reimbibev.

1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 57 in Jewell House Let these wast ashes bee reimbibed with more water.

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. App. 336 The hot Liquor soon reimbib'd the Salt.

1688 A. Behn tr. B. Le B. de Fontenelle Hist. Oracles ii. i. 153 In times past there came from the Bosom of the Earth an infinity of Oracles and Fountains, and Exhalations..but the Earth by the continual changes which time makes in it, has reimbibed and caus'd to enter into its self, all those Fountains, Exhalations and Oracles.

1758 H. Lee Sophron II. 358 The defective face [of the moon] reimbibes the solar ray, to reflect it more copiously to the world.

1799 A. F. M. Willich Lect. Diet & Regimen iii. 195 Articles of dress which are soiled, and come into contact with the skin, being placed immediately over the pores, these reimbibe the humours already perspired, and return them to the body by the absorbents.

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 40 The paper has had time sufficient to re-imbibe the moisture.

1864 Entomologist 2 69 The larvae of lepidopterous insects frequently reimbibe the fluid ejected from the mouth when the insect is alarmed.

1891 Proc. Royal Soc. 49 284 The fluid would be re-imbibed by the sponge.

1931 A. D. Hall Soil (ed. 4) ii. 48 As the colloid particles dry they shrink and lose water which they do not entirely reimbibe when they are moistened again.

a1960 E. M. Forster Maurice (1971) iii. 15 Then he would reimbibe the face and the four words.

1996 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 2 Nov. 2 If you are excreting something there's probably a good reason why you are excreting it, and to reimbibe it seems pretty stupid.

1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 44 The reimbibing of perspired matter.

1979 New Phytologist 82 360 (table) Days from re-imbibing to stem extension.