redintegrate

verb, adj — 3 senses

redintegrate

verb

/ɹɛˈdɪntɪɡɹeɪt/ · /ɹɪˈdɪntɪɡɹeɪt/

Etymology From the Latin redintegrō (“to restore or renew; to refresh or revive”).

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 redintegrated1974, Robert Boyle, The Development of the Chlorinity/Salinity Concept in Oceanography:
2

Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences Of a stimulus element 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.1956–1960, R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 44

redintegrate

adj

/ɹɛˈdɪntɪɡɹət/ · /ɹɪˈdɪntɪɡɹət/

Etymology From the Latin redintegrātus (“restored or renewed”, “refreshed or revived”), the perfect passive participle of redintegrō.

1

Obsolete Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed.

  • 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 members1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
Related terms
redintegration, redintegrative

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