redintegrate

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English

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Etymology 1

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From the Latin redintegrō (I restore or renew; I refresh or revive).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɹɛˈdɪntɪɡɹeɪt/, /ɹɪˈdɪntɪɡɹeɪt/
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Verb

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redintegrate (third-person singular simple present redintegrates, present participle redintegrating, simple past and past participle redintegrated)

  1. To renew, restore to wholeness.
    • 1974, Robert Boyle, The Development of the Chlorinity/Salinity Concept in Oceanography:
      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 redintegrated
  2. (psychology, of a stimulus element) To reinstate a memory by redintegration.
    • 1956–1960, R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 44:
      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.
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Etymology 2

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

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Adjective

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redintegrate (not comparable)

  1. Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed.
    • 1622, 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:
      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 members
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Latin

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Verb

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redintegrāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of redintegrō