

Respit; interval of ease or relief. All that I ask is but a short reprieve, till I forgot to love, and learn to grieve.