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1817 T. S. Raffles Hist. Java I. v. 229 The produce of the Moluccas [was]..conveyed direct from Amboina to the port of London, without being landed and re-assorted at Batavia, as was formerly the case under the Dutch government.

1838 Times 9 Nov. 3/6 The Irish letter would have to go by the mail, to cross in the packet to Dublin, to be re-assorted, and to go to Armagh, and there to be sorted again for delivery.

1846 S. Sidney Gauge Evid. (ed. 3) 188 The balance of the whole quantity passing through that station, which is not re-assorted, is the quantity to keep in view.

1857 W. P. Blake in R. S. Williamson Routes Calif. (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route Pacific V.) 104 It appears to have re-assorted and distributed the argillaceous and sandy materials of the surface.

1876 J. Orton Andes & Amazon (ed. 3) ii. xxxii. 438 Wool is generally taken to that city..to be re-assorted and repacked.

1877 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1876–7 16 246 The river deposits of the lowlands were now partially re-assorted..by the action of the sea.

1915 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 2 138 It seems fair to ask..how the forms originate which supply the characters to be assembled and reassorted by hybridization.

1959 Mycologia 51 109 Somatic recombination or parasexuality..reassorts genetic characters of heterokaryotic components in a vegetative system to yield products that are comparable to the meiotic products of the sexual process.

1983 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell xiv. 778 (caption) Crossing over during meiotic prophase I exchanges segments of homologous chromosomes and thereby reassorts genes in individual chromosomes.

2001 Washington Post 7 Sept. a4/4 Virologists speculate the 1918 virus was also newly reassorted, although they can't be certain.