reˈvindicate, v.
[f. re- and vindicate v., after F. revendiquer. Cf. revendicate and med.L. revindicāre.]
trans. To vindicate anew; to reclaim, recover, or restore, as a rightful possession.
| 1828–32 in Webster (citing Mitford). 1842 De Quincey Philos. Herodotus Wks. 1858 IX. 179 Having thus said something towards revindicating for Herodotus his proper station [etc.]. 1864 Burton Scot Abr. II. i. 52 There was no other country to which they could be revindicated. 1872 Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 27 In vain he..rebuked the untimely..haste of Paris to revindicate this right for herself. |