1666 R. Boyle Let. 9 Mar. in Corr. (2001) III. 102 As to what seems your maine Hypothesis, that Mr Greaterick performes his Cures by the strengthening, & reinvigorating of Nature;..I doubt not but that you will have many of your Readers of that Opinion with you.

1857 Monthly Relig. Mag. Oct. 285 We have no doubt it would be seen how large a part the college prayers bore in the initiation or the reinvigorating of their best designs.

1897 Times 15 Feb. 10/4 A firm resistance ought now to be made..to..the reinvigorating of declining existing denominational schools.

1989 Jrnl. Politics 51 185 The great weakness in all the pleas recorded above for a reinvigorating of the humanities component of higher education lies with the professoriate.

1773 W. Duff Hist. Rhedi 88 But the ever merciful Allah..whose reinvigorating influence I felt upon my mind.

1845 H. W. Herbert Warwick Woodlands 163 On we went, after a re-invigorating cup of mountain dew.

1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 6 Sept. 295/2 We had found happiness on a wharf—content with some old lumber baking in the sun, and a reinvigorating wind of saline savor pouring over us.

1903 Times 30 July 10 Nothing can be more refreshing, reinvigorating and altogether delightful, than the fragrance borne in the noontide heat off a chance patch of three or four ‘beegas’.

1955 Amer. Hist. Rev. 60 349 The reinvigorating influence exerted by Italy on English music in the age of the Elizabethan madrigal.

2008 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail (Nexis) 6 Mar. 1 d It's been like a blood transfusion for me, completely reinvigorating.