† reparateadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Restored to good or proper condition; repaired.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [adjective] > repaired
reparatec1425
c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 84 (MED) Þe place noȝt reparate..I continued euer-more þis cure..vnto þat al þe mortified flesch within was fully putte out.
?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Eiiiv This lyfe is resemblyd, [to] a byldynge ruynous Nowe shakyd with the wynde, agayne: now reparate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
reparatev.
/ˈrɛpəreɪt/, U.S. /ˈrɛpəˌreɪt/ 1. transitive. To repair; to restore to a good or proper condition. Now rare.
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1548 J. Veron in tr. H. Bullinger Holsome Antidotus sig. Aviii Celestyall Ierusalem (whiche is now almost buyldyd vp agayn, and through reparated, by our godly Nehemias).
1656 C. Irvine Medicina Magnetica i. 3 This spirit is reparated as much as may be.
1900 Trans. & Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 21 284 It was very sorrowful to see the eldest church in the valley destroyed, but I hope it will soon be reparated.
1905 Dental Digest Aug. 779 Files in great variety of shape and thickness were freely employed for reparating and dressing the teeth.
1922 Daily Mail 13 Dec. 8 Why has Germany been allowed to reparate herself in so thorough and handsome a manner?
2.
a. transitive. To make financial or other reparation for; to redress.
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the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)] > put right (a wrong or loss) > by obtaining or giving compensation
redressc1450
reparate1920
1920 Millard's Rev. Far East 24 Jan. 393/1 Notifying the Japanese dealers that they will take no deliveries of orders and wish all business relations cut until the Tsingtao and Foochow infringements of sovereignty are reparated.
1971 Motor Vehicle Crash Losses & their Compensation in U.S. (U.S. Dept. Transportation) iv. a. i. 128 A system that would..do a better job, overall, of reparating victims' losses.
b. transitive. Chiefly U.S. To make financial or other reparation to; to compensate.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > compensate or make up for
restorea1325
to make good1389
boot1393
rewarda1398
supplya1398
to make up1472
upset1513
to fetch again1535
redeem1590
balance1594
pay1596
unpay1600
to make out1610
requitea1613
to pay home1625
encourage1628
compensate1646
compensate1656
reprise1662
to take up1662
to fetch up1665
to pay off1717
indemnify1750
to bring up arrears1788
equalize1866
reparate1956
1956 Price-support Program (Hearings before U.S. Senate Comm. Agric. & Forestry) iii. 1513 The Government must now..set about, at once, to reparate and redress the American farmer for misleading and misguiding him.
1977 B. R. Gross Reverse Discrim. 387 Reverse discrimination..does not compensate or ‘reparate’ all minority persons equally but merely those applying for admissions, jobs, promotions, and so forth.
1981 U.S. District Court Southern District N.Y. (Nexis) 10 Dec. Decisions regarding what portions of the blocked assets will eventually be used in a possible claims program to reparate American citizens.
1998 R. Martin in P. Phelan & J. Lane Ends of Performance xii. 191 The United States lost the nation in Vietnam, and the abandonment of developing the former was no less complete than the un-nationly refusal to reparate the latter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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