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reinstate, v.|riːɪnˈsteɪt|
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To reinstall or re-establish (a person or thing) in a place, station, condition, etc. Also const. on.
1628in Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) II. 3 The said arch⁓bishop is now reinstated in his majesty's favour. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 156 Such a force as..reinstated him in his own. 1714R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. II. 220 We may reinstate reason in her throne. 1742Young Nt. Th. ii. 318 To..reinstate us on the rock of peace. 1754Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. vi. 209 The Gospel has re-instated Nature in all her hopes..of Immortality. 1835Lytton Rienzi vii. ix, To re⁓instate him in a power which he evinced the capacity to wield. 1875McLaren Serm. Ser. ii. iv. 60 Before the Apostle can be reinstated in his functions.
b. Without const. Also absol.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. ii, Lady, with the touch of your white hand, let me reinstate you. 1763Ld. Barrington in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 459 Nor is there any appearance that they will ever be re-instated or recompensed. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. ii. §2. 49 The..intention of the present volume is..not to depress or exclude, but to re-instate and corroborate. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 360 The senators could not reinstate him by force.
2. To restore to or in a proper state; to replace.
1793Smeaton Edystone L. §249 Everything being reinstated, it was some time before we met with any but the ordinary interruptions. 1813J. Elmes Dilapidations (1829) App. 54 Re-instate the skirting, papering &c. where the book-case formerly stood. 1833Act. 3 & 4 Will. IV, c. 46 §110 To reinstate the streets..so opened by them. 1881Encycl. Brit. XIII. 165/1 It is in the power of the company to reinstate property rather than to pay the value of it.
3. To restore to health.
1810Shelley Zastrozzi ii. Pr. Wks. 1888 I. 8 The crisis of the fever..being past, proper care might reinstate him.
Hence reinˈstated ppl. a., reinˈstating vbl. n.
1727–38Chambers Cycl., Reinstating, the restoring of a person or thing to its former state or condition. 1766Complete Farmer s.v. Mole, To roll those spots after the re⁓instated turfs are settled. 1890[see reinstator]. |