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单词 redispose
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redisposev.

Brit. /ˌriːdᵻˈspəʊz/, U.S. /ˌridəˈspoʊz/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, dispose v.
Etymology: < re- prefix + dispose v.
1. transitive. To rearrange, readjust.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrange [verb (transitive)] > afresh
redispose1635
re-lay1700
rearrange1778
reshift1822
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > bring into conformity > adjust to a standard or purpose > again
redispose1635
readjusta1678
retrick1874
1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse iv. 22 An Epimeilian Julip he applies Unto his breasts, his temples, and his eyes, With cheerfull perfumes, wrought by choicest art, To re-dispose the intellectuall part.
1733 A. Baxter Enq. Nature Human Soul 151 Spirit hath no parts; and therefore it stands in need of no reparation, or re-disposing its parts aright.
1893 Mind 2 279 The whole complex of notions fell apart and redisposed itself around some fundamental axis of thought.
1930 Harvard Theol. Rev. 23 216 The object lies in the future as the result of reflective operations which redispose that which already existed.
1950 W. Stevens Coll. Poems (1968) 440 This essential gold, This fortune's finding, disposed and re-disposed By such slight genii in such pale air.
1974 W. Everson Man-fate 41 And islands? Dappling the wine-dark sea They redispose the elements, Shaping anew our insular fates.
1997 Independent (Nexis) 13 July 26 Gavin redisposed all the limbs within his reach or power. Now she might speak.
2. intransitive. To dispose of again.
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1828 Cases House of Lords on Appeal from Courts of Scotl.1824 II. 169 Some short time after his purchase had been completed, Mr Wilson was desirous of redisposing of this estate, and a new agreement was entered into.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott IV. iv. 110 I am assured by his surviving partner that when he had finally redisposed of the stock, he found himself a loser by fully two-thirds of this sum [sc. £5,270].
1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 62 The very land that had only just been sold, was being re-disposed of at a considerable advance.
1936 Times 10 Sept. 14/5 Up to the present no steps have been taken to redispose of them [sc. six aeroplanes] in this country.
1986 S. Neuman in P. Dodd Mod. Selves 134 The Brazen Horn..opens with the Luger, having been abandoned a second time, being restored to Johnston in 1956 and subsequently redisposed of.
2001 M. G. Velasquez in A. Malachowski Business Ethics III. ii. l. 206 It has been discovered..that radioactive materials..may eventually have to be exhumed and redisposed of at a cost of several hundred million dollars.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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