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recovered, ppl. a.|rɪˈkʌvəd| [f. recover v.1 + -ed1.] Restored, regained. † recovered rubber = reclaimed rubber s.v. reclaimed ppl. a. 2.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 1 To dispose my recouerd lyf to his seruyce. 1483Cath. Angl. 301/1 Recouerde, recuperatus. 1667Milton P.L. i. 240 By their own recover'd strength. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xviii. 331 And shall not the recovered soul..greatly rejoice? 1870Dickens Let. to W. Collins in Harper's Mag. (1891) Nov. 906/2 That it will leave you in a really recovered state of good health. 1892Sci. Amer. 7 May 293/2 Of all the materials used in rubber compounding, none was found to be as effective as recovered rubber, and this for the simple reason that when carefully prepared it is rubber. 1897India-Rubber & Gutta-Percha & Electr. Trades' Jrnl. 12 Apr. p. vi (Advt.), G. W. Laughton & Co., manufacturers of recovered rubbers. Ibid. p. vii (Advt.), The Recovered Rubber Works, Ltd., Clayton, Manchester. 1902Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 683/2 This rejuvenated substance is known in New York as ‘recovered’ rubber. 1906R. W. Sindall Paper Technol. iv. 37 The organic matter is burnt off, and the mass left behind consists mainly of impure carbonate of soda. This residue is known as ‘recovered ash’. 1929Clapperton & Henderson Mod. Paper-Making xxii. 317 Most of the recovered stuff will have to be used in a paper of a lower grade. 1952F. H. Norris Paper & Paper Making xiv. 225 The most important point is the final recovery cost as compared with the value of the recovered fibre.
▸ recovered memory n. the restoration of memories, esp. of childhood sexual abuse, that had apparently been lost or suppressed, occurring during psychotherapy or psychoanalysis (freq. in recovered memory syndrome); a specific memory that had apparently been lost or suppressed; cf. false memory n.
1941Psychoanal. Rev. 28 130 The failure of a patient to react favorably with clinical improvement following a *recovered memory of incidents upon which symptoms have been founded is one of the really important problems still remaining to be clearly understood in analysis. 1972Physiol. & Behavior 8 645 The recovered memory was found to be stable over repeated test trials. 1993Sunday Times 14 Nov. 22/7 ‘Recovered memory syndrome’, in which children and adults ‘discover’ under therapy that they were abused as children, is one of the most painful issues dividing American families. 2004A. G. Harvey et al. Cognitive Behavioural Processes across Psychol. Disorders 87 It is likely that some reports of recovered memories are false, but possible that some reports of recovered memories are true. |