reintroducev.
/ˌriːɪntrəˈdjuːs/, /ˌriːɪntrəˈdʒuːs/, U.S. /ˈˌriᵻntrəˈd(j)us/ 1. transitive. To introduce again.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or make use of [verb (transitive)] > bring or put into use > bring into use or practice > again
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1642 [see reintroducing n. at Derivatives].
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. 163 The Scotch Bishops, who being but Probationers on their good behaviour (as but re-introduced by King James) offended the ancient Nobility, with their medleing in State matters.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 281 The Empire which he seduced into Idolatry..and so re-introduced the Image of the slain Beast by this seduction.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. v. 316 I may have occasion elsewhere, very probably, to re-introduce the Maltese.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 262 It has been introduced..for a long series of years; but..so little noticed, that..I had much ado to re-introduce it.
1796 J. C. Cross Parnassian Bagatelles 133 To James Jones, Esq. As the Vehicle which re-introduced that Child of Nature Mr. Blanchard, (under his Auspices) to a London Audience; And as a small Token of Esteem, Respect and Veneration, The following Trifle is Dedicated.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (Bohn) 77 The very words, objective and subjective,..I have ventured to re-introduce.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. x. 80 To shake This torpor of assurance from our creed, Re-introduce the doubt discarded.
1913 Times 27 June 39/6 The adaptation of faulty patterns from wallpapers and tablecloths has been done away with and old prickings have been unearthed and reintroduced.
1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. xiii. 386 The bath was reintroduced as a foreign importation, a luxury.
2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) viii. 274 After 20th-century Danes reintroduced sheep and cows to Greenland, they too proceeded to make mistakes.
2. transitive. To return (a species of animal or plant) to a locality where it was formerly native, with the intention of re-establishing it in the wild.Species are reintroduced by transferring individuals from other sites, or by releasing those resulting from captive breeding or artificial propagation.
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1901 Auk 18 250 The [Bob-white] Quail was common prior to 1840, but became extinct in Bermuda about that time. It was reintroduced in 1858 or 1859.
1933 Jrnl. Mammalogy 14 267 Deep canyons and foothills..within the park boundaries are considered ideal habitat for the peccary, which then could be reintroduced to these former haunts.
1976 Field 30 Dec. 1281/1 A foundation stock of ten white-tailed eagles [was] brought over from Norway..in an attempt to reintroduce a raptorial bird once native to Britain.
1996 Audubon Jan.–Feb. 40/3 The Kearney's blue-star, a flower native to Arizona, has been reintroduced in the wild successfully, as have..Lahontan cutthroat trout in Utah.
2008 Daily Tel. 13 Mar. 16/2 The large blue, Britain's largest and rarest blue butterfly, became extinct in 1979 but has been successfully reintroduced.
Derivatives
reintroˈducing n.
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1642 ‘T. Decius’ Answer Lord George Digbies Apol. 11 When they found it tooke with his Majesty, then imployed further to work upon his pious and bountifull heart for the reintroducing of Episcopacy in that Kingdom.
1719 J. Anderson Serm. Trone Church 7 That the re-introducing this, would have been the Effect of setting a Papist on the Throne, will not, I suppose, be denied.
1863 United Presbyterian Mag. June 254/1 As a Protestant, he objected to the re-introducing of Popery.
1996 G. Ekiert State against Society 359 Workers in general were opposed to reintroducing of party organizations in places of work.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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