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?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 76 For as moche as they were yet grete in nombre And yxion sayd that hit was expedient to brynge hem to plain vttrance for as moche as they had fortune wyth them, and to the ende that they shold neuer reassemble agaynst them.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Reconvenir, to reassemble, reunite.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ ii. xix. 37 At the dissolution of the last Assembly at Lodun, where he solemnly gave his word to permit them to reassemble when they would six months after.

1779 F. Burney Let. 7 Jan. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. Fanny Burney (1994) 212 The Streathamites have been all re-assembled for these 6 weeks,..& I have had invitation upon invitation to join them.

1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 49 If Greece must be A wreck, yet shall its fragments re-assemble.

1882 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) i. xviii They would reassemble in London once more.

1945 P. Larkin North Ship 9 The meadows are bright With the coldest dew; The dawn reassembles.

1990 J. Bishop & M. Waldholz Genome v. 112 The dozen or so researchers agreed to reassemble the next summer at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratory.

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 39^v He sowned the retrayt and reassemblid his folke the best wise he myght.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxlvi. f. clxvii^v Kynge Phylyp reassembled his Knyghtes & sped hym towarde the Countrey of Poytoys.

?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xxxi. f. 43^v Whan Metellus..had reasembled them agayne: he began in fewe wordes to pray and exhort them.

1542 Acts Privy Council (1837) VII. 327 To use all ways..to reassemble all parcelles off the same [goods] as wer convayede and carriede away.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 186 Reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our Enemy. View more context for this quotation

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 157. ⁋12 I was reassembling my scattered sentiments.

1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 265 King Charles's collection, which his royal highness wished as far as possible to re-assemble.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. viii. 178 Morris, whose scattered wits had hardly yet re-assembled themselves.

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters vii. 173 Her old father pathetically endeavours to reassemble his wandering ideas.

1938 Nature 20 Aug. (Suppl.) 331/1 A beam of cathode rays issuing from a point can be reassembled into an image by passing through a localized electrostatic or magnetic field having axial symmetry.

1989 J. Updike Just Looking 16 A religion reassembled from the fragments of our daily life, in an atmosphere of gaiety and diligence.

1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xii. lxi. 285 And now both Hoasts withdrew, The re-assembled Greekes Hector admire.

1718 A. Thompson tr. Geoffrey of Monmouth Brit. Hist. v. xi. 152 This proved no decisive Blow to Conan, who with his reassembled Troops still continued to ravage the Provinces.

1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 160 News came to London, to the reassembled Parliament, that an Irish Rebellion..had broken out.

1883 Folk-lore Jrnl. 1 371 We watched the poor wee thing trot painfully off after her reassembled flock.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 2/3 The first sitting of the reassembled Chambers.

1978 W. M. Spackman Armful of Warm Girl 88 Nicolas collected his wits enough to follow, with a re-assembled smile.

1993 Canad. Living June 121/3 A reassembled herd of Pachyrhinosaurus (horned dinosaurs) were unearthed from a common bone bed.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ralliement, a rallying, reassembling, reuniting.

1649 W. Prynne Brief Memento 11 Till the removal of this horrid force, and re-assembling of all your scattered Members with freedom and safety in the Houses, all you Vote, Act, Order, or Ordain..is null and void.

1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. ii. 133 Upon their Re-assembling in the Month of November,..the Commons drew up a large Remonstrance.

1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 247 Mr. Hunt's parliament at Spa-fields was prorogued, and at the re-assembling received a royal message.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. vi. 32 This rule..applies as well to the original meeting of a Parliament as to its reassembling after prorogation.

1906 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 438 To my reassembling senses..came the realisation of a greater tragedy.

1991 R. Goldring Fossils in Field 183 With specimens that have broken during extraction, sketch and photograph the distribution of the pieces,..then pack for laboratory reassembling.