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单词 reable
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reableadj.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: reable v.
Etymology: Apparently < reable v. The conversion of the verb stem to adjective is unusual: perhaps compare Middle French rabillé , past participle of rabiller , or perhaps compare -able suffix.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
Legitimate.
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society > law > legal right > [adjective]
righteOE
kindc1300
rightfulc1330
truec1384
righteous1391
lawfula1400
just?1435
legitimec1450
legitimatea1460
verya1466
justc1540
reable1581
sib1701
competent1765
1581 N. Burne in Catholic Tractates (S.T.S.) 164/5 To persuade the people that he micht be reable air [read heir] to his father, ye preachit euer..that promeiss of mariage vas lauchful mariage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

reablev.

Brit. /riːˈeɪbl/, U.S. /riˈeɪb(ə)l/
Forms:

α. Scottish pre-1700 rehabil, pre-1700 rehabill, pre-1700 rehable.

β. 1900s– reable; Scottish pre-1700 reabil, pre-1700 reabill, pre-1700 reibill, pre-1700 1700s reable.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, able v.
Etymology: < re- prefix + able v. In sense 1 perhaps after Middle French rabiller, rhabiller (French rhabiller ) to repair, mend, correct, reform (1380; < re- re- prefix + habiller : see habiliment n.); compare later rehabilitate v. In sense 2 after disable v.
1. transitive. Scottish. To restore to a particular state, position, etc.; (also) to legitimize (a person of illegitimate birth). Obsolete.
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α.
1500 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 85/2 A letter of rehabilitatioun..rehabilling and restoring him to his gud fame, honour and gudis.
1528 in W. Fraser Scotts of Buccleuch (1878) II. 155 Rehabilis thame to stand in preif and witnes.
1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 3938 Thay..Sal be degraithit of thair Nobilitie,..Vnto the tyme thay by [= buy] thair libertie, Rehabilit be the ciuill magistrate.
a1560 W. Kennedy Passioun of Christ in J. A. W. Bennett Devotional Pieces (1955) 112 Quhilk on the croce sufferit [gret wo and] pane The banist man to grace for to rehabill.
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Bastardus Ane bastard, legitimat and rehabled in his life-time.
β. 1521 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 282 The Duc [of Albany] chalengethe the iiijth parte of her conjunctefee to be his enheritaunce..and is reabled to the same by acte of parliament.c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xvi. i. f. 231v/2 That thay [sc. the children] mycht be lawchful and reabillit be virtew of the matrimony subsequent.a1682 J. Sempill Picktooth for Pope 395 in Poems (1849) A bastards name doth duly them befit For they were never reabled as yet.1701 Life & Acts Sir William Wallace Printer to Reader p. vii Sir William Vescie begotten upon Alexander the second his Bastard Daughter, but pretended to be Reabled.
2. transitive. Medicine. To rehabilitate (a person) after injury or illness; to restore (a part of the body) to some degree of normal functioning. Cf. disable v. rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > heal or cure [verb (transitive)] > restore to health > rehabilitate
rehabilitate1867
reable1944
rehab1973
1944 Lancet 18 Mar. 392/1 Those admitted are wounded, sick or the victims of accidents, and they are reabled on the spot, in both the temporal and spatial sense.
1947 E. Spriggs in I. Brown Say Word 101 I am glad to see that the words Reable and Reablement are now being frequently used in the Lancet and other journals.
1955 Lancet 13 Aug. 332/2 (heading) Reabling the arm.
2003 Community Care (Nexis) 18 Sept. 44 We have clear evidence that we've reduced the numbers of people going into residential care by re-abling and supporting people to live independently.

Derivatives

reˈablement n. Medicine rehabilitation; frequently attributive.
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the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > restoration to health > rehabilitation
rehabilitation1888
reablement1945
rehab1955
1945 Lancet 10 Feb. 196/2 Reablement. More than 250 hospitals in England and Wales are now using rehabilitation methods—including physiotherapy, remedial exercises, [etc.].
1949 Lancet 1 Jan. 25/1 Nobody should occupy an ordinary hospital bed after he has become fit to be moved to some less elaborate, ancillary, institution—a convalescent home, a reablement centre, or a hostel for old people—or to his own home.
1955 Brit. Jrnl. Physical Med. 18 119/1 Reablement is seen as an intricate problem which has to be considered from very various aspects.
2011 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 6/5 The Department of Health said the £162 million of funding was in addition to the previously announced £70 million that the NHS would spend this year on ‘reablement’ services.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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