单词 | reacquire |
释义 | reacquirev. transitive. To acquire (something) again. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > again or back acovera1225 covera1300 gain-covera1300 to get againc1380 recovera1387 becoverc1400 recounsel?a1425 recurea1425 win1489 redeem1526 readept1537 rehave1541 recuperate1542 regain1548 reobtain1579 retire1584 reget1585 to get back1587 retrieve1589 reprise1590 reprocure1590 reattain1595 relieve1596 recompassc1604 reacquire1627 reacquist1635 recruit1656 1627 W. Drummond Paraineticon in T. Kellie Pallas Armata sig. ¶¶4v O doe not take such paines On Bartholomewes alone, But seek to reacquire your Pampelone. a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 225 I perceived one of them..that had almost quite lost its colour, to have re~acquired a very fair blew. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo xii, in Wks. (1721) III. 361 Their penitential Tears..Had strove lost Heav'n and Love to re-acquire. 1782 J. Howard Treat. Med. Prop. Mercury i. 36 He looks well, and has an uncommon propensity to reacquire speedily his former health and strength. 1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 291 The established interests..would, after the first novelty of an independant choice, shortly reacquire their natural ascendancy. 1884 Sir J. Pearson in Law Times Rep. 50 712/2 By losing an English domicil, he re-acquired a Scotch domicil, his domicil of origin. 1900 F. R. M. Cleaver in M. M. Cleaver Young S. Afr. (1913) 54 I have re-acquired all my old veld craft. 1948 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 107 443 Lewis's observation goes back to 1926 when he saw a regressed schizophrenic patient reacquire a dorsiflexor response to plantar stimulation. 2003 Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 7/1 Wings were lost in the primitive ancestor of stick insects, then reacquired four times during evolution. Derivatives reaˈcquired adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > obtained again regained1600 reacquired1799 1799 tr. I. Kant Metaphysic of Morals II. 77 The consciousness of one's reacquired liberty. 1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV II. 299 To ensure durability to the reacquired power of the queen. 1973 Times 29 Mar. 26/2 Italy was generous with its reacquired city. 2007 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 31 July (Sports section) 6 Recently reacquired pitcher Dan Wheeler. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1627 |
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