relearnv.

1694 tr. O. G. de Busbecq Four Epist. conc. Embassy into Turkey 396 Neither could they arrive at the Haven of Victory, till..they had again relearn'd [L. condiscere] the..Use and Increase of Arms.

a1711 T. Ken Edmund viii, in Wks. (1721) II. 213 He in Religion nurtur'd from his Youth, In Wisdom's House relearn'd all sacred Truth.

1791 J. Priestley Lett. to Edmund Burke iii. 20 It is too late for us to go to school again, and relearn the first elements of political science.

1828 Q. Rev. Sept. 80 If wealthy..England were to ‘put herself to school’ to relearn the mendicant system of maintaining her poor..her prosperity would from that moment begin to decline.

1850 Westm. & Foreign Q. Rev. Apr. 80 The world has never to re-learn its lesson.

1900 C. Gore St. Paul's Epist. Romans II. 100 We must relearn the lesson that St. Augustine is for ever insisting upon.

1951 G. K. Yacorzynski Med. Psychol. i. iv. 115 He was able to relearn a poem which he had memorized twenty years before more rapidly than similar material which he was learning for the first time.

2005 Guardian 26 Nov. (Work section) 2/5 Native English speakers may need to relearn their language all over again as ‘global English’ develops new dialects.