reagitatev.
/riːˈadʒᵻteɪt/, U.S. /riˈædʒəˌteɪt/ 1. transitive. To agitate or stir up again; to move again to a state of agitation. Occasionally intransitive.
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1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. iii. ii. 81/1 The Disputes upon Predestination and Grace began to be reagitated [Fr. recommencerent à s'agiter] with greater Fury than ever.
1787 State J. Day's Claim E. India Company xxvi. 29 I am thus forced to..advert to contested points which..I should not have thought it prudent or necessary, at this time to re-agitate.
1813 T. Busby in tr. Lucretius Nature of Things II. iv. Comm. p. xxxiv Certain minute moveable bones..provided to re-agitate the air.
1856 W. Ritchie & W. Porteous Organ Question 70 I have no desire now to reagitate the subject.
1960 Virginia Law Rev. 46 1052 These developments..reagitate the tremendously important and vexatious question of the conflicting and competing state and federal relations involving both fiscal and commercial policies.
1999 M. Holt Rise & Fall Amer. Whig Party xvi. 589 Sewardites intended to reagitate the slavery question by renewing efforts to impose the Proviso on the territories.
2. intransitive in same sense.
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1862 Continental Monthly Dec. 716/2 The Democratic party of the Free States..[would] reorganize and reagitate under the banner of ‘Reconstruction’.
2001 D. G. Smith Pennak's Freshwater Invertebr. U.S. (ed. 4) ii. 53 Add another 3 or 4 ml of water and reagitate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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