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单词 remass
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remassv.

Brit. /ˌriːˈmas/, U.S. /riˈmæs/
Forms: 1600s remasse, 1600s 1800s– remass.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: re- prefix, mass v.2
Etymology: < re- prefix + mass v.2, in early use after French ramasser ramass v.2 Compare earlier ramass v.2
1. intransitive. To come together again in a mass or masses; to reassemble.
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1635 tr. S. Dupleix Resoluer 29 It is the nature of liquors, to Unite and Remasse [Fr. ramasser].
1899 E. Barron Manders xxi. 278 The clouds shifting and clearing, and remassing and dispersing.
1919 M. Aldrich When Johnny comes marching Home xii. 172 They massed and unmassed and remassed, and every now and then some..lockstepped right through the barrier of soldiers.
1996 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 15 June Undaunted, they remassed and charged again.
2. transitive. To mass together again.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > again
reassemble?1473
regather1543
recollect1570
recollect1606
reaccruea1657
remass1695
1695 tr. P. Le Moyne Of Art of writing Hist. iii. v. 87 He [sc. a Historian] must remass [Fr. ramasser] all the Memoirs, Relations, Acts publick and private, that regard the Time, the Persons and Actions, of which he would compose his History.
1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 105 The hour..When all shall be remassed in one great creed, All being shall be rebegotten.
1926 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 41 630 I shall therefore remass and evaluate the findings of Mr. J. D. Wilson.
2001 Times (Nexis) 1 June (Features section) In the 1940s, penicillin arrived to rescue us from syphilis's thrall. But by the century's turn this longstanding foe remassed its forces, powered by antibiotic resistance and cavalier attitudes towards safe sex.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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