rehearingn.

a1626 F. Bacon Kings Charge in Resuscitatio (1657) 84 The Cause was, sometimes, forgotten, a Terme or two; And then set down, for a New hearing, or a Rehearing, three or four Termes after.

1686 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 500 My greate Cause was heard by my Lord Chancellor, who granted me a Rehearing.

1703 F. Atterbury Let. 11 Feb. in Misc. Wks. (1789) I. 161 We..renewed our application for a re-hearing of the matter.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 391 A new trial is a rehearing of the cause before another jury, but with as little prejudice to either party, as if it had never been heard before.

1824 J. McHenry O'Halloran I. xi. 151 Any gentleman in the neighbourhood who could have influence enough to procure a re-hearing of the case, offering to give such evidence of the affair as would entirely exculpate the prisoners.

1885 Law Times 79 156/2 The daughter took out a summons for a rehearing.

1929 Amer. Hist. Rev. 35 139 We are all prepared to listen sympathetically to a rehearing of the case for Andrew Johnson.

1995 Scotsman 18 Oct. 5/8 The parents produced fresh evidence and won a rehearing.

?1680 Antichristian Treachery ii. 56 They desired certain approved Brethren to go down, and in the Wisdom and Counsel of God to assist the Churches and Brethren there in the rehearing and ending of the matter.

1714 J. Oldmixon Arcana Gallica 297 The Ends of the Minister..was to procure the Condemnation of the Persons accus'd on any or no Proof, and not to suffer the re-hearing of the Process.

1791 Edinb. Mag. July 70/1 He placed no dependance upon the re-hearing of his cause in the world to come.

1822 Times 10 Aug. 2/5 A petition for rehearing was before the court.

1898 Southwestern Reporter 43 144/1 It matters not that the rehearing of the evidence is now demanded by the plaintiff.

1931 Harvard Law Rev. 44 651 A state requirement of application for rehearing can make no legal difference in the right to seek federal aid.

2007 A. E. Doan Opposition & Intimidation ii. 64 Given the controversial issue, the rehearing of the cases, and the Court's long deliberation, no one had a clear idea how the Court was going to rule.

1786 Eng. Rev. Jan. 29 ‘The School for Vanity’, a comedy, which was withdrawn after the first representation, has some good points; and certainly merited a rehearing.

1831 W. Scott Abbot (new ed.) I. Introd. p. xiv An author may be justified in using with address, such selection of subject or title as is most likely to procure a rehearing.

1869 Athenæum 27 Mar. 445/3 Each rehearing of ‘The Woman of Samaria’ deepens our conviction of its high merits.

1915 Musical Times 56 350/2 We have invariably found that the work leaves a great and lasting impression, strengthened, too, by a re-hearing.

1989 R. MacNeil Wordstruck i. 13 What was the nature of the material, heard and reheard, that would load subsequent rehearings—even fifty years later—with so much meaning?

2005 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 3 Mar. 12 Tomorrow night..ending with a welcome rehearing of Living Toys by the brilliant, hugely talented Thomas Ades.

1893 United Service Mag. Dec. 247 I venture to plead for the rehearing of a proposal often mooted: the formation of the battalion into four companies.

1966 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 24 579 It is argued that rehearing ‘would increasingly penetrate into the emotional life of the listener.’

1984 M. Dittrick & D. Dittrick No Uncertain Terms 12 An even less common phenomenon is a form of eidetic memory that involves the very clear rehearing of sounds.

2000 Music & Lett. 81 144/1 Since analyses have not always done full justice to the hidden complexity of neo-Classicism, the rehearing of these works is clearly a necessity.