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rejuveˈnescent, a.
[f. as prec. + -ent.]
1. a. Becoming young again.
1807Southey Espriella's Lett. III. 160 It is a progressive union of minds, for ever rejuvenescent. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xlv, The Crawley House in Great Gaunt Street was quite rejuvenescent. 1879Farrar Christ (1881) 118 Come and see..an aged world rejuvenescent.
b. spec. in scientific use.
1859Todd's Cycl. Anat. V. 211/2 The rejuvenescent cell becomes individualised and is transformed into the rudiment of a new plant. 1885–8Fagge & Pye-Smith Princ. Med. (ed. 2) I. 114 In young adults..the thymus is often found persistent if not rejuvenescent.
2. Rejuvenating.
1763Ld. Bath in G. Colman's Posth. Lett. (1820) 72, I was not a very dangerous man when I left England, but the Waters are rejuvenescent. 1837Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) I. xix. 278 Though utter sceptics as to its rejuvenescent power, they were inclined to swallow it at once. 1899R. Fry Let. 9 June (1972) I. 173, I have very rarely had a more rejuvenescent visit to Cambridge than this last. |