regravev.

1662 W. Faithorne Art of Graveing & Etching 39 (heading) Here followeth the manner, after that your plates are eaten into by the Aqua fortis, how to touch up, or re-grave that which haply you may have forgotten, or that which you would amend or supply.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 151/2 Grave, or Re-grave, to mend with the Graver those stroaks omitted or not eaten with the Aqua-Fortis.

1720 W. Sherard Let. 16 June in J. Nichols Illustr. Lit. Hist. 18th Cent. (1817) I. 368 Mr. Innys has re-graved the eight plates wanting in Plukenet's ‘Mantissa’.

1772 W. Hooper tr. L. S. Mercier Mem. Year Two Thousand Five Hundred II. vii. 108 The plates of the Encyclopedia had been entirely regraved.

1843 G. P. Morris & N. P. Willis New Mirror 7 Oct. 335/2 This, and two or three others of Pinkney's ‘entire and perfect chrysolites’, should be re-graven with his name, for the world owes his memory a debt for them.

1885 J. Ashton Cross tr. Justinian Instit. in W. A. Hunter Systematic & Hist. Expos. Rom. Law (rev. ed.) iii. ii. 924 The testator bought two plates as described, but they were re-graved, not polished.

1972 Amer. Oxonian Oct. 283 The Twelve Apostles are being regraven and will soon be back on their places around the Sheldonian.

1989 Stanford Lit. Rev. Fall 199 Ambivalence signifies that there is no object as such until it is incorporated into the subject (incised, regraven into it) as subject.