redividev.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1360 By the meanes whereof, that which is composed and mixed is redivided [Fr. se rediuise], and separate againe.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 192 The King redivided the land into foure circuits.

1771 J. W. Baker Pract. Agric. Epitomized 33 I shall yet redivide this table, and thereby bring the important object of judicious practical agriculture, under only two heads.

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. vi. 522 Aristotle clearly did not believe that Lycurgus had redivided the soil.

1892 Econ. Jrnl. 2 52 The only way..to attack the accumulation of capital without resorting to communism, is either periodically to confiscate and redivide it at death or otherwise, or else at uncertain and unexpected times to confiscate the whole or a portion of it by law.

1930 Mod. Lang. Notes 45 9 The most casual examination..shows that he redivided and shortened all of Chateaubriand's longer paragraphs.

1960 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 21 266 Seizing power with a violent coup against the ephors, Cleomenes redivided land and increased the citizen body.

1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) iv. ii. 354 Stefanovich and Debagorii-Mokrievich discovered..that peasants in Kiev guberniia thought the land should be redivided and awarded equitably to all who needed it.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Ridiuisione, a redeuiding.

1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire iii. 31 Lewis tried in vain to satisfy his sons by dividing and redividing.

1904 Auk 21 64 Since that time down to the present, the dividing and re-dividing of old species into geographical races or subspecies has gone on apace.

2006 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 15 Apr. 12 The local mosque organized the redividing of the land as it originally was.