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Definition of Repristinate
1. v. t. To restore to an original state.
Definition of Repristinate
1. Verb. (transitive) to restore something to an original state ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Repristinate
1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repristinate
Literary usage of Repristinate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical: From the by Charles MacFarlane (1855)
"... who was now marching an army across the Pyrenees to put down the constitution
of 1820, and to repristinate the absolute government of Ferdinand VII. ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... repair (rare), retrieve, recuperate, repristinate (rare), renew, rehabilitate;
see CURE, REVIVE. ..."
3. The Mercersburg Review by Alumni Association, Franklin and Marshall College (1868)
"... and it is only folly to dream of it anywhere^ in any shape or form. No man
can repristinate for ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1905)
"... and appreciates at full value the efforts made fifty years ago to repristinate
the characteristic artistic features of the Norman minster. ..."
5. Testimonium Animæ: Or, Greek and Roman Before Jesus Christ; a Series of by Ernest Gottlieb Sihler (1908)
"I mean the concerted effort to search out and to repristinate what was fair, or
old, or classic, in letters, usages, art, religious customs, — let us simply ..."
6. Testimonium Animæ: Or, Greek and Roman Before Jesus Christ; a Series of by Ernest Gottlieb Sihler (1908)
"I mean the concerted effort to search out and to repristinate what was fair, or
old, or classic, in letters, usages, art, religious customs, — let us simply ..."
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