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reinvest, v.|riːɪnˈvɛst|
[re- 5 a; cf. It. reinvestire (Florio) and revest.]
1. trans. To invest again with or as with a garment. Const. with, rarely in.
1611Florio, Reinuestire, to reinuest. 1629Wadsworth Pilgr. 12 Then was I reinuested with a Doublet of white Canuas. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 533 This Earth, where the old Matter of those Bodies lies, wherein they are to be re-invested. 1837Lockhart Scott V. ix. 221 That one or two poor half-pay officers..might be..replaced in Highland regiments, and so reinvested with the untheatrical ‘Garb of Old Gaul’.
b. To re-endow with a possession, power, etc.
1648Milton Tenure Kings Pr. Wks. 1753 I. 351 Gildas..testifies, that the people, thus reinvested with their own original right [etc.]. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 104 Since they never divested themselves of their original integrity, they could not be re-invested with that which they had never lost. 1738Neal Hist. Purit. IV. 72 The General and his officers finding themselves reinvested with the Supreme authority [etc.]. 1832tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. vi. 131 Galeazzo was recalled, and reinvested with the lordship of Milan. 1863J. G. Murphy Comm., Gen. iii. 20 To undo what had been done for the death of man, and so reinvest him with life.
2. To replace, re-establish. Const. in.
1617Bp. Andrewes 96 Serm., Holy Ghost x. (1629) 708 A restitution in integrum; a re-investing them in what they were borne to, or were any waies possessed of. 1639H. Glapthorne Argalus iii. Wks. 1874 I. 36 To re-invest blest quiet in his heart. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 136 The Vice-Roy..dispoil'd him of his Principality, and reinvested in it Levan's Lawful Heir. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. vii. i. (1864) IV. 6 The German line of pontiffs had done much to reinvest the papacy in its ancient sanctity.
†3. To vest again in a person or body. Obs.—1
1760in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 150 The same land shall..be reinvested in the said Corporation.
4. To invest (money) again.
1848Mill Pol. Econ. iii. xiv. §3 (1876) 339 They..save and re-invest their savings because they have nothing on which they care to expend them. 1885Law Rep. 29 Chanc. Div. 209 The proceeds of sale have been..reinvested in land.
b. intr. To make a fresh investment.
1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 259 To pay off his purchase-money, or re-invest in stores. |