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▪ I. reˈmodel, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To model again, reconstruct. (Common in 19th c.)
1789Gen. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 9/2 That assembly was wholly incompetent to the task of re-modelling the constitution. 1830Lytton P. Clifford xix, A stray trinket or two—not of sufficient worth to be re-set or re-modelled. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 121 From the time when the army was remodelled to the time when it was disbanded. 1879M. Pattison Milton 46 All traditions were being questioned, and all institutions were to be remodelled.
Hence reˈmodelled ppl. a., reˈmodelling vbl. n.; also reˈmodeller, reˈmodelment.
1846Grove Corr. Phys. Forces 4, I will pass to Bacon, the great remodeller of science. 1847Blackw. Mag. LXI. 633 The other remodelments are trash. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 119 At Naseby took place the first great encounter between the royalists and the remodelled army. Ibid. vi. II. 23 The remodelling might require money. 1869E. S. Ffoulkes Roman Index 17 The well-known constitution of Benedict XIV. issued for its remodelment.
▪ II. ˈremodel, n. Arch.
[f. the vb.]
The act of modelling or constructing a building again; a remodelled building.
1956Archit. Rev. CXX. 119/3 Rethinking is needed on the difference between surface grime on a noble building and a cut-rate remodel which might well show a fundamental lack of architectural conviction or emotive power. 1974R. C. Dennis Conversations with Corpse ii. 15 A house, French Regency, I think... I imagine it's a remodel. 1978Tucson Mag. Dec. 90/3 In a remodel (existing house) we have to be neater, and work slower. |