reconstructedadj.
/ˌriːkənˈstrʌktᵻd/, U.S. /ˌrikənˈstrək(t)əd/ 1. That has been reconstructed (in various senses).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating or constructing again > created or constructed again
re-edificate?a1475
regenerate?1536
re-exstruct1594
re-edified1595
recreated1612
rebuilt1647
recomposed1658
regenerated1758
reconstructed1834
recreate1855
recompact1868
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [adjective] > relating to reconstruction > reconstructed
reconstructed1834
rearticulated1919
the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [adjective] > protolinguistics > reconstructed or reconstructable
reconstructable1891
reconstructed1933
1834 Times 1 July 3/2 No man can yet see his way as to the eventual security of any solid maintenance for the parochial clergy in Ireland, by means of this patched, party-coloured, broken up, reconstructed, inconvenient, unstatesmanlike tithe bill.
1865–6 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 97 Choice was made of persons to fill the offices of the reconstructed treasury department.
1909 W. G. Renwick Marble & Marble Working xv. 175 Reconstructed Sicilian marble was selected for lining the walls of the operating-rooms at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, opened last year.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. 302 Students of the Romance languages reconstruct a Primitive Romance (‘Vulgar Latin’) form before they turn to the written records of Latin, and they interpret these records in the light of the reconstructed form.
1951 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropol. iii. 43 The reaction against the attempt to explain social institutions by their reconstructed past..came at the end of last century.
2003 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 17/1 Their [sc. philologists after Grimm] sign for a ‘reconstructed’ word, a word never recorded but which they felt must have existed, was a preceding asterisk, so that manniz , for instance, is Primitive Germanic for ‘men.’
2. Cf. unreconstructed adj.
a. U.S. Of a Confederate state or a supporter of the Confederacy: restored or reconciled to the Federal system of government according to the process of Reconstruction (reconstruction n. 1c). Now historical.
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1864 Christian Examiner Mar. 264 It is possible that slavery may be patched up again in the reconstructed State governments.
1880 Democracy, An Amer. Novel v One evening Mrs. Lee went to the President's first evening reception. As..Carrington mildly said that he feared he was not sufficiently reconstructed to appear at home in that august presence, Mrs. Lee accepted Mr. French for an escort.
1913 C. E. Whelan Bascom Clarke (Apology) I..found myself in the land of my country's enemies, who proved such good friends that through their acts, a ‘reconstructed rebel’, whose soul had been filled with treason and hatred, came to cast his first vote for the Hero of Appomattox.
1959 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 25 432 Vernon Wharton, after a close study of one ‘reconstructed’ state, reaches a conclusion probably applicable to most of the former Confederate commonwealths.
2004 Virginia Law Rev. 90 1607 They probably wanted to protect white unionists in the South from oppression by reconstructed State governments controlled by ex-Confederates.
b. In extended use: converted to a current orthodoxy from a belief system regarded as unacceptable.In quot. 1966, referring to former Communists in Vietnam.
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1966 New Statesman 14 Oct. 549/1 As reconstructed peasants sleep Upon their AID-assisted beds.
1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Nov. 63/1 (advt.) Manhattan widow in late-late fifties, sensitive, discriminating, unpretentious, reconstructed WASP, i.e., no racial prejudice, religious convictions, fairly self-reliant but lonely.
1991 Time Out 20 Nov. 162/3 I presume he is referring to uptight male reviewers like himself, eager to flash their ‘reconstructed’ credentials.
2000 M. Gayle Turning Thirty lxvii. 245 I'm sure I must have looked like a paragon of reconstructed masculinity: a twenty-nine-year-old man with tampons in his trolley and a nearly four-years-old in his charge.
Compounds
reconstructed stone n. a building material made from crushed natural stone and cement.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > concrete > [noun] > artificial stone
artificial stone1722
lithodipyrac1778
reconstructed stone1915
cast stone1925
reconstituted stone1961
1909 W. G. Renwick Marble & Marble Working xv. 176 (caption) The first building to be erected in Reconstructed Portland Stone.]
1915 Lima (Ohio) Daily News 11 Nov. 11/7 The Meigs County Reconstructed Stone Co. Middleport.
1935 Specification 37 245/1 Reconstructed stone is natural stone—reconstructed, and is to be distinguished from artificial stone, which may be described as high-grade concrete.
1988 A. Johnson Converting old Buildings (BNC) The cost consideration..led to the new window sills, mullions and lintels being manufactured in reconstructed stone..rather than the natural material.
2004 Contract Jrnl. 14 Jan. 12/4 The polished reconstructed stone canopy has been fabricated in a lightweight precast concrete—better known as glass-reinforced cement or GRC.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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