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1613 W. B. tr. S. Michaelis Admirable Hist. Penitent Woman 147 He that hath refashioned the same is Omnipotent.

1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare 17 Inflecting, fashioning and refashioning their religion according to the will and wantonness of them.

a1727 G. Hooper Wks. (1757) 660 God may not loath and abhor, refuse to take into his Hands, and to refashion.

1803 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 459 I have begun to modernize—no, to refashion—Drayton's battle of Azincour.

1816 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 81 471 They..have been much nationalized and refashioned in the transplantation.

1881 C. Rossetti Pageant & Other Poems 156 Shame Itself may be a glory and a grace, Refashioning the sin-disfashioned face.

1954 O. Sitwell Four Continents v. 112 The Drum Tower, refashioned half a millennium ago by the Emperor Yung Lo out of the materials of Kubla Khan's building of the same name.

1987 R. Shilts And Band played On (1988) ii. ii. 11 He had not refashioned himself into the utterly respectable aide to one of California's most powerful politicians. He wasn't selling out.

2006 Quilter's Newslet. Mag. Nov. 92 I hit the racks searching for skirts, dresses, and blouses I could refashion into my quilt.

1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 8 597 From that period the balance of erudition and talents began to incline toward the side of the reformers or refashioners.

1972 G. Jones Kings, Beasts, & Heroes p. xx We may..see our three authors for what they are, men laden with eloquence, their minds charged with story, skilled refashioners of prized material.

2001 Australian (Nexis) 5 Sept. 26 Universities..are also the principal curators, re-fashioners and presenters of bodies of learning.

1799 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 277 Milton and Klopstock, poets too good to undergo a refashioning.

1890 Athenæum 1 Nov. 583/2 The genuine Chaucer poems in the same MS. have not been subjected to any such wholesale refashioning.

1986 A. Ravetz Govt. of Space i. 9 The prevailing negativity is..a poor return for the generations of hope, effort, sacrifice and expense that went into the refashioning of the twentieth-century built environment.

2003 Tractor & Machinery Oct. (Farm & Hort. Equipm. Suppl.) 16/2 (caption) To prove that the refashioning of old tools was not unique to this country, this bale hook was acquired while Peter was on holiday in America.