reingratiate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From re- + ingratiate.
Verb
[edit]reingratiate (third-person singular simple present reingratiates, present participle reingratiating, simple past and past participle reingratiated)
- (transitive) To ingratiate again.
- 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great:
- The Queen and Assaphcawn having notice of his intent, but fearing his force, and that (if he were admitted any private discourse with Jangheer ) probably he would reingratiate himself
References
[edit]- “reingratiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.