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reunion|riːˈjuːnɪən|
[= F. réunion (1549), Sp. reunion, It. riunione: see re- 5 a, and union.]
1. The action of reuniting or coming together again; the state of being reunited.
1610Donne Pseudo-martyr 23 The Emperours were euer forwardest to labour a re-union and concurrence of their powers. 1681tr. Belon's New Myst. Physick 28 Which interruption never ceases, but by the Re-union..of all those parts. 1702Steele Funeral iv, There's no Middle way, I must Expose her to make a Re-union Impracticable. 1780Burke Sp. Bristol Wks. III. 401 The re-union to the state, of all the Catholicks of that country. 1858Sears Athan. iii. iii. 274 The Essenes..rejected the notion of a reunion of the soul with flesh. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 33 Nerve-division has the objection that reunion occurs and the malady returns.
2. The fact of (persons) meeting again after separation.
1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 144 [We] congratulated each other upon our happy reunion. 1835Lytton Rienzi ix. ii, For some minutes the young lovers surrendered themselves to the delight of re-union. 1843J. Martineau Chr. Life (1867) 455 His reunion with his disciples.
3. a. A meeting or social gathering of persons acquainted with each other, or having some previous link of connexion.
1820Byron Blues i. 139 'Tis a sort of reunion for Scamp, on the days Of his lecture. 1856Merivale Rom. Emp. xxxvii. (1865) IV. 271 The exquisites of the day were..the oracles of coteries, the observed of aristocratic reunions. 1873Holland A. Bonnic. xii. 204 The little reunion was given to Henry and myself, in token of our departure.
attrib.1842Howitt Rur. Life Germ. 257 The fitting up of the ball-room and of a re-union room at the right hand end. 1929E. W. Springs Above Bright Blue Sky 233 Are you going to the Aviators' Reunion Dinner to-night to celebrate the anniversary of the Armistice? 1952M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke xv. 218 He was due to give an impersonation of his old officer at a reunion dinner. 1976Laurel (Montana) Outlook 9 June 12/4 A two-hour program is being planned by a reunion committee and will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Laurel Senior High School gymnasium.
b. In this sense freq. in Fr. form réunion.
1835Greville Diary 80 (Stanf.), Music is here much in fashion, and there are constant large réunions of amateurs. 1847Illustr. Lond. News 2 Jan. 2/1 At the last Ministerial réunion at M. Guizot's. 1855Thackeray Newcomes viii, All the lions present at Mrs. Newcome's réunion that evening.
Hence Reˈunionism. (Cf. next.)
1895Tablet 20 Apr. 611/2 To what extent the new Reunionism may..alter the accents of the prelates of the Established Church. |