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re-aˈrrange, v. [re- 5 a.] To arrange anew.
1824De Quincey in London Mag. Jan. 5/2, I have therefore abstracted, re-arranged, and in some respects..have improved, the German work on this subject. 1860Tyndall Glac. 4 Is it meant that these particles, each taken as a whole, were re-arranged after deposition? 1863A. C. Ramsay Phys. Geog. 13 On cooling, the constituents re-arranged themselves. So re-aˈrrangeable a.; re-aˈrrangement.
1867H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xiii. §102. 297 Its parts are no longer appreciably re-arrangeable by any save violent actions. 1863Sat. Rev. 6 June 719 It will repay the trouble of rearrangement and fresh elaboration.
Add: re-aˈrranged ppl. a.
1873[see torrential a. 1]. 1976Daily Record (Glasgow) 22 Nov. 27/5 The re-arranged game at Pittodrie on Wednesday. 1988A. Brookner Latecomers i. 13 Fibich, as gaunt as ever, but with expensively rearranged teeth. |