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▪ I. re-enˈforce, n.
= reinforce n.
1886American XII. 141 The gun is a small one,..composed of two concentric cylinders, the inside one being of steel, the outside or reënforce of cast iron.
▪ II. re-enˈforce, v.
[f. re- + enforce v.; cf. reinforce and renforce. Now rare in English, but common in American use.]
1. trans. To strengthen, give fresh or additional strength to.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxxvi. v, Thou, Jehova,..With strength my weaknesse re-enforce. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis v. x. 364 He was with these and the like speeches re-enforcing his anger. a1630S. Page Broken Heart (1637) 177 To magnifie him, and to reenforce his Petition, he calleth him Deum salutis. a1711Ken Hymnarium Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 49 Thou to thyself dost Glory raise, By re-enforcing our Decays. 1883Harper's Mag. Nov. 886/2 The sonority of this reservoir is expected materially to re-enforce the volume of tone. 1888Stevenson Gentlemen in Fiction, The opinions.., though..re⁓enforced with excellent images, are not peculiar..to Hamlet.
b. refl. To strengthen or encourage (oneself) afresh. rare.
1589in Hakluyt Voy. (1812) V. 588 Who after one battle were never able to reenforce themselves against him. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iii. iii, And then, if she shall coily recoil, and signify your repulse, you are to reenforce yourself with [etc.].
2. Mil. To strengthen with additional forces († or supplies); to support by fresh numbers.
1596Danett tr. Comines (1614) 24 Then vsed we to re⁓enforce them with new supplies. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage iv. ii. 295 The Magi..himselfe re-enforcing his power, and bidding battell..was taken aliue. 1693Mem. Cnt. Teckely iv. 62 They thought only upon reposing themselves, and re⁓enforcing their Army by detachments out of the neighbouring Garrisons.
transf.1885J. L. Allen in Harper's Mag. Apr. 709/2 With my house re-enforced by a housekeeper,..there would be nothing more to desire. 1896Paterson Mag. VI. 305/1 The pioneers have been re-enforced.
†b. To collect again; to reassemble. Obs.
1594Kyd Cornelia Argt., His purpose was to have re⁓enforc'd a newe Armie. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. vi. 36 The French haue re-enforc'd their scatter'd men.
3. To strengthen (any part of an object) by additional support.
1883Harper's Mag. Nov. 887/1 The re-entrant angles..are re-enforced..with..pilasters. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 278/2 It goes to the brazing furnace, where the joints are re-enforced and solidified.
†4. intr. To renew one's efforts; to insist. Obs.
1624Bp. R. Montagu Gagg 3 Though he fall off to-day, hee will re-enforce to-morrow, though he faile to-day, he will assay to-morrow. 1642Jer. Taylor Episc. (1647) 325 This account we have from S. Cyprian, and he reenforces againe upon the same charge in his Epistle.
Hence re-enˈforceable a., capable of being re-enforced (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895); re-enˈforcer, one who re-enforces; also, something which re-enforces; re-enˈforcing vbl. n.
1611Florio, Rafforzamento, a re-enforcing. 1884Century Mag. Mar. 929/1 Writers who are more properly feeders and reënforcers of life itself. 1914W. McDougall Social Psychol. 404 The energy of the sex impulse..may function as a re-enforcer of purely intellectual activities. |