单词 | recommence |
释义 | recommencev. 1. a. intransitive. To commence or begin again. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > revert [verb (intransitive)] awendOE recommence1481 relieve?1510 turn1594 remigrate1601 to cast back1622 recounter1630 regress1650 retrovert1782 to turn round1802 retrogress1860 to turn back1886 U-turn1973 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > again renulec1384 recommence1481 return1568 continue1711 resume1815 to start over1852 to start over1852 to pick up1906 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clxiv. 242 Thenne recommenced and began agayn the playnte and the clamour. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1140 Violence That never ends, but aie doth recommence. 1684 tr. A. O. Exquemelin Bucaniers Amer. ii. iii. 113 After two hours it [sc. rain] recommenced again anew rather harder than before. 1759 tr. A. Richer Life Belisarius 16 The Preparations for the War recommenced. 1795 J. J. C. Timaeus tr. F. Schiller Cabal & Love ii. iii. 34 I thought these execrable deeds were past; but this day I hear, that they have recommenced afresh. 1812 R. Southey Omniana II. ccxxxi. 238 Shortly afterwards that war recommenced. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xii. 87 The sound..ceased, but it soon recommenced. 1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row xxx. 334 Boards creaked. Sploshings and sandpaperings recommenced. 1955 Times 27 May 11/1 The defence of the Dutch and Indonesian accused in the cause célèbre which recommences today. 2004 Daily Tel. 19 Apr. 17/3 The show recommences with a stab at real flamenco. ΚΠ 1781 S. Johnson Swift in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VIII. 66 He seemed desirous enough of recommencing courtier. 1791 J. Bentham Let. ?Nov. in Corr. (1981) IV. 338 I am recommenced wild beast. 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee vi, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 13 Trusting that they shall, in that time, make a fortune, retire, and commence, or recommence gentlemen. 2. transitive. To begin again; to cause to begin again; to renew. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > change back [verb (transitive)] reversea1393 converta1425 undo1426 unmakec1450 recommencea1513 unweave1542 mismake1575 resubstantiate1584 unspin1587 remit1591 retrievea1596 remetamorphose1598 remorphize1603 reconvert1609 unlive1621 unravel1637 relapse1652 to bring about1680 uncoin1833 unpay1842 reset1846 revert1856 unweb1882 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > again renovela1325 renewa1387 resumec1400 renove?c1425 anewc1440 reassume1472 to take again1474 take1477 reprise1481 recommencea1513 renovate1535 to take up1587 rebegin1598 reopen1756 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xiv The Frenshe Kynge had recommencyd his warre. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xiii. 48 [He] caused to be recommenced the works of Calcedon. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 188 Whensoever the said Duke shall recommence his former suit. 1686 tr. D. Bouhours Life St. Ignatius ii. 90 To continue or rather to recommence his Studies in the University of Paris. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. at Reprise Reprise (with Horsemen) is a lesson repeated, or a manage recommenced. 1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. vi. ii. 210 We..told him, that we purposed recommencing our voyage about the 5th of June. 1800 J. Barnes Let. 22 Dec. in T. Jefferson Papers (2005) XXXII. 339 The English recommence their unprovok'd Spoiliations on the American commerce. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 176 The two brothers recommence their exhortation to virtue. 1917 E. R. Burroughs Princess of Mars viii. 79 The homeward march having been given up for that day; nor, in fact, was it recommenced for more than a week. 1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. vi. 51 At some points the rivers, recommencing the work of normal erosion or deglaciation, have flowed through the lowered cols. 1995 K. Ishiguro Unconsoled xxv. 361 I..decided I would forget the final movement..and simply recommence the third once more. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1481 |
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