?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 126^v (MED) Eftsones do as þu didde aforne wiþ strokinge to & fro & wiþ compressioun, to þat þe member be restitute aȝeine as he was aforne.

a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1980) ii. 182 Ȝif a man be falslyche..pryuyd of his benefys ȝif he ȝeue onyþing..to be restituȝt, he doth no symonye.

1537 J. Parkyns Let. to T. Cromwell in J. Gairdner Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1890) (modernized text) XII. 125 I beg your favour that I may be restitute to my good name, and have amends for deterioration of health.

1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 240 (MED) Sone after kyng Dunkan of Scotland slayn By treason was, and Dunwall restitute Vnto the croune of Scotlande then agayne.

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iii. 42 It is ordained and assented, that the Lords and other..shall be wholly restitute and restored to their names,..inheritaments and possessions [so 1762 Statutes at Large, 1816 Statutes of Realm].

c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. xiiij^v/2 To alle her fraunches and free vsagis..be they restututed.

1530 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 328 The King did restitute your Grace before He was intitled.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Qii/2 To Restitute, restituere.

1686 C. Allen Operator for Teeth 51 The spiral Fibres having been extended violently, and on a sudden, upon the dilatation of the artery, do..come back again, and restitute themselves into their former situation, and state.

1797 W. C. White Orlando iv. i. 45 I am not so callous, To every genrous, manly principle, As not to wish that friendship restituted.

1855 C. A. Lorenz tr. D. Van der Keessel Sel. Theses dcccxxix A debtor who has become impoverished by mere change of fortunes, and has not acted fraudulently, is discharged from all liability, and restituted, provided one half of the creditors to whom a half of the debt is due consent to such restitution.

1938 M. Logé tr. E. Steinilber-Oberlin Buddhist Sects Japan x. 233 The ‘self or ego’ must be restituted to its initial state.

1975 Internat. Jrnl. Oral Surg. 4 242 The mobility of the condyle..was fully restituted 1 year after the operation.

1997 Daily Tel. 26 June 14/4 The disclosure, by Globes, will prompt a fresh look at Britain's post-war record on restituting Nazi victims.

1657 G. G. D'Ouvilly False Favourit Disgrac'd ii. i. 38 Tell him we are his friend, Intend to call him father; restitute Him any thing—all things.

1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 82 In the mean time, let me restitute some part of Amendment, by an easy, tho solitary Journy over this mountanous Country.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Restitution The Lutheran and Calvinist Princes were obliged to restitute, restore what they had taken from the Roman Catholick Churches.

1793 C. F. Greville Brit. India Analyzed III. xv. 633 On his own confession the agreement was void, it being contrary to the charter of 1757, to restitute.

1854 tr. P. de La Gironière Twenty Years in Philippines 119 The relatives..would be obliged to restitute the presents received.

1877 T. Cooper Poet. Wks. 102 With mien Repentant didst thou restitute, and clean Confession make.

1885 Field 17 Oct. 542/1 The inclosures which would be affected and ‘restituted’ by Mr. Jesse Collings's regulations.

1893 Field 4 Mar. 334/1 Having promised to restitute expenses to professionals if they did not win.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 17 Aug. 4/1 If..he acts to the detriment of someone's interest, he must be compelled to restitute.

1991 C. Castoriadis Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy 11 Certainly, to restore, restitute, to reinstitute an authentic task for the intellectual in history is, first of all and above all, to restore, restitute and reinstitute his/her critical function.

1945 Jrnl. Genetics 47 13 Some of the breaks which restitute are lethals.

1971 M. Levitan & A. Montagu Textbk. Human Genetics iii. 135 Nonrearrangement breaks tend to restitute..quite readily.

2004 Internat. Jrnl. Radiation Biol. 80 437 Large fragments are either restituted or misrejoined to other chromosome ends, whereas small intrachromosomal fragments can produce either inter- or intrachromosomal exchanges.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Restitution Restituted Medals, is a Phrase used by Antiquaries, for such Medals as were struck by the Emperors, to renew or retrieve the Memory of their Predecessors.

1757 J. Dyer Fleece ii. 63 Restituted trade To ev'ry virtue lent his helping stores.

1871 Q. Jrnl. Prophecy Apr. 170 This earth, once renewed, once ‘restituted’, will remain in this restituted condition for ever, and be the place for the perpetual generations of men.

1941 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quantitative Biol. 9 154/2 Even at ordinary doses there has been more than one break per gamete, but that break has usually been an invisible, ‘restituted’ one.

1991 Gastroenterology 100 333 Mucosal repair was..almost complete by 24 hours, although the restituted villi were short and blunted.