rehandlev.
/ˌriːˈhandl/, U.S. /riˈhæn(d)əl/ 1. † a. transitive. To handle (a person) in return. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > follow (a course of behaviour) [verb (transitive)] > behave towards > again
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1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xxxix. 398 Euen as they delt with others rigorously and by strength of weapons, so shall they bee themselues rehandled and dealt withall after the same measure.
b. transitive. To handle (a material thing) for a second or further time.
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the world > action or operation > repeating > repeat (an action) [verb (transitive)]
renovela1325
reiterate?a1425
replicate?a1425
repeat?1440
iter1530
iterate?1548
redouble1580
redo1598
second1610
answer1613
renewa1616
ingeminate1625
reiter1634
double1645
reperform1651
rename1665
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retracta1699
rehearse1700
re-enact1819
1697 R. Gale tr. L. Jobert Knowl. Medals x. 176 The Lineaments [are] too rough, and ill polish'd, by which it may be guest they have been re-handled [Fr. retouchées].
1742 E. Nourse in J. Parsons Descr. Human Urin. Bladder 237 Upon rehandling the Bladder, neither of us could find any Stone.
1799 W. Bingfield Voy. 130 Having through these means received new life and vigour, we consulted the compass, re-handled our tackling, and proceeded with..alacrity.
1853 18th Ann. Rep. Virginia Central Railroad Company 26 The tonnage is to be transhipped at the Blue Ridge and twice re-handled there.
1888 W. J. Florence Florence Fables 93 Why did the Van Blarcoms rehandle the provisions before the final shipment?
1940 Jrnl. Business Univ. Chicago 13 195 A dry room.., with plenty of shelving so that goods need not be crowded and constantly rehandled, is essential.
1982 J. O. Jansson & D. Shneerson Port Econ. ii. 21 Containers are stacked by straddle carriers and may be rehandled a number of times before leaving the stackyard for good.
2001 J. Franzen Corrections 58 Only after he'd resqueezed and rehandled each piece of it did he conclude that the Mexican A was in the big zippered outer pocket of her bag.
2. transitive. To deal with (an issue, idea, etc.) again; spec. to treat (a literary source or theme) in a new way.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > treatise or dissertation > write treatise about or treat of [verb (transitive)] > again
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1672 W. Penn Spirit of Truth Vindicated 85 In rehandling the same Controversie, like Children, first give, and then take away again.
1728 P. F. le Courayer Def. Diss. Validity Eng. Ordinations I. iii. x. 489 This Difficulty first slightly touch'd upon by Father le Quien, has since been rehandled more extensively by Mr. Fennel.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 474 Sometimes forced to rehandle my premises to fit them for a further application.
1865 Cornhill Mag. May 608 Rehandling the old themes of Jocasta, Thyestes, Œdipus, and Agamemnon.
1879 E. Dowden Southey iii. 53 Out of a kind of gratitude he rehandled the Joan again and again.
1924 S. Dutt Early Buddhist Monachism i. 21 While on the one hand obsolete rules were thus retained, many of the old rules were recast and rehandled.
1975 18th-cent. Stud. 8 401 The writer of this hymn has not followed his source slavishly but has rehandled it freely.
2005 M. Newth Heroes of French Epic Pref. p. xi Great cyclic manuscripts..continued to preserve and rehandle the subject-matter of the earliest and/or most successful poems.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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