repristinate

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14
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16
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12

Definition of repristinate

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To restore something to an older or original state.
    “Persons lapsed lying under the censure of the Church thus, and so long, it will not be amiss to enquire how they spent their time in this interim, and by what degrees they were repristinated and rendred in their former state.”
    “1753, uncredited translator, The Source, the Strength, and the True Spirit of Laws by Giovanni Cattaneo, London: Lockyer Davis, Part 2, Chapter 1, p. 88, The sovereign Intelligence that produced all Things, and acts incessantly in Nature, to conserve, correct and repristinate or renew it, is therefore the sole Source of this universal Law […]”
    “But while the past cannot be repristinated, either in doctrine or worship, neither can the present with impunity sever its connection with the past.”
    “1974, William F. Buckley Jr., United Nations Journal, cited in Mitchell S. Ross, The Literary Politicians, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978, p. 55, The press of the world would rivet its attention on the case the American deligate was making for human rights, repristinating the jaded vision of the international bureaucrats.”

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Etymology

From re- + pristine + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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