单词 | re-embody |
释义 | re-embodyv.ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > undergo chemical reactions or processes [verb (intransitive)] > undergo chemical reactions or processes (named) > undergo miscellaneous other processes re-embody1654 depart1704 effervesce1747 bump1848 creep1888 olate1931 hybridize1962 1654 [see re-embodying n.]. 1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist in Wks. (1999) II. 366 In quicksilver broken into little Globes, the Parts brought to touch one another do immediately re-imbody. 1775 tr. Valuable Secrets Arts & Trades ii. 13 This we cannot expect to attain, if not previously versed in the method of dissolving, analysing, and dividing or separating, and then re-embodying again metallic substances. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxvii. 243 Its waters..frequently divided..returning and re-embodying themselves as a broad main stream further on. 2. transitive. To re-form (a group of people) into a body; to re-establish or reconstitute (a group, an organization, etc.), esp. for military purposes. Also †intransitive: to re-form oneself into a body (obsolete). Cf. embody v. 6. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > levy or mobilize make?a1160 host1297 arear1366 araisec1386 raisea1425 to call to account1434 rearc1450 levyc1500 riga1513 erect1520 leave1590 to call to arms1592 compound1614 re-embody1685 mobilize1853 remobilize1886 1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. (Amos v. 9) sig. Ccc4/1 Shall rally, re-embody and form a siege against their besiegers, so God whom you should serve, will soon turn all from dark and dismal into light, and pleasing unto you, and yours. 1727 R. Acherley Britannic Constit. ix. 469 The true Meaning of Disbanding that Army in July 1641. was to make Way for what was to be done in Scotland, and that the Disbanded Soldiers might be easily Re-embodied. 1793 J. Trapp Proc. Trial Louis XVI (ed. 2) 95 He is accused of having paid his guards; but the Assembly in ordaining their being disbanded, said they should be re-embodied. 1825 tr. A. Thiers & F. Bodin Hist. French Revol. I. 415 Their return..would re-embody the royalist party, which the emigration has so entirely disorganized. 1858 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VI. lvii. 451 It became necessary to re-embody the prætorian and the urban guards. 1927 Ld. Braye Fewness of my Days 193 The third battalion, which was..suddenly to be re-embodied and ordered off to South Africa. 1951 B. H. G. Wormald Clarendon i. vi. 134 To summon..members of Parliament to Oxford would be to re-embody what was left of the non-violent party. 1974 Times 29 Aug. 15/5 If a government became concerned for the internal security of the realm it would do better to re-embody the Territorial Army in some form. 3. a. transitive. To restore (a soul, spirit, etc.) to bodily form; to reincarnate. Also intransitive: to be reincarnated. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > transmigration > reincarnation > reincarnate [verb (transitive)] re-embody1690 reincarnate1858 1690 E. Warren Geologia i. 13 The remains of this..Carcass..shall thereby be fitted to re-imbody that Soul, which formerly wore it. 1695 P. Hume Ann. Paradise Lost ii. 56 Souls that were to be re-embodied were first drench'd before their return to this World. 1782 Ld. Monboddo Antient Metaphysics II. iv. ii. 197 The Spirits, before they are reimbodied, drink of the waters of Lethe. a1849 T. L. Beddoes Death's Jest-bk. iii. iii, in Poems (1851) II. 95 Art thou ready To follow..the ghost, Whom you will re-imbody? 1914 ‘M. Field’ Whym Chow 41 Let me hold again The ruddy form my arms would close on tight..; Oh, re-embody! Be thy Spirit proved. 1996 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 7 Jan. 15 f The theory that an individual life-force is reembodied many times on a soul's journeys. b. transitive. In figurative and extended use: to bring back to life; to recreate. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [verb (transitive)] quickOE arearc1000 raisec1175 reara1325 upraisec1340 quickena1382 again-raisec1384 araisea1400 resuscea1400 revokea1413 recovera1425 revivec1425 suscitec1430 resuscite?c1450 risea1500 relive?1526 to call againa1529 resuscitate1532 requicken1576 refetch1599 reanimate1611 reinspire1611 reinanimatea1631 recreate1631 revivify1631 redivive1634 revivificate1660 resurrection1661 resurrect1773 re-embody1791 revivicate1798 re-energize1803 resurrectionize1804 revitalize1869 reimpress1883 1791 Let. to J. Priestley 24 If you should never be able to reimbody their [sc. destroyed scientific manuscripts'] contents, it is not only yourself, and the friends of science in this country, but the whole learned world, that has suffered a heavy and irreparable loss. 1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 24 Oct. 526 He takes mental notes of any thing and anybody that can be advantageously reëmbodied on the stage. 1883 G. H. Calvert Brangonar Pref. To obtain free poetic play history requires to be compressed, fore-shortened, exhibited, as it were, in a panorama of peaks, its spirit reproduced through its supreme moments. A period must be distilled and then reëmbodied in the personages who created it. 1904 H. James Golden Bowl I. i. vi. 111 Objects..dotting the counter..; things consular, Napoleonic, temples, obelisks, arches, tinily re-embodied, completed the discreet cluster. 1967 W. M. Gibson William D. Howells 24 Colville's sentimental dream of recapturing his lost love, re-embodied in Imogene, thus ends happily in the ‘clear light of common day’. 1997 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 5 Apr. 5 This year, the poet looms large, both as the subject of a new biography, by Charles Nicholl, and in a film, Total Eclipse, re-embodied by Leonardo DiCaprio. 4. transitive. To give new form or expression to (a view, principle, etc.); (also) to be a new embodiment or expression of (an abstract concept, quality, etc.). Cf. embody v. 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)] > again refigurea1413 re-image1770 re-embody1833 1833 Foreign Q. Rev. 11 200 His mind, though plastic, and readily adapting itself to seize, re-embody or modify the ideas of others, has little of originality. 1873 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 157 I propose..now to reëmbody my views in a more popular form. 1952 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 52 427 These principles were re-embodied, but with important modifications, in the Labor Management Relations..Act of 1947. 1980 D. W. Plath Long Engagements (1989) v. 133 If Yukiko re-embodies the classic appeal of their Kyoto mother, Sachiko is modeled more after their Osaka merchant father. 2006 Ref. & Res. Bk. News (Nexis) 1 Feb. He finds..ethnically varied characters that re-embody American values, ideals and conflicts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1654 |
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