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▪ I. recreate, v.1|ˈrɛkrɪeɪt|
[ad. L. recreāt-, ppl. stem of recreāre to restore, refresh, f. re- re- + creāre to create. Cf. F. récréer (14th c. in Littré).]
1. a. To restore to a good or normal physical condition from a state of weakness or exhaustion; to invest with fresh vigour or strength; to refresh, reinvigorate (nature, strength, a person or thing). In later use only refl. (cf. 4 b).
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 444 Onto the tyme reformit war sic thing..And recreat agane als war thair strenth. 1555Eden Decades 106 Sweete sauers greatly recreatynge and comfortynge nature. 1601Holland Pliny II. 152 Wine recreateth and refresheth the stomack. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia iv. 112 After hee had recreated and refreshed his Companie, he was sent to the Riuer Patawomeake. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 199 Stirring the Mould with the Spade, and (as need is) recreating it with Composts.
refl.1542Elder Let. to K. Hen. VIII in Bannatyne Misc. (1827) I. 11 A certane lady, namede Scota, which..come out of Egipte..to recreatt hir self..in the colde ayre of Scotland. 1555Eden Decades 279 When Demetrius had..rested and recreate him selfe. 1797Holcroft Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxxix. 494 We recreated ourselves at two..springs. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. ii, He stopped at the island, and recreated himself with a glass of beer. 1862Helps Ess., Organ. Daily Life (1875) 159 That each living being requires a certain portion of air to recreate itself with.
†b. To restore to life, revive. Obs. rare—1.
1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 122 They had power to calme stormes and tempests,..to recreate euen the dead.
†2.
a. To refresh (a sense or its organ) by means of some agreeable object or impression. Obs.
1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) p. xxxi, What joye haue courtiers in tasting or in smell; For these two wittes in court be recreate. 1578Banister Hist. Man viii. 104 By the which varietie of colours the weryed eyes are recreated. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. i. i, You haue many pleasant obiects, sweet smells, delightsome tasts..&c. to recreat your senses. 1684Contempl. St. Man ii. v. (1699) 172 The eyes shall ever be recreated with the Light of the..Bodies of the Saints. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 144 Speckled with little red spots that recreate the Sight. 1710Steele Tatler No. 179 ⁋10 Those Delicacies of Nature recreate two Senses at once.
†b. To refresh or enliven (the spirits, mind, a person) by some sensuous or purely physical influence; to affect agreeably in this way. Obs.
c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S) v. 3 May is the moneth maist amene..To recreat thair havy hartis. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. lxxi. 241 The later writers say that it [Basill]..recreateth the spirites. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 395 He that commeth into fine gardens, is as much recreated to smell the flower, as to gather it. 1622J. Hagthorpe Div. Medit. xix. (1817) 15 Ten thousand flowers to recreate the mind. 1651tr. De-las-Coveras' Don Fenise 1 The various beauties of the Plants and Streames could but very little recreate him. 1712Blackmore Creation ii. 59 Whose odoriferous exhalations fan The flame of life, and recreate beast and man. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 80 ⁋3 We are very agreeably recreated, when the body, chilled with the weather, is gradually recovering its natural tepidity.
absol.1778Sir J. Reynolds Disc. viii. (1876) 440 Variety..must be employed to recreate and relieve.
3. To refresh or cheer (a person) by giving comfort, consolation or encouragement. Now rare.
c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. ii. (Town & C. Mouse) xi, Ane gentill hart is better recreate With blith curage [Bann. MS. usage] than seith to him ane kow. 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione ii. xii. 194 Thou shuldest rather chose aduersyte than desyre to be recreate with many consolacions. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 740 Hagar the hand⁓maid of Sara beeing in extreme daunger, is recreated by the consolation of an Angell. 1638Penit. Conf. viii. (1657) 235 The holy Spirit recreates and comforts him with the sweet voice. 1749G. Lavington Enthus. Meth. & Papists (1752) 54 St. Anthony had often familiar Conversations with God, recreating him with extraordinary comforts. 1834Oxf. Univ. Mag. I. 46 The habit..of being recreated with the cheers of an exhilarated multitude.
4. a. To refresh or enliven (the mind, the spirits, a person) by some pastime, amusement, occupation, agreeable news, etc.
1531Elyot Gov. i. vii, The mooste noble and valiant princis.., to recreate their spirites,..enbraced instrumentes musicall. 1584Cogan Haven Health ii. (1636) 19 That learned Lawyer..was wont to recreat his minde with Tenis-play. 1600Hosp. Inc. Fooles 95 Iesting Fooles, whose intent is no other, but to recreat and make merrie the world. 1629Maxwell tr. Herodian (1635) 301 Recreating the people (as he thought) with Chariot-races, stage plaies, feasts and night-shewes. 1712Pope Let. to Gay 23 Aug., I am very much recreated and refreshed with the news of the advancement. 1784Sir J. Reynolds Disc. xii. (1884) 209 It is..necessary to intellectual health, that the mind should be recreated and refreshed with a variety in our studies. 1825Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Superann. Man, No busy faces to recreate the idle man who contemplates them ever passing by. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) I. viii. 361 Some of their sovereigns..were wont to recreate their spirits with elegant poetry. 1890Spectator 6 Dec., It recreates him to indulge in sayings which leave an impression of rashness and scorn.
absol.1868Sala Lamb's Wks. I. p. vi, Although he rarely recreated, he never failed to instruct.
b. refl. To refresh (oneself) with some agreeable occupation or pastime.
1530Palsgr. 681/2, I recreate my selfe with some pastyme or sporte. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa iii. 165 Sometimes he recreateth himselfe with hunting, and sometime with playing at chesse. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. iii. 45 God contemplating this new framed Image..rejoiced and recreated himself therein. 1712Steele Spect. No. 498 ⁋1 There are many Illustrious Youths..who frequently recreate themselves by driving of a Hackney-Coach. 1849–50H. Martineau Hist. Peace iv. xii. III. 158 The Lord Chancellor was recreating himself, after a long stretch of arduous business, with a journey in Scotland.
†c. To enliven or gratify (a feeling). Obs.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §13 The other Attribute wherewith I recreate my devotion, is His Wisdom. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 9 With a Design to mock and ridicule him, and recreate his own inexorable Spleen with the spiteful Pleasure of..repulsing him.
5. intr. To take recreation. Now chiefly U.S.
1587J. Rider Bibl. Schol. s.v., To recreat, neut. or be delighted with, oblector, acquiesco. 1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Ivstine xxxvi. 115 There is in that seate..a continual shadow to walk and recreat in. 1676L. Addison State of Jews 117 They suppose the Souls in Purgatory have liberty to recreate. 1874Helps Soc. Press. xix. (1875) 282 Let us..now recreate, lest we should eat and drink too much at dinner. 1978Verbatim Winter 6/1 The President plans to recreate on Labor Day. 1979Sunset Apr. 16/3 (Advt.), Recreate. It's fun in Colorado. For the best in summer fun take yourself and your family away.
transf.1618Bolton Florus i. xvi. (1636) 46 Here are the lakes Lucrinus and Avernus, bowers of delight for the sea to recreate in.
†6. trans. To relieve (an occupation, state, etc.) by means of something of a contrary nature. Obs.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. i. (Arb.) 45 Ernest studie must be recreated with honest pastime. 15971st Pt. Return fr. Parnass. iii. i. 974, I have not onlie recreated thy could state with the warmth of my bountie, but also [etc.]. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xv. (1626) 304 Ioues sonne..entered Heroick Croton's roofe; a welcome Guest: And his long trauell recreates with rest. 1651–3Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 335 A perpetual full table, not recreated with fasting, not made pleasant with intervening scarcity.
Hence ˈrecreated ppl. a.1
1832H. Martineau Each & All iv. 47 The recreated statesman finds in either case equal pleasure and repose. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 484 In order to enable the recreated system to throw off the burden.
▪ II. recreate, v.2|riːkrɪˈeɪt|
Also re-create.
[f. re- 5 a + create v.]
trans. To create anew.
1587Golding De Mornay Ep. Ded. **ij, Gods wisedome in creating thinges..nor his goodnesse in recreating or renewing them. 1609J. Davies Holy Roode C iv, Nor was't alone for his owne glorie meer That he did man create, or re-create. 1679Penn Addr. Prot. ii. v. (1692) 190 They had almost need to be Re-Created in order to be Converted. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 300 Could Mr. Locke himself imagine that his person was annihilated every night when he went to sleep, and re-created again when he awoke in the morning? 1813Shelley Q. Mab viii. 107 All things are recreated. 1868J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. I. 63 Four out of the number were recreated, under the name of Regius professorships.
absol.1860Pusey Min. Proph. 166 Man..can destroy; he cannot recreate.
b. To create anew in imagination.
1837Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) II. xix. 267 While gazing at a figure of melancholy age, to re-create its youth. 1895W. M. Ramsay Paul the Trav. i. §3. 17 It is always hard to recreate the remote past.
Hence recreˈated ppl. a.2, recreˈating vbl. n.2 and ppl. a.2
1587Golding De Mornay xxviii. 524 What counsell wouldest thou giue him for the recreating of thee. 1631R. Byfield Doctr. Sabb. 207 Our re-creating or Redemption. 1659Pearson Creed ii. (1839) 165 Where are the recreated ‘principalities and powers’? 1813Shelley Q. Mab vi. 56 The blood-stained charter.., Which Nature soon, with re⁓creating hand Will blot in mercy from the book of earth.
▪ III. recreate, ppl. a.|riːkrɪˈeɪt|
[Cf. prec. and create ppl. a.]
Re-created.
1855Bailey Mystic, Spir. Leg. 134 They.., Through conduct, aspiration and intent Thrice recreate, shall rise. 1877Ruskin Fors Clav. lxxxiv. 412 The recreate and never to be dissolved order of the perfect earth. |