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1654 J. Sheffield Rising Sun iii. 18 How delightful is it to see ten thousand beams streaming from the same Center of the Sun in heaven, meet and re-center in the same punctulum on earth!

1785 E. Perronet Occas. Verses 127 They [sc. currents] wander to their fountain head And all re-centre there.

1875 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican 8 May 1/4 Half of the human race is outside equality; it must be made to recenter.

1992 Sight & Sound July 22/1 Side-tracked yuppies who can only re-centre once they've learned to embrace the innocent child within us all.

2006 Christianity Today Apr. 105/3 Evangelical Protestants..need to shed the scripts and dramas borrowed from the spirit of our times and recenter on God.

a1711 T. Ken Edmund xiii, in Wks. (1721) II. 367 She..re-centers her cold Urn; Where her chill'd Ashes to rude Mass return.]

1796 S. T. Coleridge Ode Departing Year 15 Now I recenter my immortal mind In the long sabbath of high self-content.

1869 Appletons' Jrnl. 19 June 377/2 We may now proceed to recentre the social mechanism—to abolish old spheres and create new.

1883 Science Apr. 269/1 The stone can be recentred over the pot, which, being below frost-line, can never move.

1914 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 18 76 The wooden blocks and pins served merely for accurate centring of the drums, it being possible to re-centre the drum if the first hole proved to be at all off centre.

1941 San Antonio (Texas) Light 26 Jan. iii. 16/3 Not have to re-center the mirror.

1994 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Nov. 8/1 Publishers thought it worth while to bring out reference books that would definitely recentre Australian editorial and literary practice in Australia itself.

1847 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. xxv. 549 Making the drill with a cylindrical lump, so as to fill the hole; this is called the re-centering drill.

1924 Jrnl. Social Forces 2 700 The social recentering of the church..was so complete a revolution..that an analysis of its causes must be made.

1974 Child Devel. 45 877/1 A process for holding a steady focus on a particular small detail within a stable stimulus array, achieved through repeated small recentering movements.

1996 F. A. Cooper Temple of Apollo Bassitas xii. 179 This 0.022 m. difference..is carried through to a recentering of the interior space westward in respect to the exterior toichobate.

2004 Securities Week (Nexis) 1 Nov. 1 The price ‘can literally crawl off the top of the screen and you have to hit a recentering button to get it back’.