Redintegrate
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To renew, restore to wholeness.
"Whether the propos'd Water, being in Glass-Vessels exactly luted together slowly and warily abstracted to a thickish substance; This being reconjoin'd to the distill'd Liquor, the Mineral Water will be redintegrated"
- 2 To reinstate a memory by redintegration.
"His [David McClelland’s] theory is that we are first of all presented with cues in affective situations; for instance, sugar is put in the mouth and this produces pleasurable affect. This type of cue then becomes paired with an affective state in such a way that the cue will, as a result of association, come to ‘redintegrate’ the affective state first associated with it."
- 1 Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed. not-comparable, obsolete
"Charles the Eighth, the French king , by the virtue and good fortune of his two immediate predecessors , Charles the Seventh , his grandfather , and Lewis the Eleventh , his father , received the kingdom of France in more flourishing and spread estate than it had been of many years before ; being redintegrate in those principal members"
Example
More examples"Whether the propos'd Water, being in Glass-Vessels exactly luted together slowly and warily abstracted to a thickish substance; This being reconjoin'd to the distill'd Liquor, the Mineral Water will be redintegrated"
Etymology
From the Latin redintegrō (“I restore or renew; I refresh or revive”).
From the Latin redintegrātus (“restored or renewed”, “refreshed or revived”), the perfect passive participle of redintegrō.
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