rehete

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Middle English

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Etymology

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re- +‎ hete

Verb

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rehete (third-person singular simple present reheteth, present participle rehetende, rehetynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle reheted)

  1. to cheer up, revive, cherish
    • c. 1370s, Unknown, The Romaunt of the Rose, 6508-10:
      Wolde I visyte and drawe nere;
      Him wol I comforte and rehete,
      For I hope of his gold to gete.
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    • c. 1400, Nicholas Love, chapter 15, in Incipit Speculum Vite Cristi[1], Westminster, published 1494:
      some songen in the stede of mynstrelsy that swete songe of heuen: and soo they reheteden and coūforted her lord as it longen to them with mykel Joye medled with cōpassion
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    • c. mid-1400s, John Hardyng, chapter 162, in The Chronicle of Ihon Hardyng in Metre[2], London, published 1543:
      Some bookes sayen, he poysoned was to dead
      Of plummes so syttyng at his meate
      In thabbey of Cistews at Swynsheade
      With whiche a monke, there hym did rehete
      Wenyng of God greate thanke to gette
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