reconvert

verb

1. (ambitransitive)To convert again, convert back.

   “Now it could not be expected that so much sea being converted into land by this Judgement by two years labour, and but finished and brought to pass in the 6th year of Henry the Sixth, the same land should be in the very next year, viz. in the 7th year of the same Kings Reign reconverted into sea.”

   “About this time the East-Saxons, who as above hath bin said, had expell’d thir Bishop Mellitus, and renounc’d the Faith, were by the means of Oswi thus reconverted.”

   “In ancient days the hill had been a beacon station, and it was reconverted to this purpose in time of war.”

   “Fifteen engines were reconverted from oil to coal burning, and it is intended to deal similarly with all other such engines.”

   “A small room, which had been converted into a laboratory, was now reconverted into chaos. A gas-jet burnt yet among the ruins.”

2. (transitive)To convert.

   “This epiſtle dyd ſaynt Peter wryte to the Hethen that we reconuerted ⁊ exhorteth thẽ to ſtonde faſt in the fayth[…]”

   “Gentlemen both, and Cozens mine, I do believe ’t much pity, to strive to reconvert you from the faith you have been bred in:”

   “With no regular ammunition supply, they relied on whatever they could capture on raids. When it did not match their miscellaneous firearms, they were ingenious at reconverting the ammo to the weapon.”

noun

1. A person who has been reconverted.

   “[…] it is notorious, that of those professing the creed of naked Protestantism, she [the Church of Rome] has made […] converts and reconverts by thousands—nay, even by millions:”