restinguish

English

Etymology

From Latin restinguere, restinctum, from re- (“re-”) + stinguere (“to quench”).

Verb

restinguish (third-person singular simple present restinguishes, present participle restinguishing, simple past and past participle restinguished)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To quench or extinguish.
   • a. 1616 (written), 1717 (published) A View of the Controversies in Religion, which in these last times have caused the Lamentable Divisions in the Christian World

     the Thirst of languishing Soules is Restinguished

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “restinguish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)