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▪ I. reaˈssort, v. [re- 5 a.] trans. To assort again. So reaˈssortment.
1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 294 He took care to provide..reassortments of stock, which he safely deposited in his warehouse. 1870Orton Andes & Amazons ii. xxxii. (1876) 438 Wool is generally taken to that city..to be re-assorted and repacked. 1872W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks vi. 193 The whole mass has evidently been reassorted by water. 1959B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Path. xi. 330 He may break down under the stress of the eleven-plus reassortment. 1971D. J. Cove Genetics i. 8 The formation of a zygote by the gametes of the two different strains, followed by the production of ascospores must provide an opportunity for the shuffling or reassortment of genetic information affecting different characters. ▪ II. † reassort obs. variant of resort v.
1535in Lett. Suppress. Monasteries (Camden) 85 There was here suche frequence of women commyng and reassorting to this monastery. |