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▪ I. reˈthink, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
To think again; to consider afresh. Now usu. spec. with a view to changing intentions or attitudes. a. trans.
a1700Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 163 All the pass'd Song distinctly he re-thought. 1719E. Baynard Health (1731) 2 To think, and re-think each Design. 1833Whewell in Todhunter Acc. Writ. (1876) II. 174 Having been re-thought and re-written since, it is much more beautiful. 1865J. H. Stirling Secret of Hegel I. 97 Hegel examined all, rethought all, and completed all. 1930E. Bullough tr. E. Gilson in T. F. Burns Monument to St. Augustine ix. 292 St. Augustine had but re-thought and deepened, from the point of view of a Christian, the essential elements of Platonism. a1942B. Malinowski Sci. Theory of Culture (1944) iii. 19 At times the thinker does nothing else but to re-think..what the primitive might have or ought to have thought or felt under certain conditions. 1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Revolution 18 How can this disintegrating system be reintegrated on a new basis? One way of beginning to rethink our social framework is [etc.]. 1955Harper's Mag. Jan. 12/1 A ranking Administration speaker..said that..the Republican party might ‘have to rethink the power and resources policy’. The verb is from the advertising-agency jargon that the Administration has learned to speak so fluently but it is not likely to mean much. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Dec. 729/2 A summons, in effect, to the younger German historians, which only a few of them have heeded, to rethink the whole of Germany's recent past. 1973Daily Tel. 28 Sept. 7/1 Mrs Thatcher last night promised to rethink methods of awarding grants to married women students. 1977F. Young in J. Hick Myth of God Incarnate ii. 30 In any attempt to rethink christological belief, the primacy of soteriology must be recognized.
b. intr.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VII. 27 Think, my dear, and re-think. 1808Jane Austen Lett. (1884) I. 372, I cannot help thinking and re-thinking of your going to the island so heroically. 1853Lynch Self-Improv. vi. 148 You must think and observe; re-think and re-observe. 1919J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace xviii. 439 Not to recognise this and not to re-think accordingly means either not being sincere in support of a real League of Nations or not being competently sincere. 1959Times 16 Oct. 13/4 ‘Rethink’..has suddenly become modish... It means—it means—. Well... It certainly does not mean to think again, which is not only a rueful but an intransitive process. Think twice, perhaps? Never!.. You think twice before doing something silly; rethinking starts after you have done it. 1975Sunday Tel. 22 June 32/4 (heading) Amin re⁓thinks... As one of his conditions for the release of Mr. Hills, the President wants spare parts for Ferret patrol cars.
Hence reˈthinker; reˈthinking vbl. n.; reˈthought ppl. a.
1881R. Adamson Fichte 122 Philosophy is thus the re⁓thinking of experience. 1919J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace xviii. 440 The duty of rethinking is not only for some men, but more or less for all men, whatever their previous views. 1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Revolution p. vii, Never, I suppose, has the process of re-thinking been so intense as in these past four years. There has been the re-thinking of old problems, the transvaluation of values. 1955Times 25 Aug. 7/4 Much rethinking on the subject of disarmament has been going on in London and Washington. 1959Times 16 Oct. 13/4 Repay, according to the dictionary, means to pay back, re-echo to echo back, regain to gain back; but although the rethinker may, while he is about his business, think back, one has the impression that he is mainly concerned with thinking forward. 1959Observer 18 Oct. 24/7 She was ready with a dash of classless glamour for the new rethought brand image. 1963Times 20 May 7/2 The need for re⁓thinking and reorganization in art education is not questioned. 1971Farmer & Stockbreeder 23 Feb. 25/3 To reverse the fall in the national breeding flock a great deal of re⁓thinking was needed about production methods. 1977Meanjin (Austral.) XXXVI. i. 64 Their language more clearly becomes that of inheritors of the shake-ups and rethinkings of the Fifties and Sixties.
▪ II. ˈrethink, n.
[f. the vb.]
An act of rethinking; reappraisal; a product of rethinking.
1958Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Sept. 511/2 Then came Mr. Khrushchev's speech at the Twentieth Party Congress and close behind it the great Communist re-think. 1960Design Feb. 29 The task of orientation towards a mass society required a rethink of..an ideal formula. 1968New Scientist 8 Aug. 293/1 The need for a widespread rethink on attitudes in science education, particularly at university level. 1971Guardian 1 Nov. 8/5 Industry must have a major rethink about the way it uses intelligent, qualified young people. 1976Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts May 285/1 It is more difficult to apply the principles to famous modern buildings which look like a total rethink. 1977Listener 3 Mar. 259/1 The whole area of prisoners' rights is long overdue for rethink. |