reimpelv.
/ˌriːɪmˈpɛl/, U.S. /ˌriᵻmˈpɛl/ Now rare.
transitive. To impel again.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > again
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1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxxix. 325 The Water was presently re-impell'd to its former height.
1790 J. Meares Voyages p. v The hoarse dashing of the surge drove us from one side, in order to be re-impelled by the same alarming warnings on the other.
1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 830/2 By the successive and opposite impulses of these contradictory statements, our wavering opinions are driven from pillar to post, to be reimpelled with equal vehemence and velocity from post to pillar.
1860 Cornhill Mag. July 71 It repeats..the signals transmitted from London; re-impelling the message to Copenhagen.
1919 Psychoanalytic Rev. 6 376 It is the psychic something within which is clarified, forwarded, re-impelled not merely to continue living in patient resignation, but far rather to gird up its loins in this great task of living for something better.
1976 U.S. Patent 3,986,891 1 A forceful spray is again re-impelled to all surfaces within the chamber.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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