renewv.¹

Brit.

/rᵻˈnjuː/, U.S.

/rəˈn(j)u/,

/riˈn(j)u/

Forms: see re- prefix and new adj. and n.; also late Middle English rennyþ (3rd singular present indicative, transmission error); Scottish pre-1700 ranew, pre-1700 reinew.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a Latin lexical item, and partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: re- prefix, new adj.

Etymology: < re- prefix + new adj., after classical Latin renovāre renovate v. and Anglo-Norman renuer (late 14th cent. or earlier). Compare earlier renovel v., renule v., and later renove v.

a. transitive. To make (something) new, or like new, again; to restore to the same condition as when new, young, or fresh.

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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > renovate or renew

newOE

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renulec1384

refreshc1425

repairc1425

anewc1440

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renovatea1555

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regenerate1607

righta1656

reficiate1657

freshen1710

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to fresh up1831

recondition1857

renovize1932

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms ciii. 30 Thou shalt renewe [L. renovabis] the face of the erthe.

c1400 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1911) 127 60 (MED) To renewyn thyn hosen or thyn shoon bi-toknith gret joye.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 770 (MED) Let make a stewe With rayn watir thyn herbis to renewe.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. xxxviii. f. xiiii He renewed and repayred all olde Temples thorough his Realme.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. xv. 8 And [Asa] renued the Lordes altare.

1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 229 Souls are chosen..as a Seed purged from all dross, to renue the Church.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 14 In such a night Medea gathered the inchanted hearbs that did renew old Eson.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 9 This Light..perfecteth, renueth, and preserueth all things.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 111 The cool Evening-breeze the Meads renews .

1717 C. Evelyn Lady's Recreation iv. 115 The Earth may be renew'd without re-casing, by abating the upper Part of it, and stirring it gently with a Fork.

1781 W. Cowper Charity 395 The soul whose sight all-quickening grace renews.

1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 144 The breed might be renewed and improved by importing from Barbary the mufflon.

1823 S. Rogers Bergamo in Italy 54 His long suit of black Dingy and thread~bare, though renewed in patches Till it has almost ceased to be the old one.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 103 Would God renew me from my birth I'd almost live my life again.

1938 R. K. Narayan Dark Room i. 11 She..renewed the vermilion mark on her forehead.

1990 D. Carrasco Relig. Mesoamer. Gloss. 168 Participants circumambulate the town block around the cathedral to renew the cosmos.

b. transitive. To cause to be spiritually reborn; to invest with a new and higher spiritual nature. Also occasionally with †up. Cf. regenerate v. 1a.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > regeneration > regenerate [verb (transitive)]

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. iv. 16 That man that is withinne forth [a1425 L.V. the ynner man] is renewid [L. renovatur].

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Eph. iv. 23 Be ȝe renewid [L. renovamini], or maad newe aȝen, by spirit of ȝoure mynde.

a1450 St. Katherine (Richardson 44) (1884) 41 Why haste we vs not to be reneued in the holy welle of baptem to fore oure deth?

c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 386 (MED) My wndystondynge ys in trew That wyth feyth ws dyd renew.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. sig. Ai^v Man is renewed..by the seuen folde graces of the holy goost.

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Celebr. Holye Communion f. xii^v Graunte that we..maye dailye be renued by thy holy spirite.

1607 S. Hieron Abridgem. of Gospell in Wks. (1620) I. 158 God is strong, able to pardon vs, able to renue vs.

1675 G. Fox Jrnl. (1952) 167 They were renewed up into the image of God.

1712 R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. I. xiii. 282 Even such Persons..may, by his Grace, renew themselves again unto Repentance.

1740 D. Waterland Regeneration ii. 16 Man renews himself, at the same time that the Spirit renews him.

1832 Q. Christian Spectator Mar. 172 All who are renewed by the Holy Spirit, will, through his continued influence, persevere in holiness to the end.

1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 123 The Paraclete that shall renew you.

1900 J. S. Banks Devel. Doctr. (1901) 145 Faith renews man.

1997 R. W. Prichard Nature of Salvation iv. 100 The Christian renewed his or her commitment to the covenant and was renewed by the Holy Spirit.

c. transitive (reflexive). To become new again; to take on fresh life or return to full strength or vigour; (in early use) spec. (of an animal) to restore itself in a healthy condition by replacing old body parts; (also) to reproduce. Cf. sense 1d.

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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (reflexive)] > renew

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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 263 Some bestes..reneweþ hemself..as crabbes chaungeþ here schelles, and hertes here hornes.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xv. 54 Alle thynges renewen them at his commynge.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lament. iii. 23 His faithfulnes is greate, and renueth itself as the mornynge.

1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course xii. f. 130 The plants, and all liuing creatures which cannot endure long, by the necessity of the matter whereof they are made, renew themselues continually.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. vi. 48 Therefore shall he dye, And Ile renew me in his fall.

1618 T. Adams Happines of Church ii. 198 They once a yeare slippe off their old coate, and renew themselues.

1653 N. Hardy Safest Convoy 24 Troubles will renew themselves during your abode.

?1711 W. King Hist. Acct. Heathen Gods & Heroes vii. 12 Time,..renewing its self by a perpetual Circulation.

1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 19 Even as that moon, Renews itself—Shall we be not renew'd.

1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 221/1 Nature perpetually renews herself through the death of transient life-substances which come again in the old forms.

1989 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Aug. 47/1 (advt.) Renew yourself with a massage, wet treatment and Swiss shower. Relax in the full service salon or whirlpool.

2005 L. Leblanc Pretty in Punk ii. 59 Punk had survived the conservative '80s, and in the late '80s and early '90s renewed itself in a variety of offshoots.

†d. intransitive. To become new again, revive; to take on fresh life or return to full strength or vigour. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > be or become restored [verb (intransitive)] > be or become renewed

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renove?c1425

refreshen1661

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 1952 (MED) Al sodeinly hir fresche rosen hewe Ful ofte tyme gan chaunge and renewe An hondrid sythe in a litel space.

1473 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 472 I praye yow be ware þat þe olde love off Pampyng renewe natt.

c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Testament (Harl. 218) l. 300 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 340 Whanne blood reneweth in euery creature, Sum obseruance doyng to nature.

a1500 (?c1414) Paraphr. Seven Penitential Psalms 43 Out of here handys I may noȝt fle But ȝyf thi grace in me renewe [v.r. renuewe].

?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 44 Quhen that the sound of his saw sinkis in my eris, Than ay renewis my noy.

a1549 T. Sternhold Al Suche Psalmes of David (?1553) lxxiv. sig. f.vi^v Like as the Eagle casteth her byl, Wherby her age reneweth.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 310 Causing the heare to renewe and growe againe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 68 Renew I could not like the Moone.

1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 299 But come wee to Primitias, renuing and growing euery yeere.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 48 Gallus, for whom my holy Flames renew Each hour.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 569 Thus while he sung, Ulysses' griefs renew.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Tan If the tan is forked up,..the heat will renew again.

†e. intransitive. To change, esp. to change form by growing, grow. Obsolete.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (intransitive)] > grow > change by growth

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tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 116 (MED) Out of their lond, eek, seedis wol renewe And chaunge hem silf.

1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) iv. ii. f. lviij^v These pepyns myght nought kyndely as they shold renewen in to a good Appeltree.

a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) l. 707 (MED) He..offerid hir seruice To be hire man and alway to be trew So to endur and neuer to renew.

f. transitive. To recover, regain (one's strength, youth, etc.); to cause this to be recovered.

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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > resume (form or appearance) > resume (power, strength, etc.)

recovera1387

resumec1425

renew1481

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. vi. 78 Thus [he] reneweth his age as a wyse best that he is.

1560 Bible (Geneva) Isa. xl. 31 They that waite vpon the Lord, shal renue their strength.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lvi. sig. D4^v Sweet loue renew thy force.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 783 Heav'n his wonted face renewd .

1706 T. D'Urfey Wonders in Sun iii. 45 Frogs..which being dry'd, beaten to a Powder, and drunk in Mornings Dew, have Vertue to renew Youth and Beauty.

1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 25 Dew, From which its fields and woods ever renew Their green and golden immortality.

1860 Ld. Tennyson Tithonus in Cornhill Mag. Feb. 176 Thou wilt renew thy beauty morn by morn.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 236 In age we may renew our youth, and forget our sorrows.

1910 P. H. Wicksteed Common Sense Polit. Econ. i. vii. 300 He hopes it will renew his vigour and make him efficient industrially.

1985 I. Murdoch Good Apprentice iii. 338 He had indeed metamorphosed himself, taken on another form to renew his strength.

g. transitive (reflexive). = refresh v. 1b. rare.Now only as merged into sense 1c (cf. quot. 1989 at that sense).

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > refresh or invigorate [verb (reflexive)]

resteOE

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delassitude1807

1783 tr. J. J. Rousseau Confessions I. iv. 239 There were many people at table, and it was well served. I had long fared very poorly; I had occasion enough to renew myself [Fr. me refaire]; I had the opportunity, and made good use of it.

1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 10 Jan. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) i. 26 We..renewed ourselves, at the close of the banquet, with a plate of Chateaubriand ice.

a. transitive. To restore, re-establish (a formerly existing aspect or condition of life or society); to bring (a custom, mode of conduct, etc.) back into use or existence; to reintroduce, reinstitute.

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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > something obsolete or in abeyance

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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xi. 14 Comeþ & go wee in to galgala, & renewe [L. innovemus] wee þere þe rewme.

1402 Reply Friar Daw Topias in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 75 And ȝit shal tyde the tyme when Josie shal regne and make an ende of suche fendes and Cristis reule shal renue.

c1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Cambr. Ee.4.32) (1886) 130 (MED) Sche preched þe cristen feiþ among þe pepil in so mochel þat þe feiþ..was renewed aȝene þorwe her prechyng.

1520 Chron. Eng. iv. f. 38/2 Crysten men had leve to renewe the servyce of god that was defended afore.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xvi. 191 Þe romanis war makand þare provisioun to renew þe grete playis mony ȝere before hantit in þare ciete.

1567 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 574 The former corruptioun and abuse wes renewit.

1617 W. Raleigh Hist. World (new ed.) iv. iii. §2. 215 Generall peace was renewed.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 147 Mighty Cæsar..On the glad Earth the Golden Age renews .

1738 S. Johnson London 25 We kneel, and..In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew.

1795 Ann. Reg. 112/2 It would..renew the reign of terrorism.

1820 tr. F. C. H. L. Pouqueville Trav. in Greece & Turkey xxxiv. 402 Countries formerly so celebrated, and which perhaps only want a slight stimulus to renew those days of prosperity and glory.

1885 H. W. Cherouny Labor & Liberty iv. 34 Forbidding combinations and renewing the custom of fixing wages by law.

1921 G. A. Ballard Infl. Sea on Polit. Hist. Japan ii. 47 The King was disinclined to renew this expensive custom.

2006 T. Branch At Canaan's Edge xx. 286 Activists must be more pragmatic,..especially if Vietnam renewed the jingoist climate of the Korean War.

b. transitive. To re-enact, put into effect again (a statute, decree, etc.).Often, esp. in later use, effectively implying the extension of an act recently ceasing to be in force, and hence overlapping somewhat with sense 10a.

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society > law > legislation > make (laws) or establish as law [verb (transitive)] > pass a (law) > again

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re-enact1613

re-enforce1635

repass1769

c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 173 (MED) Þere were þo renewede alle þe Fraunchises þat Kyng Iohn hade grauntede at Romemede.

1435 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1435 §19. m. 3 By vertu of certeins statutz made..þe .viij. yere..of our seide soverain lorde, and renewed the yere of his reigne .xij.^e

1494 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 187 Thies ben the ordinaunces, Actes, and Statutes, made..by the Founders of the Gylde..; nowe renewed, and affermed.

c1560 T. Becon Relikes of Rome sig. H.iii This decre did Pope Eugenius the third renue.

1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent viii. 769 For facilitation heereof, it [sc. the Synod] doth renew some things decreed by the holy Canons.

1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France xviii. 77 Dagobert..recommended the care of the Rights of the Church, of Widdows and Pupils, renewed the Decree against Rapine, [etc.].

a1722 J. Lauder Hist. Notices Sc. Affairs (1848) I. 360 The Act against hunting, and constituting Masters of the Game, is renued.

1783 F. Maseres Princ. Doctr. Life-annuities §ccclxvi. 449 This is done by acts of parliament renewed every year, and not by any permanent and original act of parliament.

1825 Assistant of Educ. Jan. 65 When the favourable decree was renewed, they showed little disposition to avail themselves of it.

1887 R. B. O'Brien Irish Wrongs & Eng. Remedies App. 242 The Grey Ministry fall in an attempt to renew the Coercion Act of 1833.

1920 Yale Law Jrnl. 29 855 They prevailed with the House of Commons, which, in 1694, declined to renew the Act.

1992 W. Greider Who will tell People i. v. 135 The first set of ‘hammers’ was enacted in 1984 when Congress renewed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

a. transitive. To recount, announce, or speak of again; to restate, repeat; spec. to retell (a story).

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the mind > language > speech > narration > narrate, relate, or tell [verb (transitive)] > again

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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. l. 29 The doctrine of wisdam, and of disciplyne wrot in this boc Jhesus, the sone of sirac, Jerosolomytane, that renewede the wisdam of his herte.

1441 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Relig. Houses Diocese Lincoln (1919) II. 124 We charge and enioyne ye, pryoresse..that ye neuer renewe ne reherse pryvyly ne in apert, directly ne indirectly, to any of your susters any thynge detecte in the visitacyone of our saide next predecessour.

a1500 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Chetham) l. 868 Iosyan, that was so trewe, Thought, she wold her love renewe.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 254 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 102 It neidis nocht to renewe all myn vnhele Sen It was menyt to ȝour mynd & maid manifest.

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Piiij Here I wyll renewe, that whiche I sayed before of the styfnecked Iewes.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. viii. sig. H7^v Then gan he all this storie to renew, And tell the course of his captiuitie.

1629 in S. A. Gillon Sel. Justiciary Cases (1953) I. 139 The depositioun maid be Toppok befoir hir convictioun, and eftir hir convictioun renewit and ratifeit be hir at the staik.

1657 J. Bramhall Castigations Mr. Hobbes xxxviii. 444 Wheresoever he reneweth his complaint, I shall make bold to renew my story of old Harpaste.

a1731 P. Aubin Fortune Favours Bold in Coll. Entertaining Hist. (1739) I. 292 These Memoirs would scarcely have seen the Light; being not over-desirous of having that renewed to the World, which was the Product of my younger Years.

1790 J. Gough Hist. People called Quakers (new ed.) IV. vii. iii. 239 Benjamin Holme renewed his plea of the Queen's toleration.

1810 G. Crabbe Borough x. 141 The long Tale, renew'd when last they met, Is splic'd anew, and is unfinish'd yet.

1897 J. Fiske Old Virginia (1902) II. xi. 72 James..day after day renewed the tale of burning homes and slaughtered wives and children.

1918 Amer. Rev. of Reviews May 618/2 I wish to renew my plea of a year ago.

1978 E. Welty in P. W. Prenshaw Conversat. with E. Welty (1984) 212 When her brothers came here to visit, they would renew the stories of their youth.

2008 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) (Nexis) 30 Dec. 17 Police are renewing appeals for witnesses to two serious assaults.

b. transitive. To repeat, reaffirm (a promise, vow, etc.); to pledge or declare again.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > repetition > repeat [verb (transitive)]

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to run over ——1538

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to go over ——1583

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reassume1631

reutter1632

oversay1639

to fetch over1642

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a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 136 He held anoþir parlement..aftir..he had mad þat oth..þan he renewid þe same oth befor all þe lordes.

1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aiv ^v She..promysed to lyue chast,..whiche promyse she renewed after her husbandes dethe.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. xi. sig. X8 They turne afresh, and oft renew their former threat.

1640 W. Somner Antiq. Canterbury 494 Archbishop Thomas Arundell was faine to renew the promise in Parliament.

1694 tr. E. Benoist Hist. Famous Edict of Nantes I. iii. 163 He told 'em that the King, who in effect renew'd his Promises every day, was very affectionately enclin'd towards 'em.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 266. ⁋3 The Lady renewed her Excuses.

1793 C. Smith Old Manor House IV. ii. 45 Orlando renewing to him his eager adjurations, he began a long consolatory discourse.

1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna iv. xxi. 85 Lovers renew the vows which they did plight In early faith.

1895 R. Putnam William the Silent xiii. 246 Every man in his service..should now renew his oath of fealty.

1930 Z. N. Hurston Let. 18 May in Life in Lett. (2002) 187 You renew our promise to the world to shine and brill for another year.

1985 W. Sheed Frank & Maisie ix. 205 I pictured the pair of them..weaving burlap vestments in which to renew their marriage vows every Candlemas.

c. transitive. To repeat (an action). rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > repeating > repeat (an action) [verb (transitive)]

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reiterate?a1425

replicate?a1425

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 116 Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, And with your puissant Arme renew their Feats.

1781 J. Morison in Sc. Paraphr. xxxv. iii Oft the sacred rite renew Which brings my wondrous love to view.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 9 Many a sad kiss by day by night renew'd.

1916 E. S. Kite tr. A. Binet & T. Simon Intelligence of Feeble-minded i. ii. 30 We are obliged to give him an order before each act; if we do not renew the gesture, he remains seated and does not get the idea of taking the next chair.

a. transitive. To resume (an activity, practice, etc.) after an interruption or lull; to re-establish (a relationship).

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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > again

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anewc1440

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to take again1474

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reprise1481

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renovate1535

to take up1587

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reopen1756

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 133 (MED) Symon reneweþ frendschipe wiþ þe Sparciates.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 6456 (MED) Grekis ay gan her saut renewe.

c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 2200 (MED) Laban nolde not forgete The saute to renewe.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xv. 54 The byrdes renewen theyre swete songe gracyouse.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. xii. 16 We..sente them vnto the Romaynes, for to renue the olde bonde of frendshipe and loue with them.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxxiiij They renewe the warres againe w^t all their force & power.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xix. 22 The Turkes..renued their batterie with great force and 8. peeces at once.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 206 We..renew'd among our selves the friendship, which we had before mutually promis'd.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 19 As..surging waves against a solid rock, Though all to shivers dash't, the assault renew .

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lix. 268 She will be ready to receive him, whenever he thinks proper to renew his addresses.

a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) iii. ii. 70 You may renew hostilities and make up for lost time, as soon as you are out of the house.

1817 Ld. Dudley Lett. (1840) 162 I..was beginning to think that it was high time our correspondence should be renewed.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 108 Socrates renews the attack from another side.

1934 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Nov. 2/2 The park commissioner..renewed his assault on the Lehman banking family.

1956 Life 2 Apr. 28/2 While his backers work quietly for party support and while Kefauver and Stevenson renew their desperate struggle.

1993 Sun 31 May 27/4 It is feared the incident could renew hostilities between French and British fishermen—at loggerheads over EC fish quotas.

2003 Leicester Diwali Guide (Leicester City Council) 8 Renewing old acquaintances, inviting family members and friends into our homes and spreading goodwill to all around us.

b. intransitive. To begin again, recommence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > become active or come into operation > again

reprisea1450

renew1520

restart?1715

1520 C. Goodwin Chaunce Dolorous Louer sig. B.ii Of pyte and compassyon whiche I full sore may rewe For then my wo and sorowe shall renewe.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxxvii. 511 Howe the warre renewed bytwene the french kyng, and the kyng of Nauerre.

1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries i. 37 b This tumult and trouble was supressed, yet renued it agayne.

1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. 223 Whereupon the combat renewed with more cruelty than before.

1744 J. Harris Three Treat. iii. ii. 184 Our former Conversation insensibly renewed.

1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. II. 62 The battle renewing at the dawn of the ensuing day.

1802 M. Moore Lascelles III. 161 Their intimacy renewed, and Mrs. Carisbrooke was as communicative as [etc.].

1887 J. D. Cox in Battles & Leaders Civil War I. 146 Rosecrans ordered the troops withdrawn from fire, till positions could be rectified, and the attack renewed in the morning.

1973 W. Ihimaera Tangi xxxii. 195 Life was renewing. But not yet for me.

1984 S. R. Lawhead Sword & Flame xlix. 282 If we wait until the attack renews, they will have enough to think about.

†c. transitive. To resume (speech); to come back to (a subject of conversation). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > begin with [verb (transitive)] > resume

continuec1425

renew1590

resume1600

reopen1805

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. 229 Till she to him her gracious speach renewd.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1133 Adam..Speech intermitted thus to Eve renewd .

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 499 Adam..scarce recovering words his plaint renew'd .

1705 J. Davis tr. S. Lorenzini Curious & Accurate Observ. Dissections of Cramp-fish 63 I shall renew or recontinue the Thread of my Discourse.

1792 W. Cowper Stanzas v. 22 Conscience oft Her tale of guilt renews.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. ii. 60 He ventured to renew the subject nearest his heart.

†d. intransitive. To resume speaking. Also transitive with direct speech as object: to restart a conversation by saying. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > say in resumption

resume1600

renew1687

the mind > language > speech > narration > narrate, relate, or tell [verb (transitive)] > say in resumption

renew1687

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 55 Then thus the matron modestly renew'd, Let all your prophets and their sects be view'd.

1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. ix. xvi. 87 ‘And’, he renewed, after a pause,..—‘and you ascribe this fear of seeing me’ [etc.].

e. intransitive. To resume relations with a person. Also with together in reciprocal sense. rare after 18th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > have social communication with [verb (transitive)] > resume relations with

renew1697

1697 T. D'Urfey Intrigues at Versailles iv. i. 39 I know he will visit me agen, to renew with the upon better leisure.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 164 I was not..at any time re-intic'd to renew with him.

1768 Woman of Honor I. 175 She sincerely detests any thought of renewing with him.

1768 Woman of Honor II. 134 If he had seen the least glimpse of an opening to renew with you.

a1916 H. James Ivory Tower (1917) 290 Horty..has met Gray again and they have renewed together.

a. transitive. To replace with something new or fresh of the same kind, esp. to replace (something broken or worn out); to provide a fresh supply of (something) so as to maintain the required amount or quality.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > afresh > by the addition of fresh material

renew1389

recruit1643

1389 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 54 (MED) Þe whiche tapres schul be renewed fro ȝeer to ȝeer aȝen þe Festes foreseid.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 6796 (MED) Euery day þe blomys wer renewed.

c1450 Practica Phisicalia John of Burgundy in H. Schöffler Mittelengl. Medizinlit. (1919) 210 (MED) Take salte and hete it..and plaister it þer as þe ache ys, and ofte tymes renewyt [read renew yt].

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xiii. 14 b We renewed our beuerage out of certaine cesternes.

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 680 They create the Duke and the eight gouernours of the Common-wealth, who are renued from two yeeres to two yeeres.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. i. 130 Like as the Hagard, cloyster'd in her Mue..to renew Her broken Flags.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 157 These Hangings are renewed every seven Years by the Ottoman Emperours.

1764 P. Miller tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Elements Agric. I. i. iv. §5. 32 Probably this air, which does not stagnate, enters, and in some sort renews itself in them.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 434 Beneath the open sky she spreads the feast; 'Tis free to all—'tis every day renewed.

1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 51 The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxi. 146 The condensed vapour incessantly got away, but it was ever renewed.

1876 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) Facing Implements, used for facing or renewing the vent and breech pieces of an Armstrong gun.

1939 Fortune Oct. 79/1 Any man who has ever renewed the spark plugs in a car..must know something about Western Auto Stores.

1986 E. Hall in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) iii. i. 317 It is obviously to advantage to be able to isolate individual distribution pipes (to renew tap or ball-valve washers for instance) without affecting the rest of the household water supply system.

2001 Mod. Railways Feb. 8/1 The two WRTs are expected to work six times faster than conventional methods, renewing 1–1.5km of wire in three hours.

b. transitive. To replenish, refill (a vessel).

ΚΠ

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1687 in Poems (1981) 66 Bachus, god off wyne, renewit hes Hir tume pyipis in Italie and France.

?1560 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture (new ed.) sig. Aii^v Loke the cup of wyne or ale be not emptie, but oft renewed.

1638 R. Mountague in W. Prynne Canterburies Doome (1646) 99 Many Parishes are populous, and the Chancels large, but the Chalices very small, while the Priest then goes to and againe, so far to renew the Cup, much time and labour is lost.

1682 J. Partridge tr. A. von Mynsicht Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum xxviii. 305 The Bath to be renewed every third day.

1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 589 She to the fount conveys th' exhausted vase: The bath renew'd [etc.].

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 823 Come, bumpers high,..The bowl we maun renew it.

1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks I. x. 198 Boots..renewed his tea-cup.

1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes vii. 70 If a fish has to be treated for a prolonged period it is desirable to renew the bath daily.

1993 M. Polizzotti tr. J. Echenoz Double Jeopardy ix. 47 The air, heavy with tree scent, parted around him, a boiling bath endlessly renewed, bearing and reviving childhood memories.

†c. transitive. To change (one's religion or religious observances). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > change [verb (transitive)]

wharvec897

wendOE

i-wendeOE

awendOE

aturn?c1225

biwrixle?c1225

changec1225

turnc1225

shifta1325

vary1340

inchangea1382

strange1390

altera1398

alterate?a1425

permute?a1425

difference1481

renewc1515

alienate1534

wrixlec1540

to chop and change1557

variate1566

palter1587

permutate1598

immute1613

unmake1616

unsame1632

chop1644

veer1647

variegatea1690

refract1700

mutabilatea1704

commute1825

stranger1863

switch1919

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) clxi. 619 Fyrste ye muste renewe your law and byleue in y^e lawe of Mahomet, on whome I do byleue.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) c. sig. C*ii Thei wer sarasyns borne, but as than thei had renewed theyr byleue and were crystened in Fraunce.

†d. transitive. To make up or compensate for. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)]

helpc950

amendc1230

bootc1330

correctc1374

menda1375

recovera1398

dighta1400

restorea1400

redressa1402

recurec1425

remedyc1425

remeidc1480

emendc1485

richa1500

rightena1500

chastisea1513

rectifya1529

redeem1575

salve1575

remed1590

reclaim1593

renew1608

retrieve1625

recruit1673

raccommode1754

splice1803

doctor1829

remediate1837

right-side1847

sort1948

1608 T. Cooper Christians Daily Sacrifice ix. 112 By renuing our decaies by daily repentance, and couenanting with God.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. vii. 136 Though the corporealists can find nothing to renew the decays of motion.

6. transitive. Surgery and Botany = refresh v. 3b. Formerly also: †to reopen and thereby set back (a wound that was healing); chiefly in figurative contexts; (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > reopen a wound

renew?a1425

redulcerate1656

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 54^v (MED) Suture incarnatyue..is competent in al wonder..if þai..beþ recent, i. fresh, or olde renewed bi scarificacioun.

c1440 Privity of Passion (Thornton) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 205 There they renewede all his olde brysynges & his drye wondes.

1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. xx.iiii^v His woundes were so renued that the blode yssued out afresshe.

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Civ^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens He estemeth y^t the vlcerate place must be renewed. Than whan y^t it is made as a fresshe wounde [etc.].

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. xcv. 344 And my selfe am content rather to suffer this scarre to passe, than by correcting the error, to renew the old wound.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 540 Then shalt thou renew the wound with the iron instruments being gouerned rightly, by which the corruption may issue forth.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Redulcerate, to begin to make sore again, to renew a wound.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Twelfth Bk. Metamorph. in Fables 445 My former Woes in long Oblivion drown'd, I wou'd have lost; but you renew the Wound.

1710 tr. P. Dionis Course Chirurg. Operations 329 We are to cut off these Edges, in order to make a fresh Wound, renewing the old one to the bottom.

1785 G. Wallis tr. F. Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages Nosologia Methodica Oculorum iv. 130 A needle cutting at both edges should be turned round within the fistula, to destroy the callous edges, and to renew the wound, i. e. make it a recent one.

1846 Amer. Agriculturist 5 306/1 The suitable cuttings should be obtained,..and, the day before planting, the lower ends re-cut, so as to renew the wound.

1907 R. S. Troup Indian Forest Utilization 174 A thin slice is pared off the cut end of the stalk from time to time to renew the wound and cause a further flow of sap.

1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. v. 529 I heard about somebody once who had a scar and he bandaged it, every once in a while, to renew the wound.

1975 Biol. Conservation 8 43 (caption) The man must renew the wound twice a day to keep the sap flowing.

a. transitive. To reawaken (a feeling or sensation).

ΚΠ

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 3104 (MED) By remembraunce, renewed is my wo.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope xi My fayre Frend, renewe not my sorowe.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxx. f. lxxxxvii^v The kynge was ascertayned therof. The whiche renued his heuynesse.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxx. 238 The auncyent hate..was renewed in his hert.

a1560 W. Kennedy Passioun of Christ in J. A. W. Bennett Devotional Pieces (1955) 41 My gle is gone, renewit is my wo.

1615 R. Brathwait Loves Labyrinth 28 in Strappado Renewing griefe with each renewing morrow.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 111 The Sun's sultry heat their thirst renews .

1790 W. Cowper On Receipt Mother's Picture 116 I seem..To have renewed the joys that once were mine.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Let. to — in Posthumous Poems (1824) 64 Quenching a thirst ever to be renewed!

1885 Academy 2 May 303/2 The Indian Mutiny had renewed the fear of Russia.

1921 A. Myerson Found. Personality ix. 167 Faith is really a transcendent Hope, renewing the feeling of energy.

2002 Outlook (New Delhi) 23 Sept. 2/3 The support and concern showed by the Jain munis and other religious heads renews the hopes of disillusioned Indians in Modiland.

2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 30 June 4 (headline) The central bankers' bank renews fear of second Depression.

b. transitive. gen. To revive (a feeling, memory, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > to flourishing condition

recovera1425

recreatec1425

renewc1450

revivea1500

resuscitate1532

refresh1533

retrieve1652

revirginize1852

revigorate1886

c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 5038 (MED) Here no wight sorweth nor siketh But to be besy and espye, Euerych lyke hys fantasye To fynden out somme pleyes newe Ther corages to renewe.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms l[i]. 10 Make me a clene hert (o God) and renue a right sprete within me.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxx Thou..renewest [L. resuscitas] the errours therin condemned.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 259 in Justice Vindicated It is his Majesties pleasure to have the memory of things rather buried in oblivion then renued.

1673 J. Milton Psalm LXXXV in Poems (new ed.) 157 Thy saving health to us afford And life in us renew.

1698 F. Atterbury Disc. Death Lady Cutts 33 [I have] endeavour'd to renew a faint Image of her several Virtues..upon your Minds.

1763 W. Shenstone in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems IV. 341 Whilst I the beauties of nature pursue, I still must my Daphne's fair image renew.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 145 Referring all to the point of reference to which all should be directed, they think themselves bound..to renew the memory of their high origin and cast.

1832 Periscope July in Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 17 250/1 M. Dance has recently renewed the idea of a former day.

1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain xxiv. 236 The patient bearing of his vexation, has done more to renew Norman's spirits, than all his prosperity.

1928 Cent. Mag. May 62/1 How the titles renew memories of truant days and coal-oil nights.

1998 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 7 Oct. 10 c Watson won the Colonial Invitational May 24, renewing thoughts of pushing back a move to the Senior Tour when he turns 50 next September.

†c. transitive. Of a sound: to resound repeatedly in (one's ears). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > make sound [verb (transitive)] > sound again

re-sound1596

renew1610

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Ecclus. xxxviii. 30 The noyse of the hammer reneweth his eare [Geneva is euer in his eares; New Eng. The hammer rings again and again in his ears], and his eye is against the similitude of the vessel.

†8. transitive. To go over (a document or text) again; to revise. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > practise textual criticism [verb (transitive)] > revise critically

renewa1456

peruse?1520

recognize1537

revise1545

recognosce1563

review1585

recense1716

a1456 (c1385) G. Chaucer Words unto Adam (Trin. Cambr.) (1878) l. 5 So offt a daye I mot þy werk renuwe [1561 Stowe renew], It to corect and eke to rubbe and scrape.

1584 Edinb. Test. XIV. f. 162, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) The premisis to be alterit, renewit, & changit in haill or in part be augmentatioun or dimwnitioun thairof.

1655 Dumfries Council Minutes 5 Nov. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) To reinew & revise the asistant rolls.

†9.

a. intransitive. With upon. To launch a fresh attack or onslaught on; (in extended use) to afflict, oppress, or beset again. Also (without construction): to renew the attack, keep fighting. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (intransitive)] > renew attack

renew1488

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > cause to move back [verb (transitive)] > cause to return > return as a fresh attack

renewa1656

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 707 Ynglis archaris apon thaim can ranew.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 289 Sad men in deid wpon him can renew.

1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Funke Actes & Hist. Worlde 1532–50 in tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles f. cclx Doctor Martyn Luter was ouercome with the olde impedimentes and diseases of his body, whiche renewed vpon hym whereby he felt and perceiued his ende to be at hande.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. v. 6 Renew, renew, the fierce Polidamas, Hath beate downe Menon.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) i. 35 My former complaint renewed upon me.

b. intransitive. To return, come back. Also with to. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [verb (intransitive)]

to wend againeOE

i-cherrec1000

again-chareOE

again-comeOE

again-fareOE

again-goOE

eft-sithec1175

to turn againc1175

returna1325

attournec1386

turnc1390

recovera1393

repair?c1400

recourse?a1425

to go backc1425

resortc1425

revertc1475

renew1488

retour?1505

to make return1534

to turn back1538

retend1543

to come short home1548

regress1552

rejourna1556

revolt1567

revolve1587

repeal1596

recur1612

rewend1616

revene1656

to get back1664

to take back1674

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > return towards point of departure

repaira1325

returna1325

rebounda1382

redounda1382

recovera1393

to go backc1425

revertc1475

renew1488

reverse1542

retire1567

revolve1587

reciprocate1623

retrovert1639

to get back1664

recur1719

hoicks1762

boomerang1900

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 691 Feill scalyt folk to thaim will son Ranew.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 109 Time is lost, which never will renew, While we too far the pleasing Path pursue.

10.

a. transitive. Originally: to grant again, reaffirm, or obtain the reaffirmation of (a privilege, right, etc.). In later use usually: to extend the period of validity of (a lease, licence, contract, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (transitive)] > grant by lease > renew

renewa1500

a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vii. l. 1769 Þe pape..renewyt al þar prewalagis, Þar custum, and þar awantagis.

1592 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 565/1 The gift and donatioun renewit to his hienes darrest spous of the lordschip of Dunfermling.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 94 His Lordship to settle the Country the better, refused to renew any protections.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 116 Intermix My Cov'nant in the Womans seed renewd .

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1357 Shall I..so requite Favour renew'd ..?

1728 G. Berkeley Let. to T. Prior 20 Feb. in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. Berkeley (1871) Mr. Petit Rose writes me..about renewing his lease.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 29 July 129 He..renewed his uncle's lease of a farm.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 488 A covenant to renew a lease, under the same rent and covenants as those contained in the original lease.

1867 C. E. L. Riddell Far above Rubies II. xii. 295 Arthur never insisted on a settlement of their accounts, never objected to renew bills.

1887 J. Ruskin Præterita II. xi. 391 The lease expired..and she did not care to renew it.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 16 Dec. 5/2 The Commonwealth Postal Department has now finally decided not to seek to renew the contract.

1979 Maclean's 25 June 7/1 This year, perhaps three of the 50 original boats will bother to renew their licences.

1998 M. Donnelly & D. Donnelly Falcon's Cry 150 I guess Dr. Shultz never renewed his privileges after they were, well, expired.

2006 R. Everett Red Carpets & Other Banana Skins xiv. 130 He wanted me to renew my contract with the play, and I, by now, was a hungry baby successivore..baying for my next snack.

b. intransitive. To grant a fresh lease or licence; to extend the period of validity of a lease, licence, subscription, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (intransitive)] > renew

renew1657

1657 H. Grimston tr. G. Croke Reports 430 The Parson sued him for Tithes to be paid of things renovant, but this horse being onely for labor and travail, [he] would not renew.

1718 R. Frampton in T. Evans Life (1876) 161 The lord farmer there had been offering a small fine to renew with the two preceding Bishops who both refused.

1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing i, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 470/1 ‘Won't the party renew?’ ‘Impossible—it's the third renewal.’

1875 W. S. Gilbert Tom Cobb 1 I suppose I have renewed oftener than any man aloive!

1914 F. Rawle Bouvier's Law Dict. (rev. ed.) II. 1241/2 The tenant renewed without expressly reserving to himself the right to the fixtures installed by him.

1999 W. A. Macan in I. Shrank & A. G. Gough Equipm. Leasing–Leveraged Leasing (ed. 4) I. iv. 51 The lessee could renew at nominal rental for up to eighty more years.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	renew
释义	† renewn. Forms: see renew v.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: renew v.¹ Etymology: < renew v.¹ Compare earlier renewing n. Obsolete. rare. 1. The action of renew v.¹; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > renovation or renewal renewinga1398 renovation?a1475 renovelty1477 renewc1500 renewance1569 renewment1570 renewal1603 repair1637 apocatastasis1678 rehabilitation1830 redevelopment1882 face-lifting1937 rehabbing1968 evergreening1972 c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) cxxv (MED) There we sawe the perfyte excellence, The said renewe, the state, the reverence..Off hir court riall. 1585 R. Parsons Christian Directorie Pref. f. 5 I resolued in like manner, to take the same first booke into my handes againe, & to bestow a short renew vpon that which alredy was done. 1615 R. Brathwait Loves Labyrinth 9 in Strappado That both loue and hate, May make you happy louers by renew. 2. A new invention. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > innovation or avant-gardism > an innovation novelty1395 novity1460 novation1501 innovation1548 initiate1603 introduction1603 renew1631 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies v. 39 Who bray their braines in a mortar, to produce some usefull renew, some gainefull issue for their thriving Master. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2021). renewv.¹ Brit. /rᵻˈnjuː/, U.S. /rəˈn(j)u/, /riˈn(j)u/ Forms: see re- prefix and new adj. and n.; also late Middle English rennyþ (3rd singular present indicative, transmission error); Scottish pre-1700 ranew, pre-1700 reinew. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a Latin lexical item, and partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: re- prefix, new adj. Etymology: < re- prefix + new adj., after classical Latin renovāre renovate v. and Anglo-Norman renuer (late 14th cent. or earlier). Compare earlier renovel v., renule v., and later renove v. 1. a. transitive. To make (something) new, or like new, again; to restore to the same condition as when new, young, or fresh. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > renovate or renew newOE freshc1300 renovela1325 renewa1382 renulec1384 refreshc1425 repairc1425 anewc1440 ennew1523 renovatea1555 renove1588 regenerate1607 righta1656 reficiate1657 freshen1710 refreshen1780 to fresh up1831 recondition1857 renovize1932 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms ciii. 30 Thou shalt renewe [L. renovabis] the face of the erthe. c1400 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1911) 127 60 (MED) To renewyn thyn hosen or thyn shoon bi-toknith gret joye. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 770 (MED) Let make a stewe With rayn watir thyn herbis to renewe. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. xxxviii. f. xiiii He renewed and repayred all olde Temples thorough his Realme. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. xv. 8 And [Asa] renued the Lordes altare. 1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 229 Souls are chosen..as a Seed purged from all dross, to renue the Church. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 14 In such a night Medea gathered the inchanted hearbs that did renew old Eson. View more context for this quotation 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 9 This Light..perfecteth, renueth, and preserueth all things. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 111 The cool Evening-breeze the Meads renews . View more context for this quotation 1717 C. Evelyn Lady's Recreation iv. 115 The Earth may be renew'd without re-casing, by abating the upper Part of it, and stirring it gently with a Fork. 1781 W. Cowper Charity 395 The soul whose sight all-quickening grace renews. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 144 The breed might be renewed and improved by importing from Barbary the mufflon. 1823 S. Rogers Bergamo in Italy 54 His long suit of black Dingy and thread~bare, though renewed in patches Till it has almost ceased to be the old one. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 103 Would God renew me from my birth I'd almost live my life again. 1938 R. K. Narayan Dark Room i. 11 She..renewed the vermilion mark on her forehead. 1990 D. Carrasco Relig. Mesoamer. Gloss. 168 Participants circumambulate the town block around the cathedral to renew the cosmos. b. transitive. To cause to be spiritually reborn; to invest with a new and higher spiritual nature. Also occasionally with †up. Cf. regenerate v. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > regeneration > regenerate [verb (transitive)] begetc1384 renewc1384 regendera1400 regenera1400 regeneratea1525 transmake1874 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. iv. 16 That man that is withinne forth [a1425 L.V. the ynner man] is renewid [L. renovatur]. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Eph. iv. 23 Be ȝe renewid [L. renovamini], or maad newe aȝen, by spirit of ȝoure mynde. a1450 St. Katherine (Richardson 44) (1884) 41 Why haste we vs not to be reneued in the holy welle of baptem to fore oure deth? c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 386 (MED) My wndystondynge ys in trew That wyth feyth ws dyd renew. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. sig. Ai^v Man is renewed..by the seuen folde graces of the holy goost. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Celebr. Holye Communion f. xii^v Graunte that we..maye dailye be renued by thy holy spirite. 1607 S. Hieron Abridgem. of Gospell in Wks. (1620) I. 158 God is strong, able to pardon vs, able to renue vs. 1675 G. Fox Jrnl. (1952) 167 They were renewed up into the image of God. 1712 R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. I. xiii. 282 Even such Persons..may, by his Grace, renew themselves again unto Repentance. 1740 D. Waterland Regeneration ii. 16 Man renews himself, at the same time that the Spirit renews him. 1832 Q. Christian Spectator Mar. 172 All who are renewed by the Holy Spirit, will, through his continued influence, persevere in holiness to the end. 1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 123 The Paraclete that shall renew you. 1900 J. S. Banks Devel. Doctr. (1901) 145 Faith renews man. 1997 R. W. Prichard Nature of Salvation iv. 100 The Christian renewed his or her commitment to the covenant and was renewed by the Holy Spirit. c. transitive (reflexive). To become new again; to take on fresh life or return to full strength or vigour; (in early use) spec. (of an animal) to restore itself in a healthy condition by replacing old body parts; (also) to reproduce. Cf. sense 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (reflexive)] > renew renewa1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 263 Some bestes..reneweþ hemself..as crabbes chaungeþ here schelles, and hertes here hornes. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xv. 54 Alle thynges renewen them at his commynge. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lament. iii. 23 His faithfulnes is greate, and renueth itself as the mornynge. 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course xii. f. 130 The plants, and all liuing creatures which cannot endure long, by the necessity of the matter whereof they are made, renew themselues continually. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. vi. 48 Therefore shall he dye, And Ile renew me in his fall. View more context for this quotation 1618 T. Adams Happines of Church ii. 198 They once a yeare slippe off their old coate, and renew themselues. 1653 N. Hardy Safest Convoy 24 Troubles will renew themselves during your abode. ?1711 W. King Hist. Acct. Heathen Gods & Heroes vii. 12 Time,..renewing its self by a perpetual Circulation. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 19 Even as that moon, Renews itself—Shall we be not renew'd. 1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 221/1 Nature perpetually renews herself through the death of transient life-substances which come again in the old forms. 1989 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Aug. 47/1 (advt.) Renew yourself with a massage, wet treatment and Swiss shower. Relax in the full service salon or whirlpool. 2005 L. Leblanc Pretty in Punk ii. 59 Punk had survived the conservative '80s, and in the late '80s and early '90s renewed itself in a variety of offshoots. †d. intransitive. To become new again, revive; to take on fresh life or return to full strength or vigour. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > be or become restored [verb (intransitive)] > be or become renewed newc1330 renovelc1405 renewc1425 renove?c1425 refreshen1661 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 1952 (MED) Al sodeinly hir fresche rosen hewe Ful ofte tyme gan chaunge and renewe An hondrid sythe in a litel space. 1473 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 472 I praye yow be ware þat þe olde love off Pampyng renewe natt. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Testament (Harl. 218) l. 300 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 340 Whanne blood reneweth in euery creature, Sum obseruance doyng to nature. a1500 (?c1414) Paraphr. Seven Penitential Psalms 43 Out of here handys I may noȝt fle But ȝyf thi grace in me renewe [v.r. renuewe]. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 44 Quhen that the sound of his saw sinkis in my eris, Than ay renewis my noy. a1549 T. Sternhold Al Suche Psalmes of David (?1553) lxxiv. sig. f.vi^v Like as the Eagle casteth her byl, Wherby her age reneweth. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 310 Causing the heare to renewe and growe againe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 68 Renew I could not like the Moone. View more context for this quotation 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 299 But come wee to Primitias, renuing and growing euery yeere. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 48 Gallus, for whom my holy Flames renew Each hour. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 569 Thus while he sung, Ulysses' griefs renew. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Tan If the tan is forked up,..the heat will renew again. †e. intransitive. To change, esp. to change form by growing, grow. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (intransitive)] > grow > change by growth renew?1440 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 116 (MED) Out of their lond, eek, seedis wol renewe And chaunge hem silf. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) iv. ii. f. lviij^v These pepyns myght nought kyndely as they shold renewen in to a good Appeltree. a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) l. 707 (MED) He..offerid hir seruice To be hire man and alway to be trew So to endur and neuer to renew. f. transitive. To recover, regain (one's strength, youth, etc.); to cause this to be recovered. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > resume (form or appearance) > resume (power, strength, etc.) recovera1387 resumec1425 renew1481 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. vi. 78 Thus [he] reneweth his age as a wyse best that he is. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Isa. xl. 31 They that waite vpon the Lord, shal renue their strength. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lvi. sig. D4^v Sweet loue renew thy force. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 783 Heav'n his wonted face renewd . View more context for this quotation 1706 T. D'Urfey Wonders in Sun iii. 45 Frogs..which being dry'd, beaten to a Powder, and drunk in Mornings Dew, have Vertue to renew Youth and Beauty. 1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 25 Dew, From which its fields and woods ever renew Their green and golden immortality. 1860 Ld. Tennyson Tithonus in Cornhill Mag. Feb. 176 Thou wilt renew thy beauty morn by morn. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 236 In age we may renew our youth, and forget our sorrows. 1910 P. H. Wicksteed Common Sense Polit. Econ. i. vii. 300 He hopes it will renew his vigour and make him efficient industrially. 1985 I. Murdoch Good Apprentice iii. 338 He had indeed metamorphosed himself, taken on another form to renew his strength. g. transitive (reflexive). = refresh v. 1b. rare.Now only as merged into sense 1c (cf. quot. 1989 at that sense). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > refresh or invigorate [verb (reflexive)] resteOE ease1330 roa1400 ronea1400 refreshc1405 recomfortc1425 breathea1470 unweary1530 recreate1542 aira1616 recruit1646 refect1646 regale1682 unfatigue1734 renew1783 cheer1784 delassitude1807 1783 tr. J. J. Rousseau Confessions I. iv. 239 There were many people at table, and it was well served. I had long fared very poorly; I had occasion enough to renew myself [Fr. me refaire]; I had the opportunity, and made good use of it. 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 10 Jan. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) i. 26 We..renewed ourselves, at the close of the banquet, with a plate of Chateaubriand ice. 2. a. transitive. To restore, re-establish (a formerly existing aspect or condition of life or society); to bring (a custom, mode of conduct, etc.) back into use or existence; to reintroduce, reinstitute. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > something obsolete or in abeyance raisec1175 renewa1382 restorec1384 revive1516 revoke1574 resurrect1823 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xi. 14 Comeþ & go wee in to galgala, & renewe [L. innovemus] wee þere þe rewme. 1402 Reply Friar Daw Topias in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 75 And ȝit shal tyde the tyme when Josie shal regne and make an ende of suche fendes and Cristis reule shal renue. c1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Cambr. Ee.4.32) (1886) 130 (MED) Sche preched þe cristen feiþ among þe pepil in so mochel þat þe feiþ..was renewed aȝene þorwe her prechyng. 1520 Chron. Eng. iv. f. 38/2 Crysten men had leve to renewe the servyce of god that was defended afore. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xvi. 191 Þe romanis war makand þare provisioun to renew þe grete playis mony ȝere before hantit in þare ciete. 1567 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 574 The former corruptioun and abuse wes renewit. 1617 W. Raleigh Hist. World (new ed.) iv. iii. §2. 215 Generall peace was renewed. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 147 Mighty Cæsar..On the glad Earth the Golden Age renews . View more context for this quotation 1738 S. Johnson London 25 We kneel, and..In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew. 1795 Ann. Reg. 112/2 It would..renew the reign of terrorism. 1820 tr. F. C. H. L. Pouqueville Trav. in Greece & Turkey xxxiv. 402 Countries formerly so celebrated, and which perhaps only want a slight stimulus to renew those days of prosperity and glory. 1885 H. W. Cherouny Labor & Liberty iv. 34 Forbidding combinations and renewing the custom of fixing wages by law. 1921 G. A. Ballard Infl. Sea on Polit. Hist. Japan ii. 47 The King was disinclined to renew this expensive custom. 2006 T. Branch At Canaan's Edge xx. 286 Activists must be more pragmatic,..especially if Vietnam renewed the jingoist climate of the Korean War. b. transitive. To re-enact, put into effect again (a statute, decree, etc.).Often, esp. in later use, effectively implying the extension of an act recently ceasing to be in force, and hence overlapping somewhat with sense 10a. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > make (laws) or establish as law [verb (transitive)] > pass a (law) > again renewc1400 re-enact1613 re-enforce1635 repass1769 c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 173 (MED) Þere were þo renewede alle þe Fraunchises þat Kyng Iohn hade grauntede at Romemede. 1435 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1435 §19. m. 3 By vertu of certeins statutz made..þe .viij. yere..of our seide soverain lorde, and renewed the yere of his reigne .xij.^e 1494 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 187 Thies ben the ordinaunces, Actes, and Statutes, made..by the Founders of the Gylde..; nowe renewed, and affermed. c1560 T. Becon Relikes of Rome sig. H.iii This decre did Pope Eugenius the third renue. 1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent viii. 769 For facilitation heereof, it [sc. the Synod] doth renew some things decreed by the holy Canons. 1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France xviii. 77 Dagobert..recommended the care of the Rights of the Church, of Widdows and Pupils, renewed the Decree against Rapine, [etc.]. a1722 J. Lauder Hist. Notices Sc. Affairs (1848) I. 360 The Act against hunting, and constituting Masters of the Game, is renued. 1783 F. Maseres Princ. Doctr. Life-annuities §ccclxvi. 449 This is done by acts of parliament renewed every year, and not by any permanent and original act of parliament. 1825 Assistant of Educ. Jan. 65 When the favourable decree was renewed, they showed little disposition to avail themselves of it. 1887 R. B. O'Brien Irish Wrongs & Eng. Remedies App. 242 The Grey Ministry fall in an attempt to renew the Coercion Act of 1833. 1920 Yale Law Jrnl. 29 855 They prevailed with the House of Commons, which, in 1694, declined to renew the Act. 1992 W. Greider Who will tell People i. v. 135 The first set of ‘hammers’ was enacted in 1984 when Congress renewed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. 3. a. transitive. To recount, announce, or speak of again; to restate, repeat; spec. to retell (a story). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > narrate, relate, or tell [verb (transitive)] > again reportc1425 renewa1500 retell1593 retail1597 reiteratec1650 re-relate1782 reprise1948 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. l. 29 The doctrine of wisdam, and of disciplyne wrot in this boc Jhesus, the sone of sirac, Jerosolomytane, that renewede the wisdam of his herte. 1441 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Relig. Houses Diocese Lincoln (1919) II. 124 We charge and enioyne ye, pryoresse..that ye neuer renewe ne reherse pryvyly ne in apert, directly ne indirectly, to any of your susters any thynge detecte in the visitacyone of our saide next predecessour. a1500 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Chetham) l. 868 Iosyan, that was so trewe, Thought, she wold her love renewe. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 254 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 102 It neidis nocht to renewe all myn vnhele Sen It was menyt to ȝour mynd & maid manifest. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Piiij Here I wyll renewe, that whiche I sayed before of the styfnecked Iewes. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. viii. sig. H7^v Then gan he all this storie to renew, And tell the course of his captiuitie. View more context for this quotation 1629 in S. A. Gillon Sel. Justiciary Cases (1953) I. 139 The depositioun maid be Toppok befoir hir convictioun, and eftir hir convictioun renewit and ratifeit be hir at the staik. 1657 J. Bramhall Castigations Mr. Hobbes xxxviii. 444 Wheresoever he reneweth his complaint, I shall make bold to renew my story of old Harpaste. a1731 P. Aubin Fortune Favours Bold in Coll. Entertaining Hist. (1739) I. 292 These Memoirs would scarcely have seen the Light; being not over-desirous of having that renewed to the World, which was the Product of my younger Years. 1790 J. Gough Hist. People called Quakers (new ed.) IV. vii. iii. 239 Benjamin Holme renewed his plea of the Queen's toleration. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough x. 141 The long Tale, renew'd when last they met, Is splic'd anew, and is unfinish'd yet. 1897 J. Fiske Old Virginia (1902) II. xi. 72 James..day after day renewed the tale of burning homes and slaughtered wives and children. 1918 Amer. Rev. of Reviews May 618/2 I wish to renew my plea of a year ago. 1978 E. Welty in P. W. Prenshaw Conversat. with E. Welty (1984) 212 When her brothers came here to visit, they would renew the stories of their youth. 2008 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) (Nexis) 30 Dec. 17 Police are renewing appeals for witnesses to two serious assaults. b. transitive. To repeat, reaffirm (a promise, vow, etc.); to pledge or declare again. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > repetition > repeat [verb (transitive)] doublec1380 naitc1400 reportc1405 repeat1427 renewa1464 iterate1533 resume1535 to run over ——1538 redouble1580 to go over ——1583 re-say1583 reclaim1590 ingeminate1594 reword1604 reassume1631 reutter1632 oversay1639 to fetch over1642 reassert1647 a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 136 He held anoþir parlement..aftir..he had mad þat oth..þan he renewid þe same oth befor all þe lordes. 1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aiv ^v She..promysed to lyue chast,..whiche promyse she renewed after her husbandes dethe. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. xi. sig. X8 They turne afresh, and oft renew their former threat. View more context for this quotation 1640 W. Somner Antiq. Canterbury 494 Archbishop Thomas Arundell was faine to renew the promise in Parliament. 1694 tr. E. Benoist Hist. Famous Edict of Nantes I. iii. 163 He told 'em that the King, who in effect renew'd his Promises every day, was very affectionately enclin'd towards 'em. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 266. ⁋3 The Lady renewed her Excuses. 1793 C. Smith Old Manor House IV. ii. 45 Orlando renewing to him his eager adjurations, he began a long consolatory discourse. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna iv. xxi. 85 Lovers renew the vows which they did plight In early faith. 1895 R. Putnam William the Silent xiii. 246 Every man in his service..should now renew his oath of fealty. 1930 Z. N. Hurston Let. 18 May in Life in Lett. (2002) 187 You renew our promise to the world to shine and brill for another year. 1985 W. Sheed Frank & Maisie ix. 205 I pictured the pair of them..weaving burlap vestments in which to renew their marriage vows every Candlemas. c. transitive. To repeat (an action). rare. ΘΚΠ 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 rehandle1697 retracta1699 rehearse1700 re-enact1819 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 116 Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, And with your puissant Arme renew their Feats. View more context for this quotation 1781 J. Morison in Sc. Paraphr. xxxv. iii Oft the sacred rite renew Which brings my wondrous love to view. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 9 Many a sad kiss by day by night renew'd. 1916 E. S. Kite tr. A. Binet & T. Simon Intelligence of Feeble-minded i. ii. 30 We are obliged to give him an order before each act; if we do not renew the gesture, he remains seated and does not get the idea of taking the next chair. 4. a. transitive. To resume (an activity, practice, etc.) after an interruption or lull; to re-establish (a relationship). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > again renovela1325 renewa1387 resumec1400 renove?c1425 anewc1440 reassume1472 to take again1474 take1477 reprise1481 recommencea1513 renovate1535 to take up1587 rebegin1598 reopen1756 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 133 (MED) Symon reneweþ frendschipe wiþ þe Sparciates. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 6456 (MED) Grekis ay gan her saut renewe. c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 2200 (MED) Laban nolde not forgete The saute to renewe. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xv. 54 The byrdes renewen theyre swete songe gracyouse. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. xii. 16 We..sente them vnto the Romaynes, for to renue the olde bonde of frendshipe and loue with them. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxxiiij They renewe the warres againe w^t all their force & power. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xix. 22 The Turkes..renued their batterie with great force and 8. peeces at once. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 206 We..renew'd among our selves the friendship, which we had before mutually promis'd. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 19 As..surging waves against a solid rock, Though all to shivers dash't, the assault renew . View more context for this quotation 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lix. 268 She will be ready to receive him, whenever he thinks proper to renew his addresses. a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) iii. ii. 70 You may renew hostilities and make up for lost time, as soon as you are out of the house. 1817 Ld. Dudley Lett. (1840) 162 I..was beginning to think that it was high time our correspondence should be renewed. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 108 Socrates renews the attack from another side. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Nov. 2/2 The park commissioner..renewed his assault on the Lehman banking family. 1956 Life 2 Apr. 28/2 While his backers work quietly for party support and while Kefauver and Stevenson renew their desperate struggle. 1993 Sun 31 May 27/4 It is feared the incident could renew hostilities between French and British fishermen—at loggerheads over EC fish quotas. 2003 Leicester Diwali Guide (Leicester City Council) 8 Renewing old acquaintances, inviting family members and friends into our homes and spreading goodwill to all around us. b. intransitive. To begin again, recommence. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > become active or come into operation > again reprisea1450 renew1520 restart?1715 1520 C. Goodwin Chaunce Dolorous Louer sig. B.ii Of pyte and compassyon whiche I full sore may rewe For then my wo and sorowe shall renewe. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxxvii. 511 Howe the warre renewed bytwene the french kyng, and the kyng of Nauerre. 1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries i. 37 b This tumult and trouble was supressed, yet renued it agayne. 1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. 223 Whereupon the combat renewed with more cruelty than before. 1744 J. Harris Three Treat. iii. ii. 184 Our former Conversation insensibly renewed. 1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. II. 62 The battle renewing at the dawn of the ensuing day. 1802 M. Moore Lascelles III. 161 Their intimacy renewed, and Mrs. Carisbrooke was as communicative as [etc.]. 1887 J. D. Cox in Battles & Leaders Civil War I. 146 Rosecrans ordered the troops withdrawn from fire, till positions could be rectified, and the attack renewed in the morning. 1973 W. Ihimaera Tangi xxxii. 195 Life was renewing. But not yet for me. 1984 S. R. Lawhead Sword & Flame xlix. 282 If we wait until the attack renews, they will have enough to think about. †c. transitive. To resume (speech); to come back to (a subject of conversation). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > begin with [verb (transitive)] > resume continuec1425 renew1590 resume1600 reopen1805 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. 229 Till she to him her gracious speach renewd. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1133 Adam..Speech intermitted thus to Eve renewd . View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 499 Adam..scarce recovering words his plaint renew'd . View more context for this quotation 1705 J. Davis tr. S. Lorenzini Curious & Accurate Observ. Dissections of Cramp-fish 63 I shall renew or recontinue the Thread of my Discourse. 1792 W. Cowper Stanzas v. 22 Conscience oft Her tale of guilt renews. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. ii. 60 He ventured to renew the subject nearest his heart. †d. intransitive. To resume speaking. Also transitive with direct speech as object: to restart a conversation by saying. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > say in resumption resume1600 renew1687 the mind > language > speech > narration > narrate, relate, or tell [verb (transitive)] > say in resumption renew1687 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 55 Then thus the matron modestly renew'd, Let all your prophets and their sects be view'd. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. ix. xvi. 87 ‘And’, he renewed, after a pause,..—‘and you ascribe this fear of seeing me’ [etc.]. e. intransitive. To resume relations with a person. Also with together in reciprocal sense. rare after 18th cent. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > have social communication with [verb (transitive)] > resume relations with renew1697 1697 T. D'Urfey Intrigues at Versailles iv. i. 39 I know he will visit me agen, to renew with the upon better leisure. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 164 I was not..at any time re-intic'd to renew with him. 1768 Woman of Honor I. 175 She sincerely detests any thought of renewing with him. 1768 Woman of Honor II. 134 If he had seen the least glimpse of an opening to renew with you. a1916 H. James Ivory Tower (1917) 290 Horty..has met Gray again and they have renewed together. 5. a. transitive. To replace with something new or fresh of the same kind, esp. to replace (something broken or worn out); to provide a fresh supply of (something) so as to maintain the required amount or quality. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > afresh > by the addition of fresh material renew1389 recruit1643 1389 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 54 (MED) Þe whiche tapres schul be renewed fro ȝeer to ȝeer aȝen þe Festes foreseid. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 6796 (MED) Euery day þe blomys wer renewed. c1450 Practica Phisicalia John of Burgundy in H. Schöffler Mittelengl. Medizinlit. (1919) 210 (MED) Take salte and hete it..and plaister it þer as þe ache ys, and ofte tymes renewyt [read renew yt]. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xiii. 14 b We renewed our beuerage out of certaine cesternes. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 680 They create the Duke and the eight gouernours of the Common-wealth, who are renued from two yeeres to two yeeres. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. i. 130 Like as the Hagard, cloyster'd in her Mue..to renew Her broken Flags. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 157 These Hangings are renewed every seven Years by the Ottoman Emperours. 1764 P. Miller tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Elements Agric. I. i. iv. §5. 32 Probably this air, which does not stagnate, enters, and in some sort renews itself in them. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 434 Beneath the open sky she spreads the feast; 'Tis free to all—'tis every day renewed. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 51 The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxi. 146 The condensed vapour incessantly got away, but it was ever renewed. 1876 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) Facing Implements, used for facing or renewing the vent and breech pieces of an Armstrong gun. 1939 Fortune Oct. 79/1 Any man who has ever renewed the spark plugs in a car..must know something about Western Auto Stores. 1986 E. Hall in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) iii. i. 317 It is obviously to advantage to be able to isolate individual distribution pipes (to renew tap or ball-valve washers for instance) without affecting the rest of the household water supply system. 2001 Mod. Railways Feb. 8/1 The two WRTs are expected to work six times faster than conventional methods, renewing 1–1.5km of wire in three hours. b. transitive. To replenish, refill (a vessel). ΚΠ a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1687 in Poems (1981) 66 Bachus, god off wyne, renewit hes Hir tume pyipis in Italie and France. ?1560 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture (new ed.) sig. Aii^v Loke the cup of wyne or ale be not emptie, but oft renewed. 1638 R. Mountague in W. Prynne Canterburies Doome (1646) 99 Many Parishes are populous, and the Chancels large, but the Chalices very small, while the Priest then goes to and againe, so far to renew the Cup, much time and labour is lost. 1682 J. Partridge tr. A. von Mynsicht Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum xxviii. 305 The Bath to be renewed every third day. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 589 She to the fount conveys th' exhausted vase: The bath renew'd [etc.]. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 823 Come, bumpers high,..The bowl we maun renew it. 1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks I. x. 198 Boots..renewed his tea-cup. 1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes vii. 70 If a fish has to be treated for a prolonged period it is desirable to renew the bath daily. 1993 M. Polizzotti tr. J. Echenoz Double Jeopardy ix. 47 The air, heavy with tree scent, parted around him, a boiling bath endlessly renewed, bearing and reviving childhood memories. †c. transitive. To change (one's religion or religious observances). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change [verb (transitive)] wharvec897 wendOE i-wendeOE awendOE aturn?c1225 biwrixle?c1225 changec1225 turnc1225 shifta1325 vary1340 inchangea1382 strange1390 altera1398 alterate?a1425 permute?a1425 difference1481 renewc1515 alienate1534 wrixlec1540 to chop and change1557 variate1566 palter1587 permutate1598 immute1613 unmake1616 unsame1632 chop1644 veer1647 variegatea1690 refract1700 mutabilatea1704 commute1825 stranger1863 switch1919 c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) clxi. 619 Fyrste ye muste renewe your law and byleue in y^e lawe of Mahomet, on whome I do byleue. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) c. sig. Cii Thei wer sarasyns borne, but as than thei had renewed theyr byleue and were crystened in Fraunce. †d. transitive. To make up or compensate for. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)] helpc950 amendc1230 bootc1330 correctc1374 menda1375 recovera1398 dighta1400 restorea1400 redressa1402 recurec1425 remedyc1425 remeidc1480 emendc1485 richa1500 rightena1500 chastisea1513 rectifya1529 redeem1575 salve1575 remed1590 reclaim1593 renew1608 retrieve1625 recruit1673 raccommode1754 splice1803 doctor1829 remediate1837 right-side1847 sort1948 1608 T. Cooper Christians Daily Sacrifice* ix. 112 By renuing our decaies by daily repentance, and couenanting with God. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. vii. 136 Though the corporealists can find nothing to renew the decays of motion. 6. transitive. Surgery and Botany = refresh v. 3b. Formerly also: †to reopen and thereby set back (a wound that was healing); chiefly in figurative contexts; (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > reopen a wound renew?a1425 redulcerate1656 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 54^v (MED) Suture incarnatyue..is competent in al wonder..if þai..beþ recent, i. fresh, or olde renewed bi scarificacioun. c1440 Privity of Passion (Thornton) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 205 There they renewede all his olde brysynges & his drye wondes. 1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. xx.iiii^v His woundes were so renued that the blode yssued out afresshe. ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Civ^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens He estemeth y^t the vlcerate place must be renewed. Than whan y^t it is made as a fresshe wounde [etc.]. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. xcv. 344 And my selfe am content rather to suffer this scarre to passe, than by correcting the error, to renew the old wound. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 540 Then shalt thou renew the wound with the iron instruments being gouerned rightly, by which the corruption may issue forth. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Redulcerate, to begin to make sore again, to renew a wound. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Twelfth Bk. Metamorph. in Fables 445 My former Woes in long Oblivion drown'd, I wou'd have lost; but you renew the Wound. 1710 tr. P. Dionis Course Chirurg. Operations 329 We are to cut off these Edges, in order to make a fresh Wound, renewing the old one to the bottom. 1785 G. Wallis tr. F. Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages Nosologia Methodica Oculorum iv. 130 A needle cutting at both edges should be turned round within the fistula, to destroy the callous edges, and to renew the wound, i. e. make it a recent one. 1846 Amer. Agriculturist 5 306/1 The suitable cuttings should be obtained,..and, the day before planting, the lower ends re-cut, so as to renew the wound. 1907 R. S. Troup Indian Forest Utilization 174 A thin slice is pared off the cut end of the stalk from time to time to renew the wound and cause a further flow of sap. 1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. v. 529 I heard about somebody once who had a scar and he bandaged it, every once in a while, to renew the wound. 1975 Biol. Conservation 8 43 (caption) The man must renew the wound twice a day to keep the sap flowing. 7. a. transitive. To reawaken (a feeling or sensation). ΚΠ c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 3104 (MED) By remembraunce, renewed is my wo. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope xi My fayre Frend, renewe not my sorowe. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxx. f. lxxxxvii^v The kynge was ascertayned therof. The whiche renued his heuynesse. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxx. 238 The auncyent hate..was renewed in his hert. a1560 W. Kennedy Passioun of Christ in J. A. W. Bennett Devotional Pieces (1955) 41 My gle is gone, renewit is my wo. 1615 R. Brathwait Loves Labyrinth 28 in Strappado Renewing griefe with each renewing morrow. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 111 The Sun's sultry heat their thirst renews . View more context for this quotation 1790 W. Cowper On Receipt Mother's Picture 116 I seem..To have renewed the joys that once were mine. a1822 P. B. Shelley Let. to — in Posthumous Poems (1824) 64 Quenching a thirst ever to be renewed! 1885 Academy 2 May 303/2 The Indian Mutiny had renewed the fear of Russia. 1921 A. Myerson Found. Personality ix. 167 Faith is really a transcendent Hope, renewing the feeling of energy. 2002 Outlook (New Delhi) 23 Sept. 2/3 The support and concern showed by the Jain munis and other religious heads renews the hopes of disillusioned Indians in Modiland. 2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 30 June 4 (headline) The central bankers' bank renews fear of second Depression. b. transitive. gen. To revive (a feeling, memory, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > to flourishing condition recovera1425 recreatec1425 renewc1450 revivea1500 resuscitate1532 refresh1533 retrieve1652 revirginize1852 revigorate1886 c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 5038 (MED) Here no wight sorweth nor siketh But to be besy and espye, Euerych lyke hys fantasye To fynden out somme pleyes newe Ther corages to renewe. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms l[i]. 10 Make me a clene hert (o God) and renue a right sprete within me. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxx Thou..renewest [L. resuscitas] the errours therin condemned. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 259 in Justice Vindicated It is his Majesties pleasure to have the memory of things rather buried in oblivion then renued. 1673 J. Milton Psalm LXXXV in Poems (new ed.) 157 Thy saving health to us afford And life in us renew. 1698 F. Atterbury Disc. Death Lady Cutts 33 [I have] endeavour'd to renew a faint Image of her several Virtues..upon your Minds. 1763 W. Shenstone in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems IV. 341 Whilst I the beauties of nature pursue, I still must my Daphne's fair image renew. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 145 Referring all to the point of reference to which all should be directed, they think themselves bound..to renew the memory of their high origin and cast. 1832 Periscope July in Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 17 250/1 M. Dance has recently renewed the idea of a former day. 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain xxiv. 236 The patient bearing of his vexation, has done more to renew Norman's spirits, than all his prosperity. 1928 Cent. Mag. May 62/1 How the titles renew memories of truant days and coal-oil nights. 1998 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 7 Oct. 10 c Watson won the Colonial Invitational May 24, renewing thoughts of pushing back a move to the Senior Tour when he turns 50 next September. †c. transitive. Of a sound: to resound repeatedly in (one's ears). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > make sound [verb (transitive)] > sound again re-sound1596 renew1610 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Ecclus. xxxviii. 30 The noyse of the hammer reneweth his eare [Geneva is euer in his eares; New Eng. The hammer rings again and again in his ears], and his eye is against the similitude of the vessel. †8. transitive. To go over (a document or text) again; to revise. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > practise textual criticism [verb (transitive)] > revise critically renewa1456 peruse?1520 recognize1537 revise1545 recognosce1563 review1585 recense1716 a1456 (c1385) G. Chaucer Words unto Adam (Trin. Cambr.) (1878) l. 5 So offt a daye I mot þy werk renuwe [1561 Stowe renew], It to corect and eke to rubbe and scrape. 1584 Edinb. Test. XIV. f. 162, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) The premisis to be alterit, renewit, & changit in haill or in part be augmentatioun or dimwnitioun thairof. 1655 Dumfries Council Minutes 5 Nov. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) To reinew & revise the asistant rolls. †9. a. intransitive. With upon. To launch a fresh attack or onslaught on; (in extended use) to afflict, oppress, or beset again. Also (without construction): to renew the attack, keep fighting. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (intransitive)] > renew attack renew1488 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > cause to move back [verb (transitive)] > cause to return > return as a fresh attack renewa1656 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 707 Ynglis archaris apon thaim can ranew. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 289 Sad men in deid wpon him can renew. 1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Funke Actes & Hist. Worlde 1532–50 in tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles f. cclx Doctor Martyn Luter was ouercome with the olde impedimentes and diseases of his body, whiche renewed vpon hym whereby he felt and perceiued his ende to be at hande. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. v. 6 Renew, renew, the fierce Polidamas, Hath beate downe Menon. View more context for this quotation a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) i. 35 My former complaint renewed upon me. b. intransitive. To return, come back. Also with to. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [verb (intransitive)] to wend againeOE i-cherrec1000 again-chareOE again-comeOE again-fareOE again-goOE eft-sithec1175 to turn againc1175 returna1325 attournec1386 turnc1390 recovera1393 repair?c1400 recourse?a1425 to go backc1425 resortc1425 revertc1475 renew1488 retour?1505 to make return1534 to turn back1538 retend1543 to come short home1548 regress1552 rejourna1556 revolt1567 revolve1587 repeal1596 recur1612 rewend1616 revene1656 to get back1664 to take back1674 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > return towards point of departure repaira1325 returna1325 rebounda1382 redounda1382 recovera1393 to go backc1425 revertc1475 renew1488 reverse1542 retire1567 revolve1587 reciprocate1623 retrovert1639 to get back1664 recur1719 hoicks1762 boomerang1900 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 691 Feill scalyt folk to thaim will son Ranew. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 109 Time is lost, which never will renew, While we too far the pleasing Path pursue. View more context for this quotation 10. a. transitive. Originally: to grant again, reaffirm, or obtain the reaffirmation of (a privilege, right, etc.). In later use usually: to extend the period of validity of (a lease, licence, contract, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (transitive)] > grant by lease > renew renewa1500 a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vii. l. 1769 Þe pape..renewyt al þar prewalagis, Þar custum, and þar awantagis. 1592 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 565/1 The gift and donatioun renewit to his hienes darrest spous of the lordschip of Dunfermling. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 94 His Lordship to settle the Country the better, refused to renew any protections. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 116 Intermix My Cov'nant in the Womans seed renewd . View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1357 Shall I..so requite Favour renew'd ..? View more context for this quotation 1728 G. Berkeley Let. to T. Prior 20 Feb. in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. Berkeley (1871) Mr. Petit Rose writes me..about renewing his lease. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 29 July 129 He..renewed his uncle's lease of a farm. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 488 A covenant to renew a lease, under the same rent and covenants as those contained in the original lease. 1867 C. E. L. Riddell Far above Rubies II. xii. 295 Arthur never insisted on a settlement of their accounts, never objected to renew bills. 1887 J. Ruskin Præterita II. xi. 391 The lease expired..and she did not care to renew it. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 16 Dec. 5/2 The Commonwealth Postal Department has now finally decided not to seek to renew the contract. 1979 Maclean's 25 June 7/1 This year, perhaps three of the 50 original boats will bother to renew their licences. 1998 M. Donnelly & D. Donnelly Falcon's Cry 150 I guess Dr. Shultz never renewed his privileges after they were, well, expired. 2006 R. Everett Red Carpets & Other Banana Skins xiv. 130 He wanted me to renew my contract with the play, and I, by now, was a hungry baby successivore..baying for my next snack. b. intransitive. To grant a fresh lease or licence; to extend the period of validity of a lease, licence, subscription, etc. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (intransitive)] > renew renew1657 1657 H. Grimston tr. G. Croke Reports 430 The Parson sued him for Tithes to be paid of things renovant, but this horse being onely for labor and travail, [he] would not renew. 1718 R. Frampton in T. Evans Life (1876) 161 The lord farmer there had been offering a small fine to renew with the two preceding Bishops who both refused. 1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing i, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 470/1 ‘Won't the party renew?’ ‘Impossible—it's the third renewal.’ 1875 W. S. Gilbert Tom Cobb 1 I suppose I have renewed oftener than any man aloive! 1914 F. Rawle Bouvier's Law Dict. (rev. ed.) II. 1241/2 The tenant renewed without expressly reserving to himself the right to the fixtures installed by him. 1999 W. A. Macan in I. Shrank & A. G. Gough Equipm. Leasing–Leveraged Leasing (ed. 4) I. iv. 51 The lessee could renew at nominal rental for up to eighty more years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † renewv.² Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French renouer. Etymology: < Middle French renouer, renuer (French renouer ) to tie or knot again (14th cent., although the specific use with reference to horses is apparently unparalleled in French; c1175 in Old French as renoier in sense ‘to reassemble broken objects’) < re- re- prefix + nouer to tie, to knot (see noué adj.). Obsolete. rare. transitive. To tie (a horse) to something. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > tether renewc1450 tether1483 stake1544 picket1729 headline1800 flit1816 hang1835 to rack up1843 bail1846 to hang up1858 bush1871 manger1905 c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 1126 (MED) He was light and toke his rest, His stede renewed til a grene tre. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1500v.¹a1382v.²c1450
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