Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rebus
Participle: rebused
Gerund: rebusing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | rebus |
| you | rebus |
| he;she;it | rebuses |
| we | rebus |
| you | rebus |
| they | rebus |
Perfect
| I | have rebused |
| you | have rebused |
| he;she;it | has rebused |
| we | have rebused |
| you | have rebused |
| they | have rebused |
Past
| I | rebused |
| you | rebused |
| he;she;it | rebused |
| we | rebused |
| you | rebused |
| they | rebused |
Pluperfect
| I | had rebused |
| you | had rebused |
| he;she;it | had rebused |
| we | had rebused |
| you | had rebused |
| they | had rebused |
Future
| I | will rebus |
| you | will rebus |
| he;she;it | will rebus |
| we | will rebus |
| you | will rebus |
| they | will rebus |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rebused |
| you | will have rebused |
| he;she;it | will have rebused |
| we | will have rebused |
| you | will have rebused |
| they | will have rebused |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rebus |
| you | rebus |
| he;she;it | rebus |
| we | rebus |
| you | rebus |
| they | rebus |
Perfect
| I | have rebused |
| you | have rebused |
| he;she;it | have rebused |
| we | have rebused |
| you | have rebused |
| they | have rebused |
Imperfect
| I | rebused |
| you | rebused |
| he;she;it | rebused |
| we | rebused |
| you | rebused |
| they | rebused |
Pluperfect
| I | had rebused |
| you | had rebused |
| he;she;it | had rebused |
| we | had rebused |
| you | had rebused |
| they | had rebused |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rebus |
| you | would rebus |
| he;she;it | would rebus |
| we | would rebus |
| you | would rebus |
| they | would rebus |
Perfect
| I | would have rebused |
| you | would have rebused |
| he;she;it | would have rebused |
| we | would have rebused |
| you | would have rebused |
| they | would have rebused |
Imperative
| you | rebus |
| we | Let's rebus |
| you | rebus |
Verbs conjugated like 'rebus'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'rebus'
debus,
rebud,
rebush,
rebut,
rebuy,
bebusy,
bus,
debug,
debut,
embus,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From French rébus (“rebus (puzzle); ambiguity; word used in an oblique sense; unintelligible remark”), or directly from its probable etymon Latin rēbus, the ablative plural of rēs (“object, stuff, thing; issue, matter, subject, topic”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“goods; wealth”). The connection between the English word and its Latin etymon is unclear.
2. further etymology
3. The following possibilities have been suggested, but according to the Oxford English Dictionary are problematic:
4. * According to the French scholar Gilles Ménage (1613–1692) in Les origines de la langue françoise (The Origins of the French Language, 1650), it is taken from the phrase de rebus quae geruntur (“concerning the things that are taking place”) which was used in 16th-century Picardy as the name for satirical writings on contemporary subjects containing picture-riddles that were composed for an annual carnival. However, the term rebus de Picardie is first attested later than the word rébus, and so could simply refer to rebuses popular in Picardy at the time.
5. * Alternatively, it could be from the phrase nōn verbīs sed rēbus meaning “not by words but by things”, but this “encounters difficulties in the chronology of the senses in French”.
Sample Sentences
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He [John Morton] was a learned man, and had a fair library, (rebussed with more in text and tun under it,) partly remaining in the possession of the late earl of Arundel. [1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section IV. To John Ferrars, of Tamworth Castle, Esquire.”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI), subsection 34 (The Death of Archbishop Morton. A.D. 1500.), page 539:]