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1854 H. Forbes Man. Patriotic Volunteer I. 17 If..a new invasion were to prove too strong for the regular army, then the Guerrilla, reactivated, can again take the field.

1903 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 14 Feb. 251/2 The serum can be reactivated by a little fresh serum not only from a normal rabbit, but from the goat and the rat.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female viii. 176 Menstruation..is itself believed to be reactivated by marriage.

1953 Times 13 May 3/5 The importance of maintaining the base there in such condition that it could be reactivated immediately in case of war.

1976 A. White Long Silence xx. 179 Please reactivate the plan to surround the station.

1977 Living with Tanker Surplus (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) 6 A ship in lay-up cannot easily or quickly be reactivated.

1996 P. H. Duesberg Inventing AIDS Virus iii. 75 For a virus to be reactivated, the immune system first must be destroyed by something else—the real cause of a disease.

1920 Evening Record (Greenville, Pennsylvania) 17 Nov. 4/5 In 33 per cent of the cases, earlier tuberculous tendencies were revived. A curious feature of 40 per cent of these so-called reactivated cases was that tuberculosis was not at first recognized or suspected.

1941 Helena (Montana) Independent 10 Apr. 2/2 Pushing the steel snouts of their armored divisions..toward a junction with the reactivated Italians in Albania.

1996 P. H. Duesberg Inventing AIDS Virus iii. 75 A reactivated virus would just contribute an opportunistic infection.

1903 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 14 Feb. 251/1 It has been found that this ‘reactivation’ of the serum, as it has been called, can often be brought about by the serum of various animals.

1957 Times 18 Nov. p. i/1 Sophisticated arguments about the ‘re-activation’ of bank deposits or the velocity of circulation.

2004 N.Y. Times 26 Dec. iv. 4/1 The filling of military jobs through reactivation of former troops.