a1610 T. Rogers Leycesters Ghost (1641) 19 It was pure love which made mee undertake This haplesse recontract with thee to make.

1907 Econ. Jrnl. 17 231 To resume bargains until a system of contracts, not likely to be varied by recontract, has been set up.

1950 Big Spring (Texas) Daily Herald 21 Sept. 9/3 Some 100 Pontiac dealers, from a territory extending from Abileneto El Paso, gathered here today for recontract talks and reports on their monthly quotas.

1998 R. Hoefte In Place of Slavery iii. 59 A transitional measure limited the maximum length of a recontract to a year.

1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xxx. 355 [He] sent him..a dispensation to put away his wife..and to recontract Anne of Bretaigne, the widdow of Charles the eight lately deceased.

1622 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 2nd Bk. ix. 160 My soule hath made my peace with God, and my heart desires to recontract it both with thyselfe and her.

1814 Ld. Byron Let. 14 Sept. (1975) IV. 171 But I will first see an' the monies be palpable and tangible—before I recontract with him or others.

1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. I. i. 8 The line was recontracted for in July 1858, six years being the time of expiry.

1961 Pacific Hist. Rev. 30 162 After local farmers had refused to repatriate or recontract at thirty-seven cents those whose contracts had expired..the Ciudad Juárez center severed relations with the El Paso Cotton Growers' Association.

1978 H. Leibenstein Gen. X-Efficiency Theory & Econ. Devel. v. 93 If additional workers are hired at a lower wage then the firm has to recontract with its old labor force for a lower wage.

2006 G. A. Mackenzie Annuity Markets & Pension Reform iii. 72 The terms of the annuities would change over time as they were recontracted.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 321 For the sence of State once contracted into a Privy councell is soon recontracted into a Cabinet councell, and last of all into a Favourite or two.

1749 D. W. Linden Direct. Use Mineral-Water 4 All such as are liable frequently to catch cold, ought, every Spring and Fall, to go through a Course of drinking this Water..and by that means, strengthen the Mucus, restore the Cohesion, and regulate, or recontract the Substance of the Fibres.

?1785 F. Lallier Diss. Disorders Bladder (ed. 5) 9 No other virtue, but that of stretching and enlarging the diameter of the Urethra, and that only for a momentary time, after which the part recontracted.

1857 Med. Times & Gaz. 31 Jan. 115/2 The stricture, however, recontracts as soon as the treatment is interrupted.

1934 Nevada State Jrnl. 22 June 5/7 In order to make any progress in a series of movements we have to uncontract the muscles and then recontract them, over and over again.

1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 148/1 A closed spherical universe that will eventually stop expanding and recontract, possibly to reach another Big Bang (or Big Crunch).

1852 Med. Times & Gaz. 24 July 97 Of 400 patients thus treated, it is said that four only returned, and of these two had recontracted the disease.

1893 N. Amer. Rev. June 758 The inebriate was infused with new life and new aspirations, and he was assured that it would be impossible for him to recontract the habit.

1995 N. Boyd-Franklin et al. Children, Families, & HIV/AIDS iv. vii. 124 They were fearful that her cold would make her vulnerable to recontracting HIV.

1816 Eclectic Repertory & Analyt. Rev. 6 449 An expansion in the pipe D, which is as suddenly succeeded by a recontraction and trifling vacuum.

1861 F. J. Bumstead Pathol. & Treatm. Venereal Dis. i. xiii. 287 This method..is more likely to be attended with untoward symptoms; and is followed by a strong tendency to recontraction.

1953 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 39 1287 If the fiber is stretched and held for some time (6 minutes) before release, the ensuing recontraction is a smooth curve.

1998 Christian Cent. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 342 If more matter exists in the universe than we currently perceive, the force of gravity may stop the expansion process..and compel a recontraction, a sucking of all the galaxies, stars and planets back into a very dense and hot singularity.