rehabilitatev.
/ˌriː(h)əˈbɪlᵻteɪt/, U.S. /ˌri(h)əˈbɪləˌteɪt/ 1.
a. transitive. Originally Scottish. To restore (a person) to former privileges, status, possessions, etc., by official decree or declaration; (also) to re-establish (a person's reputation) in this manner. Formerly also (Scottish): †to legitimate (a person of illegitimate birth) (obsolete).
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > [verb (transitive)]
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to bring to (one's) statea1387
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redintegrate1622
restate1625
redeem1686
society > law > legal right > resumption or restoration of rights > restore to legal rights [verb (transitive)] > restore to a legal status
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rehabilitate1580
re-enable1611
retrocess1682
recapacitate1686
1580–1 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 358 Oure Soverane Lord..rehabilitattis and restoris the said Robert..to his gude fame.
1586–7 D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 154 Ay and quhill the said James, sumtyme archiebischop of Glasgow, be fullelie restorit and rehabilitat be oure said Soverane Lord.
c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 240 Gif ony persoun born bastard be efterwart lauchfullie rehabilitat and legitimat be the king..the airis lauchfullie gottin of his bodie..have full powar and richt to succeid.
1633 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1814) V. 56/2 His Majestie..hes rehabilitat the said francis [sometime Earl of Bothwell] his airs and successors againes the act of dishabilitatioun.
1716 A. M. P. Du Noyer Lett. Lady at Paris (ed. 2) I. xviii. 217 The corrupt Judges are now in Prison... The Memory of the Deceased has been restored, or according to the term rehabilitated.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rehabilitation The king alone can Rehabilitate an Officer noted, condemned and degraded; or a Gentleman who has derogated from his Degree.
1796 W. Seward Anecd. III. 26 Pope Calixtus the Third..rehabilitated her memory, declaring her, by a Bull, a martyr to her religion.
1867 C. M. Yonge Cameos lxxxiv, in Monthly Packet July 26 Not only was her name publickly rehabilitated, but the records of the examinations in the archives of France guard her memory for ever.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvii. 563 Edward I again seems to have considered that the judges..were rehabilitated by the payment of a fine.
1910 J. Wheless Compend. Laws of Mex I. x. 438 All except fraudulent bankrupts are rehabilitated upon paying their creditors in full.
1968 Texas Internat. Law Forum 4 141 The bankrupt remains under this disability until rehabilitated by payment of his past due debts.
2006 S. Carroll Blood & Violence in Early Mod. France i. i. 40 He was condemned in absentia and his château razed by order of the 1665 Great Assizes... He was rehabilitated in 1682.
b. transitive. To restore or re-establish the reputation or merit of; to vindicate, esp. through a literary or historical reappraisal. Also: to clear from unfounded accusations or misrepresentations.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > justify [verb (transitive)] > exculpate
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skere?c1225
unwreea1250
spurge1303
sunyiea1325
disblamec1374
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emplasterc1405
declare1460
clear1481
absolve1496
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free1560
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exonerate1655
exculpate1656
wash1659
excriminate1661
to wipe the mouth of1687
disculpate1693
whitewash1703
rehabilitate1847
1731 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 3 253 This rehabilitates Dr. Boerhaave in his Name, and Honours.
1806 C. Robinson Rep. High Court Admiralty 5 239 Not less effect should be ascribed to the state of amity intervening also before adjudication, to rehabilitate and restore the claimant to his former friendly character.
1847 Blackwood's Mag. 62 354 We pass on..to the chief hero of these peasant wars, whom Mrs. Percy Sinnett undertakes, in the French phrase, to rehabilitate—in other words, to wash a little white.
1869 Latest News 26 Sept. 9 He hoped to rehabilitate himself; and, if he should ever return here, to continue the fight.
1886 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 570/1 Teachers of literature might well make some effort to rehabilitate these misimagined worthies of the past.
1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 65 I do not believe, however, that such performances will do very much to rehabilitate Greek literature or our own.
1935 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 7 86 If his reputation is ever to be partially rehabilitated, it may come from a study of his ideas.
1980 P. Larkin in Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 1247/1 Nicolson at least was trying to rehabilitate Tennyson..by showing him to be an absurd and suffering human being much like ourselves.
2002 Entertainm. Weekly 18 Jan. 36/1 ‘Brotha’ assumes the onus of rehabilitating the image of African-American men on urban radio.
2.
a. transitive. To restore to a previous condition; to return (something) to its normal or proper condition.In quot. 1663 with in as an extension of sense 1a.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)]
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recurea1382
reparela1382
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store1387
restorec1390
redressc1405
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rectifya1529
restauratea1538
redeem1575
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upright1601
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reficiate1657
rehabilitate1663
retrieve1665
re-establish1706
re-rail1914
rehab1961
1663 G. Mackenzie Religio Stoici 120 Why may we not say, that man, if he were rehabilitat in the former state of pure nature, might..foresee and prophesie?
1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 500 The Lord Lieutenant has been rehabilitating Courts of Justice in Dublin.
1854 C. J. Ellicott Crit. Comm. Epist. Gal. Pref. p. xiii The very admirable work of Winer has completely rehabilitated the subject.
1875 A. Helps Social Pressure vii. 96 That dear boy George Smith had rehabilitated me.
1909 Northeastern Reporter 85 1059/2 It is urged that a will once destroyed, with the intention of revoking it, cannot be rehabilitated by its subsequent recognition by the testator as his last will and testament.
1944 H. L. Mencken Diary 17 July (1989) 323 When the Hearst organization faced bankruptcy he was retained to rehabilitate it... Hearst is now solvent again.
1995 N. Hudson Soil Conservation (ed. 3) xiii. 349 (title) Pitting practices for rehabilitating eroded grazing land in the semi-arid tropics of eastern Kenya.
b. transitive. To revive or reconstruct (a country or area) economically and politically after war.
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1867 Harper's Mag. Feb. 395/2 The Southern States should be rehabilitated, so that by the revival of their industry and productiveness they may be able to bear their share of the national burdens.
1888 Ann. Reg. 1887 373 The chief topic of interest during the year has been the proposals..for rehabilitating the country [sc. Peru] by means of a great financial corporation in Europe.
1948 Times 6 Apr. 5 The general aim of the fourth Five-year Plan of the Soviet Union..is to rehabilitate the war-devastated regions.
1954 W. H. Hocking Exper. in Educ. ii. 16 The two phases of the mandate—to insure against revival of Hitlerism and to rehabilitate Germany—belonged together but could easily pull apart.
2005 C. Mahapatra in R. R. Sharma India & Emerging Asia vi. 157 The US policy makers considered it essential to rehabilitate Japan, turn the erstwhile adversary into an ally.
c. transitive. North American. To repair, renovate, or refurbish (a vehicle, building, etc.); to refit.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > renovate or renew > refurbish
refresh1468
recoct1562
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furbish1587
vamp1599
interpolate1623
vamp1632
new-vampa1640
revamp1803
refurbish1824
to fig up1825
rehabilitate1878
face-lift1939
refurb1970
1878 in E. Herslet Treaties & Tariffs Trade Great Brit. & Foreign: Spain 331 If it be desired to rehabilitate the ship for sea, the owner or purchaser shall give information officially to the Administrator of the Custom-house.
1899 A. S. Roe Mass. State House 21 There was appropriated in 1896, to renew and to rehabilitate the old structure, $375,000.
1938 Amer. Home Jan. 70/2 We could afford to spend not more than $225 and with that we had to rehabilitate five wellworn pieces (two sofas and three chairs).
1965 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 3 May 4/6 A superb old motorcar rehabilitated becomes an aerocar, a hovercraft, or whatever the Pott family requires.
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 8 June [He] felt called upon to rescue and rehabilitate the building.
2008 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 5 Nov. 10 Such funds typically are used to build low-cost homes, rehabilitate apartments or improve other housing opportunities for low-income families.
3.
a. transitive. To improve the character, skills, and behaviour of (an offender) by providing education, counselling, work experience, etc., in order to aid reintegration into society. Also more generally: to retrain. Cf. rehabilitation n. 3a.
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1865 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 25 June 6/4 May not the sometime felon, who has rehabilitated himself, speak with a prisoner, on the visiting days?
1881 T. H. S. Escott England (new ed.) xiv. 280 The Aid Societies which seek to rehabilitate our fallen brethren [i.e. criminals]..are actually accomplishing beneficent and satisfactory results day after day in our very midst.
1937 Chicago Tribune 26 Oct. 12/3 Committee II. is attempting to develop a method of rehabilitating and reskilling older workers who are out of a job.
1967 M. Braly On the Yard xiv. 237 A hanging judge with fixed opinions as to the possibility of rehabilitating multiple robbers.
1974 Farmer's Weekly 20 Mar. 25 This prison farm in the picturesque Cape rehabilitates its inmates using ‘agricultural therapy’.
1993 G. F. Newman Law & Order (rev. ed.) 110 And prison didn't exactly rehabilitate me.
b. transitive. To restore (a person) to health or normal life after injury, illness, or addiction, through therapy, treatment, counselling, etc.
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the world > health and disease > healing > heal or cure [verb (transitive)] > restore to health > rehabilitate
rehabilitate1867
reable1944
rehab1973
1867 J. Ordronaux Prophylaxis 39 If every foreigner could be transported home at the end of a year, and rehabilitated physically, why might he not perpetually escape this point of saturation?
1890 Lancet 2 Aug. 227/1 And this poor man had been sent a sea voyage with the hope that he might be in some measure rehabilitated.
1944 New Statesman 27 May 353/1 I think Dr. Rogerson's Patient would have had a very different outlook, had he been properly Rehabilitated.
1951 Times 20 Feb. 4/4 As soon as the wounded were rehabilitated they trained the new men, because of their valuable experience.
1977 Oral Surg., Oral Med., Oral Pathol. 44 830 Periodontal, restorative, prosthetic, and oral surgical services were necessary to rehabilitate this patient orofacially.
1999 Clevedon (Somerset) Mercury (Electronic ed.) 16 Sept. A fascinating talk by Robert Lawrence on the work being carried out by his organisation in supporting and rehabilitating young men involved in drug and alcohol abuse.
c. intransitive. To cause or facilitate a person's rehabilitation.
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1883 Reconnaissance Golden Northwest (Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Co.) xvii. 73 It doesn't merely create; it rehabilitates. It..endows their failing forms with a new and enduring vitality.
1922 Proc. Ann. Congr. Amer. Prison Assoc. 111 It aims to help him, to train and to rehabilitate and to reform; not only to keep him confined.
1998 P. Oliver Terror to Evil-doers xi. 400 Assessed in terms of their ability to reform or rehabilitate, there is little doubt that both institutions failed.
d. intransitive. To go through a process of rehabilitation.
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1945 Daily Tel. 29 June 4/3 Such assistance will be a precious aid to the first victims of the Axis—a people of 15,000,000 struggling to rehabilitate and develop, despite the grievous loss produced by the systematic murder by the Italians of the trained personnel and educated youth.
1994 Leisure Managem. Mar. 72/1 Ideal for users who are rehabilitating, deconditioned or using cardiovascular equipment for the first time.
4. transitive. To reintroduce (a serviceman or servicewoman) into civilian life, typically easing this transition through the provision of training, employment, housing, etc.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > [verb (transitive)] > to normal life by training
rehabilitate1890
1890 Minnesota in Civil & Indian Wars 280 Late in August the welcome order came that relieved the war-scarred veterans from duty as soldiers of the republic and rehabilitated them as citizens of the country they had helped to save.
1944 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 15 Jan. 2/1 Legislation to rehabilitate veterans and provide for their transition from military to civilian life.
1970 Times 19 Jan. 3/7 Nigeria has over 100,000 serving soldiers to rehabilitate.
2006 Columbus (Georgia) Ledger-Enquirer (Nexis) 30 Nov. A center to help rehabilitate veterans will not be built in Talbot County.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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