Regenerate
adj, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 One who is spiritually reborn.
- 1 To construct or create anew, especially in an improved manner. transitive
- 2 restore strength wordnet
- 3 To revitalize. transitive
- 4 undergo regeneration wordnet
- 5 To replace lost or damaged tissue. transitive
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- 6 form or produce anew wordnet
- 7 To become reconstructed. intransitive
- 8 be formed or shaped anew wordnet
- 9 To undergo a spiritual rebirth. intransitive
- 10 replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue wordnet
- 11 Of a water softener: to flush out the minerals extracted from the water supply. intransitive
- 12 get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate wordnet
- 13 bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one wordnet
- 14 amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit wordnet
- 15 reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new wordnet
- 1 Spiritually reborn. not-comparable
- 2 Reproduced. not-comparable, obsolete
"The earthly author of my blood, / Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, / Doth with a twofold vigour lift me up."
- 1 reformed spiritually or morally wordnet
Example
More examples"About two centuries after the formation of the first World State, the President of the World declared that the time was ripe for a formal union of science and religion, and called a conference of the leaders of these two great disciplines. Upon that island in the Pacific which had become the Mecca of cosmopolitan sentiment, and was by now one vast many-storied, and cloud-capped Temple of Peace, the heads of Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Hinduism, the Regenerate Christian Brotherhood and the Modern Catholic Church in South America, agreed that their differences were but differences of expression. One and all were worshippers of the Divine Energy, whether expressed in activity, or in tense stillness. One and all recognized the saintly Discoverer as either the last and greatest of the prophets or an actual incarnation of divine Movement. And these two concepts were easily shown, in the light of modern science, to be identical."
Etymology
From Latin regenerātus, perfect passive participle of regenerō, from re- + generō, from genus, generis (“descent, origin, birth”); -ō, equivalent to re- + generate.
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