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English
Etymology
From re- + pristine + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Verb
repristinate (third-person singular simple present repristinates, present participle repristinating, simple past and past participle repristinated)
- (transitive) To restore something to an older or original state.
- 1659, Hamon L’Estrange, The Alliance of Divine Offices, London: Henry Broom, “Annotations upon Chapter XI,” p. 319,
- Persons lapsed lying under the censure of the Church thus, and so long, it will not be amiss to enquire how they spent their time in this interim, and by what degrees they were repristinated and rendred in their former state.
- 1753, uncredited translator, The Source, the Strength, and the True Spirit of Laws by Giovanni Cattaneo, London: Lockyer Davis, Part 2, Chapter 1, p. 88,
- The sovereign Intelligence that produced all Things, and acts incessantly in Nature, to conserve, correct and repristinate or renew it, is therefore the sole Source of this universal Law
1897, William Rupp, “The Liturgies of the Reformed Churches”, in Christian Worship, New York: Scribner, page 206:But while the past cannot be repristinated, either in doctrine or worship, neither can the present with impunity sever its connection with the past.
- 1974, William F. Buckley Jr., United Nations Journal, cited in Mitchell S. Ross, The Literary Politicians, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978, p. 55,
- The press of the world would rivet its attention on the case the American deligate was making for human rights, repristinating the jaded vision of the international bureaucrats.
Translations
To restore to an original state
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