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regeneration|rɪdʒɛnəˈreɪʃən|
Also 4–6 -acion, etc.
[ad. L. regenerātiōn-em, n. of action f. regenerāre to regenerate: see -ation. Cf. F. régénération (12th c.).]
1. a. The action of regenerating; the process or fact of being regenerated; re-creation, re-formation, etc.
13..Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv neu. Spr. LXXXI. 103/49 In þe Regeneracion good Of alle men to flesch and blood. 1382Wyclif Matt. xix. 28 In regeneracioun, or gendrynge aȝein, whenne mannes sone shall sitte in the sete of his mageste. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 24 After the generall flood, there was as it were a new regeneration of the world. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 317/1 This is made a Regeneration of Nitre. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 324 The Miracle of the Regeneration, or even of the Resurrection of Plants from their Ashes. 1785Wilkins tr. Bhagvat vi. 50 But such a regeneration into this life is the most difficult to attain. 1860J. W. Warter Sea-board II. 206 The throes the grave has to undergo before the regeneration in the resurrection. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1690/2 [The olive-tree has] almost inexhaustible power of regeneration.
b. fig. Revival; renascence, re-constitution on a higher level.
1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) 255 Together with the regeneration of other kindes of learning Poetrie likewise grew in request. 1792A. Young Trav. France 119 What they call the regeneration of the kingdom, a favourite term, to which they affix no precise idea. 1835Lytton Rienzi i. viii, All great regenerations are the universal movement of the mass. 1847Mrs. A. Kerr tr. Ranke's Hist. Servia 217 The military regeneration of the Turkish Empire.
c. Forestry. The natural regrowth of a forest which has been felled or thinned. Freq. attrib.
1888E. E. Fernandez Man. Indian Sylviculture i. 6 The name regrowth will be specially given to the new crop obtained by coppice regeneration. 1909P. T. Maw Pract. Forestry ix. 183 A Seed Felling or Regeneration Felling is made when a good seed year has come. As its name implies, it is the felling made for the actual regeneration of the area. It consists in the removal of all the trees except a few, which are left as mother trees, to seed the whole area; and also, to form a light canopy or shelter wood for the young crop. 1928R. S. Troup Silvicultural Syst. iv. 38 Where regeneration is sufficiently well advanced it should be freed from overhead cover. Ibid. 45 The latter will be retained as regeneration areas under the revised working plan. 1979Biol. Abstr. LXVII. 2139/2 The conditions of regeneration and growth of seedlings varied with stands and plots.
2. a. In religious use: The process or fact of being born again in a spiritual sense; the state resulting from this.
c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 2101 That we may haue a place, Accordyng to oure regeneracion, With heuynly spyrytes. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 2936 By the seconde byrthe..At fonte of baptym we haue regeneracyon. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. l. §1 They haue the seede of their regeneration by the ministerie of the Church. 1607Rowlands Guy Warw. 72 Nature's corruption I do strive to leave, A new regeneration to receive. 1701Norris Ideal World i. v. 284 Considering that our Regeneration implies only the restoration of our nature. a1805Paley Serm. vii. (1810) 116, I am not unwilling to admit..that, when this Spirit is given, there is a new birth, a regeneration. 1883Froude Short Stud. IV. iii. 263 Spiritual regeneration begins naturally among the poor and the humble.
b. (See quot.)
App. based on a wrong punctuation of Matt. xix. 28.
1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 263 And therefore it is, that the time of his preaching is often by himself called the Regeneration.
3. Path. and Biol. The formation of new animal tissue; the reproduction of lost parts or organs.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. B iv b, In asmoche as they haue..regeneracyon as the membres, they be called membres. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 89 The medicaments incarnative, or for regeneration of the flesh. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 127 Spermaticall parts..will not admit a Regeneration. 1776Cruikshank in Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 183 The regeneration of the nerves which took place in the first dog. 1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 45/2 We are not aware that the process of regeneration in these animals has been carefully traced. 1872Huxley Physiol. i. 18 The local death of some tissues is followed by their regeneration. 1901T. H. Morgan Regeneration i. 23 The word ‘regeneration’ has come to mean, in general usage, not only the replacement of a lost part, but also the development of a new, whole organism, or even a part of an organism, from a piece of an adult, or of an embryo, or of an egg. 1959W. Andrew Textbk. Compar. Histol. xii. 478 While asexual reproduction is not common among the echinoderms, a high power of regeneration is present and a single arm can regenerate a whole starfish. 1978Nature 27 July 374/1 Can re-innervation take place not only by regeneration of the original axons but also by collateral sprouting of..undamaged fibres?
4. Electronics. Positive feedback (see feedback, feed-back n. a).
1922Proc. IRE X. 244 The effect of regeneration (that is, the supplying of energy to a circuit to reinforce the oscillations existing therein) is equivalent to introducing a negative resistance reaction in the circuit. 1943[see reaction 3 e]. 1957Practical Wireless XXXIII. 694/1 The hole is used..in the next stage for a regeneration control. 1969J. J. Sparkes Transistor Switching iii. 74 Regeneration will only commence provided the loop gain Av..is greater than 1.
5. Chem. and Textiles. The action or process of regenerating fibres, etc. Cf. regenerate v. 3 c.
1925U.S. Patent 1,528,219 The regeneration of cellulose from viscose solutions. 1950R. W. Moncrieff Artificial Fibres ii. 20 The original cotton had consisted of short, hairy, nearly opaque fibres, and after regeneration it consisted of very long, smooth, transparent filaments, but it was still the same essential material. 1953Chem. Abstr. XLVII. 643 (heading) Regeneration of egg albumins under pressure. 1972M. A. Taylor Technol. Textile Properties 28 The regeneration and polymerisation of the cellulose occurs after the filament has been coagulated and stretched. |